# George Orwell — books assigned in US schools

**2** books by George Orwell appear in the US-school assigned-reading canon. Sourced from state ELA standards, AP/IB syllabi, and Common Core exemplar lists.

**Lexile range:** 1090L–1170L
**Grade span:** 7–12
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/author/george-orwell
**Wikipedia (entity):** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Recurring themes

- language and thought (2)
- propaganda (2)
- allegory
- class and labor
- corruption
- individual vs state
- rebellion
- revolution and power
- surveillance
- totalitarianism

## Genres

- Allegorical Fiction
- Dystopian Fiction

## Every George Orwell title on file

- [Animal Farm](https://readinglist.school/book/animal-farm) _(1170L · Grades 7–10 · 1945)_
- [1984](https://readinglist.school/book/1984) _(1090L · Grades 9–12 · 1949)_

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