Teacher Resources
12,060 essay questions across 408 books. Each book includes 30 questions in 6 categories with difficulty ratings and hints.
What's included for each book
- 30 essay questions with hints
- 6 question categories
- Difficulty ratings per question
- Chapter-by-chapter summaries
- Character analysis
- Theme breakdowns
- Diction and language analysis
- Historical context
Books with Essay Questions
1984
George Orwell · 30 questions
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess · 30 questions
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen · 30 questions
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway · 30 questions
A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines · 30 questions
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 30 questions
A Long Walk to Water
Linda Sue Park · 30 questions
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman · 30 questions
A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare · 30 questions
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness (from an idea by Siobhan Dowd) · 30 questions
A Passage to India
E.M. Forster · 30 questions
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce · 30 questions
A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving · 30 questions
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry · 30 questions
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf · 30 questions
A Separate Peace
John Knowles · 30 questions
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams · 30 questions
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens · 30 questions
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini · 30 questions
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith · 30 questions
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin · 30 questions
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle · 30 questions
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 30 questions
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque · 30 questions
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren · 30 questions
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 30 questions
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy · 30 questions
Amal Unbound
Aisha Saeed · 30 questions
American Born Chinese
Gene Luen Yang · 30 questions
American Pastoral
Philip Roth · 30 questions
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 30 questions
Among the Hidden
Margaret Peterson Haddix · 30 questions
An American Marriage
Tayari Jones · 30 questions
An Inspector Calls
J.B. Priestley · 30 questions
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie · 30 questions
Animal Farm
George Orwell · 30 questions
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · 30 questions
Antigone
Sophocles · 30 questions
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner · 30 questions
As You Like It
William Shakespeare · 30 questions
Atonement
Ian McEwan · 30 questions
Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo · 30 questions
Becoming
Michelle Obama · 30 questions
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 30 questions
Beowulf
Anonymous (Old English poet) · 30 questions
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates · 30 questions
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell · 30 questions
Black Boy
Richard Wright · 30 questions
Bleak House
Charles Dickens · 30 questions
Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya · 30 questions
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy · 30 questions
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah · 30 questions
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · 30 questions
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut · 30 questions
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson · 30 questions
Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson · 30 questions
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis · 30 questions
Candide
Voltaire · 30 questions
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson · 30 questions
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut · 30 questions
Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 30 questions
Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins · 30 questions
Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko · 30 questions
Chains
Laurie Halse Anderson · 30 questions
Charlotte's Web
E.B. White · 30 questions
Circe
Madeline Miller · 30 questions
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell · 30 questions
Common Sense
Thomas Paine · 30 questions
Counting by 7s
Holly Goldberg Sloan · 30 questions
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 30 questions
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton · 30 questions
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens · 30 questions
Death in Venice
Thomas Mann · 30 questions
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller · 30 questions
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney · 30 questions
Divergent
Veronica Roth · 30 questions
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick · 30 questions
Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe · 30 questions
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak · 30 questions
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes · 30 questions
Dracula
Bram Stoker · 30 questions
Dubliners
James Joyce · 30 questions
Dune
Frank Herbert · 30 questions
East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 30 questions
Educated
Tara Westover · 30 questions
Emma
Jane Austen · 30 questions
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card · 30 questions
Esperanza Rising
Pam Muñoz Ryan · 30 questions
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton · 30 questions
Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng · 30 questions
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury · 30 questions
Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy · 30 questions
Feed
M.T. Anderson · 30 questions
Fences
August Wilson · 30 questions
Fever 1793
Laurie Halse Anderson · 30 questions
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges · 30 questions
Flipped
Wendelin Van Draanen · 30 questions
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes · 30 questions
Foundation
Isaac Asimov · 30 questions
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 30 questions
Freak the Mighty
Rodman Philbrick · 30 questions
Front Desk
Kelly Yang · 30 questions
Gathering Blue
Lois Lowry · 30 questions
Ghost
Jason Reynolds · 30 questions
Ghost Boys
Jewell Parker Rhodes · 30 questions
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn · 30 questions
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell · 30 questions
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · 30 questions
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift · 30 questions
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 30 questions
Hamlet
William Shakespeare · 30 questions
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling · 30 questions
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen · 30 questions
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad · 30 questions
Henry V
William Shakespeare · 30 questions
Holes
Louis Sachar · 30 questions
Homecoming
Cynthia Voigt · 30 questions
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi · 30 questions
House Made of Dawn
N. Scott Momaday · 30 questions
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou · 30 questions
If on a winter's night a traveler
Italo Calvino · 30 questions
Inferno
Dante Alighieri · 30 questions
Inside Out and Back Again
Thanhha Lai · 30 questions
Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer · 30 questions
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino · 30 questions
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison · 30 questions
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell · 30 questions
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 30 questions
Johnny Tremain
Esther Forbes · 30 questions
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy · 30 questions
Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · 30 questions
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson · 30 questions
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami · 30 questions
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler · 30 questions
