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Common Core Text Exemplars
20 books, 2,061,112 words, in reading order.
Books in this course
137.4 h read
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Douglass, Frederick
1895
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann)
1897
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
Washington, Booker T.
1915
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20)
Jefferson, Thomas
1826
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
1776
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
1788
Democracy in America — Volume 1
Alexis de Tocqueville
1835
Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
1854
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
1855
Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete
Dickinson, Emily
1886
The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
1864
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
Brontë, Charlotte
1855
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1818
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
1813
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
1859
Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles
1870
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
1884
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
1895
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1925
The Souls of Black Folk
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
1963