Required Reading in High School

[Anonymous No.8669319]

Post country, and books you had to read in high school.

[Anonymous No.8669338]

>>8669319
I don't even remember

[Anonymous No.8669350]

>>8669338
Hence, you had to read shit.

[Anonymous No.8669351]

seriously fuck this book
also >scotland

[Anonymous No.8669359]

>>8669350
I may have been the shitter, not the assigned readings, la

[Anonymous No.8669371]

USA. Off the top of my head

>Huckleberry Finn
>1984
>The Chosen
>A Separate Peace
>Pride and Prejudice
>The Scarlet Letter
>The Great Gatsby
>Wuthering Heights
>Brave New World
>The Good Earth
>Animal Farm
>The Joy Luck Club
>The Odyssey
>Beowulf
>Canterbury Tales
>Romeo and Juliet
>Macbeth

I might have forgotten one or two.

[Anonymous No.8669372]

we were to read a lot of fernando pessoa, he had various poems.
also Camões you can search for "os lusiadas"
now i remember i also had to read a book from Gil Vicente.
this authors are portuguese and the translation are bad in others languages because the portuguese used in the original texts is archaic.

[Anonymous No.8669382]

>9th grade
>F rated ghetto public school
>teacher decides to make the class read weird Nabokov

Nobody read it

[Anonymous No.8669394]

>Cunt
Canada
Barely remember what was on the syllabus, outside a few, being:
>Shakespeare (Macbeth, King Lear, >Hamlet, R&J)
>Great Gatsby
>Lord of the Flies
>Animal Farm
>Brave New World
>Huckleberry Finn
>Theban plays of Sophocles
>Crying of Lot 49
>Death of a Salesman

[Anonymous No.8669404]

>>8669319
British

>1st year
For some reason we read Harrison Bergeron but not much else
>2nd Year
Midsummer night's dream, A Rose For Emily, Some Poe (cuz we had an american exchange teacher who taught us yank lit)
>3rd Year
Merchant of Venice
>4th Year
Lord of the Flies and Macbeth
>5th Year
To Kill a Mockingbird and Streetcar Named Desire
>6th Year
Hamlet and Othello, poems by Sylvia Plath, we also picked our own stuff for dissertations: so i read To The Lighthouse for that

I remember all the novels being shit and all the plays being good. Wish I could've gotten a classical education to be honest with you desu.

[Anonymous No.8669414]

Croatia,

Kafka
Salinger
Ernest Hemingway
Beowulf
Bible
Eshil
Homer
George Orwell
Euripides
Aeschylus
Alexandre Dumas
Pushkin
Dante,
E. A. Poe
Petrarca
F. Schiller
Byron
Boccaccio
J. Racine
Goethe
Cervantes
Plaut
Molliere
Shakespeare
Voltaire
Chehov
Rimbaud
Baudelaire
Emile Zola
Dostoevsky
Balzac
Tolstoy
Flaubert
Gogol
Camus
Brecht
Ionesco
Lorca
Hesse
Joyce
Sartre
Proust
Pirandello
Faulkner
Virgil
Mahabharata

... And others

[Anonymous No.8669417]

>>8669414
Croatian high schools are fucking based holy shit.

[Anonymous No.8669426]

>>8669417
He went to a gymnasium, not a 'regular' high school. Just showing off.

[Anonymous No.8669435]

>>8669417
Best thing is, grade schools are as good as high schools. I started reading when I was three, but grew up in rural area, everybody was either inbred or just plain stupid.

[Anonymous No.8669438]

>>8669426
I went to high school, for computer shit.

[Anonymous No.8669444]

>>8669426
Where are you from?

[Anonymous No.8669452]

>>8669319
USA
1984
bless me ultima
the odyssey
to kill a mockingbird
memoirs of a geisha
fahrenheit 451
brave new world
moloka'i
hot lights, cold steel (pre med)
and then some book about aids in africa that i didn't read

[Anonymous No.8669461]

>>8669444
Belarus.

[Anonymous No.8669473]

>>8669461
You should have had at least half of those.
Slavic schools are better.

[Anonymous No.8669477]

>>8669319
idk I never did the assigned reading. I still passed English tho

[Anonymous No.8669481]

>>8669477
Yes. I either read it in grade school, or after high school.

[Anonymous No.8669507]

>>8669473
But I did.

[Anonymous No.8669509]

>Canada
Midsummer Night's Dream
Macbeth
Othello
Death of a Salesman
The Glass Menagerie
Diary of Anne Frank
Maus 1+2
Great Gatsby
The Little Prince (in French)
Life of Pi
The Kite Runner
Margaret Atwood prairie poetry

My entire school was esl or poverty line-straddling whites so they couldn't really ask much of us. There was a ton of YA mixed in there too that I don't remember.

[Anonymous No.8669518]

>>8669509
t. newfie

[Anonymous No.8669522]

Texas USA. 1980s

>Huckleberry Finn
>1984
>A Separate Peace
>The Scarlet Letter
>The Great Gatsby
>Animal Farm
>Romeo and Juliet
>Macbeth
>Julius Ceaser
>To Kill A Mockingbird
>Lord of The Flies
>Old Man and the Sea
>Great Expectations

several more i have forgotten

[Anonymous No.8669535]

>>8669452
oh and catcher in the rhye and one of my favorites, one flew over the cuckoos nest. senior year was GOAT for introducing me to more serious literature.

[Anonymous No.8669546]

>Chile
>none
At least I had time to read whatever the fuck I wanted

[Anonymous No.8669592]

>>8669518
AB actually. You only need a 60% in language arts 20 to get into uni here

[Anonymous No.8669627]

>>8669319
U.S.A.