King Lear
William Shakespeare · 30 questions
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro · 30 questions
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo · 30 questions
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr. · 30 questions
Life of Pi
Yann Martel · 30 questions
Light in August
William Faulkner · 30 questions
Like Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel · 30 questions
Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng · 30 questions
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · 30 questions
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 30 questions
Long Way Down
Jason Reynolds · 30 questions
Looking for Alaska
John Green · 30 questions
Lord of the Flies
William Golding · 30 questions
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez · 30 questions
Lyddie
Katherine Paterson · 30 questions
Macbeth
William Shakespeare · 30 questions
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 30 questions
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl · 30 questions
Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli · 30 questions
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen · 30 questions
Maus
Art Spiegelman · 30 questions
Medea
Euripides · 30 questions
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius · 30 questions
Messenger
Lois Lowry · 30 questions
Metamorphoses
Ovid · 30 questions
Middlemarch
George Eliot · 30 questions
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie · 30 questions
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 30 questions
Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins · 30 questions
Monster
Walter Dean Myers · 30 questions
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · 30 questions
Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare · 30 questions
My Ántonia
Willa Cather · 30 questions
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante · 30 questions
My Brother Sam Is Dead
James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier · 30 questions
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh · 30 questions
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass · 30 questions
Native Son
Richard Wright · 30 questions
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre · 30 questions
Nervous Conditions
Tsitsi Dangarembga · 30 questions
Neuromancer
William Gibson · 30 questions
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro · 30 questions
New Kid
Jerry Craft · 30 questions
Night
Elie Wiesel · 30 questions
No Exit
Jean-Paul Sartre · 30 questions
Normal People
Sally Rooney · 30 questions
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen · 30 questions
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami · 30 questions
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry · 30 questions
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles · 30 questions
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck · 30 questions
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens · 30 questions
On the Road
Jack Kerouac · 30 questions
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey · 30 questions
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 30 questions
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood · 30 questions
Othello
William Shakespeare · 30 questions
Out of My Mind
Sharon M. Draper · 30 questions
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 30 questions
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov · 30 questions
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler · 30 questions
Paradise Lost
John Milton · 30 questions
Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo · 30 questions
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi · 30 questions
Persuasion
Jane Austen · 30 questions
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke · 30 questions
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 30 questions
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir · 30 questions
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 30 questions
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw · 30 questions
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier · 30 questions
Refugee
Alan Gratz · 30 questions
Reservation Blues
Sherman Alexie · 30 questions
Restart
Gordon Korman · 30 questions
Richard III
William Shakespeare · 30 questions
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor · 30 questions
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare · 30 questions
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard · 30 questions
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · 30 questions
Seedfolks
Paul Fleischman · 30 questions
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen · 30 questions
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse · 30 questions
Silas Marner
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) · 30 questions
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson · 30 questions
Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser · 30 questions
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut · 30 questions
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson · 30 questions
So Long a Letter
Mariama Ba · 30 questions
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury · 30 questions
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison · 30 questions
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson · 30 questions
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi · 30 questions
Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli · 30 questions
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel · 30 questions
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse · 30 questions
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson · 30 questions
Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid · 30 questions
Sula
Toni Morrison · 30 questions
Tangerine
Edward Bloor · 30 questions
Tao Te Ching
Laozi · 30 questions
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy · 30 questions
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie · 30 questions
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain · 30 questions
The Aeneid
Virgil · 30 questions
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton · 30 questions
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho · 30 questions
The Analects
Confucius · 30 questions
The Art of War
Sun Tzu · 30 questions
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X and Alex Haley · 30 questions
The Awakening
Kate Chopin · 30 questions
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath · 30 questions
The Bhagavad Gita
Traditional (attributed to Vyasa, part of the Mahabharata) · 30 questions
The Bible
Various Authors · 30 questions
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood · 30 questions
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison · 30 questions
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · 30 questions
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz · 30 questions
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 30 questions
The Call of the Wild
Jack London · 30 questions
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer · 30 questions
The Castle
Franz Kafka · 30 questions
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger · 30 questions
The Cay
Theodore Taylor · 30 questions
The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov · 30 questions
The Chosen
Chaim Potok · 30 questions
The City of Ember
Jeanne DuPrau · 30 questions
The Color of Water
James McBride · 30 questions
The Color Purple
Alice Walker · 30 questions
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels · 30 questions
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen · 30 questions
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas · 30 questions
The Crossover
Kwame Alexander · 30 questions
The Crucible
Arthur Miller · 30 questions
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon · 30 questions
The Dhammapada
Traditional (attributed to Buddha) · 30 questions
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank · 30 questions
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin · 30 questions
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · 30 questions
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous (ancient Sumerian/Akkadian) · 30 questions
