Required reading

Did you like Euclides da Cunha?

Man most of you guys read pretty good stuff. I had to read The Hunger Games. Twice.

went to prep school in the US:

A Separate Peace
Catcher in the Rye
The Chocolate War
Deliverance
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
Lord of the Flies
The Sun Also Rises
The Great Gatsby
Brave New World
Aeneid (if you were on the Latin track)/ The Odyssey (if you were on the Greek track)
Slaughterhouse-Five
Heart of Darkness

That's all I can remember now.

UK

What I remember is:

The Pearl
Skellig
The Coral Island
Some Sherlock Holmes
The Merchant of Venice
Lord of the Flies
The Illustrated Man
Brother In The Land

In Latin class we did lots of poetry and the Aeneid

hehe, you are from britain

the divine comedy
the bethrothered

the odissey and the iliad too

Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_do_Sul

Yep, Os Sertões is as good as it gets.

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

You didn't read Os Sertões in highschool, I don't believe it.

I'm from Lithuania so bassically there you are required to read
Goethe's Faust
Hamlet
Franz Kafka Metamorphosis Anything from Albero Camiu

And then we have to read about 30 lithuanian author books. Not even going to name the books,since little to none of them are actually translated to english or any other language.

i never had a literature class in my highschool

Tell me your favourite lithuanian authors, I don’t care if they’re not translated, I want to know.

>mfw American
>mfw most books on here weren't read in highschool
>mfw now 18 and realize just how behind I really am
It hurts, Veeky Forums.

>some cliche love/war story - "The last night of love, the first night of war"
>some cuckolding story about a gold digging opportunistic slut - "Otilia's Enigma"
>"Lead" poem by George Bacovia
>"Blue flower" poem by Mihai Eminescu
>"The axe" by Mihail Sadoveanu - some rural story with a murder

Boring, and for a while it made me hate literature.

Alright there aren't that many.
Antanas Škėma,the guy is really similar to Albero Camus,but a bit more gloomy in his works. He's best know for his book "balta drobulė" and it's a great read honestly.
Balys Sruoga. His book is actually translated to english it's called "the forest of gods" its about his time in concentation camp. This is definately the most powerful and greatest book I ever read and probobly ever will.
Vincas Mykolaitis Putinas. An ex-priest,he wrote about his struggles and desires while being a priest in a psichogical novel "Altorių Šėšėly".
Ignas Šeinius. He works are really easy to read and understand and they leave a huge impact on you.
There truly are great lithuanian author,it's a shame no one is transating their works.

Thanks a lot, I love hearing about stuff like this. There’s a translation of Skema coming out in a few months, I’ll try to get my hands on either that or Sruoga.

The US isn't very homogenous. I'm a high school English teacher (at an urban public school), and each of the 3 high schools in my district teaches a different set of texts. Here is what an average student might end up reading:

9th grade
>Night
>Romeo and Juliet
>To Kill a Mockingbird

10th grade
>Native Son
>Fences
>Of Mice and Men
>A Raisin in the Sun

11th grade
>Oedipus Rex
>Othello or Macbeth
>Lord of the Flies
>A Thousand Splendid Suns

12th grade
>The Road
>Streetcar Named Desire

Honors/AP kids would read more, and more challenging, books. And each grade would have poetry and nonfiction units mixed in.

Not really. Just read the books you've read in your teenage years in the past and realize how much you couldn't comprehend a large part of them.

Goethe, Heine, Schiller, Brecht, kafka, DFW,...

We read two or three books and those you could choose yourself so people read trash like Harry Potter etc.

Finnish education is a joke.

In my school these weren't required but recommended.
Also its international counterparts. So Zola and Azevedo, Hugo/Alencar, Flaubert/Assis/Queirós.
I just realized that despite studying the historical context, we barely learned any non-French literature. Really makes me think.

Go to bed, Haroldi Bloomilainen.

youtube.com/watch?v=cXqrAQoM6d4

In french litterature, it's entirely up to the teacher and we've had to read Balzac, Maupassant and Camus one year, then read litterature from fucking quebec the other year.

English litterature was standard though : Shakespeare, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Orwell, Lord of the Flies, Death of a Salesman etc.

Don Quijote
100 años de soledad
King Lear
Hamlet
La ciudad y los perros
The Metamorphosis
Letter to His Father

That's all I recall

More:
Brave New World
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Animal Farm
Oliver Twist

>Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

In high school? Seriously?

To Kill a Mockingbird,
About a Boy,
Othello,

why did u have to read so many novels while you were in highschool?

Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Hamlet, MacBeth and King Lear. Steinbecks's Of Mice and Men & The Red Pony. Shane. A Tale of Two Cities. Chaucer. Beowulf. Frankenstein. Oedipus Rex. Heart of Darkness.1984. Assorted short stories/Poetry by DH Lawrence, Auden, etc.

What I recall from high school:
>Freshman year
-Romeo and Juliet
idk what else
>Sophomore year
-Taming of the shrew
-A separate peace
-The odyssey
forget what else
>Junior
-The things they carried
-One Flew Over the Cukoo's nest
-The scarlet letter

>senior
-Hamlet
-Frankenstein
-Siddhartha

I'm forgetting a ton of them but I actually was really pleased with hindsight - we read a ton of really interesting stuff, and I read everything but the Scarlet Letter (that was just turgid).

As a high school english teacher, I try to vary up my reading assignments.

With my sophomores I had them start with Brave New World, A Vonnegut short story, and "The Lottery". Then they read 1984 followed by Macbeth
This semester I'm having them read Of Mice and Men, Othello, Oedipus, Antigone, and some short pieces of nonfiction by Mark Twain, Joan Didion, and David Sedaris

I forgot,
To Kill a Mockingbird, Animal Farm, Oedipus Rex/Antigone, some Emily Dickinson, Streetcar named desire, Catcher in the Rye, and of course Number the Stars.

forgot to mention my sophomores are honors sophomores

with my regular juniors I teach The Things They Carried, some Salinger short stories, a variety of poetry, and some argumentative essays/sources.
with juniors I focus on literary analysis and argumentative writing in first and second semester respectively, so the reading is more geared toward what lends itself well to certain skills

You write essays on them

>-Romeo and Juliet