# Toni Morrison — books assigned in US schools

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

**Lexile range:** 870L–920L
**Grade span:** 11–12
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/author/toni-morrison
**Wikipedia (entity):** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Recurring themes

- beauty standards
- community
- family dysfunction
- identity
- internalized racism
- memory and trauma
- motherhood
- poverty
- sexual abuse
- slavery and its aftermath

## Genres

- Literary Fiction (2)

## Every Toni Morrison title on file

- [The Bluest Eye](https://readinglist.school/book/the-bluest-eye) _(920L · Grades 11–12 · 1970)_
- [Beloved](https://readinglist.school/book/beloved) _(870L · Grades 11–12 · 1987)_

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