in 11th grade my class read:
Macbeth, A Separate Peace, A Tale of Two Cities, and others which i’m not remembering right now.
Rebecca is clean, as is Jane Eyre and all those others. 1984 is good as well.
Frankenstein, Twelve Angry Men, Hamlet, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -my class read these in 12, but they work for 11 also… (though i can’t say i enjoyed Ivan Ilyich, it’s not terrible, just a bit boring).
and even the most depressing, boring books can be made interesting-all depends on the teacher! (gotta give mine a lot of credit-she made even ivan ilyich interesting!)