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Our Retired English Teacher's 100 Book Quiz

In the 1960s, when I was in high school, adults were frightened that comic books, monster magazines, and television were rotting our brains, so there was a big move in school to have us (make us) "read the classics". Publishers got into the act by creating inexpensive paperback imprints, the best of which were the Signet Classics series and the Mentor Library series, both from New American Library.. Here are 100 of those classics they tried to make us read, pictured in the original editions from 60+ years ago.
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1984 (Orwell)
1984
1
Orwell
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
2
Twain
Alice Adams (Tarkington)
Alice Adams
3
Tarkington
Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass (Carroll)
Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
4
Carroll
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
5
George Orwell
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
6
Tolstoy
As You Like It (Shakespeare)
As You Like It
7
Shakespeare
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
8
Background to Danger (Ambler)
Background to Danger
9
Ambler
Billy Budd (Melville)
Billy Budd
10
Melville
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
11
Dostoyevsky
The Call of the Wild (London)
The Call of the Wild
12
London
The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
13
Salinger
A Coffin for Dimitrios (Ambler)
A Coffin for Dimitrios
14
Ambler
Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)
Crime and Punishment
15
Dostoyevsky
The Crucible (Miller)
The Crucible
16
Miller
Darkness at Noon (Koestler)
Darkness at Noon
17
Koestler
Dead Souls (Gogol)
Dead Souls
18
Gogol
Diary of a Madman (Gogol)
Diary of a Madman
19
Gogol
Dracula (Stoker)
Dracula
20
Stoker
Elmer Gantry (Lewis)
Elmer Gantry
21
Lewis
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
22
Edgar Allan Poe
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms
23
Ernest Hemingway
Fathers and Sons (Turgenev)
Fathers and Sons
24
Turgenev
Finnegan's Wake (Joyce)
Finnegan's Wake
25
Joyce
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
26
Frankenstein (Shelley)
Frankenstein
27
Shelley
Great Expectations (Dickens)
Great Expectations
28
Dickens
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
29
Fitzgerald
The Greek Way (Hamilton)
The Greek Way
30
Hamilton
Gulliver's Travels (Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
31
Swift
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Hamlet
32
Shakespeare
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
33
Conrad
Henr IV Part 1 (Shakespeare)
Henr IV Part 1
34
Shakespeare
Henry IV Part 2 (Shakespeare)
Henry IV Part 2
35
Shakespeare
Henry V (Shakespeare)
Henry V
36
Shakespeare
The House of the Seven Gables (Hawthorne)
The House of the Seven Gables
37
Hawthorne
Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
Huckleberry Finn
38
Twain
The Iliad (Homer - Mentor Ed.)
The Iliad
39
Homer - Mentor Ed.
The Informer (O'flaherty)
The Informer
40
O'flaherty
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