what books were you required to read in high school?

<p>Romeo & Juliet
Night
Of Mice & Men
To Kill a Mockingbird
Julius Caesar
Catcher in the Rye
The Crucible
The Scarlet Letter
Speak
MacBeth
Beowulf
Ethan Frome
The Outsiders
Johnny Tremain
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</p>

<p>Slumdog Millionaire (Foreign Film Class)!</p>

<p>Freshman:
My Name is Asher Lev
The Count of Monte Cristo (abridged)
selections from Mythology
The Odyssey
Great Expectations
The Merchant of Venice</p>

<p>Sophomore:
Brave New World
Frankenstein
Notes from Underground
Macbeth
A Tale of Two Cities
Jane Eyre
The Metamorphosis
The Stranger
1984</p>

<p>Junior:
Herland
The Tortilla Curtain
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ragtime
The Great Gatsby
The Catcher in the Rye
some short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
various essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
various poems by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson</p>

<p>Senior:
Catch 22
The Things They Carried
Heart of Darkness
Life of Pi
The Scarlet Letter

  • many many short stories/poems</p>

<p>FR:
Romeo and Juliet
The Pearl
The Odyssey
Of Mice and Men</p>

<p>SO:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Julius Caesar
Silas Marner (sheer torture; I hope this isn’t taught anymore)
Oedipus
Catcher in the Rye</p>

<p>JR:
The Crucible
The Great Gatsby
Death of a Salesman
The Scarlet Letter
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Jungle</p>

<p>SR:
Hamlet
Macbeth
Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World
A Doll’s House
The Canterbury Tales
Beowulf</p>

<p>I’m sure that there’s more that I can’t remember…</p>

<p>Freshman:
Romeo and Juliet
The Glass Menagerie
A Tale of Two Cities (Abridged)
The Odyssey
To Kill a Mockingbird</p>

<p>Sophomore:
Speak
After the First Death
Lord of the Flies
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
12 Angry Men
A Midsummer Night’s Dream</p>

<p>Junior:
The Crucible
Bless Me Ultima
The Scarlet Letter
The House of Mirth
Much Ado About Nothing</p>

<p>Senior:
Jane Eyre
Lonesome Dove
Pride and Prejudice
Oedipus Rex
Antigone</p>

<p>here’s another question:
which of those required books would you recommend to a friend for pleasure-reading?</p>

<p>For pleasure, I would recommend Jane Eyre, Brave New World, East of Eden, and Life of Pi. (East of Eden is long but fast and pretty much amazing, I loved that book)
The Laramie Project is a play that’s pretty easy to read, and pretty good, but very sad. The Things They Carried and In the Time of the Butterflies were also good & easy to read but sad.</p>

<p>I personally hated Possession (by AS. Byatt), but that book is either you love it or you hate it, so I would recommend trying it out.</p>

<p>I do not remember all of them and I’m really surprised how extensive these lists are lol.</p>

<p>I know for a fact we read “To Kill A Mockingbird” and “King Lear”.</p>

<p>i can’t remember all of them, but this is a pretty good chunk:</p>

<p>FR
Romeo and Juliet
The Odyssey
The Grapes of Wrath</p>

<p>SO
Player Piano
The Great Gatsby
The Crucible
To Kill a Mockingbird
Of Mice and Men
The Good Earth</p>

<p>JR
1984
Jane Eyre
Heart of Darkness
Pride and Prejudice
Lord of the Flies
Macbeth
Red Badge of Courage
Beowulf
The Road from Coorain
The Good Soldier</p>

<p>SR
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Oedipus
Till We Have Faces
A Prayer for Owen Meany
The Handmaid’s Tale
Frankenstein
The Sun Also Rises
Bless Me Ultima
Silent Spring
Como Agua Para Chocolate</p>