# The Great Gatsby

**Author:** F. Scott Fitzgerald
**Lexile:** 1070L
**Grade range:** Grades 10–12
**Age range:** 15–18
**First published:** 1925
**Page count:** 180
**Genre:** Literary Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780743273565`
**ISBN-10:** `0743273567`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-great-gatsby
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Narrator Nick Carraway moves to 1920s Long Island and becomes entangled in the world of his wealthy, mysterious neighbor Jay Gatsby. The novel tracks Gatsby's obsession with Daisy Buchanan, the wife of an old-money rival, against a Jazz Age backdrop of decadence and moral emptiness. Widely studied for its prose style, symbolism, and critique of the American Dream.

## Themes

- American Dream
- wealth and class
- obsession
- illusion and reality
- Jazz Age
- unrequited love

## Content notes

- infidelity
- alcohol use
- vehicular death
- domestic violence

Common Sense Media age recommendation: 14+

## Where this book is assigned

### AP English Literature & Composition

- **required** · 11th grade — [source: AP Lit — commonly cited in free-response question 3](https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-english-literature-and-composition)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: AP Lit summer-reading expectation — rising AP Lit student](https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-english-literature-and-composition)

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 11-CCR exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **recommended** · 11th grade · Massachusetts — [source: MA ELA Framework aligned reading](https://www.doe.mass.edu/)
- **recommended** · 11th grade · New York — [source: NY Next Gen Learning Standards aligned reading](https://www.nysed.gov/)
- **recommended** · 11th grade · New York — [source: NYC DOE grade 11 ELA core text](https://www.schools.nyc.gov/learning/subjects/english-language-arts)

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