<p>For the upcoming semester:</p>
<p>Anna Karenina
Persuasion
Madame Bovary
Wuthering Heights
The Good Soldier</p>
<p>In IB English HL</p>
<p>Last year we did</p>
<p>The Metamorphosis- Franz Kafka
The Stranger- Albert Camus
Perfume- Patrick Süskind
Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess
Ham on Rye- Charles Bukowski
The Great Gatsby
Bright Lights Big City
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest</p>
<p>I think that's it</p>
<p>This year we've done</p>
<p>Hamlet
Poetry by Sylvia Plath and John Donne</p>
<p>After Christmas holidays we're doing plays</p>
<p>
The Metamorphosis- Franz Kafka Perfume- Patrick Süskind
That's what I'm reading in my French HL class, along with:</p>
<p>Du cote de chez Swann - Marcel Proust
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Nouvelles de Petersbourg - Nikolai Gogol</p>
<p>and I'm not sure about the rest.</p>
<p>How do you like Perfume?</p>
<p>We haven't actually started it yet, so I don't know. Do you like it?</p>
<p>I really liked it- its so well written, especially the language- he has a way with words. The story gets weird at the end. But it was definitely one of my favorite books we had read. Its very interesting. I'm writing my WL1 on it.</p>
<p>The Metamorphosis- Franz Kafka
The Stranger- Albert Camus
Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess
The Great Gatsby
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest</p>
<p>I'm quoting scarletleavy's list...wow those are great books. lucky. our American Lit AP class sucks in comparison. Lucky that yall get to read camus...and a Clockwork Orange? Fave Book Ever, but way too intense for our school's parent group to permit. F*** them :)</p>
<p>yeah, i got wanted to see what the book was about, so i read spark notes.. lol</p>
<p>ive read like, 50 spark notes' for fun.. how sad</p>
<p>I've been really happy with my English class. We've read some amazing stuff. I love Albert Camus and Clockwork Orange was just amazing. We even saw the movie in class. </p>
<p>If parents would freak over Clockwork, imagine what they would do over John Donne's poetry, its all very sexual, quite graphic.</p>
<p>Last year I dont remember what we read :P. This year so far (books and plays)
Heart of Darkness
Hamlet
Death of a Salesman
Angels in America
The Scarlet Letter
As I Lay Dying
after that we're going to do Song of Soloman</p>
<p>This year's AP Lit and Comp:
Greene - The Power and the Glory
Joyce - Dubliners
Shakespeare - Hamlet
Stoppard - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Camus - The Stranger
Becket - Waiting for Godot</p>
<p>worth2try, im a junior too and this year so far we have read a collection of short stories and poems, then The Scarlet Letter, then some emily dickinson poems, and now we are reading Huck Finn</p>
<p>the books i have read in HS so far (that i can think of right now) include</p>
<p>The Odyssey (we never finished it though... lol)= i liked it</p>
<p>Catcher in the Rye= didnt like it. i mean it was interesting, but way too depressing and whiny, IMO</p>
<p>Sound of Waves= pretty good</p>
<p>Lord of the Flies= it was very interesting</p>
<p>Julius Caesar= i liked it</p>
<p>Midsummer Nights Dream= it was okay. i had to memorize lines to present and i still remember them... "Call you me fair? That fair again unsay! Demetrius loves your fair, O Happy fair!"... and so on lol</p>
<p>Tale of Two Cities= hated it (probably because of the teacher though)</p>
<p>Go Tell it on the Mountain= blech</p>
<p>Scarlet Letter= loved it (the teacher was awesome though)</p>
<p>there are more, i cant remember</p>
<p>Books I have had to read for projects/papers in school. but we didnt read them as a class
-Antigone= easy</p>
<p>-My Bondage and My Freedom (frederick douglass)= very long, but i did really like it (no one else did though lol)</p>
<p>-The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea= i liked it even though its pretty disturbing</p>
<p>-A Lost Lady (willa cather)= not bad</p>
<p>oh yeah, Of Mice and Men, i read that in middle school
and some of the books i have read in HS so far, have been chosen by the teachers out of a list of books they can teach. so some of my friends hve read Picture of Dorian Grey, Frankenstein, and Great Expectations (but I haven't)
and the only books i know i am going to be reading in school in the future are Ethan Frome this year, and the Bible next year (in a public school!)</p>
<p>wow, some of you read a lot of books for school.. we only read like 4-5 books for summer reading and 4-6 books during the year... almost all of us do a lot of outside reading though.</p>
<p>our english class this yr mostly focuses on essay writing, and our lit book. this year we read moby dick, death of a salesman, and some others..</p>
<p>i'm in honors english 3:</p>
<p>huck finn
the scarlet letter
sula
a street car named desire
the crucible</p>
<p>that's it so far</p>
<p>In Senior Literature we've read:
the merry wives of windsor
oedipus rex
antigone
grendel/beowulf
alot of Greek and Anglo-Saxon stuff
Tale of Two Cities
The Natural</p>
<p>Thank God it's only a semester class, I can't take much more reading... we also have to read a few books on our own.. I've read The Da Vinci Code, a book about WW2 and am currently reading The Hunt for Red October</p>
<p>At just the present moment in AP Language & Composition, we are reading:
-"The Awakening"
-"The Picture of Dorian Gray"
-"Daisy Miller"
-"A Room of One's Own"
-And for my outside reading for this marking period, I have to read "One Man's Meat"...</p>
<p>Freshman year--To Kill a Mockingbird (I read that like 5000000000 times! but its still awesome)
and Call of the Wild. Our teacher doesn't tell us what we read until we actually read it.</p>
<p>Here's basically what the whole school is reading
9th: catcher in the rye, the genesis, their eyes were watching god, the odyssey, and a house on mango street (i think)
10th: Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Pride and Prejudice, Cat's Cradle, The Bluest Eye, and a Random work of shakespeare (last year... it was...othello).
11th and 12th (these are electives... i'll try and list a couple of the books from each): On Walden Pond, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, To Room 19, Summer, On A Winter's Night A Traveler, Girl Interrupted, the Color Purple, A Street Car Named Desire... to name some...</p>
<p>Just finished reading Knowledge of Angels by Jill Payton Walsh. </p>
<p>This is the reading list for the whole English academic year</p>
<p>Visa for Avalon
Canterbury Tales
Knowledge of Angels
Othello
A Midsummer's Night Dream
Dr. Jekll and Mr. Hyde
1984
The God of Small Things
Selected short stories and poems</p>
<p>By the way, this is English II for sophomores.</p>
<p>Ahh this year in APLit we have:</p>
<p>Brave New World
1984
Heart of Darkness
Macbeth
Hamlet
Taming of the Shrew
Waiting for Godot
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead</p>