1988
1963
1. Macbeth, Shakespeare (90 percent of schools)
2. Julius Caesar, Shakespeare (77 percent of schools)
3. Silas Marner, George Eliot (76 percent of schools)
4. Our Town, Thornton Wilder (46 percent of schools)
5. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (39 percent of schools)
6. Hamlet, Shakespeare (33 percent of schools)
7. The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane (33 percent of schools)
8. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (33 percent of schools)
9. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne (32 percent of schools)
—SOURCE: Educational Testing Service