In 1989 the Center for the Learning and Teaching of Literature (SUNY Albany; Arthur Applebee, director) produced a report on what books were taught in various kinds of high school literature courses. This is an unannotated and uncriticized list of the books they mention. (Please do not add books except with respect to the note below.)

I have annotated in my votes which books that are required in more than 30% of public, Catholic and independent schools — click here , or next to "Richard" on the list of People Who Voted On This List. All other titles I have added are required in at least 5% of one or more of those kind of schools. Just to confuse things further, the "schools" are grades 7-12 for public schools, but 9-12 for Catholic and independent.

Note: A single user can only add 100 titles, so I was unable to add the following. I hope a volunteer does so...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey)
Ordinary People (Guest)
Othello (Shakespeare)
The Ox-Bow Incident (Clark)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce)
The Prince and the Pauper (Twain)
Pygmalion (Shaw)
Raisin in the Sun (Hansberry)
Return of the Native (Hardy)
Roll of Thunder, Hear Me Cry (Taylor)
Rumble Fish (Hinton)
Shane (Schaefer)
Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Poe)
Short Stories of Hawthorne (Hawthorne)
Silas Marner (Eliot)
Sounder (Armstrong)
The Stranger (Camus)
The Streetcar Named Desire (Williams)
The Summer of My German Soldier (Greene)
The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Hardy)
That was Then, This is Now (Hinton)
The Time Machine (Wells)
Treasure Island (Stevenson)
Twelve Angry Men (Rose)
Waiting for Godot (Beckett)
Watership Down (Adams)
West Side Story (Bernstein)
When the Legends Die (Borland)
Where the Lilies Bloom (Cleaver)
Where the Red Fern Grows (Rawls)
White Fang (London)
Witch of Blackbird Pond (Speare)
Yearling (Rawlings)
All My Sons (Miller)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)
All the King's Men (Warren)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
Anthem (Rand)
Bell Jar (Plath)
Candide (Voltaire)
Catch-22 (Heller)
Chosen (Potok)
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Twain)
Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas)
Crystal Cave (Stewart)
David Copperfield (Dickens)
Demian (Hesse)
Doctor Faustus (Marlowe)
Dubliners (Joyce)
Enemy of the People (Ibsen)
Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
Frankstein (Shelley)
Hard Times (Dickens)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (McCullers)
Hedda Gabler (Ibsen)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou)
I Never Sang for My Father (Anderson)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Lewis)
Lord Jim (Conrad)
Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
Man for All Seasons (Bolt)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Hardy)
Member of the Wedding (McCullers)
Metamorphosis (Kafka)
Les Miserables (Hugo)
Oliver Twist (Dickens)
On the Beach (Shute)
Once and Future King (White)
The Plague (Camus)
The Power and the Glory (Greene)
Rebecca (Du Maurier)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Stoppard)
Siddhartha (Hesse)
Sons and Lovers (Lawrence)
The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)
The Tempest (Shakespeare)
Ten Little Indians (Christie)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Smith)
Turn of the Screw (James)
Walden (Thoreau)
Alice in Wonderland (Carroll)
Grendel (Gardner)
Henry IV, Part I (Shakespeare)
Out of the Silent Planet (Lewis)
Perelandra (Lewis)
The Republic (Plato)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Unknown)