<p>I was looking at a pile of thick books that were crammed into my shelf the other day. I came to realize that most of them were books we were forced to read during high school.
I'm just wondering if a lot of us have read the exact same ones. Here's a few that I've been through:
~The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinback
~The Awakening by Kate Chopin
~Black Ice by Lorene Cary
~The Things They Carried
~Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston
~House on Mango Street
~The Odyssey
~Fences
~Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
~The Great Gatsby
~Master Harold and the Boys
~This Boy's Life</p>
<p>Right now we're reading Song of Solomon by Toni Morisson.
What books have you read that were issued by your high school?</p>
<p>Ninth:
Romeo and Juliet
Of Mice and Men
Lord of the Flies
Anthem
The Odyssey
Bless Me Ultima</p>
<p>Tenth:
Of Mice and Men
Lord of the Flies (I moved school districts and had to do those two books two years running--aargh!)
The Da Vinci Code (blech)
Julius Caesar
A Seperate Peace<br>
Brave New World
A Tale of Two Cities
Antigone</p>
<p>Eleventh:
The Crucible
The Scarlet Letter
Pastwatch
Huckleberry Finn
The Awakening
The Great Gatsby
A Raisin in the Sun
Their Eyes Were Watching God</p>
<p>Twelfth:
The Heart of Darkness
The Fountainhead
A Doll House
Vanity Fair
Hamlet
Othello
A Man For All Seasons
The Count of Monte Cristo
Catch-22
The Road</p>
<p>I'm probably forgetting something, but I think I got most of them. I largely enjoyed the plays, excepting Romeo and Juliet, and I loved Catch-22.</p>
<p>9th:
-Romeo and Juliet
-Julius Caesar
-To Kill a Mockingbird
-Of Mice and Men
-The Hound of the Baskervilles
-Ender's Game
-My Name is Asher Lev
-Oedipus</p>
<p>10th:
-The Crucible
-The Bean Trees
-Fahrenheit 451
-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
-Ethan Frome
-My Antonia
-The Great Gatsby
-The Catcher in the Rye
-The House on Mango Street
-The Old Man and the Sea
-Our Town</p>
<p>11th:
-Interpreter of Maladies
-Pride and Prejudice
-Love Medicine
-The Metamorphosis
-One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
-So Long a Letter
-Thousand Cranes</p>
<p>9th grade:
-Fahrenheit 451 (summer)
-The Hobbit (summer)
-To Kill a Mockingbird
-The Cage
-The Odyssey
-Lord of the Flies
-Romeo and Juliet</p>
<p>10th grade:
-A Separate Peace (summer)
-The Death of Ivan Illych (summer)
-Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (summer)
-Frankenstein
-A Doll's House
-The Alchemist
-A Christmas Carol
-"The Dead" and "Eveline" from The Dubliners
-Oedipus
-Julius Caesar
-The Count of Monte Cristo (upcoming)
-probably others that I won't know about until later</p>
<p>I'm in the 10th grade honors class, so the other classes are reading "The House on Mango Street" and "Night" in place of a few of the above ("The Alchemist" and "Dubliners", I think).</p>
<p>Gosh, not English books, but for 9th grade world history I had to read</p>
<ul>
<li>Guns, Germs, and Steel</li>
<li>Paris 1919</li>
<li>The World Is Flat (which I enjoyed ... didn't like GGS, haha. It was painful.)</li>
</ul>
<p>9th (class was a joke ...):
+ Romeo and Juliet
+ Flowers for Algernon
+ Julius Caesar
+ To Kill a Mockingbird
+ Of Mice and Men
+ Fahrenheit 451 (then watched an amazingly hilarious movie) </p>
<p>10th:
+ The Chosen
+ Angle of Repose
+ Their Eyes Were Watching God
+ Othello
+ The Good Earth
+ Heart of the Lonely Hunter
+ Everything is Illuminated
+ Jane Eyre (had to read for outside project)
+ The Awakening (outside project)
+ Great Expectations (outside project)</p>
<p>11th: (AP Lang, we rarely read books ... the other AP Lang class and Honors read a LOT)
+ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
+ The Things They Carried</p>
<p>+House on Mango Street
+Of Mice and Men
+Romeo and Juliet</p>
<p>Sophomore year: (Honors) Summer Reading:
-Snow Falling on Cedars
-The Secret Life of Bees</p>
<p>+The Crucible
+Macbeth
+The Great Gatsby
+Bless Me Ultima Independent reading: The Lovely Bones, this book by Jumpa Lahiri (sp?)</p>
<p>Junior Year: summer reading:
-Fast Food Nation
-Peace Like a River
+The Merchant of Venice
+Midsummer Night's Dream
+The Scarlet Letter
+Their Eyes were Watching God
...and miscellaneous short stories</p>
<p>Senior Year (AP Literature): Summer reading:
-The Interpreter of Maladies
-How to Read Literature like a Professor
-The Kite Runner</p>
<p>+Anthem by Ayn Rand
+Great Expectations
+Old Man and the Sea
+The Bluest Eye
+The Pretty Horses
+Ethan Frome</p>
<p>Ooh, we read GGS for AP World History! I confess, I love it--I've stolen my granddad's copy. I've read The Third Chimpanzee, also by Jared Diamond, and I loved that as well.</p>
<p>
[quote] Disney guy wrote:
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Summer reading:
-The Interpreter of Maladies
-How to Read Literature like a Professor
-The Kite Runner
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</p>
<p>That's basically the best summer reading list I've ever heard of.
