 | Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 9th grade
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 | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Signet Classics) by Anonymous
Buy used from: $0.87 9th grade - We watched Monty Python & The Holy Grail to close out the semester.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 9th grade
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 | Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe
Buy new: $7.92 / Used from: $0.01 9th grade - Never did finish this one, so I guess it shouldn't be here. I just didn't like it...but I was stupid back then.
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 | Othello (Shakespeare, Signet Classic) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 10th grade
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 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $3.82 10th grade
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 | The Shining by Stephen King
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $2.50 extracurricular reading
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 | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $2.50 10th grade
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 | J.R.R. Tolkien Boxed Set (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $7.97 Went on a Tolkien spree during the summer
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 | Harry Potter Paperback Boxed Set (Books 1-4) by J. K. Rowling
Buy used from: $15.20 Then on a Harry Potter binge later that year (1 through 4)
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 | The Scarlet Letter (Dover Thrift Editions) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Buy new: $3.50 / Used from: $0.01 11th grade
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 | Ethan Frome (Dover Thrift Editions) by Edith Wharton
Buy new: $1.50 / Used from: $0.01 11th grade - another heartwarming selection
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 | The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas pere
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.99 extracurricular - it turns out that this particular version is abridged, which I only found out much later. So I guess I have to re-read it to get the full effect. I enjoyed it though.
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 | Spoon River Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions) by Edgar Lee Masters
Buy new: $3.00 / Used from: $0.01 11th grade - We read a few of these poems in 11th grade. To read the whole thing is quite stirring.
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 | Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $3.70 11th grade
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 extracurricular reading
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 | A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.50 |
 | The Maestro Myth: Great Conductors in Pursuit of Power by Norman Lebrecht
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $7.99 |
 | Timeline by Michael Crichton
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $0.01 Crichton spree to begin summer reading
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 | The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics) by Lewis Carroll
Buy new: $3.95 / Used from: $0.34 |
 | Pygmalion (Penguin Classics) by George Bernard Shaw
Buy used from: $0.29 |
 | 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I liked the movie much better
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 | Little Women (Signet Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
Buy new: $3.95 / Used from: $1.47 |
 | Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 12th grade - required summer reading
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 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Signet Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.35 12th grade - required summer reading
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 | Edward Albee's the Zoo Story and the Sandbox by Edward Albee
Buy used from: $2.67 12 grade - "The Sandbox"
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 | Oedipus Rex (Dover Thrift Editions) by Sophocles
Buy new: $1.50 / Used from: $0.01 12th grade
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 | A Doll's House (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henrik Ibsen
Buy new: $1.50 / Used from: $0.01 12th grade
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 | A Midsummer Night's Dream (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.39 12th grade
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 | Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $0.01 12th grade
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 | Hamlet (Signet Classic Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 12th grade
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 | Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays) by Arthur Miller
Buy new: $9.23 / Used from: $0.01 12th grade
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 | Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (Scholastic Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy used from: $0.01 extracurricular reading
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 | Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
Buy new: $9.10 / Used from: $0.01 12th grade
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 | Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer (Signet classics) by Joseph Conrad
Buy used from: $0.01 12th grade - Heart of Darkness
I only really skimmed through it. It was more than two years later that I read it in full to let it sink in. Talk about senioritis.
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 | 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.84 12th grade
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 | The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.39 extracurricular reading
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.00 I finished this during the last moments of high school. End of an era.
Highly recommended
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