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From literary classics to domestic fiction, these are the most popular high school books each state is studying right now:
Alabama: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Alaska: Anthem by Ayn Rand
Arizona: The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
Arkansas: Trifles by Susan Glaspell
California: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Colorado: The Boy in Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Connecticut: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Delaware: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Florida: Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Georgia: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Hawaii: Holes by Louis Sachar
Idaho: The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Illinois: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Indiana: The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
Iowa: The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell
Kansas: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Kentucky: The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Louisiana: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Maine: The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Maryland: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Massachusetts: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Michigan: The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X, Alex Haley
Minnesota: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Mississippi: Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Missouri: The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela
Montana: Rules by Cynthia Lord
Nebraska: One of Ours by Willa Cather
Nevada: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
New Hampshire: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
New Jersey: King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
New Mexico: Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
New York: Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
North Carolina: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
North Dakota: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Ohio: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Oklahoma: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Oregon: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
Pennsylvania: Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Rhode Island: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
South Carolina: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
South Dakota: Baby of the Family by Tina McElroy Ansa
Tennessee: A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 5) by George R. R. Martin
Texas: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Utah: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Vermont: Frindle by Andrew Clements
Virginia: Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Washington: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
West Virginia: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Wisconsin: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Wyoming: 1984 by George Orwell
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