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</p>
<p>Heh, I definitely agree, especially since I switched into AP Lit the day before school started, so I only had 6 days to read everything before the summer reading exam :D</p>
<p>Well, for Global II Honors this year we had to read "A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait of an Age". I read a few pages, and it was really boring. In short, no one read the whole book. Our teacher didn't notice, for some reason.</p>
<p>9th
- Nectar in a Sieve (Summer Reading)
- The Alchemist (Summer Reading)
- Bean Trees/One Bird (Summer Reading)
- Romeo and Juliet
- Catcher in the Rye
- Lord of the Flies
- The Odyssey</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure there were others, I just can't remember them at the moment =x. </p>
<p>10th
- Of Mice and Men (Summer Reading)
- Anthem (Summer Reading)
- Things Fall Apart (Summer Reading)
- Brave New World
- 1984
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Jane Eyre
- Oedipus
- Antigone</p>
<p>And I had to do a research paper on national healthcare. It was some fun stuff (= </p>
<p>11th
- Raisin in the Sun (Summer Reading)
- Bell Jar (Summer Reading)
- Death of a Salesman (Summer Reading)
- The Crucible
- Scarlet Letter
- The Great Gatsby
- Sun Also Rises (currently reading)
... More to come.</p>
<p>9th
The Chosen (summer)
A Separate Peace (summer)
Of Mice and Men
The Odyssey
Lord of the Flies
Night
House on Mango Street
Anthem
Romeo and Juliet </p>
<p>10th
Tale of Two Cities (summer)
Secret Life of Bees (summer)
Othello
Things Fall Apart
1984
Les Mis</p>
<p>9th:
Odyssey
Romeo and Juliet
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
The Chocolate War
Fahrenheit 451
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Julius Caesar</p>
<p>10th:
A Separate Peace (Summer)
Animal Farm (Summer)
Red Badge of Courage (Summer)
Catcher in the Rye
Lord of the Flies
Hamlet
1984
Brave New World
A Midsummer Nights Dream
All Quiet on the Western Front
Heart of Darkness
Much Ado About Nothing</p>
<p>11th:
Heart of Darkness again (Summer)
Things Fall Apart
Scarlett Letter
Like Water for Chocolate
Invisible Man
A Doll's House
Chronicles of a Death Foretold
The House of Bernarda Alba
Einsteins Dreams</p>
<p>12th, so far:
Kite Runner (Summer)
King Lear
1000 Acres
Jane Eyre</p>
<p>10th grade was the best reading line up, 11th was great (except for chronicles, house (dolls and bernarda alba), and Like Water for Chocolate).
This year (12th) blows, King Lear was good. 1000 Acres is a bastardized version of it, Jane Eyre is well, Jane Eyre.</p>
<p>9th:
October Sky (Rocket Boys)
Anthem
The Odyssey
Fahrenheit 451
Midsummer Night's Dream
Romeo and Juliet
Great Expectations</p>
<p>10th:
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Candide
A Separate Peace
Macbeth
Catcher in the Rye
Brave New World
Pygmalion
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
In Cold Blood
Angela's Ashes</p>
<p>11th (so far):
The Scarlet Letter
Into the Wild
Huckleberry Finn
The Awakening
The Crucible
Grapes of Wrath
A Confederacy of Dunces</p>
<p>Not for English:
Julius Caesar
Catelina's Riddle
Winnie the Pooh</p>
<p>Ninth:
Romeo and Juliet
The Odyssey
Lord of the Flies
To Kill A Mockingbird</p>
<p>Tenth:
Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
The Great Gatsby
The Things They Carried
Something about and angel...don't remember, didn't like the book
The House on Mango Street
My Sister's Keeper
Death of A Salesman</p>
<p>Eleventh (so far...)
The Stranger
The Sunflower
Night
Medea
Things Fall Apart</p>
<p>Summer Reading (you get a WICKED long list, but you only have to read one, but a bunch of them are wicked good anyways)
Faithful
The Da Vinci Code
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Kissing Doorknobs
Ender's Game
and...more</p>
<p>There are lots more I know, I'm just not remembering them right now.</p>