/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.1287739]

What books/poems do you think every kid should have read by the time they finish high school?

Just some thoughts:
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Great Gatsby
Brave New World

[Anonymous No.1287750]

You forgot copious amounts of Shakespeare.

[None !WvWWh.l.CE No.1287755]

Wuthering Heights
At least half of Shakespeare's plays.
not sure how poetry should be taught.

[Dark&Mysterious !sqDj0dQV5g No.1287771]

1984
Catcher in the Rye

Some ones I read in high school which I liked were:
Atonement
The Things They Carried
Why the Caged Bird Sings

[None !WvWWh.l.CE No.1287775]

>1984
no, we dont care how much its referenced or how Orwell predicted CCTV. the prose is shit.

[Dark&Mysterious !sqDj0dQV5g No.1287783]

>>1287771
more stuff I read in high school (required) that I didn't necessarily like, but had nothing against:
Hiroshima
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Inferno
The World Trade Created
What Went Wrong?

Stuff that was required that I didn't read (lulz):
The Great Gatsby
Walden
Shane
To Kill A Mockingbird

[Anonymous No.1287802]

>>1287775
It's kind of like the anti-Gatsby. Wherein the prose is beautiful buit the content is shit.

[None !WvWWh.l.CE No.1287807]

>reading fiction for the content
I get my content for http://www.google.co.uk/

[Anonymous No.1287810]

To Thrilla Mockingbird.

[None !WvWWh.l.CE No.1287812]

*from

[Anonymous No.1287828]

>>1287807
>.co.uk

[Anonymous No.1287842]

Nothing, they should worry more about fucking schoolgirls/boys. They can read later.

[Anonymous No.1288436]

>>1287842
In that case, they should read Dostoyevsky to get all the hipster poon.