>9th Grade
The only book I remember having to read was The Stranger

>10th Grade
The Odyssey
Of Mice and Men
Into the Wild
1984

>11th Grade
The Book Thief
Brave New World
MacBeth
Julius Caesar
For Whom the Bell Tolls

>12th Grade
Brave New World (This was an AP course so we had to re-read BNW)
The Inferno
Beowulf
Hamlet
Wuthering Heights

[Anonymous No.8669673]

I don't remember but here are the books I finished for each grade that were probably not required (the favorites are labeled by *s)

USA,

>9th
Catcher in the Rye
1984
Fahrenheit-451 *
BNW
The Odyssey *
The Great Gatsby
Grapes of Wrath
Huckleberry Finn
>10th
Meditations (Descartes)
The Illiad
The Republic *
The Apology of Socrates
The Metamorphosis
Crime and Punishment
>11th
Demons
Notes from Underground
The Idiot
The Waves
To The Lighthouse
(mostly programming books)
>12th
Brothers Karamazov *
War and Peace
Pride and Prejudice
Kokoro
Meditations (Aurelius)
Ulysses (did not finish in 12th but I finished later in life) *
Portrait (Joyce)
Dubliners (I pronounced it dub-liners and that cringy memory never left)
2666 *
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table *
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

[Anonymous No.8669759]

>>8669319
Canada
>to kill a mockingbird
>macbeth,romeonjuliet,othello
>the kite runner
>lord of the flies
>death of a salesman

Might have been others but I forget

[Anonymous No.8669864]

>>8669319
Germany

I didn't get to read many of the "Great Works of German Literature" in school
What I personally read in school:
>Keller - Clothes make the Man
>Storm - The Rider on the White Horse
>Schiller - Wilhelm Tell
>Schiller - Intrigue and Love
>Kafka - The Metamorphosis
>Hoffmann - The Sand Man
>Schnitzler - Miss Else
>Zuckmayer - The Captain of Köpenick
>Dürrenmatt - The Judge and his Hangman
>Preußler - Krabat
>Kracht - Faserland

plus various poems mostly by Goethe and summaries of other important works


what is often also required in high school:
>Goethe - Faust
>Goethe - The Sorrows of Young Werther
>Schiller - The Robbers
>Lessing - Nathan the Wise
>Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
>Frisch - Homo Faber
>Anne Frank's Diary

[Anonymous No.8669872]

>>8669627
>The Stranger as assigned reading in a US school
First case I've heard of it. We read To Kill a Mockingbird in 9th grade if I remember. And also Book Thief next to all of those other books, topkek

[Anonymous No.8669992]

Only FEED by M.T Anderson. And we didn't even really study it, we just read it through and used it as a prescribed text for 2 essays. Australia is fucked. English is shit here so they made it mandatory for the senior years n stuff but that's not gonna fix it, they need to actually get us to read and study books instead of just teaching us how to write essay responses to questions that have nothing to do with the few texts they give us

[Anonymous No.8670059]

>singapore
>secondary school
>lit class

[Anonymous No.8670087]

>>8669319
Canada
>To Kill a Mockingbird
>Romeo and Juliet
>Lord of the Flies
>Night
>Nineteen Eighty-Four

[Anonymous No.8670107]

Da fuq. The only literature we read at school in Australia was 1984 and Romeo and Juliet.
So many shit books about Cambodian refugees and urban youth doing urban youth things.

[Anonymous No.8670430]

indiana, usa

>kill mockingbirds
>night
>huckleberry finn
>frankenstein

i wish i read a good book ever

[Anonymous No.8670445]

>>8669319
>USA
Mythology
Romeo and Juliet
A long way gone
Julius Caesar
Nectar in a Sieve
The Odyssey
Great Gatsby
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Handmaid's Tale
The Prince
Stranger
Love in the Time of Cholera
Master and Margarita
Arcadia
Slaughterhouse Five
Blood Meridian

[Anonymous No.8670447]

>>8670445
What do you thing of M&M?

[Anonymous No.8670471]

South Africa

Shakespeare
>Midsummer Night's Dream
>Macbeth
>Othello
>Merchant of Venice
>Romeo and Juliet

As well as
>The Hobbit
>House on Thyme Street
>Lord of the Flies
>Animal Farm
>Great Gatsby

Pleb tier reading

[Anonymous No.8670487]

>>8670430
Also indianafag. TKAM, scarlet letter, then my senior year Crime and Punishment, Trial of Socrates, Hamlet, Inferno, and fucking Sound and the Fury. My lit teacher was based.

[Anonymous No.8670492]

>australia (Victoria)
>night
>growing up Asian in Australia (I'm not joking)
>
That's it, it actually makes me extremely angry. You can imagine what our state is going to be like in fifty years

[Anonymous No.8670493]

>australia (Victoria)
>night
>growing up Asian in Australia (I'm not joking)
>the chrysalids
>
That's it, it makes me extremely angry. You can imagine what our state is going to be like in fifty years. Expect a civil war soon

[Anonymous No.8670495]

>>8670492
>>8670493
FUCK

[Anonymous No.8670498]

USA

Can't even remember high school was like 20 years ago. Probably most of the shit other Americans have posted. Do remember we did lots of Shakespeare though, don't know if that counts.

[Anonymous No.8670500]

>>8670492
Are you complaining about racial diversity? Ehh skips always complain about this shit. First it was the Catholics, then it was the wogs, then the Asians, now it's the mussies.
No one cares mate.

[Anonymous No.8670504]

New Zealand.

>Macbeth
>Othello
>Go Ask Alice
>1984
>The Cay
>Lord of the Flies
>The Outsiders
>"On the Sidewalk Bleeding" - Evan Hunter
>Z for Zachariah

There were probably others I've forgotten (1990s). We most likely studied some NZ books too but the only ones I remember reading were ones I read outside school.

