Common Core text exemplars (Appendix B)

Works this syllabus prescribes. ReadingRate holds 41 of the 119 it names. Recorded by the Canons dataset (Andrew Piper, CC BY 4.0).

• A Doll's House (1879) by Henrik Ibsen
• A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway
• A Wrinkle in Time (1962) by Madeleine L'Engle
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll
• As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner
• Billy Budd, Sailor (1924) by Herman Melville
• Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Death and the King's Horseman (1975) by Wole Soyinka
• Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller
• Dreaming in Cuban (1992) by Cristina García
• Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
• Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev
• Green Eggs and Ham (1960) by Dr. Seuss
• Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë
• Little House in the Big Woods (2007) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Little Women (Little Women, #1) (1868) by Louisa May Alcott
• Our Town (1938) by Thornton Wilder
• Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
• The Adventures of Augie March (1954) by Saul Bellow
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain
• The Bluest Eye (1970) by Toni Morrison
• The Book Thief (2005) by Markus Zusak
• The Dark Is Rising (1973) by Susan Cooper
• The Glass Menagerie (1944) by Tennessee Williams
• The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
• The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Importance of Being Earnest (1893) by Oscar Wilde
• The Joy Luck Club (1989) by Amy Tan
• The Killer Angels (1975) by Michael Shaara
• The Little Prince (1943) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915) by T. S. Eliot
• The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka
• The Namesake (2004) by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Raven (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Secret Garden (1911) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum
• Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
• Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1961) by Harper Lee
• Tuck Everlasting (1975) by Natalie Babbitt