<p>I'm curious to see what a typical English Lit course consists of, how many books and which assortment. I feel like my school's is a bit dull.</p>
<p>Hamlet, William Shakespeare & Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte - the rest is all independent reading, book clubs, etc - so it is up to our discretion (the books have to be approved by the teacher and have to be of incredible literary merit - but its different for everyone.) </p>
<p>The Chosen by Chaim Potok, The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, an independent choice novel approved by teacher, and countless poems and short stories.</p>
<p>Do you read many books that are translated? From Russian (Anna Karenina, Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot), German (The Metamorphosis, The Trial, Faust), Greek (Illiad, Oedipus Rex), or Spanish (Don Quixote, 100 Years of Solitude, Pedro Paramo) for example? Or does your class in general tend to focus on originally English-written literature? </p>
<p>We’ve read Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, Death of a Salesman, The Glass Menagerie, In the Time of the Butterflies, The Stranger, Othello, Lord of the Flies, A Doll’s House, and countless romantic poetry and short stories. </p>
<p>We have read Slaughterhouse Five, Lord of the Flies, Winesburg, Ohio, Hamlet, Life of Pi, and Frankenstein in my class so far.</p>
<p>The Awakening, Fahrenheit 451, The Great Gatsby, Frankenstein, The Color Purple, Hamlet, and Oedipus Rex. We read a lot of short stories and poems out of the textbook, and we had one project where you got to pick your own book from a list.</p>
<p>The Awakening
The Jungle
The Glass Menagerie
Death of a Salesman
Titus Andronicus
Othello
Hamlet
Oedipus Rex
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Frankenstein
The Scarlet Letter
Native Son
Wit
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Stitches
Lolita</p>
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Probably none of them.</p>
<p>Y’all are so lucky!</p>
<p>We had the option to choose two books and work in groups; my group read Jane Eyre and The Chosen, respectively. As a class, we did King Lear & A Doll’s House, and a teacher-sponsored study group went over Candide. I loved all of the books and plays that we examined, I just wish that there had been more of them.</p>
<p>As You Like It
Great Expectations
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Metamorphosis
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Oedipus the King
Romeo & Juliet
Hamlet
Much Ado About Nothing
Frankenstein
Beowulf
Grendel
Tuesdays with Morrie
Their Eyes Were Watching God</p>
<p>Oedipus Rex
Death of a Salesman
Crime and Punishment
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hamlet
The Awakening
Things Fall Apart
A Doll’s House
Some of the Canterbury Tales as well</p>