Common Core text exemplars (Appendix B)

Common Core text exemplars (Appendix B) names 119 books; ReadingRate holds 41 of them, listed here. The most approachable of them is Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss (difficulty 7/100, about 44 min); the hardest is The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (72/100).

• A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (1879) — difficulty 51/100, about 1.8 hours
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1929) — difficulty 49/100, about 6 hours
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (1962) — difficulty 61/100, about 4.4 hours
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865) — difficulty 34/100, about 1.5 hours
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930) — difficulty 67/100, about 6 hours
• Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville (1924) — difficulty 70/100, about 3.3 hours
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866) — difficulty 70/100, about 24 hours
• Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka (1975) — difficulty 54/100, about 1.1 hours
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (1949) — difficulty 67/100, about 3.9 hours
• Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García (1992) — difficulty 49/100, about 4.6 hours
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953) — difficulty 54/100, about 3.6 hours
• Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (1862) — difficulty 51/100, about 5.4 hours
• Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss (1960) — difficulty 7/100, about 44 min
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847) — difficulty 54/100, about 13 hours
• Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (2007) — difficulty 15/100, about 2.6 hours
• Little Women (Little Women, #1) by Louisa May Alcott (1868) — difficulty 29/100, about 6.5 hours
• Our Town by Thornton Wilder (1938) — difficulty 33/100, about 2.8 hours
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813) — difficulty 52/100, about 8.6 hours
• The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1954) — difficulty 58/100, about 19 hours
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876) — difficulty 36/100, about 4.1 hours
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (1970) — difficulty 59/100, about 4.2 hours
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (2005) — difficulty 31/100, about 6.4 hours
• The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper (1973) — difficulty 53/100, about 5.7 hours
• The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (1944) — difficulty 58/100, about 1.9 hours
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939) — difficulty 55/100, about 13 hours
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) — difficulty 52/100, about 3.4 hours
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (1893) — difficulty 50/100, about 1.9 hours
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (1989) — difficulty 70/100, about 20 hours
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (1975) — difficulty 52/100, about 7.5 hours
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943) — difficulty 35/100, about 60 min
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot (1915) — difficulty 57/100, about 14 min
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1915) — difficulty 47/100, about 1.4 hours
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2004) — difficulty 55/100, about 7.4 hours
• The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (1845) — difficulty 46/100, about 1.1 hours
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) — difficulty 72/100, about 9.4 hours
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911) — difficulty 34/100, about 4.6 hours
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1900) — difficulty 20/100, about 1.9 hours
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) — difficulty 63/100, about 5.3 hours
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958) — difficulty 45/100, about 3.3 hours
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1961) — difficulty 42/100, about 6.3 hours
• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (1975) — difficulty 40/100, about 1.7 hours

Questions

How many books are on Common Core text exemplars (Appendix B)?

119. ReadingRate holds 41 of them, each with how hard it is to read and how long it takes.

Which book on Common Core text exemplars (Appendix B) is the easiest to read?

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss, difficulty 7/100, about 44 min. The hardest is The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, at 72/100.

How long would it take to read every book on Common Core text exemplars (Appendix B)?

About 230 hours for the 41 books ReadingRate measures, at 250 words a minute adjusted for each book's difficulty: 115 days at two hours a day.

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