[Anonymous No.8670510]

Australian education is in a very bad way
Our education authorities dominate the curriculum with extremely biased texts. Here's the agenda for this year
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/vce/english/VCE_EngEAL_Text_List16.pdf
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/vce/english/2017_Text_List_EnglishEAL.pdf
Some choice criteria for the text list include
>be appropriate for both male and female students (no "sexist" books)
>reflect the cultural diversity of the Victorian community
>include texts that display affirming perspectives
>include texts by or about Australians, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
>reflect engagement with Asia
Thank god I got out of there when we had good, Australian poetry and british literature

[Anonymous No.8670516]

>>8670504
Remembered another one:
>The Pearl

I'm sure they wouldn't get away with prescribing so much American and British lit these days.

[Anonymous No.8670581]

>all these 1984s
How is it that everyone has read 1984, and yet we're still allowing it to happen to the world. What's the fucking point?

Maybe more people would remember its lesson if it were written by someone competent.

[Anonymous No.8670675]

The Pearl
Animal Farm
Lord of the Flies
Romeo and Juliet
Much Ado About Nothing
Antigone
Slaughterhouse Five
Catcher in the Rye
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
A Separate Peace
Elective Classic: Crime and Punishment

Rural Illinois podunk town High School.

[Anonymous No.8670683]

>>8670675

Forgot The Odyssey and Julius Ceasar

[Anonymous No.8670684]

>>8670683

And also forgot
To Kill a Mockingbird
Huckleberry Finn

[Anonymous No.8670685]

>>8670581

The used Cliff Notes and didn't bother to read the book.

[Anonymous No.8670695]

>>8669414
Ne seri, čitao si negdje pola toga i dio samo u pjevanjima/pojedinim pričama.
>>8669417
Nah, most students are illiterate plebs who don't touch this stuff and most from this list is optional, so you will read maybe half of this + Croatian literature.
>>8669426
Half of the high schools are gymnasiums so it's not bragging.
>>8669435
The rural area my family is from has a higher % of well read people than Zagreb desu.

[Anonymous No.8670710]

Portuguese

>The Lusiads, by Camões
>Act of the Ship of Hell, by Gil Vicente
>Various poems by Pessoa (as well as his heteronyms Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos)
>Message, by Pessoa
>The Forest and various poems by Sophia de Mello Breyner
>Various poems by Bocage
>Frei Luís de Sousa and various poems by Almeida Garrett
>Various poems by Cesário Verde
>Various poems by Eugénio de Andrade
>Various poems by Miguel Torga
>Ulysses, by Maria Alberta Méneres (yes I was disappointed too)
>Baltasar and Blimunda, by Saramago
>The Maias, by Eça de Queirós
>As Cidades e as Serras, by Eça de Queirós
>O Doido e a Morte, by Raul Brandão
>Amor de Perdição, by Camilo Castelo Branco
>Sermon to the Fishes, by St. Anthony
>Felizmente Há Luar, by Luís Sttau Monteiro
>Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk

All of them divided by my Portuguese and (Portuguese) Literature classes in the 3 years of high school, with the exception of Fight Club which we read for our English class. There's probably some I'm forgetting but they were probably shit anyway, and some of those on the list we probably read in middle school, not HS, but my memory is hazy.

[Anonymous No.8670746]

>>8669319
Netherlands

There are actually few compulsory books - Dutch requires that you read 12 literary books, German requires 5, English did have some compulsory ones whereas you don't read entire books in French/

English - compulsory reading
>1984
>A Brave New World
>A good man in Africa
>Some Dickens book, forgot which one
>Shakespeare
>excerpts from Coleridge, Tennyson, Betjeman and some other stuff

>German - read in class
>Brecht - Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder
>Wedekind - Frühlingserwachen
>Schlink - Der Vorleser

That's pretty much all I can remember. Literary reading has decreased over the years in Dutch high schools, especially when it comes to the foreign languages that are being taught. Dutch still requires 12 books in your last three years and some other stuff prior to that,

[Anonymous No.8670748]

>>8670746
I forgot about Latin

Really depends on the choices made for the final exam, but commonly read are
>Cicero
>Vergilius
>Livius
>Ovidius
>Catullus
>Horatius
>Seneca

[Anonymous No.8670760]

Austria

Faust
The Wall (Marlen Haushofer)
The Good Person of Szechwan (Brecht)
Kasimir and Karoline (Horváth)
1984
Anne Frank's Diary
Jane Eyre
Great Gatsby
The Trial (Kafka)
The Robbers (Schiller)
Various poetry by Rilke, Goethe, Arendt, Benn, Heine, Kästner, Grass, Biermann, Bukowski,...

[Anonymous No.8670761]

>>8670760
Oh and Ovid in the Latin classes.

[Anonymous No.8670778]

UK

Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
Much Ado About Nothing
The Merchant of Venice
The Winter's Tale
Of Mice and Men
The Great Gatsby
Wide Sargasso Sea
Great Expectations
Frankenstein
Canterbury Tales
Pride and Prejudice

just from what I can remember

It's amazing that 1984 and Brave New World is taught in so many places around the world, and yet we're still slipping into them.

[Anonymous No.8670780]

>>8670760
Bukowski. Weird.

[Anonymous No.8670781]

>>8670695
Od kud si?

[Anonymous No.8670784]

Southeastern US
9th: Romeo and Juliet.
10th: Of Mice and Men, Things Fall Apart.
11th: Had to submit eight reports on books approved by teacher throughout the year. Recommendations included exactly what you'd expect. (Also half of Howard Zinn's People's History)
12th: Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, Hamlet [...teacher is sacked for lack of certification..] Toni Morrison's Jazz.

[Anonymous No.8670833]

had to read dragontails, left a lasting impression on me

[Anonymous No.8670838]

>>8670784
A distinct drop in quality after the teacher got sacked.

