Required reading: Carrie
Every book seen in Carrie, in order of appearance.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, 1960Harper Lee published it in 1960 and it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the next year.
Seen in S1 E1, Mr. Peist · 20:42BuyAnne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery, 1908Right after the gun drill, Carrie quotes Anne of Green Gables and the principal catches the reference.
Seen in S1 E1, Carrie WhiteBuyBoy Proof
Cecil Castellucci, 2005Stella, the neighbor, lends Carrie a 2005 YA novel about a brilliant loner who goes to school dressed as a character from a sci-fi movie so nobody has to meet the real her.
Seen in S1 E1, Stella · 28:20BuyThe Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger, 1951Salinger published it in 1951, and Holden Caulfield is sixteen.
Seen in S1 E1, Carrie White · 11:40BuyI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, 1969A girl stops speaking after something unspeakable, then finds a voice that could level a building.
Seen in S1 E2, Carrie White · 31:46BuyLast Night at the Telegraph Club
Malinda Lo, 2021A 1950s teenager hiding who she is from a family that would call it a sin.
Seen in S1 E2, Carrie White · 31:46BuyThe Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood, 1985Religious men running women's bodies in God's name.
Seen in S1 E2, Carrie White · 31:46BuyLooking for Alaska
John Green, 2005A sheltered kid leaves home, meets the world, and watches every adult in range fail the girl at the center of the story.
Seen in S1 E2, Carrie White · 31:46BuyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey, 1962An institution run by a woman who calls cruelty care, and a rebellion that takes the building with it.
Seen in S1 E2, Carrie White · 31:46BuyThe Exorcist
William Peter Blatty, 1971A kid in the library reading The Exorcist.
Seen in S1 E2, Background student · 31:13BuyThe Wonderful Things You Will Be
Emily Winfield Martin, 2015A 2015 picture book parents read to babies, and the whole book builds to one promise: "And I'll love you, whoever you've grown up to be."
Seen in Carrie WhiteBuyThe Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury, 1950Tommy Ross, the nicest boy in Chamberlain, has a favorite book, and it is Bradbury's story about people who arrive somewhere beautiful and ruin it.
Seen in Tommy RossBuyPride and Prejudice
Jane Austen, 1813The one book in the whole show where the misjudged girl gets the boy, the town admits it was wrong, and nobody burns anything down.
Seen in Carrie WhiteBuyFrankenstein
Mary Shelley, 1818Guidance counselor Peter Morton quotes it to Carrie: nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
Seen in Peter MortonBuyA Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle, 1962Meg Murry: awkward, furious, gifted in ways the adults can't measure, and she saves the day by loving someone harder than the villain can hate.
Seen in Carrie WhiteBuyGreat Expectations
Charles Dickens, 1861Dickens gets two quotes in this show, which is one more than most of the cast.
Seen in Carrie WhiteBuy
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