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I can't remember absolutely everything I've read, especially considering that I read a lot on my own and will probably mix it all up. I haven't finished High School yet either...so...
Freshman Year
The Giver
House on Mango Street
The Lovely Bones
Romeo and Juliet
The Odyssey
A Raisin in the Sun
The Glass Menagerie
The Catcher in the Rye
Sophomore Year
The Art of War
Mythology
Whale Talk
Julius Caesar
Animal Farm
Candide
Cat's Cradle
Antigone
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
Junior Year (current year)
The Grapes of Wrath
A Handmaid's Tale
The Color of Water
The Great Gatsby
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Crucible
The Bluest Eye
Fahrenheit 451
The Life of Pi
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Excluding poems, essays and short stories:
The Chrysalids
Twelfth Night
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Glass Managerie
Romeo And Juliet
Cat's Cradle
Macbeth
The Great Gatsby
King Lear
Death of a Salesman
As you can see, as of now I am almost purely an autodidact.
This is Canada for you, no emphasis on English.
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What I read out of interest in high school was:
Crime and Punishment
A Tale Of Two Cities
The Idiot
The Trial
Vanity Fair
The Great Gatsby
This Side Of Paradise
The Last Tycoon
The Beautiful and Damned
Of Mice and Men
Lolita
Fahrenheit 451
A book called The Dark Room (can't remember author)
Brave New World
1984
Animal Farm
Brideshead Revisited
The Loved One
The Ballad of The Sad Cafe
Bleak House
Les Enfants Terribles
Giovanni's Room
Wuthering Heights
To Kill A Mockingbird (assigned)
The Immoralist
Catcher in The Rye
Where Angels Fear to Tread
The Metamorphosis
From busy reader :D
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Highschool-I really don't remember highschool. But some of the books I remember reading were, Illustrated Man, 1984, Brave New World and Farewell to Arms. Otherwise-read some poetry and plays-typical highschool required reading.
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ooh, what fun. let's see what I can remember. I can't split it up by grade, then I'll get extra-confused.
I was in Philadelphia, but it was a private school, so I'm not sure how much the state matters.
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Hobbit (did I really read this in a course?! I think so, although it seems odd now)
- The Adventures of Huck Finn
- The Great Gatsby
- The Scarlet Letter
- The Awakening
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Fences
- Light in August (I think? or something by Faulkner)
- A Farewell to Arms
- The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
- Candide
- Lord of the Flies
- Love in the Time of Cholera
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Ninth grade included:
Great Expectations
Lord of the Flies
Huckleberry Finn
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Importance of Being Earnest
A Tale of Two Cities
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These will generally be in order from 9th-12th grade, but I have mixed them up a little bit on the years.
9th
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
The Pearl
Wasteland
Death of a Salesman
10th
Tale of Two Cities
Lord of the Flies
To Kill a Mockingbird
Blackboy (10th or 11th)
11th
The Great Gatsby
The Chosen (10th or 11th)
Grapes of Wrath
Moby Dick (parts)
The Crucible
Walden (parts)
12th
Hamlet
Autobiography of Lee Iacocca
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What am I reading currently in high school? Words, words, words.
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Well I'm in year 11 right now in Australia and...
Year 8 I only remember doing Lockie Leonard
Year 9 we did Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Year 10 we did Anna's Story by Bronwyn Donaghy and Looking For Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta... Also we did Romeo and Juliet, but it was more of a focus on film interpretations of it.
This year (Year 11) we are doing King Oedipus by Sophocles, Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, The Chosen by Chaim Potok, The Crucible by Arthur Miller and then like poetry etc.
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I can't remember high school much either. It was soooo long ago. But I do remember reading Frost and studying poetry as lyrics by Paul Simon. It was a wonderful class.
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Wow, this is prompting sudden nostalgic flashbacks to high school...and making me realize I'm now old enough to be nostalgic about high school. :lol:
Freshman Year
To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm
Romeo and Juliet
Great Expectations
Assorted Poetry
Sophomore Year
1984
All Quiet On the Western Front
Greek and Roman Mythologies
Twelfth Night
The Count of Monte Cristo
(Independent report on Howard's End)
Junior Year (what a year!)
Sermons by Jonathan Edwards and other early Americana
Essays by Ben Franklin
The Scarlet Letter
Walden
Poems by Whitman, Dickinson and others
Huck Finn
The Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wrath
The Old Man and the Sea and Hemingway short stories
The Catcher in the Rye
(Independent project on Willa Cather's My Antonia)
Senior Year
Beowulf
Grendel
Canterbury Tales (unfortunately in translation :( )
Sonnets by Wyatt and Surrey
King Lear
Pride and Prejudice
(missed last half of the year, so don't know what the reading was)
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(Exluded pieces of national literature whose names would probably not mean much to you.)