[Anonymous No.8670854]

>>8669319
France
Molière's Dom Juan
Hamlet
The Stranger
Bel Ami
Lorenzaccio
Le Père Goriot
Extracts from the Odyssey
Candide

[Anonymous No.8670855]

Austria:

The Metamorphosis

[Anonymous No.8670863]

>>8670781
Zagreb
Rodbina pretežno iz hercegovine

[Anonymous No.8670877]

>>8670695
>>8670863
Jedino nisam pročitao Mahabharatu i Beowulf, ostala djela bila su obavezna lektira za običnu ili dodatnu nastavu. Ali svejedno, odličan odabir, za razliku od SAD-a i ostalih zemalja.

[Anonymous No.8670884]

>Sweden
A YA novel about being a teenage girl
Catcher in the Rye

Absolute garbage tier schooling system here.

[Anonymous No.8670890]

USA. It changed based on what classes you took, but from what I remember that was universal,

>Of Mice and Men
>The Old Man and the Sea
>Oedipus
>Night
>Animal Farm
>Various Shakespeare
>Inferno

We had some shitty fucking lit teachers.

[Anonymous No.8670892]

Canada

Oedipus Rex
Julius Caesar
A Midsummer's Night Dream
Macbeth
Antigone
Huckleberry Finn
A Separate Peace
The Catcher in the Rye
The Giver
Night
To Kill a Mockingbird

Not many books,and most of my classmates didn't even bother reading them - just used SparkNotes or whatever.

[Anonymous No.8670897]

Brazil/Portugal (11th grade science course in Portugal)

Only Machado de Assis' short story collection, The Alienist and Dom Casmurro (I went to a technical school). I've also read the Act of the Ship of Hell in theater class.

In Portugal, Frei Luiz de Sousa and Viagens na minha Terra by Garrett, Os Maias by Eça de Queirós, Amor de Perdição by Camilo Castelo Branco and Antônio Vieira's Sermon to the Fishes. I also read Faust for a presentation.

More books are suggested in normal schools, but the students won't read them. And most Albertos only used SparkNotes.

Fortunately, my subpar literature education made me dig deeper into Brazilian lit.

[Anonymous No.8670922]

Texas, USA. Sure I'm forgetting a lot, and not including a lot of short stories, articles, etc.
>First year
The Odyssey
Night (Wiesel)
Romeo & Juliette
Animal Farm
>Second year
The Chosen (Potok)
The Great Gatsby
Julius Caesar
Antigone
Of Mice and Men
The Stranger
Two self-selected novels, where I chose Battle Royale and Confessions of a Mask.
>Third year
Fast Food Nation
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Huckleberry Finn
A Farewell to Arms
Bless Me, Ultima
The Kite Runner
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
>Fourth year
The Awakening (Chopin)
Inferno
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Doll's House
Othello
Siddhartha
Heart of Darkness
Dubliners
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Any one of Beloved, 100 Years of Solitude, Blood Meridian, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and some book I don't remember because no one picked it. Only two people in the class didn't read Beloved: some girl (who read Márquez) and myself (who read Joyce).

In other classes, I only remember having to read Le Petit Prince (for French), a treatise on English gardens (for Horticulture), and the school's literary magazine (for Creative Writing).

[Anonymous No.8670979]

Good old Connecticut USA (from what I can remember cuz its been a while):

Freshman Year
>Romeo and Juliet
>Of Mice and Men
>House on Mango Street (fuck this book)
>1984
>Brave New World
>Huck Finn

Sophomore
>Catcher in the Rye
>Tess of the d'Urbervilles (fuck this book)
>To Kill a Mockingbird


Junior
>Scarlet Letter
>The Crucible
>some Poe
>Grapes of Wrath (fuck this book)
>Farewell to Arms
>Great Gatsby

Senior
>As I Lay Dying
>Waiting for Godot
>All the Kings Men
>Siddhartha
>Othello
>Hamlet
>Flannery O'Connor stories
>Never Let Me Go

My favorite was As I Lay Dying.

[Anonymous No.8670989]

Gilgamesh
Greek Mythology
The picture of Dorian Grey
The Hound of the Baskerville
The cantaburry tales
Candide
The Illiad
The Odyssey
Beowulf
A Mercy
Their eyes were watching god
Angels in America
Watchmen
Frankenstein
The Art of War
Brave New World
The Autobiography of Malcom X
Huckelberry Finn
Julius Caesar
The Final Solution
Babel 17
Devil in a Blue Dress
Dance Dance Dance
Siddartha
Dante's Inferno
Hello American
A Passage to India

This is all that could come to mind at the moment, there was a lot more. Overall I say it is a decent selection, none of the books ever made it into my absolute favorites, but there was good variety.

[Anonymous No.8670990]

>>8670989
Country? Obviously USA, but still asking

[Anonymous No.8670999]

>>8670990
Yeah I am from Maryland. I also just remembered A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Oedipus Rex, and The Great Gatsby

[Anonymous No.8671064]

Finland

The Unknown Soldier (Linna)
Some Kafka shorts
Under the North Star, book 1 (Linna)
Rautatie, not translated to english but literally meaning Railroad (Aho)

Mostly the books were free to pick from lists of books, some that I picked were:
Helsinkiin (Aho)
A Murakami book with the lamb story, was pretty shite
Lord of the Flies (Goulding)

[Anonymous No.8671103]

>>8669394
From canada, can confirm.
You forgot "To kill a mockingbird".

[Anonymous No.8671110]

>>8669518
Nova scotia is better than Newifes. But are both brothers.

[Anonymous No.8671151]

Mexico


Pedro Paramo
Illiad
Lope de Vega plays
Some oscar wilde

I cant remember what else, but it was better than other school who have to read some shitty self help books by a cunt called carlos cuahtemoc

[Anonymous No.8671166]

>>8669319
Britain.
Animal farm, an inspector calls and of mice and men.

[Anonymous No.8671171]

>>8669319
Portugal

Eça de Queirós
Cesário Verde
Fernando Pessoa
Gil Vicente
Luís Vaz de Camões

Yes, no foreign literature.
Every week 2 students would give a 10 minute presentation on any book they had read.

