<p>We all read different books and give a 30-40 slide powerpoint presentation over the book every two week or so, so the books we've gotten through 21 books so far. There's 7 of us in the class, so we've each done 3 books.</p>
<p>Huck Finn, In Cold Blood, Beloved</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness
the Idiot
Beowulf
Cantebury Tales
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Portrait of an Artist
King Leer
An enemy of the People
Lots of other poems, including Dunn</p>
<p>major stuff in order: A Doll's House, A Passage To India, Dubliners, Hamlet, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Gulliver's Travels, Wuthering Heights, The Importance of Being Earnest, Heart of Darkness</p>
<p>that's it for the whole year :(</p>
<ol>
<li>All the king's men</li>
<li>candide</li>
<li>one hundred years of solitude</li>
<li>the picture of dorian gray</li>
<li>beowulf</li>
<li>grendel</li>
<li>frankenstein</li>
<li>canterbury tales</li>
<li>crime and punishment</li>
<li>the grapes of wrath</li>
<li>the awakening</li>
<li>the fountainhead</li>
<li>hamlet</li>
</ol>
<p>and i dunno what else we'll read before the year is over</p>
<p>Funny how many of these I've read (I'm not in AP Lit). I'm so glad to see so many people reading Candide. I love Voltaire!</p>
<p>I feel, though, that the 19th-century great French writers are being slighted. Where are the Hugo and Dumas books???</p>
<p>chlcwhite: what did you think of The Fountainhead? (and why read that instead of Atlas Shurgged?) Ayn Rand scares me horribly...</p>
<p>Summer before class:
Romeo & Juliet
Slaughterhouse-Five [personal choice]</p>
<p>During the semester:
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Passage to India
Heart of Darkness
Jane Eyre
Notes From Underground [personal choice]
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Stranger
The Things They Carried
Wiseblood
First Confession
The Bluest Eye
Pride and Prejudice
The Importance of Being Earnest
King Lear
Siddhartha</p>
<p>Our school tries to prepare kids for Lit by doing some of the "easier" novels in 9-11 grade, so lit is devoted to the upper ones..so here's ours</p>
<p>NINTH
Alas, Babylon
Lord of the Flies
To Kill ＡMockingbird
Half of the Canterbury Tales
Odyssey
Of Mice and Men</p>
<p>10th
Other half of Canterbury Tales
Don Quixote
Heart of Darkness
Things Fall Apart
Oedipus Cycle
Iliad</p>
<p>Eleventh
Mayor of Casterbridge
The Awakening
The Crucible
Catcher in the Rye
Great Gatsby
Grapes of Wrath
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings</p>
<p>12th
Madame Bovary
Portrait of the Artist
Invisible Man
Brave New World
Catch-22
Great Expectations
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre</p>
<p>^ There really aren't "easier" and "harder" novels. They're as hard or easy as the teacher makes it. For example, I read Heart of Darkness in 12th grade. I read The Awakening prior to 10th and The Crucible in 9th. Many of my peers read Brave New World in 9th, and To Kill a Mockingbird was for non-AP/non-honors 9th graders.</p>
<p>Moreover, I read Frankenstein once in 8th grade and again in 11th grade.</p>
<p>This notion of an intrinsic "pyramid" or "ladder" for the literary repertoire is bollocks, as far as I'm concerned. :)</p>
<p>My teacher only officially requires Macbeth and Hamlet. However, he also assigns Book Talks, which have us pick our own books (from a provided list or others he deems appropriate) and then we have to read at least twice, give an oral presentation, and do like 7 written assignments about the book and the author. For the first one, I read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I'm currently reading Paradise Lost for the second one.</p>
<p>Wuthering Heights, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Macbeth, Invisible Man, Hamlet, Oedipus, Pride and Prejudice, a few others and a HUGE poetry and short story section.</p>
<p>I’m surprised so many schools read Wuthering Heights. It seems to be a hit or miss for most people. I actually liked it better than Pride and Prejudice though.</p>
<p>Death of a Salesman, Othello, Wuthering Heights, As I lay Dying, Taming of the Shrew, Jane Eyre, Antigone, Sophie’s World</p>
<p>Pride & Prejudice, Merchant of Venice, Brave New World, Hamlet, No Exit (short play by Satre), Ethan Frome, and a few others I can’t remember anymore</p>
<p>At our school, AP Lang is American literature and AP Lit is European (mostly English)</p>
<p>WOW i’ve read most of those books already and im in the eleventh.
im trying to get into AP Lit senior yr</p>
<p>I know this is old, but at my school we begin reading these books in 9th grade, so by the time of the AP Literature exam, we have read:</p>
<p>Romeo and Juliet
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Silas Marner
Cry, The Beloved Country
Animal Farm
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Frankenstein
The Great Gatsby
The Scarlet Letter
The Crucible
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Merchant of Venice
The Glass Menagerie
A Doll’s House
A Farewell to Arms
Beowulf
MacBeth
Catcher in the Rye
Pride and Prejudice
To Kill a Mockingbird
1984</p>
<p>I’m just worried I might mix them up we have read so many!</p>
<p>Frankenstein, Beowulf, Oedipus Rex, Macbeth, and Heart of Darkness, as well as a lot of shorter excerpts…</p>
<p>I’m glad I read on my own.</p>
<p>my teacher literally only does books from over 60 years ago haha
we read heart of darkness, turn of the screw, the illiad, hamlet, king lear, othello, and macbeth. </p>
<p>but all of us had the same teacher last year, and in that class we read those four shakespeare plays(either for an independent project or in class), gulliver’s travels book IV, paradise lost, some of hard times, canterbury tales, everyman, modest proposal, sophie’s world(although i’d never use that for an essay lol), and a lot of excerpts.</p>
<p>The Canterbury Tales, Oedipus, Hamlet, Paradise Lost, Frankenstein, Beowulf, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus , Sir Gwain and the Green Knight
Outside reading: Candide, Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde.</p>
<p>Just off the top of my head.</p>
<ol>
<li>David Copperfield</li>
<li>Heart of Redness</li>
<li>Possession</li>
<li>Beowulf</li>
<li>Canterbury Tales</li>
<li>The Metamorphosis</li>
<li>Metamorphoses</li>
<li>An Imaginary Life</li>
<li>lots of poetry from around 30 different poets</li>
<li>Antigone</li>
<li>King Lear</li>
<li>Heart of Darkness</li>
</ol>