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High School Literature Bingo

High School Literature Bingo is a printable card of 25 books English teachers keep assigning, from To Kill a Mockingbird and The Great Gatsby to Beloved, Persepolis and four different Shakespeare plays. Use it to see how much of the canon you actually got through, or hand it to a class at the start of the year as a map of what is coming. Free, no signup.

All 34 board items

  • To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  • The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare
  • Hamlet – Shakespeare
  • Macbeth – Shakespeare
  • Julius Caesar – Shakespeare
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream – Shakespeare
  • Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  • Animal Farm – George Orwell
  • 1984 – George Orwell
  • The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
  • Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  • The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
  • The Crucible – Arthur Miller
  • Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
  • The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Odyssey – Homer
  • Beowulf
  • The Canterbury Tales – Chaucer
  • Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
  • Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  • A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
  • The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
  • Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
  • Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  • Night – Elie Wiesel
  • A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
  • Beloved – Toni Morrison
  • Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
  • Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
  • The Road – Cormac McCarthy

How to use this bingo card

  1. Print the card or open it on your phone.
  2. Mark a square whenever that item happens.
  3. Get 5 in a row, across, down, or diagonal, to win.

FAQ

Which books are on the card?

34 in the pool: the unavoidable ones (Mockingbird, Gatsby, Lord of the Flies, 1984), the Shakespeare rotation, the American canon from Steinbeck to Hurston to Morrison, and the newer assignments including Persepolis and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Is this for students or for adults?

Both, and they play it differently. Students use it to see what is ahead. Adults use it to find out how many they actually finished versus how many they have simply absorbed enough about to nod along.

Can I build a version for my syllabus?

Yes. Edit the list before printing so it matches what your department actually assigns, which turns it into a genuinely useful first-day handout.

Is it free?

Free, no signup. Acclaimed Books Bingo covers prize winners and modern literary fiction if you want something past the syllabus.

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