[Anonymous No.8671175]

>>8671171
I forgot José Saramago. I suppose I didn't really like his style.

[Anonymous No.8671181]

>>8669319
>Canada

McBeth
Romeo and Juliet
The Jade Peoney
The Catcher in the Rye
Animal Farm
Leningen Versus the Ants
>I forgot the rest

[Anonymous No.8671291]

US of A
had to read one Shakespeare every year. Midsummer's night dream, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet.
Also a lot of Jew books, including "All but my Life" but that was probably because the author had once lived in our city. (Buffalo)
These took up more space on the curriculum than books about black people, I guess because our neighborhood was 99% white. My peers apparently could only understand racism as it pertained to Jewish people. We also read Steinbeck, Raisin in the sun, the Crucible, Death of a Salesman, A separate Peace, the Great Gatsby, The Bean Trees, the Poisonwood Bible, and short works like the Veldt. Also some Poe, La Belle Dame sans Merci, and Ode on a Grecian Urn.

[Anonymous No.8671298]

>>8671291
Balls, how could I forget TKAM and Catcher in the Rye? Also Lord of the Flies and some Hemingway.

[Anonymous No.8671332]

Northern Virginia, USA
>Romeo and Juliet
>The Odyssey
>miscellaneous Edgar Allan Poe stories and poems
>The Minister's Black Veil
>The Great Gatsby
>The Catcher in the Rye
>Frankenstein
>Brave New World
>1984
and some other contemporary shit i dont remember

[Anonymous No.8671466]

Rich Neighborhood of Houston, Texas, USA
In roughly chronological order:

Freshman Year (Honors English I)
>Jane Eyre
>A Tale of Two Cities
>Romeo and Juliet
>Animal Farm
Sophomore Year (Honors English II)
>The Iliad
>Oedipus Rex
>Julius Caesar
Junior Year (AP English Language)
>To Kill a Mockingbird
>The Crucible
>Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
>Scarlet Letter
>so much god-damned religious poetry
>Common Sense
>The American Crisis
>Poor Richard's Almanac
>Walden
>The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
>Into the Wild
>Huckleberry Finn
>assload of Fireside Poets
>Great Gadsby
>metric fuckton of Harlem Renaissance poetry
>The Awakening
>Grapes of Wrath
>In Cold Blood
>The Things They Carried
Senior Year (AP English Literature)
>Picture of Dorian Grey
>Candide
>All My Sons
>Death of a Salesman
>Medea
>Frankenstein
>Tennyson's Poetry
>Hamlet
>Macbeth
>I don't even want to remember how much poetry I had to read at this point; it was half an hour of reading for five weeks every day
>The Importance of Being Earnest
>The Rape of the Lock
>A Modest Proposal
>Advice to Youth
>A War Prayer
>The Meramorphosis
>The Doll
>Heart of Darkness
>All the Pretty Horses
>Storm of Steel
>The Tragical History of Dr. Faust
>A Critique of Pure Reason
>The Republic
>The Laws
>Obasan
>The Bacchae
>King Lear
>Moby Dick
>Paradise Lost
>Meditation
Classics (junior/senior year, most in Latin and some in English)
>The Aeneid
>The Gaulic War
>Ars Armatoria
>Phaedrus
>Catullus
>Metamorphoses of Ovid

Mind, I'm missing a large portion of stuff from those last three categories. It's been a while and there was a lot to read.

[Anonymous No.8671481]

>>8669371
I never read The Joy Luck Club but I always see it threatening juniors and seniors across the various syllabi I've reviewed to become a teacher. I can only imagine it's increadibly, unspeakably bad, similar to Fear of Flying.

[Anonymous No.8671488]

>>8669382
That's actually one of the books that started me on my path to reading, long with most of Joyce and Flaubert. I even suggested it to my Senior English teacher, though I think she may not have been too keen. I'd yet to read The Trial, but I would have suggested that instead.

[Anonymous No.8671497]

>>8669394
Sometimes, I feel like my class was the only one to read Troilus and Cressida. The teacher was super stoked to have us read it, and I even came up to him every once in a while to discuss Chaucer.

[Anonymous No.8671554]

>>8670510
Australia is a fucking joke, I thought at least we would be equal to the burgers on this but they've got some decent shit.

Not retarded tier
>Macbeth
>R&J
>Death of a salesman
>Animal Farm

Everything else was complete trash. There were 5 or 6 books which read like the halfarsed creative writing pieces we would submit which were only included because they were Australian. The worst bit was having to listen to spastics struggling to read them aloud because they wouldn't read them at home, eventually my teacher just made me read everything out for the whole year. Also seeing the volume for everyone else is surprising, even though most of the books could be thouroughly understood by a 10 year old, we still manage to read about half as much as eberyone else.

[Anonymous No.8671613]

>England (not violent Hibernian outer regions)

>Shakespeare (Much Ado, Othello)
>Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)
>Miller (The Crucible)
>Marlowe (Dr. Faustus)

>Shelley (Frankenstein)
>Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights)
>Carter (The Bloody Chamber)
>Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
>McEwan (Enduring Love)

>Keats
>Robert Browning
>Anthology in Year 11 (from memory, Simon Armitage, Fleur Adcock, Choman Hardi, Edna Millay, Shakespeare, Gillian Clarke, Sylvia Plath, Ingrid de Kok)

[Anonymous No.8671616]

>Canada
(we also had to select 1-2 books to read on top of the curriculum text each year so I'll list those in regular text).
I grew up in a district with a fairly high working class population, so most of our reading focused around class struggles / Marxist critique, and power relations. We had a massive reading list, but these are the prominent texts:
Year 1:
>Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
>A Midsummer Night's Dream
>Greek / Roman / Norse Myths
> Lamb to the Slaughter
Year 2:
>Brave New World
>Animal Farm / 1984
>The Merchant of Venice
>The Veldt
We analyzed a lot of poems, but always came back to:
>Anthem for Damned Youth
>Not Waving but Drowning
>Tell-Tale Heart
Things Fall Apart
Year 3:
>Macbeth
>The Great Gatsby
>Catcher in the Rye
>Life of Pi / 1984
The Metamorphosis
Year 4:
>Hamlet
>Death of a Salesman
>Of Mice and Men
>Stone Angel
>Wuthering Heights
>The Alchemist
(We had a shit-ton of assigned readings in grade 12)
Stoner
Jude the Obscure

[Anonymous No.8671621]

>>8670884
Is it really that bad there?
Even Österland seems to be doing better >>8671064

What about Denmark and Norway?

