I'm interested in the literary educational systems around the world in comparison with mine. In public high schools in Macedonia it's something like this:
First year: >Gilgamesh >Illiad >Odyssey >King Oedipus >The Bible (New Testament) >Tristan and Isolde >The Magic Skin >Uncle Vanya
Second year: >Divine Comedy (mostly Inferno) >Cancionero >Decameron >Don Quixote >Hamlet & Midsummer's Night >Tartuffe >Le Cid >Jean de La Fontaine's Fables >Candide >Gulliver's Travels >Robinson Crusoe
Third year: >Les Miserables >The Sorrows of the Young Werther >Child Harold's Pilgrimage >Eugene Onegin >Pere Goriot >Crime and Punishment >Death of Ivan Ilych >The Raven >The Government Inspector
Forth year: >The Stranger >Chekov's short stories >Death in Venice >Waiting for Goddo >Flowers of Evil >Demian >The Trial >Catcher in The Rye
That is it. in general, with some little variations maybe, and added native national work.
Bonus: I remember Oliver Twist, Tom Sawyer and Charlotte's Web from middle school.
Lucas White
no wonder you're a pleb
Ryder Jackson
Canada's system looks shit in comparison
In French Immersion school in Canada
English class: major ones were Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, King Lear, Frankenstein, 1984, independent study novels (mine were the Mayor of Casterbridge and Sons and Lovers), other random Canadian books
French class: L'Avare, Candide, l'Étranger, Thérèse Raquin, Marcel Pagnol books, excerpts from 18th century philosophers and Medieval+Renaissance authors, more random Canadian books
Logan Parker
>freshman year Excerpts of the Odyssey, then Romeo and Juliet >sophomore To Kill a Mockingbird and excerpts of Hamlet >junior The Great Gatsby >Senior Lord of the Flies I went to a really shitty, rural school (that was public too, which makes even more sense, as to why the readings were so diluted).
Alexander Harris
I skipped around different levels of English because I was a shitty student then and addicted to games.
First year (Top level) >Odyssey >Metamorphosis >The Great Gatsby >All Quiet on the Western Front >Several short stories from various classic sources
Second year (Top level) >Lord of the Flies >Hamlet >MacBeth >More short stories from the 1800 and 1900s
Third year (Standard level) >Romeo and Juliet >Lord of the Flies Yes, that's literally all they expected kids in this level to be able to read in a 90 day term.
Final Year (Intermediate level) >The Great Gatsby >Lord of the Flies >Hamlet >Romeo and Juliet
the USA public school system is dysfunctional.
Colton Davis
High school in 2nd most wealthy county in the US
First year: >Night >Odyssey >Romeo and Juliet >Of mice and Men
Second year: >Catcher in the Rye >The Kite Runner
Third Year: >poems by Nikki giovanni >Divine comedy >Ready Player One
Senior Year: >Great Gatsby >Hamlet
Macedonia sounds pretty based compared to my schools shitty selection. Youd think that a top tier HS would have us reading more, even if they were shitty books
Tyler Clark
California.
My high school consisted of Shakespeare, The Stranger, and a bunch of books which weren't even well known in their own time and are probably completely forgotten now but had liberal propaganda.
I learned nothing.
Sebastian Johnson
Senior Year >Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS >In Cold Blood >The Things They Carried >Reading Like A Writer Junior Year >To Kill A Mockingbird >The Kitchen Boy >Macbeth >??? Sophomore Year >??? Freshman Year >Romeo and Juliet >Of Mice and Men >some shitty YA novel
Wyatt Fisher
>>Ready Player One Child abuse. I can't imagine what the hell the homework or the essay prompts would've been.
Should've paid more attention.
Dominic Diaz
damn that's a good list
went to american public high school and reading lists were shit tier, very similar to they also make you read spics and nogs etc
Caleb Edwards
American rural state school.
Freshmen: Lolita, Pale Fire, Pnin selections, Spiegelman cartoons Junior: Odyssey, poems by lesbians through history like Sappho and Woolf Sophomore: On the Road, The Dharma Burns, selected stories of Conan the Barbarian Semior: Generation of Animals, Rhetoric, Consolation of Philosophy, poems by Plotinus
Oliver Richardson
Off the top of my head..