9th Grade
Homer - The Iliad (selected parts)
Homer - The Odyssey (selected parts)
Aeschyles - Prometheus Bound
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Sophocles - Antigone
Euripides - Electra
Euripides - Medea
Plautus - Aulularia
Virgil - Aeneis (selected parts)
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Epic of Gilgamesh
Bible - excerpts and selected parts
St Augustine - Confessions
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Salinger, J.D. - Catcher in the Rye
Golding, W. - Lord of the Flies
Orwell, G. - Animal Farm
Some national lit plays
10th grade
Alighieri, D. - Inferno + selected cantos from other parts of Commedia
Boccaccio, G. - Decameron
Petrarca, F. - Canzoniere
Shakespeare, W. - Othello
Shakespeare, W. - Hamlet
Shakespeare, W. - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Calderon de la Barca, P. - Life is a Dream
Moliere - we had a choice between his plays
Cervantes, M. de - Don Quijote
Corneille, P. - Cid
Racine, J. - we had a choice, most of us did Fedra
Goldoni, C. - La Locandiera
Goethe, J. W. - The Sorrows of Young Werther
Goethe, J. W. - Faust (only first part was mandatory)
Schiller, F. - The Robbers
Pushkin, A. S. - Eugene Onegin
11th Grade
back in my old school:
Lermontov, M. Ju. - The Hero of Our Time
Balzac, H. de - Father Goriot
Flaubert, G. - Madame Bovary
Turgenev, I. S. - Fathers and Sons
Gogol', N. V. - The Overcoat
Dostoevsky, F. M. - Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky, F. M. - Writings from the Underground
whilst we were about to do the latter, I changed school, and in new school:
Alighieri, D. - Purgatory
Ariosto, O. - Orlando Furioso
Ariosto, O. - Gerusalemme Liberata
Alfieri, V. & Goldoni, C. - a bunch of plays, though we had certain freedom in choosing what we wanted
Wilde, O. - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Hugo, V. - The Hunchback of Notre Dame or Les Miserables (I did the former)
Shakespeare, W. - Macbeth
Voltaire - Candide
They also made me make up for all the things I missed in their school, so I read a lot aside these. I didn't manage to read it all, so I left some for 12th grade, hoping they would forget about, but they didn't...
12th Grade
Alighieri, D. - Paradise
Verga, G. - I Malavoglia
Svevo, I. - Zeno's Conscience
Pirandello, L. - One, None and a Hundred Thousand
Pirandello, L. - The Late Mattia Pascal
Pirandello, L. - Six Characters in Search of an Author
Camus, A. - The Stranger
Ionesco, E. - we were given a choice between his plays
Proust, M. - Combray and/or Swann's Way
Beckett, S. - Waiting for Godot
D'Annunzio, G. - a novel of choice
Sartre, J.-P. - Nausea
Kafka, F. - The Trial
I probably missed some; other than not-so-known pieces of national literature, I excluded short stories, essays and such texts, and I included only works read for subject native language / literature, not also the things we read for foreign language / literature classes, or other classes.
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I'm currently in year 12.
Stuff I read out of interest AND I read for schoolwork were as follows:
6th Grade:
Bridge to Terabithia (We had it read to us!)
7th Grade:
Crossfire
Bridge to Wisemen's Cove
8th/9th Grade (Can't remember which):
Animal Farm
10th Grade (I took an advanced English class, called Enrichment English):
Things Fall Apart
Arthurian Legends
Lord of the Flies
Hound of the Baskervilles
Beowulf
Lord of the Rings
Erik the Red & other Icelandic Tales (Just Erik the Red)
The Republic (Selected bits)
For Drama:
A Midsummer Night's Dream
11th Grade:
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Importance of Being Earnest
For Drama:
Kinuta (The Silk Board)
A Doll's House
Summer of the 17th Doll
The Removalists
Medea
12th Grade:
Snow Falling on Cedars
Macbeth
The Crucible
For Drama:
The Caucasian Chalk-Circle
Stuff I read not related to school:
Heart of Darkness
War of the Worlds
The Time Machine
To Kill A Mockingbird
1984
A Clockwork Orange
Dubliners
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Sign of Four
A Study in Scarlet
The Hobbit
Life of Pi
That's all the stuff I've read that I can remember! Also, that's all the high literature I read, not the popular fiction type novels like Nick Hornby, Stephen King and Anthony Horowitz, or Lemony Snicket.
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I read The Metamorphosis! Weird but good
I read some of Catch-22 and liked it but it's v. long