[Anonymous No.8671638]

Lebanon

Season of Migration to the North
Midaq Alley
Heart of Darkness
1984
Things Fall Apart
Romeo & Juliet
Select works of John Donne
Beloved
A Doll's House
A Streetcar Name Desire

>And, since I wrote my "high school thesis" (EE in IB) in English:
Paradise Lost

[Anonymous No.8671655]

>>8671638
season of migration to the North is an underrated masterpiece
not know in the west though :/
btw tunisia here

[Anonymous No.8671668]

>>8669319
The Chrysalids

[Anonymous No.8671731]

>>8670884
>Absolute garbage tier schooling system here.

can confirm

>Sweden
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Oedipus

I'd say 90 % of the people I knew didn't read a single page. We had no real tests or discussions on the texts either.

[Anonymous No.8672055]

>>8669414
Austrian here, went to a Gymnasium as well, so
we had pretty much the same list, except no Hemingway but with Heine, Mann, and some other german/austrian authors.

Does all of continental europe have gymnasiums? I thought they were mostly in the german speaking areas.

[Anonymous No.8672065]

>>8671616
This seems like your teachers didn't have any particular order in mind whatsoever.
Why didn't they teach in chronological order?

[Anonymous No.8672074]

Polan

Crime and Punishment
The Trial
Heart of Darkness
Hamlet
Macbeth
Romeo & Juliet
lots of local authors nobody on /lit/ knows

[Anonymous No.8672082]

I had to read Hamlet three out of my four years in high school.
The joys of having two different curricula running in one school due to it being an "academy".

[Anonymous No.8672335]

Mississippi, USA here. I was in the AP classes all 4 years of high school and all we read was:

English (over all 4 years)
>A Midsummer Night's Dream
>The Great Gatsby
>Of Mice and Men
>Wuthering Heights
>The Glass Castle

Spanish
>Don Quixote

US Gov't (4th year)
>The Prince
>Discourses on Livy
>Animal Farm
>The Autobiography of Malcolm X
>Stranger in a Strange Land
>The Doors of Perception
>Treatise on Law
>Leviathan
>Two Treatises of Government
>Common Sense
>Declaration of Independence
>The Constitution of the United States & The Bill of Rights
>A Theory of Justice
>Republic
>Ethics
>Politics
>Various Jonathan Swift

World History (2nd year; everything but Julius Caesar was an assigned book in middle school that they reassigned for some reason)
>Julius Caesar
>Diary of Anne Frank
>Le Morte d'Arthur
>Beowulf
>Pride and Prejudice

US History
>A Century of Dishonor
>Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
>Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
>Songs of Innocence and of Experience
>The Last of the Mohicans (may James Fenimore Cooper forever burn in the fires of Hell for writing this trash)
>A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American West

We always read the shittiest books in English and our lessons for the whole year would revolve around one or two books.
My US Gov't teacher was liberal as fuck and outrageously funny. He cancelled class half the time because he had such a long assigned reading list.

[Anonymous No.8672448]

>>8672055
I think so, but I didn't go to a Gymnasium.

[Anonymous No.8672587]

>>8669673
I refuse to believe this.

[Anonymous No.8672599]

Ireland
>Merchant of Venice
>Macbeth
>Romeo & Juliet
>To Kill A Mockingbird
>How Many Miles to Babylon
>A Doll's House
>and a whole load of mostly Irish poetry that I don't care to list

[Anonymous No.8672615]

>>8671466
i don't believe you

[Anonymous No.8672659]

>>8672615
About what? I'll be happy to answer any questions.

[Anonymous No.8672661]

>Argentina
a bunch of Garcia Marquez
Juan Rulfo - Pedro Paramo, El Llano en llamas
Sábato - El Túnel
a bunch of Borges, prose and poetry
Cortázar - Final del juego

Sophocles - Antigone
parts of the Illiad and Odyssey
Cantar de Mio Cid
a bit of Shakespeare and Goethe
parts of Don Quixote

a bunch of argentine poetry (Lugones, Girondo, Pizarnik, idk what else)
a bunch of spanish Generacion del '98 poetry (Unamuno, Costa, Machado)

that's all I remember

[Anonymous No.8672664]

>>8672659
the quantity. unless you included summer reading

[Anonymous No.8672683]

>>8672664
During my senior year, we were assigned a year-long out-of-class project which involved reading between 20 and 30 books before forming a "philosophically charged" thesis statement and writing an incredibly long report on that thesis. I didn't list all of them, because I don't remember all of them. Everything past All the Pretty Horses are what I remember from my list of things I read.

Are you talking about something else on the list instead?

[Anonymous No.8672692]

>>8672683
so you read even more books than you posted. makes it even more unbelievable

[Anonymous No.8672697]

>>8671481
It wasn't too awful. The chapters that took place in ancient China and were pretty interesting, and and a few others were okay. But at least half of it revolved around their dumb modern American womyn problems and was very dull.

[Anonymous No.8672700]

>>8672661
Did you go to a private school?

I ask because the amount you have studied would be far more than a UK comprehensive.

