What's required reading in English schools?

Huckleberry Finn
Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
Romeo and Juliet
Ragtime
The Godfather
Heart of Darkness
Agape Agape
Cosmopolis
The Road
Coming Through Slaughter
Endgame
King Lear
Canterbury Tales
The Duchess of Malfi
Everyman
Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Many more but can't remember off the top of my head

I've been working as a teaching assistant in the English department of my old school the past week, as I'm still at university. I've brushed up on the syllabus they are currently using, the sixth form (ages 16-18) changes fairly often, anything pre-age 16 rarely changes.

Ages 11-16 have looked at the texts: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Sherlock Holmes, Holes, Boy In Striped Pyjamas, An Inspector Calls, Lord Of The Flies, Jaws, poetry by Yeats, Duffy, Armitage, as well as war poetry such as Wilfred Owen. That's all I've picked up on but I'm sure there'll be more.

Ages 16-18 in recent years tend to cover a Shakespeare in each year, a poet in each year as well as a couple of novels. I studied Tennyson, Measure For Measure, Richard III, French Lieutenants Woman, Top Girls as well as the synoptic paper when I was in Sixth Form (3 years ago). Since it has changed to texts including Orthello, Dubliners, A Christmas Carol, more Tennyson.

The American Declaration of Independence.

For GCSEs I read Journey's End, Macbeth, a collection of poems pre-1914 and post-1914, collection of short stories based on culture and, of course, Of Mice and Men.
To be honest, I don't care what's required reading. The texts are easy to read and analyse. I've always done my own reading. In my class, the vast majority just didn't care. The kids connect the books to school and, no matter how great the book or poem is, they just won't care. I'm not saying none of them care, I did, but the vast majority don't. Most of my friends couldn't remember the last time they read a book.

In high school I remember:
Lord of the Flies
A Sound of Thunder
Romeo & Juliet
Julius Caesar
Speak
Fahrenheit 451
The Metamorphosis
Pride & Prejudice
Macbeth

This is all I recall and I only graduated 1 year ago! They were all boring except P&P, Metamorphosis, and LOTF somewhat.

Some of you got good ones like 1984, Tale of Two Cities, The Road, and even Freakonomics.

I remember having to read, in order
Antigone
The Bean Trees
Romeo and Juliet
Great Expectations
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Brave New World
Macbeth
Heart of Darkness
The Stranger
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
and Pride and Prejudice.
I'm sure I forgot some.

As to what should be read, I really wish they had made us read Anna Karenina so I could have discovered it earlier. Brideshead Revisited also seems like a good choice.

By "English schools " did you mean only schools in Great Britain? I went to an American school but my Freshman year we read the first part of David Copperfield, Sophomore year Julius Caesar and A Separate Peace, Junior year The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Maybe that shouldn't count, as it was only a story) and Senior year Beuowolf, Canterberry Tales,Hamlet and She Stoops to Conquer.

Assuming the OP meant English school as in schools from the UK, then there aren't actually any specific books that you HAVE to read. You just have to choose a certain few from different styles/eras. I'm pretty sure you have to study two novels, two poets, and two plays.

Thanks

You are talking here about english schools. However I want to mention about the situation in the country where I live in. Here pupils have to read only fragments. Do you read in UK all novels (I mean not fragments) ?

When I took my English literature O level in 1983, we studied Macbeth, Jane Eyre and some poems, but I cannot remember what the poems were. I got a C. Also from school, I can remember reading

Julius Caesar
Animal Farm
A Christmas Carol
War of the Worlds
Great Expectations (extracts)
A Tale of Two Cities (extracts)

I think we were supposed to read quite a lot of them as homework, which obviously I didn't do.

Poetry wise, I can remember us doing

Daffodils (William Wordsworth)
Upon Westminster Bridge (William Wordsworth)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Thomas Gray)
Sea Fever (John Masefield)
Cargoes (John Masefield)
Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds (William Shakespeare)

Grades 9-12 only, all that I can recall:

The Great Gatsby
Old Man and the Sea
*1984
*A Tale of Two Cities
*The Scarlet Letter
The Crucible
A Raisin in the Sun
Death of a Salesman
You Can't Take it With You
The Color Purple
Henry V
Macbeth
Othello
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Hamlet
Deliverance (James Dickey)
Notes from Underground
Death of Ivan Ilyich
Catcher in the Rye
The Color of Water
Nine Stories
Araby
The Dead
The Metamorphosis
The Wasteland
Several poems by Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and many others I can't recall


*Assigned in History, not English

P.S. I read Lord of the Flies, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Julius Caesar in 8th grade I think.

Wow no body mentioned Poe!,,I remember Reading a lot of American short stories,,,,,,,of course I'm talking early 60's

poetaster and I have just been talking a little bit about hawthorne and young goodman brown! what a neat coincidence.

Did you mean in schools in England? Or schools in countries that speak English as a first language?