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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 (Orwell)
2
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain)
3
Alice Adams (Tarkington)
Alice Adams (Tarkington)
4
Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass (Carroll)
Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass (Carroll)
5
Animal Farm
Animal Farm
6
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
7
As You Like It (Shakespeare)
As You Like It (Shakespeare)
8
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
9
Background to Danger (Ambler)
Background to Danger (Ambler)
10
Billy Budd (Melville)
Billy Budd (Melville)
11
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky)
12
The Call of the Wild (London)
The Call of the Wild (London)
13
The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger)
14
A Coffin for Dimitrios (Ambler)
A Coffin for Dimitrios (Ambler)
15
Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)
Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)
16
The Crucible (Miller)
The Crucible (Miller)
17
Darkness at Noon (Koestler)
Darkness at Noon (Koestler)
18
Dead Souls (Gogol)
Dead Souls (Gogol)
19
Diary of a Madman (Gogol)
Diary of a Madman (Gogol)
20
Dracula (Stoker)
Dracula (Stoker)
21
Elmer Gantry (Lewis)
Elmer Gantry (Lewis)
22
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (Edgar Allan Poe)
23
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
24
Fathers and Sons (Turgenev)
Fathers and Sons (Turgenev)
25
Finnegan's Wake (Joyce)
Finnegan's Wake (Joyce)
26
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
27
Frankenstein (Shelley)
Frankenstein (Shelley)
28
Great Expectations (Dickens)
Great Expectations (Dickens)
29
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
30
The Greek Way (Hamilton)
The Greek Way (Hamilton)
31
Gulliver's Travels (Swift)
Gulliver's Travels (Swift)
32
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
33
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
34
Henr IV Part 1 (Shakespeare)
Henr IV Part 1 (Shakespeare)
35
Henry IV Part 2 (Shakespeare)
Henry IV Part 2 (Shakespeare)
36
Henry V (Shakespeare)
Henry V (Shakespeare)
37
The House of the Seven Gables (Hawthorne)
The House of the Seven Gables (Hawthorne)
38
Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
39
The Iliad (Homer - Mentor Ed.)
The Iliad (Homer - Mentor Ed.)
40
The Informer (O'flaherty)
The Informer (O'flaherty)
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