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Required Reading
100

Okay, so there’s this old guy reading to this old lady in a nursing home, and it’s actually their own diary? He literally wrote down their whole summer fling so she wouldn't forget him. I’m actually sobbing.

The Notebook


100

A bunch of short guys with hairy feet spend nine hours walking toward a volcano because they forgot to bring a giant eagle to fly them there in five minutes.

Lord of the Rings


100

A guy gets stuck on a red planet and has to grow food using his own... biological waste... because he’s really good at botany. 10/10 for science, 0/10 for smell.

The Martian


100

Two dramatic toddlers meet at a party, get married 24 hours later, and then decide that ending it all is better than just talking to their parents.

Romeo & Juliet


100

Everything is black and white and nobody feels anything until this old guy starts downloading YouTube videos of "snow" and "war" directly into a kid's brain. Also, the ending makes no sense.

The Giver


200

This guy finds a random letter in a bottle on the beach and instead of calling the police, he stalks the person who wrote it and falls in love? Honestly, goals.

Message in a Bottle


200

An orphan spends seven years fighting a guy who doesn't have a nose.

Harry Potter


200

A British guy gets evicted because his house (and planet) is being demolished for a highway, so he hitches a ride with a towel and a depressed robot.

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy


200

A Scottish guy hears some witches talking and decides that murdering his boss is the best way to get a promotion. His wife is really into interior design and hand-washing.

Macbeth


200

A bunch of British private school kids get stranded on an island and instead of building a raft, they start a cult, break some glasses, and go to war over a literal seashell.

Lord of the Flies


300

A rebellious girl with a terminal illness makes a "to-do" list, and the popular guy helps her finish it while wearing a sweater vest. My heart literally cannot.

A Walk to Remember


300

A bunch of kids walk into a wardrobe because they’re bored, and they end up becoming kings and queens of a place where a lion does all the heavy lifting.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe


300

n the future, everyone is obsessed with a 1980s VR game because the billionaire who made it hid an Easter egg. It’s basically just Wikipedia: The Movie.

Ready Player One


300

A prince spends the whole play talking to a skull and wondering if he should "be" or "not be," while his uncle tries to act like nothing happened to the King.

Hamlet


300

This kid crashes a plane in the middle of nowhere and instead of crying, he basically becomes a caveman with a tiny axe. He eats "gut cherries," fights a moose, and lives in a lean-to. Honestly, I'd just wait for the Wi-Fi to come back.

Hatchet


400

A girl moves back to her tiny hometown and her dad is making a stained-glass window, but then there’s a beach fire and Miley Cyrus was in the movie version? Peak cinema.

The Last Song


400

A girl volunteers to enter a battle royale because her sister is too soft, and she ends up starting a revolution because she likes berries and fire-proof dresses.

The Hunger Games


400

A guy is chosen to move to a desert planet where the water is expensive and the worms are the size of skyscrapers. Also, everyone is fighting over "spice" that isn't even for cooking.

Dune


400

A grumpy guy hates everyone until a girl with a sharp tongue shows up, and they spend the whole time insulting each other until they realize they’re obsessed.

Pride & Prejudice (or Much Ado About Nothing)


400

A guy’s literal job is to set fire to books because they make people "think too much," but then he meets a girl who likes to walk in the rain and he decides to steal a book and hide it in his vent.

Fahrenheit 451


500

So this guy is a total loner living in a huge house, but then he saves a girl from a car crash and it turns out he’s been watching her sleep? Which is totally romantic and not creepy at all because he’s actually super old and sparkles in the sun.

Twilight


500

A farm boy finds a blue rock that is actually a lizard, and then an old storyteller tells him he’s the only one who can stop the evil empire. Basically Star Wars but with scales.

Eragon


500

A math genius predicts the end of the world using "psychohistory," so he hides a bunch of smart people on a rock at the edge of the galaxy to wait it out.

Foundation


500

A magical prankster turns a guy’s head into a donkey because some fairies are having a domestic dispute in the woods. Typical Tuesday.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

500

This kid gets sent to a desert camp to dig holes all day because of a "family curse" involving a great-great-grandfather and a pig. There are also yellow-spotted lizards that will literally end you.

Holes