So what books did you read at school?

[JBI]

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.

[kelby_lake]

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

[mrsmtpspur]

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.

[kratsayra]

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

[RJbibliophil]

Ninth grade included:
Great Expectations
Lord of the Flies
Huckleberry Finn
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Importance of Being Earnest
A Tale of Two Cities

[grace86]

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

[Dori]

What am I reading currently in high school? Words, words, words.

[sprinks]

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.

[Granny5]

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.

[Petrarch's Love]

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.

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)

[aabbcc]

(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
+
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.

[ben.!]

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.

[kelby_lake]

I read The Metamorphosis! Weird but good
I read some of Catch-22 and liked it but it's v. long

[moose gurl]

9th Grade:

• To Kill A Mockingbird (Lee)--loved it
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Smith?)--loved it
• Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)--I love anything Shakespeare
• Animal Farm (Orwell)--didn't like it then, would probably like it now...
• The Miracle Worker (Gibson)--a play about Helen Keller's tutor; was decent

10th Grade:

• Picture Bride (Uchida)--about a Japanese woman who is sent to the Americas to meet her new husband and her struggle to adapt to society, very very good
• Black Like Me (Griffin)--about a white reporter who colors himself black and travels through the South to find out how it feels to be hated because of race; a true story and incredibly riveting
• Night (Wiesel)--probably one of the best accounts of the Holocaust, and there are a bunch
• The Crucible (Miller)--meh, not a huge Miller fan
• Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)--<3
• The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne)--yuck

11th:

• A Light in August (Faulkner)--a favorite
• The Awakening (Chopin)--not a huge fan, but not terrible
• Great Expectations (Dickens)--a least favorite, though I love A Tale of Two Cities
• Death of A Salesmen (Miller)
• Wise Blood (O'Connor)--excellent
• Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)--the best story about class differences involving a man who loves a woman who is above him in status
• The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)--another least favorite
• A Raisin in the Sun--a play about a black family that stumbles upon some money and how the dreams over what they are going to do with it tears them apart

12th:

• Hamlet (Shakespeare)
• Cymbeline (Shakespeare)--though I think I spelled that wrong, this is my favorite Shakespeare play
• Henry V (Shakespeare)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare)--also read in 6th grade
• As You Like It (Shakespeare)--also read in 7th grade
• Brave New World (Huxley)--loved it, but not as good as 1984
• 1984 (Orwell)--incredible
• The Giver (Lowry)--while this is a children's book of sorts, we read it alongside Brave New World and 1984 for contrast, and I really enjoyed it
• Pride and Prejudice--a least favorite
• The Chosen--an excellent book about a Jewish boy who struggles against the expectations of those around him, very very moving
• Wuthering Heights--YET ANOTHER least favorite
• Macbeth (Shakespeare)--not my favorite Shakespeare
• Parts of Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales--both enjoyable, though I wasn't crazy about them

Freshman/College:

• The Joy Luck Club (Tan)--I really hated this book and didn't understand how it fit into our course at all, really awful
• Generation X (Coupland)--Incredible anti-culture book, loved it
• The Bluest Eye (Morrison)--Also loved it
• The Bell Jar (Plath)--My all-time favorite work in this class, absolutely amazing, very real to me
• Catcher in the Rye (Salinger)--I loved, loved, loved this book.
• The Aeneid (Virgil)
• The Iliad (Homer)--better than the Aeneid, IMO, very good
• The Wisdom of the Prophet (Muhammad)--phrases from the Hadith, the Islamic text, actually interesting
• The Mahabharata (condensed)--the ancient Indian script condensed to about 200 pages, again, actually really fascinating
• Confessions (St. Augustine)--yuck
• Purgatorio (Dante)--really disappointed because I never got a chance to read the Inferno first, but overall really enjoyed it
• Praise of Folly (Erasmus)--meh, the first half was hilarious, the second half was a drag
• Basically the entire Old Testament--incredibly painstaking
• Hamlet (Shakespeare)--I'd read it a few times before

I'm from Alabama (Southern US).
This was just my required reading list since freshman year, high school. I left out all the poems and short stories we read, even the ones I really liked (Ambrose Bierce, Achebe), because this post is long as it is.
I also loved Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck) but I read that on my own time.

[Dark Muse]

In no particular order, as I cannot remeber exazactly when in highschool I read the following, and these are the best I can recall off the top of my head:

Oh and I went to Highschool in CA.

There may have been a few short stories we read as well that I simply cannot recall.

Of Mice and Men
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
The Little Prince
The Wizzard of Earthsea
Siddhartha
The Crucible
Othello
I also remember there was a book on mytholgy we read that I cannot remeber the name of