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.
- 1920s3 books on file
- 1930s7 books on file
- 1940s12 books on file
- 1950s15 books on file
- 1960s30 books on file
- 1970s20 books on file
- 1980s44 books on file
- 1990s56 books on file
- 2000s153 books on file
- 2010s348 books on file
- 2020s332 books on file