Required to read in your school years.

[Gilgamesh]

I know they were dreadful when they were forced upon you. But, I'm trying to make a reading list of these 'scholarly literature.' From 8th to 12th, even college years.

Thanks.

 

[SeoulMan]

8th to 12th grades:

The Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wrath
Lord of the Flies
The King Must Die (by Mary Renault)
The Pigman
Ethan Frome
A Separate Peace
White Fang
The Old Man and the Sea
The Sun Also Rises
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
MacBeth
Romeo & Juliet

(I'm not going to list short stories...too numerous)

There may have been more, but this is all I can remember.

In 8th grade, we had to pick ten books from a huge list of 100 books (mostly teen books) and read them outside of class and write up a book report for each book. I can't remember a single book I read for that.

 

[sparkchaser]

What I remember reading:

Great Expectations
MacBeth
Romeo & Juliet
The Tempest
The Metamorphosis
Call of the Wild

Most of my high school years are a blur.

 

[Gilgamesh]

Most of my high school years are a blur.

I know what you mean, that's why I aked.
I remember:
The Good Earth,
Lost Horizon
Canterbury Tales
Scarlet Letter

 

[sparkchaser]

We read selections from Canterbury Tales. Also some ransom Shakespeare's sonatas.

I went to a shitty high school (New Castle Senior High hollah) so we read stuff out of those literature tomes. My sisters went to a Catholic school and this is some of the selections they read:

Fahrenheit 451
Lord of the Flies
Scarlet Letter
Animal Farm


If I can ever trick an unsuspecting female into having my demon spawn, that kid's going to a private school.

 

[SeoulMan]

I went to a shitty high school (New Castle Senior High hollah) so we read stuff out of those literature tomes.

I actually like those lit textbooks. LOL!

 

[sparkchaser]

You know, I have a soft spot in my heart for them too. I keep an eye out for them in used book stores.

 

[dele]

We read:

Animal Farm
1984
A Separate Peace
The Merchant of Venice
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
The Pearl

That's all the required reading I can remember.

 

[Eva]

Odyssey.
Romeo and Juliet.
Merchant of Venice.
Julius Caesar.
Scarlet Letter.
“Rappaccini's Daughter.” (And other short stories, but that one was my favorite, and still is.)
Huckleberry Finn.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
The Great Gatsby.
Grapes of Wrath.
Of Mice and Men.
The Pearl.
Old Man and the Sea.
To Kill a Mockingbird.
Lord of the Flies.
Brave New World.
Stranger in a Strange Land.

And a lot of things straight from the Great Books program, such as Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Thomas Moore, Voltaire, Rousseau, and so forth that are still messing with my head (in a good way).

 

[KingFishFan15]

It's been a while since I was in HS, so let's see what I can remember

The Odessy
Great Expectiation
Heart of Darkness
Ethan Frome
Scarlett Letter
Death of a Salesmen
The Sun Also Rises
The Glass Menagerie
The Great Gatsby
a lot of Edgar Allen Poe
a lot of Silvia Plath
Inherit the Wind
Cry, the Beloved Country

I know I'm forgetting some

 

[whit3tig3y]

We read (and I quite enjoy ALL of them):

Lord of the Flies
Hamlet
Day of the Triffids
The Chrysalids

 

[joderu95]

Some of these books were a big influence on getting me to read regularly.

Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes
Tarzan of The Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
The Assistant - Bernard Malamud
The Odyssey - Homer
Lord of The Flies - William Golding
Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
The Chosen - Chaim Potok
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair

 

[carmenrg]

Don't go back and read Silas Marner. Oh God that was awful! I enjoyed all the books in high school except for that one.

 

[Gilgamesh]

I know exactly what you mean. I'm reading it now, but eyeing for something else.
At least you liked some in high school; I hated them all.

 

[areyn]

Most of the ones already posted. In addition:

The Stone Angel
Mad Shadows
The English Patient