Novels typically read in high school?

Kind of hard to remember since it was over 40 years ago. I do remember reading all of the classics before I moved to jr. High. In high school I think we were reading junk like The Pride and the Predjudice and The Tempest and War and Peace(never finished this one). However, since times have changed you might want to check with your teachers to get their opinions on what you should read. Personally, I like thrillers, mysteries, sci-fi and fantasies. Seems they would make more contemporary reading today than the junk people have been re-reading for hundreds of years. It seems all the answers and questions would have been worn out after all this time. So check with your teachers and get their opinions, but don't neglect your own reading pleasures just to satisfy your teachers. Their is more to learn than just the recommended reading they give you. Happy reading and enjoy!

9th: Romeo and Juliet, Of Mice and Men, the Odyssey

10th: Julius Caesar, To Kill a Mockingbird, Oedipus Rex

11th Honors: The Scarlett Letter, Death of A Salesman, The Color of Water, Hamlet, The Great Gatsby, Fahrenheit 451,

1984

12th Honors: Fallen Angels, The Things They Carried, Othello, The Color Purple, Deliverance, Cather in the Rye, Beuwolf

Unfortunately, I can't remember all the books I've read in (9th and 10th). Hope this helps!!

P.S. I can also get the list of the literature featured in the 12th grade AP English class. I know they have read A Midsummer Nights Dream, Othello, Wuthering Heights, and Gulliver's Travels

Some of the best books I have read in High School are:

Ordinary People

Catcher In The Rye

Lord Of The Flies

Frankenstein

The Crucible

Death of a Salesman

Ethan Frome

I hope I have been some help. Also, if you are looking for a book that is a little lengthy, I would suggest Great Expectations. It starts off a little slow, but after reading it for a little while you won't be able to put it down. I probably would have enjoyed this book more if I hadn't had to complete it within a certain timeline.

9th Grade - Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, Romeo & Juliet

10th Grade - Lord of the Flies, Ender's Game, Midsummer's Night Dream

11th Grade - The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, The Scarlet Letter, The Crucible

12th Grade - The Awakening, The Color Purple, 1984, Oedipus Rex, Hamlet.

That's all I remember reading

Most of them are already listed, but I remember Member of the Wedding, Great Gatsby, Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead, Canterbury Tales and Native Son as others that aren't (might have missed them - you have some long lists!)

See, some of those were already listed. I liked Beowulf, Scarlett Letter and The Crucible. We did a skit for R&G are Dead as well as Canterbury Tales, so liked those, too. In the first, my friend and I pretended we were hanging on the edge of a building and we were discussing something. For Canterbury Tales we were trapped on a subway car.

Did someone mention Death of a Salesman? Old Man and the Sea? Probably. Some of them I think I need to read now (years after). I almost picked up Member of the Wedding the other day, but didn't think I could take it.

Emma Jane Austen

Little Women Louisa M. Alcott

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen

To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee

A Lantern in Her Hand Aldrich, Bess Streeter

Lorna Doone Blackmore

Daniel Boone James Daugherty

A Man for all Seasons Robert Bolt

The House of 60 Fathers Meindert Dejong

Of Plymouth Plantation William Bradford

Hans Brinker Mary M. Dodge

The Great Escape Paul Brickhill

Halfback Tough Thomas Dygard

Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte

Kon Tiki Thor Heyerdahl

Good Earth Pearl Buck

Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank

Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan

The Lion of the North G.A. Henty

Gifted Hands Dr. Benjamin Carson

Rip van Winkle Washington Irving

The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper Westward Ho! Charles Kingsley

Madame Curie: A Biography Eve Curie

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Jean Latham

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur C. Doyle The Call of the Wild Jack London

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Frederick Douglass

Anne of Green Gables Lucy M. Montgomery

The Conquest of Mexico Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

Little Britches Ralph Moody

Witness Whitaker Chambers

Rascal Sterling North

The Crisis Winston Churchill

Otto of the Silver Hand Howard Pyle

The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper

Robin Hood Howard Pyle

Gilead Marilyne Robinson

The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper

The Bronze Bow Elizabeth George Speare

Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe

The Pearl John Steinbeck

David Copperfield Charles Dickens

The Red Pony John Steinbeck

The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift

The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Mildred Taylor

Middlemarch George Eliot

The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien

Silas Marner George Eliot

Around the World in 80 Days Jules Verne

A Peculiar Treasure Edna Ferber

Swiss Family Robinson J. D. Wyss

So Big Edna Ferber

Cheaper by the Dozen Gilbreth and Carey

Pilgrim's Inn Elizabeth Goudge

Green Dolphin Street Elizabeth Goudge

The Heritage of the Desert Zane Grey

Light of Western Stars Zane Grey

A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry

The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy

Bret Harte Short Stories

The Dark Frigate Charles Boardman Hawes

Bugles in the Afternoon Ernest Haycox

The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway

O. Henry Short Stories

In the Reign of Terror G.A. Henty

In Freedom’s Cause G.A. Henty

Green Mansions W. H. Hudson

The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo

Elizabeth the Great Elizabeth Jenkins

Story of My Life Hellen Keller

Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy

Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce

My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. Coretta Scott King

The Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis

How Green Was My Valley Richard Llewellyn

A Man Called Peter Catherine Marshall

Christy Catherine Marshall

Julie Catherine Marshall

Bartelby the Scrivener Herman Melville

Moby Dick Herman Melville

Christopher Columbus, Mariner Samuel Elliott Morison

Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell

A Whale for the Killing Farley Mowat

Mutiny on the Bounty Charles Nordhoff and J.N. Hall

Master and Commander Patrick O’Brien

The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy

The Adventures of Marco Polo

The Scottish Chiefs Jane Porter

Giants in the Earth O. Rolvaag

Killer Angels Jeff Shaara

Shane Jack Schaefer

Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn

How I Found Livingstone Henry M. Stanley

The American Senator Anthony Trollope

The Warden Anthony Trollope

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain

Ben Hur Lewis Wallace

Black Arrow, Silas Marner were the two novels which I read in Higher Secondary classes. Reading novels is a good way of reading. One should not confine oneself to reading only textbooks including novels but to widen horizon proceed to novels of interest on subjects like thrillers, adventures, fiction, science, etc.

I could name the ones I read, but instead I'll point you toward a book that you may find helpful:

Reading Lists for College-Bound Students by Doug Estell, 3rd edition, 2000.

Pages 19-34 contains a list of the most-often recommended authors and works, and then pages 35-374 have reading lists for many US colleges and universities, including a number of Ivy League institutions.

Your public library may have this book, if you don't want to purchase it for yourself, or if they don't have it, ask them if they can find it for you on interlibrary loan.

Best of luck!

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Red Badge of Courage

Old Man and the Sea

The Scarlet Letter

Chaucer, Cantebury tales,

Shakespear,Hamlet, Mcbeth, Taming of the schrew

Strawberries and other stories.

Look for something an English litterature teacher would think of. Books that are part of our history and culture.