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green · 30 questions
The Giver
Lois Lowry · 30 questions
The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein · 30 questions
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls · 30 questions
The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams · 30 questions
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy · 30 questions
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt · 30 questions
The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck · 30 questions
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 30 questions
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah · 30 questions
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 30 questions
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood · 30 questions
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas · 30 questions
The Help
Kathryn Stockett · 30 questions
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams · 30 questions
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien · 30 questions
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle · 30 questions
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton · 30 questions
The House of the Scorpion
Nancy Farmer · 30 questions
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende · 30 questions
The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros · 30 questions
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins · 30 questions
The Iliad
Homer · 30 questions
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot · 30 questions
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde · 30 questions
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick · 30 questions
The Invisible Man
H.G. Wells · 30 questions
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan · 30 questions
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair · 30 questions
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini · 30 questions
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin · 30 questions
The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan · 30 questions
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis · 30 questions
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 30 questions
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien · 30 questions
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold · 30 questions
The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett · 30 questions
The Martian
Andy Weir · 30 questions
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury · 30 questions
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov · 30 questions
The Maze Runner
James Dashner · 30 questions
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare · 30 questions
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka · 30 questions
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig · 30 questions
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco · 30 questions
The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri · 30 questions
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 30 questions
The Odyssey
Homer · 30 questions
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway · 30 questions
The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate · 30 questions
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton · 30 questions
The Overstory
Richard Powers · 30 questions
The Pearl
John Steinbeck · 30 questions
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky · 30 questions
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux · 30 questions
The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster · 30 questions
The Piano Lesson
August Wilson · 30 questions
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 30 questions
The Plague
Albert Camus · 30 questions
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver · 30 questions
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James · 30 questions
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli · 30 questions
The Quran
Traditionally attributed to divine revelation through the Prophet Muhammad · 30 questions
The Reader
Bernhard Schlink · 30 questions
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane · 30 questions
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro · 30 questions
The Republic
Plato · 30 questions
The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 30 questions
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 30 questions
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Orczy · 30 questions
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett · 30 questions
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 30 questions
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd · 30 questions
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller · 30 questions
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner · 30 questions
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 30 questions
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway · 30 questions
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen · 30 questions
The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo · 30 questions
The Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare · 30 questions
The Tempest
William Shakespeare · 30 questions
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien · 30 questions
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas · 30 questions
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells · 30 questions
The Torah (Pentateuch)
Traditional attribution to Moses; compiled and redacted ~5th century BCE · 30 questions
The Trial
Franz Kafka · 30 questions
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James · 30 questions
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera · 30 questions
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead · 30 questions
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett · 30 questions
The War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells · 30 questions
The War That Saved My Life
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley · 30 questions
The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
Christopher Paul Curtis · 30 questions
The Westing Game
Ellen Raskin · 30 questions
The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga · 30 questions
The Wild Robot
Peter Brown · 30 questions
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami · 30 questions
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston · 30 questions
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 30 questions
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston · 30 questions
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe · 30 questions
Thirteen Reasons Why
Jay Asher · 30 questions
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 30 questions
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf · 30 questions
Touching Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelsen · 30 questions
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson · 30 questions
Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt · 30 questions
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom · 30 questions
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare · 30 questions
Ulysses
James Joyce · 30 questions
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe · 30 questions
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett · 30 questions
Walden
Henry David Thoreau · 30 questions
Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech · 30 questions
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 30 questions
Watership Down
Richard Adams · 30 questions
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi · 30 questions
When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead · 30 questions
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens · 30 questions
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Grace Lin · 30 questions
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls · 30 questions
White Fang
Jack London · 30 questions
White Noise
Don DeLillo · 30 questions
White Oleander
Janet Fitch · 30 questions
White Teeth
Zadie Smith · 30 questions
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys · 30 questions
Wishtree
Katherine Applegate · 30 questions
Wonder
R.J. Palacio · 30 questions
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · 30 questions