Books US schools assign, by decade
A different angle on the canon: when these books were written. The Civil Rights novels are concentrated in the 1960s. Dust-Bowl and Depression literature in the 1930s and 1940s. Modern YA coming-of-age peaks in the 2000s and 2010s. Each decade page lists the books, their grade levels, Lexile ranges, and which curricula assign them.
- 1900s4 books on file
- 1910s5 books on file
- 1920s14 books on file
- 1930s20 books on file
- 1940s37 books on file
- 1950s46 books on file
- 1960s62 books on file
- 1970s96 books on file
- 1980s180 books on file
- 1990s285 books on file
- 2000s432 books on file
- 2010s716 books on file
- 2020s604 books on file