# Fahrenheit 451

**Author:** Ray Bradbury
**Lexile:** 890L
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Age range:** 13–18
**First published:** 1953
**Page count:** 249
**Genre:** Dystopian Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781451673319`
**ISBN-10:** `1451673310`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/fahrenheit-451
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

In a future America where books are banned and firemen burn the few that remain, Guy Montag begins to question his role after meeting an unusually curious neighbor. Bradbury's short novel, written in the early Cold War, anticipates modern debates about media saturation, censorship, and attention. It is a common 9th- and 10th-grade assigned text.

## Themes

- censorship
- conformity
- technology and media
- knowledge and ignorance
- rebellion

## Content notes

- violence
- suicide attempt
- book burning imagery

Common Sense Media age recommendation: 13+

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 9-10 exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **recommended** · 9th grade · Texas — [source: TEKS English I frequently taught text](https://tea.texas.gov/)
- **recommended** · 10th grade · Illinois — [source: Illinois Learning Standards aligned reading](https://www.isbe.net/)

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