Required Reading

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<p>I made a thread earlier about book recommendations: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-confidential-cafe/614854-recommend-some-very-entertaining-books.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-confidential-cafe/614854-recommend-some-very-entertaining-books.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Now I'm interested in required reading. I feel like my high school (what with many electives for English) hasn't required many books and that I'm behind with the HS books I should have read, ha. These are the books I've had to read in high school (many short stories and stuff, but didn't include those):</p>

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<h2>9</h2>

<p>Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
Of Mice and Men
Our Town
The Odyssey
Their Eyes Were Watching God</p>

<h2>The Taming of the Shrew</h2>

<h2>10</h2>

<p>The Great Gatsby</p>

<h2>Things Fall Apart </h2>

<h2>11</h2>

<p>The Iliad</p>

<h2>War Music</h2>

<h2>12</h2>

<p>The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Mahabharata
Arabian Nights
Kite Runner</p>

<h2>Glass Castle</h2>

<p>Extra summer reading picks: Watchmen, Deathly Hallows, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test </p>

<p>Notable middle school books: Giver, Ender's Game, Flowers for Algernon, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet</p>

<p>What books have you read in your HS English career? Not for pleasure, although you might have enjoyed some of them regardless (including the class names you had to read them for would be nice too). </p>

<p>THANKS!!</p>

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<p>also read tom sawyer and call of the wild in MS</p>

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<p>I can't remember a few of them, lulz</p>

<p>9: Of Mice and Men, Ender's Game, To Kill a Mockingbird, Before Women had Wings
10: Catcher in the Rye, This Earth of Mankind, The Iliad, can't remember what else
11: Grapes of Wrath, A Walk in the Woods, Invisible Man, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, probably something else...
12: Frankenstein, Freakonomics, The Right Stuff, Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Hamlet.</p>

<p>Yeah, not the most exciting book list out there. I have only enjoyed a couple out of all of those.</p>

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<p>Here's what was required for my classes. I only mentioned the generally well-known - we've also had to read smaller Canadian plays or novels.</p>

<p>Middle School: A Midsummer Night's Dream, To Kill a Mockingbird</p>

<p>9: Romeo and Juliet, Memoirs of a Geisha<em>, Lord of the Flies
10: The Catcher in the Rye, Pride and Prejudice, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius</em>, Gossip Girl (I'm not even joking), Macbeth
11 - AP Lang: 1984, Fahrenheit 451<em>, Othello, Animal Farm (suggested), Saint Joan, Antigone
12 - AP Lit: The Great Gatsby, Hamlet, Wuthering Heights, Brave New World</em>, Death of a Salesman, Fifth Business, The Importance of Being Earnest, Frankenstein
*Chosen for ISPs (from list or own choice)</p>

<p>Collective Summer Reading: Falling Man, A Tale of Two Cities, Down and Out in Paris and London, On Writing, How The Light Gets In, Little Women, A Streetcar Named Desire</p>

<p>There's more but I can't remember right now. I've generally enjoyed the books I've had to read. :)</p>

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<p>9th: Romeo and Juliet
10th: Great Expectations, Caesar?
11th: The Red Badge of Courage, The Crucible
12th: None.</p>

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<p>I can't remember all of them, but here's what I do remember:</p>

<p>9: Romeo & Juliet, East of Eden, The Good Earth, Of Mice and Men
10: A Prayer for Owen Meany, Othello, A Doll's House, Antigone, Farewell to Arms
11: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Great Gatsby, Love Medicine, Grapes of Wrath, The Great Santini, Hamlet, Catcher in the Rye
12: King Lear, Macbeth, Tortilla Curtain, Kite Runner, Cold Mountain, A Handmaid's Tale, Frankenstein, Sons & Lovers, Crime & Punishment</p>

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<p>If you can handle "100 years of Solitude" you are good to go.</p>

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<p>In middle school- Of Mice and Men, Animal Farm, The Giver, Romeo & Juliet
9th grade- "World Literature"- Catcher In The Rye, Macbeth (ugggggh), Ethan Frome (I couldn't finish it)
10th grade- "American Literature"- The Great Gatsby (I got a 44% on the test, and the teacher refused to believe that I had actually read the book), Death Of A Salesman, Huck Finn
11th grade- "British Literature"- Frankenstein, Hamlet
12th grade- English 12- "Genius & Insanity"- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas I think was the only novel we read; we studied Van Gogh's paintings a lot; "Living Writers"- Motherless Brooklyn, Last Night At The Lobster</p>

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<p>A Seperate Peace is the only book I've had to read so far that's not been mentioned yet..</p>

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<p>Yeah, I think i read that too, 9th grade.</p>

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<p>9th: To Kill a Mocking Bird, Romeo and Juliet, The Odessy
10th: Ceasr, Ishmal and Two Heart of Kwasi Boachi (so boring.. didn't finish..) (Both of thoes were For AP world History I dunno why we had to read them.) Fahrenheit 451, THe Illiad, Opedius, Don Quotie and some other stuff I can't remeber and I havent been to 11th or 12 th grade yet >.<</p>

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<p>You know, after going through college as an English major, I developed a huge appreciation for To Kill a Mockingbird. Just a remarkable book.</p>

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<p>i was made to read kamasutra by me teacher when i was 28 years old</p>

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<p>Freshman English: Romeo & Juliet, Of Mice and Men, The Good Earth, Flowers for Algernon, The Odyssey, Great Expectations, etc.
Sophomore English: Siddhartha, Julius Caesar, Night, Les Mis</p>