Any books you recall reading in high school?

Novels

Great Expectations

Catch 22

One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

To Kill A Mockingbird

Lord of the Flies

A seperate Peace

A Prayer For Owen Meany

The Great Gatsby

A Farewell to Arms

The Grapes of Wrath

Of Mice and Men

A Portrait of the Artist as a young man

crime and punishment

the kite runner

atonement

things fall aprat

as i lay dying

madame bovary

wuthering heights

pride and prejudice

tess of the d'ubervilles

brave new world

1984

animal farm

adventures of huckleberry finn

invisible man

catcher in the rye

the scarlet letter

frankenstein

plays

the miracle worker

oedipus rex

hamlet

macbeth

othello

king lear

a midsummer's nights dream

taming of the shrew

the american dream

romeo and juliet

the odyssy

death of a salesman

the glass menagerie

medea

everyman

tartuffe

the crucible

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Madame Bovary

Anna Karenina

Ethan Frome

The Portrait of a Lady

The Odyssey

Man's Search for Meaning

Siddhartha

Jane Eyre

Pride and Prejudice

A Farewell to Arms

Invisible Man (Richard Wright's book, not the sci-fi one)

We read a lot more than that, but I'm 30 years old now, and can't recall them all off the top of my head ;-) You might want to get the Norton Anthology of English Literature and familiarize yourself with the major short story writers and poets, too. Some examples of important short story writers are Katherine Ann Porter, Willa Cather, and Flannery O'Connor. We also read a lot of Shakespeare (a few plays every academic year); we started with Julius Caesar.

You can check out my high school's summer reading list here (http://www.notredamehseastonpa.org/) by clicking the link on the left side for Academic Departments, then the link for Summer Reading List. However, it doesn't appear to be as challenging a list as the one that I remember. (Now I sound like your mom, right?)

Happy reading!

Animal Farm

The Crucible

Death of a Salesman

The Great Gatsby - *all time favorite

To Kill a Mockingbird

Robinson Crusoe

Romeo & Juliet

Julius Caesar

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Scarlett Letter

Great Expectations

Night

Anne Frank: Diary of A Young Girl

Mythology

Oedipus Rex

The Odyssey

Cyrano D'Bergerac

Les Miserables

Of Mice & Men

The Pearl

The Grapes of Wrath

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail

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I just graduated and those are most of the books we read. We read a few more, but these are all great books! Please enjoy!

Great Expectations -- Charles Dickens

Romeo and Juliet -- Shakespeare

Macbeth -- "

Hamlet -- "

Silas Marner -- George Eliot

A Streetcar named Desire -- Tennessee Williams

The Sun Also Rises -- Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea -- "

The Hobbit -- J. R. R. Tolkien

To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee

The Scarlet Letter -- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Lysistata -- Aristophanes

Oedipus Rex -- Sophocles

Idylls of the King -- Alfred Tennyson

Heart of Darkness/ and other tales -- Joseph Conrad

There's probably more but I've forgotten.

Anything by Jane Austen (Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park) could very well come up as reading material.

Shakespeare's work is something English/Literature teachers seem to enjoy teaching. King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet.

George Orwell's two popular novels, 1984 and Animal Farm, tend to be favoured aswell.

I'm going to be a sophomore, so I haven't read that many mandatory high school lit. I read a lot of classics as pleasure reading though.

Some things I've read so far are (in order):

The Good Earth

Lord of the Flies

Romeo and Juliet

The Odyssey (well..parts of it)

I also had to read Red Badge of Courage for the academic decathlon, if that counts.

Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

The Inferno - Dante

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Pride & Predjudice - Jane Austen

Animal Farm - George Orwell

The Odyssey - Homer

Oooo it's been awhile...

Lord of the Flies

Catcher in the Rye

The Great Gatsby

Great Expectations

Hamlet

MacBeth

Dangerous Game

The Grapes of Wrath

Of Mice and Men

1984

the scarlet letter

death of a salesman

the glass menagerie

The Outsiders (although that may have been grade school)

A Streetcar named Desire

Homer (i think?)

Beowulf

honestly that's all i remember.

In HIgh School, I took honors lit classes in both English and French. I remember reading a lot of things I loved. But I think what stands out the most is reading Beowulf which I hated! When they assign you that book, run! Pax-C

Improvised Weapons of the American Underground; Poor Man's James Bond; High/Low Expolsives.