So what books did you read at school?

Firstly, I would like to introduce myself to the forums as this is my first post, by saying hello to all.

Anywho... so in speaking with my gf not too long ago, I discovered that although she had attended the same highschool as I, she was assigned very different texts than myself betwixt grades 9&12, such as Frankenstein, Great Expectations, and The Grapes of Wrath.

With envy I recalled reading nothing to be considered classic in public school, the closest being Farenheit 451, but even that was in Junior High!

So what do fellow board members remember being assigned to read in highschool, or have read so far in highschool?

Also, what state did you attend?

Thanks! :thumbs_up

I went to high school in North Carolina and I read

Freshman Year
To Kill a Mockingbird
Great Expectations
Romea and Juliet

Sophomore Year
Things Fall Apart
A Doll's House
Cyrano de Bergerac
All Quiet on the Western Front
Siddhartha
Antigone
Epic of Gilgamesh
Night

Junior Year
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Huck Finn
Fredrick Douglas
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Great Gatsby
The Awakening
The Scarlet Letter

Senior Year
Heart of Darkness
1984
Brave New World
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Hamlet
Macbeth
Heart of Darkness
Lord of the Flies
Light in August
Turn of the Screw
The Stranger

I'm probably forgetting a bunch but that's what I can remember. The books were kind of hit or miss until senior year when I loved just about everything.

Edit: remembered a couple more

Freshman Year
Iliad
Antigone
Medea
Epic of Gilgamesh

Sophmore Year
The Divine Comedy(just the Inferno)
The Decameron
Don Quixote
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
The Miser(Moliere)
The Sorrows of Young Werther

Junior Year
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Father Goriot
Great Expectations
U registraturi(Ante Kovačić,a Croatian author)
Madame Bovary

Senior Year
The Trial
Demian
Steppenwolf
The Stranger
The Death and the Dervish(Selimović)
The Damned Yard(Andrić)
Ugursuz(also a novel by a Bosnian author,Nedžad Ibrišimović)
One Hundred Years of Solitude

Grade 9
Intrigue and Love
Romeo and Juliet
A Village Romeo and Juliet
...

Grade 10
Faust 1
Some poetry by Pushkin
...

Grade 11
The Robbers
Germany, a fairy tale
The Sorrows of Young Werther
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Several short stories by Chekhov

Grade 12
The Reader
Nathan the Wise
Emilia Galotti
Faust 2
1984
A Hero of our Time (excerpts)

I know Ï've forgotten some books... I had no literature class, just a German, English and Russian class, so all works I listed were read in original.

FRESHMAN YEAR:
Tickets,please.
Indian camp.
The edge.
aroud the world in eighty days.
SOMPHORE YEAR:
shahrazad
Antigone.
Le rouge et le noire.
knock.
Candide.
La civilisation de ma mére.
don't look now.
Tom sawyer.
JUNIOR YEAR:
A begining and an end.(by Najib Mahfoud).
Head of the devil.(Njib Alkilani).
Senior year:
I remember not very well.

Light in August
Turn of the Screw
The Stranger

Who were these written by? Are they good?

Light in August is by Faulkner. It is kind of slow with a lot of focus on character's internal happenings but I liked it. A lot of my classmates found it boring but there are a lot of Faulkner fans on this board that can probably explain the good aspects of it better than I can.

Turn of the Screw is by Henry James. I loved it, it's a great mystery about a nanny who sees ghosts haunting the children she is taking care of and the reader must decide if she is insane or if the ghosts are real.

The Stranger is by Albert Camus and is one of the best books I have ever read. I can't recommend it highly enough, but that may be because I agree with the existentialist philosophy it espouses (though Camus did not agreee with the existentialist label).

I went to high school in Texas. Here are some of those I remember (and I forgotten lots — forgive me; it was ages ago!):


Freshman
Romeo and Juliet
The Odyssey
Rebecca
To Kill a Mockingbird


Sophomore
Julius Caesar
Animal Farm
The Scarlet Letter
The Glass Menagerie
Poetry of Robert Frost
A Separate Peace


Junior
Antony and Cleopatra
The Crucible
Some stories Fitzgerald's stories


Senior
Beowulf
Macbeth
John Donne's poetry and essays
A Modest Propsal
poetry by Byron, Keats and Wordsworth
Parts of Walden
Lord of the Flies

Due to developmental delays, I can't really remember most of what I read. I know Lord of the Flies was sophomore year as well as lots of poetry in that chapter. Don't remember most, but my fave poet is Robert Frost. I share my birthday with E. E. Cummings. I graduated in Ohio in 1998.

some of these lists make me green with envy!

Shoot that was a long time ago. The ones I remember are:

The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
All the Kings Men
The Scarlet Letter
Huck Finn
The Bible
Hemlet
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
Much Ado About Nothing
As you like it

Quote:

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Originally Posted by SirRaustusBear

The Stranger is by Albert Camus and is one of the best books I have ever read.

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I have to agree on this. I love that book.

I've also seen the title translated as "The Outsider."

Yes, I was about to ask that :)

We did To Kill A Mockingbird, Educating Rita, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It...