[Anonymous No.8672702]

USA
Sylvia Plath, Stephen King, Ted Kooser, Edgar Allen Poe, Chuck Pala-whatever-nik; I'm sure there were others but 2bch I never read any of the assigned texts after we were assigned King.

[Anonymous No.8672710]

>>8672692
I'm sorry you don't believe me. Is it really that unbelievable? Do you read slowly, perhaps? I maintained a pace of 1 to 2 books a week throughout the majority of high-school, mostly reading in-between classes and on the weekend.

[Anonymous No.8672718]

>>8672710
It's not that he doesn't believe you could do it, he just doesn't believe a high school would have such a rigorous and involved program, because most don't.

[Anonymous No.8672719]

>>8672710
>I maintained a pace of 1 to 2 books a week throughout the majority of high-school, mostly reading in-between classes and on the weekend.

being a loser has nothing to do with it. its the fact that a school can't make students read a book a week. especially combined with other AP classes

[Anonymous No.8672730]

>>8671655

it's a beautiful work. Ive been trying to read it in Arabic instead of the English translation; its smooth in both.

[Anonymous No.8672739]

>>8672719
The memo must have missed my senior English teacher, then. My senior year, I took 7 AP Classes and the administration never seemed inclined to intervene on the behalf of the other students and I.

I'm also not saying that the majority of students actually did the project. I'd say that maybe one in six actually read all of the books. The majority used Spark Notes and summaries, or just got the project from an older sibling who'd already gone through the class.

[Anonymous No.8672740]

>>8672700
yeah private school
notice when I say "parts of", it means literally only two or three chapters out of those books. like they had us rudimentarily compare epic poetry vs modernist poetry, english (shakespeare) metric vs spanish metric, and such things

also I remembered, during the last year we had to read some Freud and Jung (no clue why)

[Anonymous No.8672764]

>>8672739
>The majority used Spark Notes and summaries, or just got the project from an older sibling who'd already gone through the class

absolutely disgusting.

>tfw based english teacher assigned obscure books that aren't on sparknotes

[Anonymous No.8672777]

>>8672719
>its the fact that a school can't make students read a book a week. especially combined with other AP classes
Not that anon but I would normally agree with this except most of the people in AP classes care about their grades to an unnerving degree. Their GPA is everything to them and if they have to read 2 books and write a 10 page essay on each of them in one week they will. This anon >>8672710 was probably one of those do-all students.

[Anonymous No.8672819]

I don't remember most of what was assigned in English class because it was shit like The House on Mango Street.

I remember a lot from AP French Lit because I was so impressed compared to my English classes. Duras, Molière, Labé, Baudelaire... the whole list is out there because the syllabus is set by College Board.

[Anonymous No.8672829]

>>8672764
2bh famalam I would have done it for the books I didn't want to read.

[Anonymous No.8672853]

>>8670581
Because it's taught asa lesson against big gubament (at least in the U.S.). Large corporations,especially Apple, Microsoft, and Google, are hardly mentioned.

[Anonymous No.8672883]

I was lucky. Took two great courses in HS. One was Nobel Authors and the other was Science Fiction. We also had to write in these classes which help us to see the works more deeply.

[Anonymous No.8674459]

England

Titus Andronicus
Macbeth
Hamlet
Romeo & Juliet
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Great Gatsby
Byron's Don Juan
Pride and Prejudice
Lord of the Flies
Face by Benjamin Zephaniah
Holes
A lot of WW1 poetry

Can't remember the rest.

[Anonymous No.8674645]

Canada (southwestern Ontario)

The Chrysalids
Julius Caesar
Romeo and Juliet
The Lord of the Flies
Macbeth
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
King Lear
The Great Gatsby

That's in order from Grade 9-12, can't remember in some cases if we read the novel or play first though. Also read some short stories but can't remember them.

[Anonymous No.8674814]

Heart of Darkness, Crime and Punishment, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The Wild Duck, The Great Gatsby, Jane Eyre, The Stranger, Waiting for Godot and some other shit

[Anonymous No.8674857]

USA, Pennsylvania

these were some I remember from high school:

Oedipus Rex
Animal Farm
Lord of the Flies
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Odyssey
Beowulf
Death of a Salesman
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Joy Luck Club
The Scarlet Letter
Julius Caesar

One time we had to choose one of:
1984
Brave New World
Slaughterhouse Five

[Anonymous No.8675975]

>Kentucky, USA (private school)

I don't remember them all but here it goes.
All Quiet on the Western Front
Fahrenheit 451
Of Mice and Men
Catch-22 (self chosen)
Frankenstein
Crime and Punishment
The Awakening
Lord of the Flies
Jane Eyre
The Scarlet Letter
The Killer Angels
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
As I Lay Dying
The Stranger
Great Expectations
To Kill A Mockingbird

Then we had readings we'd discuss in class. Note that I took both of the English AP classes.

The Crucible
A Raisin in the Sun
A Doll's House
Anthem
The Great Gatsby
half a dozen Shakespeare plays
Beowulf
parts of the Canterbury Tales
parts of the Iliad and the Odyssey
Sir Gawain and the Green Night
a little bit of poetry, almost none of which I can remember
a lot of the Bible (Catholic school)
some other shit I can't recall

[Anonymous No.8675993]

Scotland

>Macbeth
>The Merchant of Venice
>Great Expectations

[Anonymous No.8675994]

USA

From what I remember from each grade...

9th
>Romeo and Juliet
>The Odyssey
>To Kill a Mocking Bird

10th
>Julius Caesar
>Macbeth
>All the Pretty Horses
>The Catcher in the Rye

11th
>The Great Gatsby
>The Scarlet Letter

>12th
>Song of Solomon
>Catch-22
>A Clockwork Orange
>Hamlet


Rate / 10, lads. Pretty standard but maybe with some other shit thrown in.

