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.
- 1920s12 books on file
- 1930s13 books on file
- 1940s29 books on file
- 1950s30 books on file
- 1960s41 books on file
- 1970s43 books on file
- 1980s76 books on file
- 1990s94 books on file
- 2000s231 books on file
- 2010s569 books on file
- 2020s457 books on file