# Books written in the 1910s, assigned in US schools

World War I and early-modern literature; sparse in school canons but consequential for AP Literature contexts.

**5** books written between 1910 and 1919 that US schools assign across state ELA standards, AP/IB syllabi, and Common Core exemplar lists.

**Decade window:** 1910–1919
**Lexile range:** 1010L–1010L
**Grade span:** 4–12
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/decade/1910s
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Themes of the 1910s

- american identity
- american manuscripts
- burial
- cats
- cats, fiction
- child and youth fiction
- clothing and dress, fiction
- clothing trade, fiction

## Authors writing in the 1910s

- Beverly Cleary
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- George Bernard Shaw
- Willa Cather
- William Faulkner

## Genres

- Realistic Fiction (2)
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Historical Fiction

## The 1910s canon

- [Socks](https://readinglist.school/book/socks) by Beverly Cleary _(Grades 4–8 · pub 1911)_
- [The Secret Garden](https://readinglist.school/book/the-secret-garden) by Frances Hodgson Burnett _(Grades 4–5 · pub 1911)_
- [Pygmalion](https://readinglist.school/book/pygmalion) by George Bernard Shaw _(Grades 9–12 · pub 1913)_
- [As I Lay Dying](https://readinglist.school/book/as-i-lay-dying) by William Faulkner _(Grades 11–12 · pub 1915)_
- [My Ántonia](https://readinglist.school/book/my-antonia) by Willa Cather _(1010L · Grades 10–12 · pub 1918)_

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