English Books You Had to Read??

<p>9th:
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Odyssey
Fahrenheit 451
Romeo and Juliet</p>

<p>10th
Lord of the Flies
Night
Cry, the Beloved Country
Julius Ceasar
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places</p>

<p>11th
The Things They Carried
The Great Gatsby
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Invisible Man
East of Eden
The Awakening</p>

<p>12th
1984
Brave New World
Possession
The Stranger
Jane Eyre
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Hamlet
Beloved (going to)
Wide Sargasso Sea (going to)
Plays: Good Woman of Setzuan, The Importance of Being Earnest, Arcadia, and True West</p>

<p>i couldn't remember much, i know i read a lot more</p>

<p>9th:
Siddhartha
Of Mice and men
Julius Caesar
To Kill A Mockingbird</p>

<p>10th:
My Name Is Asher Lev
Beowulf
Grendel
Great Expectations
Macbeth (the best of Shakespeare)
Brave New World
The Odyssey
Lord of the Flies
A Separate Peace
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Alchemist</p>

<p>11th:
The Scarlet Letter
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Great Gatsby (my all time favorite book)
The Things They Carried
Death of A Salesman
Catcher in the Rye</p>

<p>12th
1984
A Heart of Darkness
Clockwork Orange
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Things Fall Apart (an amazing book that i still have 70 pages left to read for tomorrow)</p>

<p>9th Grade:
- The House on Mango Street (summer)
- Of Mice and Men
- The Alchemist
- Lord of the Flies
- Oedipus
- The Odyssey (currently reading)
- Romeo and Juliet
Literature Circles:
~ The Da Vinci Code
~ Brave New World (just finished)</p>

<p>9th:
The Odyssey
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Cry, the Beloved Country
Great Expectations</p>

<p>10th:
The Scarlet Letter
Wuthering Heights
Julius Caesar
The Crucible
Antigone</p>

<p>11th:
Catcher in the Rye
The Stranger
A Hero of Our Time
Things Fall Apart
Crime & Punishment
The Metamorphosis
Death of a Salesman
Things Fall Apart</p>

<p>12th:
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
From Heaven Lake
Macbeth
The Glass Menagerie
Hamlet
Blood Wedding
The Importance of Being Earnest</p>

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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.

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<p>I may have enjoyed it now, but it was a class of 13-15 year olds who really didn't care about Yali's question, haha. I would pick it up to reread it, but I was complaining about it one day and my English teacher asked if he could have it. So now it rests behind his weird bookshelf behind the sliding whiteboard.</p>

<p>Nearly all the books mentioned here that we never read in my school I've read for leisure. I'm starting to wonder whether there's something wrong with me. My teacher almost had us read GGS but instead we watched the television/movie series for it. I probably would have enjoyed the book. But, the series is a bore.</p>

<p>9th Grade:
Animal Farm
Romeo and Juliet
All Quiet on the Western Front
Night
Oedipus Rex</p>

<p>10th Grade:
Wooden Fish Songs
Tender is the Night
Huckleberry Finn
Various essays by Thoreau</p>

<p>11th Grade:
The Fifth Child (Summer)
Nine Stories (Summer)
Frankenstein
Jekyll and Hyde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wuthering Heights
Candide
Hamlet
Mrs. Bridge</p>

<p>12th Grade (so far):
A Farewell to Arms (Summer)
Writing the College Application Essay (Summer)
Macbeth (Summer, AP)
The Kite Runner (Summer, AP)
The Nick Adams Stories (Summer, AP)
Songs of Innocence and Experience (Summer, AP)
King Lear
Gulliver's Travels (AP)
The Odyssey
Madame Bovary
Various essays by George Orwell (AP)
Down and Out in Paris and London (AP)</p>

<p>My regular and AP English classes have different curriculums so we read different books at the same time. We'll probably read another 4-5 before the year ends in AP, and another 2 in regular English.</p>

<p>9th&10th: King of the Castle (Susan Hill)</p>

<p>11th&12th: Great Expectations (Dickens); Duchess of Malfi (Webster)</p>

<p>For O Level / A Level English Lit.</p>

<p>9th
Of Mice & Men
Memoirs of a Geisha
Murder on the Orient Express</p>

<p>10th
Night (summer)
Frankenstein
Notes from the Underground</p>

<p>We don't read a lot of books. More short stories/poems/art/music etc.</p>

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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.

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I may have enjoyed it now, but it was a class of 13-15 year olds who really didn't care about Yali's question, haha. I would pick it up to reread it, but I was complaining about it one day and my English teacher asked if he could have it. So now it rests behind his weird bookshelf behind the sliding whiteboard.

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<p>Oh, that's unfortunate. My teacher essentially shoved it at us midyear, told us to read it on our own time, and had a discussion on its concepts. We also got Yali's question--by itself!--on the first day of class.</p>

<p>I feel deprived of an education after reading your guys' lists. At my schools we read probably 2-3 books a year (mandatory), but i read more on my own time. You guys seem to read awesome books. </p>

<p>In my AP english lit class, we read a book every 2 weeks, and we've read a ton, but my favorites have been Don Quixote and Paradise Lost</p>

<p>most books are a bore.</p>

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most books are a bore.

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<p>They're not. But reading them FOR school, knowing that you're writing an essay on them, is.</p>

<p>Dandelion Wine <--- great novel!</p>

<p>9th grade:
Freakonomics
Fahrenheit 451
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Catcher in the Rye
The Crucible
Their Eyes Were Watching God
As I Lay Dying</p>

<p>10th (so far):
Beowulf
Grendel
The Knight of the Cart
Macbeth</p>

<p>ninth...
The Odyssey
Night
Romeo and Juliet
Oedipus Rex
Antigone</p>

<p>tenth...
The Things They Carried
The Jungle
O Pioneer!
The Great Gatsby
All Quiet On The Western Front
A Separate Peace
Huck Finn
Catcher in the Rye
Death of a Salesman
The Glass Menagerie
To Kill A Mockinbird</p>

<p>eleventh... (some repeats because I transferred schools)
The Things They Carried
The Great Gatsby
The Awakening
The Glass Menagerie</p>

<p>twelfth...
Robinson Crusoe (Summer)
The Poisonwood Bible (Summer)
Foe
The Tempest
A Passage to India
Interpreter of Maladies</p>

<p>there have been more, but I can't really remember them all</p>

<p>10th
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Oedipus Rex
The Book of Job
Prometheus Bound
Plato's Republic
Ion
(to be continued...)</p>

<p>9th grade:
-Romeo and Juliet
-Bean Trees
-Great Expectations
-Of Mice and Men
-Antigone
10th (so far)
-House of the Spirits
-All Quiet on the Western Front
-Macbeth
-Things Fall Apart
-The Republic of Plato</p>

<p>It's so true... reading for school just removes the fun and mystery out of any book for me. All I think about is contributing to discussions and making premature outlines for an essay.</p>