Of Mice and Men
Ranked #5 in California, Ranked #5 in American — see more rankings.
Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie have nothing in the world except each other and a dream -- a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California’s Salinas Valley, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie, struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy, becomes a victim of his own strength.
Tackling universal themes such as the friendship of a shared vision,... more
Reviews and Recommendations
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Barack Obama Former USA PresidentWhen he got to high school, the president said, his tastes changed and he learned to enjoy classics like “Of Mice and Men” and “The Great Gatsby.” (Source)
Steve Benjamins I think all of John Steinbeck’s books are uplifting. He sees the best in humanity and it leaves me feeling warm and generous. I always love this paragraph in Of Mice and Men that hints at the tension between business and humanity: "It has always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honestly, understanding, and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism, and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they... (Source)
Rankings by Category
Of Mice and Men is ranked in the following categories:
- #24 in 10th Grade
- #54 in 11th Grade
- #31 in 13-Year-Old
- #9 in 14-Year-Old
- #23 in 15-Year-Old
- #54 in 16-Year-Old
- #12 in 20th Century
- #33 in 8th Grade
- #10 in 9th Grade
- #56 in Academia
- #85 in Adult
- #6 in American Literature
- #10 in Americana
- #21 in Annotations
- #47 in Archives
- #12 in Banned
- #65 in Bucket List
- #52 in Censorship
- #27 in Class
- #14 in Classic
- #44 in Classical
- #71 in Controversial
- #59 in Depression
- #90 in Drama
- #81 in Dramatic
- #41 in Fiction
- #47 in Friendship
- #100 in Gilmore Girls
- #11 in High School
- #17 in High School Reading
- #84 in Life Lessons
- #18 in Literary
- #17 in Literature
- #61 in Loneliness
- #5 in Men
- #68 in Modern
- #16 in Modern Classic
- #93 in Modern Fiction
- #51 in Modernism
- #30 in Modernist
- #79 in Morality
- #10 in Nobel
- #48 in Novel
- #36 in Old
- #41 in Penguin Classics
- #95 in Poverty
- #98 in Realistic Fiction
- #41 in Roman
- #33 in Sad
- #31 in Sadness
- #9 in Short
- #83 in Story
- #100 in Summer Reading
- #67 in Teacher
- #70 in Teaching
- #65 in Thought-Provoking
- #82 in Top Ten
- #74 in Used
- #82 in Why
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