Great Books Roundtable™ Lexile Scores
Great Books Roundtable Level 1
Title
Author
Level 1 Whole
Lexile
Word Count
870
46,003
A Likely Place Paula Fox
630 8841 Afternoon in Linen Shirley Jackson
740 1448 As The Night the Day Abioseh Nicol
880 4644 Gaston William Saroyan
770 1907 Rattlesnakes John Muir
1350 1390 Raymnond's Run Toni Cade Bambara
1280 3712 The Mountain Charles Mungoshi
860 2743 The Mysteries of the Cabala Issac Bashevis Singer
770 3022 The Old Man of the Sea Maeve Brennan
900 2813 The Parsley Garden William Saroyan
1140 2570 The Veldt Ray Bradbury
600 4593 The Witch Who Came For the Weekend William Trevor
950 2847 Through the Tunnel Doris Lessing
870 3961 Throwing Snowballs Annie Dillard
880 1513
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Great Books Roundtable™ Lexile Scores
Great Books Roundtable Level 2
Title
Author
Level 2 Whole
Lexile
Word Count
870
45,374
Colter's Way Sebastian Junger
1070
2444 Day of the Butterfly Alice Munro
960 3748 El Diablo de la Cienega Geoffrey Becker
760 5025 Harrison Bergeron
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
830 2186 I Just Kept On Smiling
Simon Burt
550 3055 Mercedes Kane Elizabeth McCracken
590 4401 Props for Faith
Ursula Hegi
990 3603 Sandra Street Michael Anthony
900 2909 The Box House and the Snow Cristina Henriquez
780 4445 The Cat and the Coffee Drinkers Max Steele
1140 5038 The First Day Edward P. Jones
1060
1902 The White Circle John Bell Clayton
850
2872 The White Umbrella Gish Jen
560 2825 Wolf
Loren Eiseley
850 929
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Great Books Roundtable™ Lexile Scores
Great Books Roundtable Level 3
Title
Author
Level 3 Whole
Lexile
Word Count
890
51,092
A Visit of Charity Eudora Welty
820
2297 Approximations Mona Simpson
650
4175 Fellowship Franz Kafka
840
310 Gryphon Charles Baxter
800
6511 How It Feels to Be Colored Me Zora Neale Hurston
950
1600 I Have a Dream Martin Luther King Jr.
1120
1654 Star Food Ethan Canin
960
6860 Sucker
Carson McCullers
870
4259 Superstitions Mary LaChapelle
820
6059 The Bet
Anton Chekhov
1040
2833
The Destructors
Graham Greene
760 5511 The Possibility of Evil Shirley Jackson
1090
4029 The Secret Lion
Alberto Álvaro Ríos
1000 2502 The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
William Saroyan
720
2489
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