[Anonymous No.8676022]

Ireland

We had a fairly meager course, made up of largely atrocious Irish poets, acamedic sweethearts and the usual Shakespeare drama (In this case, Hamlet). We also had F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Elliott, W.B. Yeats (I'm from the Sligo, ol' Yeats's favourite place), Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, etc. It was varied but slim in the amount of work we covered. By the end most hadn't a literate bone in their body, sadly, such was how poorly it was thought.

[Anonymous No.8676066]

>>8670107
Yeah I felt deprived when I found out other countries had extensive reading lists with classics

[Anonymous No.8676091]

>USA, mid 2000s
Lots of Bible
Antigone
Macbeth
Go tell it on the mountain
The tempest
Pride and Prejudice
Beowulf
Canterbury tales
Gulliver's Travels
That swift essay about eating children
Thoreau & Emerson & M.L.K.
Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson and a few others
Scarlet Letter
Huckleberry Finn
Invisible Man
Bartleby
Oedipus Rex
Stoner
Hamlet
The Bacchae
Beloved

Can't remember anything else

[Anonymous No.8676187]

Sweden , Quran.. Rip

[Anonymous No.8676209]

>>8669319

USA
>Scarlet Letter
>To Kill a Mockingbird
>The Old Man and the Sea
>The Odyssey
>Hamlet
>Ender's Game
>Oedipus

[Anonymous No.8676210]

>>8672587
It is entirely true. I did not have friends growing up (still don't) so I sheltered myself with books. I have a STEM job but I still love to read.

[Anonymous No.8676235]

>>8669673
You didn't label any favorites

[Anonymous No.8676243]

>>8676235
Check your eyes dude

[Anonymous No.8676244]

>U.S.

Island of the Blue Dolphins
Animal Farm

Literally, that was all. And Island of the Blue Dolphins was actually part of my middle school curriculum. I grew up in the South with horribly underfunded (rather, DEfunded by Republicans) public education.

I'm not sure how I came to develop any further interest in literature, considering there was never any emphasis on it growing up.

[Anonymous No.8676260]

>>8676243
Oh, I thought that you had a difference between a * and a *s, but you were just using the plural of *. I'm an idiot, arguably the idiot.

Have a cool image.

[Anonymous No.8676304]

A handmaid's tale
What a stupid fucking book.

[Anonymous No.8676321]

>>8676260
No need to feel less of yourself because of a misunderstanding that is argubably my fault. I'm sorry as well.

[Anonymous No.8676488]

>>8669673
I'm glad I'm not the only person that fucked up the pronunciation of Dubliners

[Anonymous No.8676601]

Vic, Australia

>yr 7-9
YA shit

>yr 10
Maus
Romeo and Juliet (actually we just watched the movie)
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

>yr 11
Macbeth
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Messenger

>yr 12
A Streetcar Named Desire
a book of essays by Michael Leunig
Christmas Carol
Year of Wonders

Here's my year twelve exam questions too:
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/documents/exams/english/2012/2012english-cpr-w.pdf

[Anonymous No.8676888]

>>8670107
>>8671554
Glad to see that this thread of full of other suffering Australians. A couple of Shakespeare's, a couple of passable movies and a mountain of refugee-core crap and urban-youth-core. If I didn't know better I'd swear they're out to make us hate literature. Because of course everyone I know does. Half the class didn't read the books in year 12.

>>8676601
>Maus
the comic book? I got hit with Leunig too, that wasn't fun.

Was anybody else on /lit/ a fucking awful English student? I don't know if it was how bored I was or the fact that I slept for 5 hours a night for most of high school but I was absolutely terrible. I know I frustrated the hell out of my poor teachers because I clearly understood the texts better than anybody but produced FOB-tier essays for the most part.

[Anonymous No.8676907]

>>8676888
>the comic book?
Yeah. We did a whole unit on the holocaust in year 10 English where we read Maus, watched Schindler's List and The Boy In Striped Pyjamas and visited the holocaust museum in Melbourne.

[Anonymous No.8676911]

>>8676907
I also covered a lot of genocide stuff in year 10 but that was in Humanities. We looked at The Holocaust but surprisingly Rwanda and Cambodia got just as much attention. My school had an absolutely incredible history & geography teacher who occasionally was brought into other people's classes to cover specialist stuff in detail. That was an interesting unit.

Also, two movies what the fuck? That's entirely too much. Isn't Boy in Striped Pyjamas based on a book?

[Anonymous No.8676917]

I don't know if my school was just backwoods as shit but I never had to read many books in high school.

8th grade
>Lord of the Flies
Freshmen
>Lots of short stories (scarlet Ibis, Most Dangerous Game, Cask of Amontillado, etc)
>Brave New World
Sophmore
>Fahrenheit 451
>The Pearl
Junior
>A Separate Peace
>Scarlet Letter
>Tom Sawyer
>The Crucible
Senior year
The Great Gatsby
I don't think we read any else.

I've been playing catchup recently on high school lit tho.
Slaughterhouse Five
Catcher in the Rye
The Stranger

[Anonymous No.8676933]

I had to read A House on Mango Street like 3 times. Once in middle school, once in freshman year and then again in junior for some reason.

No idea whats wrong with public schools.

[Anonymous No.8676951]

>>8676911
My high school English classes used movies as a crutch. If there was a movie version of a book we were reading, we'd usually be shown it in class. I remember we watched the Roman Polanski version of Macbeth and the teacher fast-forwarded the nude scenes. For Lord of the Flies, we started watching the 1950s movie version but the class was laughing at it so much that the teacher switched to the 1990s remake.

I'm sure there were lots of people who never read the books and just based any essays or tests on the movie versions.

[Anonymous No.8676954]

>>8669452
This for me but add
The Things They Carried and The House of the Scorpion for some fucking reason.

[Anonymous No.8677288]

>>8676888
I am>>8676091
and it wasn't around halfway through 11th grade that I started giving a shit. I think it was Whitman who made me care.