Mainly talking about the books we were required to read in school. I’m healing my inner child by reading all the books, since I was in remedial English and did not get to read them at the time. Currently reading Of Mice and Men. Thanks all!
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Dune, lord of the flies, Frankenstein, a tale of 2 cities, othello, Macbeth, catch 22, grapes of wrath, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, to kill a mockingbird, great gatsby, Canterbury tales, fall of the house of usher, mask of the red death, Beowulf
Stranger in a Strange Land and Dune impressed me quite a bit.
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Poe’s work
The Things They Carried, Their Eyes Were Watching God, A Tale of Two Cities, Zaat, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Tempest
Are you asking with the best things I read in the curriculum were? Lord of the Flies, Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (we all loved this!), Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, and The Chosen were required books I loved.
I never got through Wuthering Heights in high school but I love it now!
None although I wish I did. Didn’t start reading books until I was 35
Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet (these were read in class, but I read other Shakespeare on my own), 1984, Brave New World, My Name is Asher Lev, Nectar in a Sieve, Tom Sawyer, Ethan Fromme, The Sun Also Rises (I had to pick a Hemingway to read, it wasn’t a whole class read), Fences, The Glass Menagerie, Catcher in the Rye, A Tale of Two Cities, The Outsiders (in jr high), To Kill a Mockingbird, Inherit the Wind (in jr high), Diary of Anne Frank (Jr high), The Scarlet Ibis (short story). I’m sure there were more, but high school was 30 years ago and my memory is imperfect.
The Bartameus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud.
Red Badge of Courage, A Separate Peace, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Canterbury Tales, Beowulf… High school was 20 years ago so I’m having trouble remembering much else, except that in AP English we did an awesome unit on existentialism where we read The Stranger and The Metamorphosis and a couple stories from Dubliners.
Snow Falling On Cedars, Night, Hiroshima, and Things Fall Apart are the most memorable. The usual Shakespeare mix from Julius Cesar and Romeo & Juliet to Much Ado About Nothing and King Lear, MacBeth. Also random poets (Cummings, Auden, Byron, Plath, Whitman, Dickinson- actually they were heavy on the New England 18th and 19th century based ones now that I think about it), The Aeneid, The Odyssey, The Illiad, The Tale of Two Cities, Beowolf, The Great Gatsby, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Sun Also Rises, and short stories like The Lottery and The Necklace. We read for English and History and language cross over units. We had a lot of choice after year 2 for paper analyses as the library was extensive. I read Two Years Before the Mast, every Joseph Conrad and Jack London, and all the Horatio Hornblower books for my junior Year thesis project about representation of evil in nature. Year 4 I got to read CS Lewis and Tolkien entire catalogs to analyze for religion and mythology influences. My history teacher one year decided to use art analysis to teach European history so we read the Simon Schama Citizens book in pieces. This was before “Standards” and “Parental rights” where teachers could be interesting without losing their jobs.