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Bill Bennett's list of reading for high school students:

Shakespeare's plays, especially ''Macbeth'' and ''Hamlet."

Fifty percent cited such documents of United States history as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. '

'Huckleberry Finn.''

-The Bible.

- Homer's ''Odyssey'' and ''Iliad.''

- Dickens's ''Great Expectations'' and ''Tale of Two Cities.''

- Plato's ''Republic.''

- John Steinbeck's ''Grapes of Wrath.''

- Nathaniel Hawthorne's ''Scarlet Letter.''

- Sophocles' ''Oedipus.''

- Melville's ''Moby Dick.''

- Orwell's ''Nineteen Eighty-Four.''

- Thoreau's ''Walden.''

- The poems of Robert Frost.

- Whitman's ''Leaves of Grass.''

- F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''Great Gatsby.''

- Chaucer's ''Canterbury Tales.''

- Marx's ''Communist Manifesto.''

- Aristotle's ''Politics.''

- The poems of Emily Dickinson.

- Dostoyevsky's ''Crime and Punishment.''

- The novels of William Faulkner.

- J. D. Salinger's ''Catcher in the Rye.''

- De Tocqueville's ''Democracy in America.''

- Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice.''

- The essays and poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

- Machiavelli's ''Prince.''