<p>What do your reading lists look like? Here's mine:
How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Painful)
Waiting for God
Wit
The Kite Runner
Johnny Got His Gun (pending approval)
Doctor Zhivango (Russian)
July's People (South African)</p>
<p>How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Crime and Punishment
Dante’s Inferno
Medea</p>
<p>The Inferno is fabulous! I wish we were reading that…one book off my list.</p>
<p>Crime and Punishment
A TON of Shakespeare</p>
<p>According to my schools website the reading list from last year was
1984 by George Orwell
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster (highly recommended)</p>
<p>I’m not quite sure what the last part being “highly recommended” is about? Guess its optional? </p>
<p>Ooooooh, thats all summer reading btw. Are we talking about during the year here?</p>
<p>Johnny Got His Gun is absolutely amazing. The movie, although mostly monologues, is great too.</p>
<p>^^Thank goodness! I was really worried about it. =)
Nah. I think we are all talking about summer reading.
“How to Read Literature Like a Professor” seems to be in the list for everyone. =P It’s going to be absolutely horrible to get through. Like what is it like? “Read from left to right… See something striking? Underline it…” Like come on?</p>
<p>Haha. I meant Waiting for Godot-not Waiting for God. =)</p>
<p>We dont have a teacher as of right now… so idk if ill have summer reading assigned.</p>
<p>I took the exam this year, and for summer we had
The Awakening
Beloved
The Things They Carried
Regeneration</p>
<p>And then in class we read
Wuthering Heights
Crime and Punishment
Oedipus Rex
Jude the Obscure
Invisible Man
The Kite Runner
Othello</p>
<p>It was pretty intense, but they were all pretty usable on the open essay.</p>
<p>We only have to read The Color Purple over summer (which I already read). But we read about 15-20 books throughout the year.</p>
<p>My teacher is obsessed with contemporary lit. Not that I’m complaining!</p>
<p>Bless Me Ultima by Rudolpho Anaya
Chronicles of a Blood Merchant by Yu Hua
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson</p>
<p>And no, she’s not Asian… she just likes Asian authors (3/5), I guess?</p>
<p>I hateed Beloved, we read it in Lang</p>
<p>last year, we had</p>
<p>The Great Gatsby
Frankenstein
Hamlet
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Ethan Frome
Death of a Salesman</p>
<p>And then we had a choice between:
Wuthering Heights
1984
Joy Luck Club
Invisible Man</p>
<p>Keilexandra- Bless me Ultima? We had to read that for English I Honors at my school, that’s weird. But I hate that book btw</p>
<p>^ I’ve never read or heard of BLESS ME ULTIMA, so I can’t really comment.</p>
<p>I’m surprised by the variety of these lists. My English teacher this year warns people against writing our major lit-crit paper on 1984 because it’s too surface-satiric and not easily deep enough. For AP Lang this year, I read THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (which is awesome) and THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD (interesting once you understand the dialect). 12th grade honors lit will be reading KITE RUNNER, among others. Gatsby is 11th grade, Frankenstein is 10th for me.</p>
<p>Gatsby is beyond amazing!!!
The Things They Carried I actually had to read for APUSH along with The Jungle (which is going to really help for English, throughout the year). Their Eyes Were Watching God was something I read for summer reading (11th grade English III-H) along with The Grapes of Wrath–both are very good.</p>
<p>A lot of people love Gatsby, but having just finished it for American Lit, I’m unimpressed. Although, Fitzgerald has some elegant turns of phrase, I didn’t care about any of the characters. In fact, I wanted to smack everyone except Nick upside the head.</p>
<p>Jane Eyre
Candide
How to Read Literature like a professor
Heart of Darkness</p>
<p>summer reads:</p>
<p>Crime and Punishment
Jane Eyre
Catch-22</p>
<p>Books we read during the year:</p>
<p>Beloved
Heart of Darkness
The Stranger
Death of Ivan Illyich
Wuthering Heights
Hamlet
Death of a Salesman
The Metamorphosis
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead</p>
<p>Also had to do research on an author (2 works). Mine were 100 years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera</p>
<p>Other kids read for example Oscar Wilde, Capote, Austen, Hardy, Burgess…Overall a very intense year.</p>