Freshman >To Kill a Mockingbird >Catcher in the Rye >Romeo and Juliet
Sophomore >Great Expectations >Twelfth Night >Macbeth >Oedipus, Antigone >In the Time of the Butterflies >The Scarlet Letter
Junior >The Sound and the Fury >Great Gatsby >Hamlet >The Things They Carried
Senior >Crime and Punishment >The Awakening >Persuasion >The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
Ironically, I feel the most blessed to have experienced my middle school Language Arts program. In addition to reading >Animal Farm, >1984, >Lord Of The Flies, >Of Mice And Men, >The Pearl, >Old Man and the Sea, it offered exposure to flash fiction and contemporary poetry, with a heavy focus on creative writing. The teacher fought to let me doodle during class time as well.
Jackson Diaz
Cant remember exact years, but here were the books
Beowulf (liked this) That new england witch shit that bashes our savior McCarthy Macbeth (really liked this) Romeo and Juliet the green knight Odyssey Lord of the Flies Walden Great Gatsby jew book about holocaust in the dark To kill a mockingbird
might be some others Im forgetting but that gives you the idea. This was Georgia.
Asher Ortiz
I attended one of Hungary's top high school can't remember everything but here are some: >Crime&Punishment >The Stranger >East of Eden >Onegin >Romeo&Juliet >The Three Musketeers >Winnetou/The Pioneers >The Da Vinci Code >The Mysterious Island >Tom Sawyer(that might have been in elemtentary idk) >Anna Karenina >Don Quijote >Wuthering Heights >Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus >And Then There Were None >The Hobbit >Animal Farm/1984 >The Neverending story >Flowers for Algernon >One Flew over Cuckoo's Nest >Père Goriot >The Overcoat >The Wild Duck >The major Hungarian works of literature(at least 10 or so in high school)
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Jonathan Bailey
Actually I consider it quite interesting how we didn't have to read classics before the Renaissance and instead our teacher tried to make us get into reading by giving us a lot more accessible books. Also I wouldn't have expected such a good list from Macedonia, OP.
Jace White
Catholic private school in US
From what i can recall:
>Freshman/sophomore: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Prince Aeneid The Counte of Monte Cristo Venus and Adonis, Romeo&Juliet, Othello Metamorphosis East of Eden Iliad Sophocles: Medea, Antigone Walden Candide Edgar Allan Poe poems
>Junior/senior: Shakespeare selected sonnets Augustine's Confessions Brother's Karamazov Richard III, King Lear, Hamlet Old man and the Sea Faust Leviathan Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson The Trial Anna Karenina MLK Letters from a Birmingham Jail T.S. Elliot poems C.S. Lewis selected essays
Lucas Brown
Damn, I had pretty much the same, add one flew over the cukoos nest.
Christian Smith
Here’s the ones I remember:
>Freshman The Odyssey Romeo and Juliet Night by Elie Wiesel
>Sophomore Jane Eyre King Lear The Yellow Wallpaper
>Junior Beloved The Sun Also Rises The Great Gatsby Lots of poetry
>Senior Frankenstein Crime and Punishment The Stranger Slaughterhouse 5 Waiting for Godot +other theater of the absurd Monty Dick
There’s a lot I’m forgetting. Pretty sure Fahrenheit 451 should be in there somewhere too. This is from a public high school in New England.
Camden Ward
*Moby Dick
Ayden Lee
Brazilian here. Nothing, just a few booklets about communism, colonialism and slavery.
Chase Anderson
>going to high school
Jeremiah Wright
Went to a heavily underfunded, but well-ranked test-in public school in the states. I only say that to say even at the so-called "good" schools the reading lists are shit, and most ppl just sparknote everything anyway
>Freshman year Lord of the flies The Illiad Inferno
>Sophomore year (Most "diversity" books here) The Woman Warrior Bless Me Ultima Their Eyes Were Watching God
>Junior Year Catch-22 Don't remember anything else
>Senior Year The Plague Beloved (class discussions were just "white guilt: the group discussion) Nothing else memorable
TL;DR The only kids I know who got a decent literary education in high school went to extremely elite boarding schools like Phillips Exeter or Andover, but even then, many of them didn't really apply themselves and just went for the grades
Self-study really is the only way out I guess
Landon Williams
I was in a private school in Uruguay Year One: english: >Romeo and Juliet >To Kill a Mockingbird >The Things They Carried >Some YA I don't remember spanish: >San Manuel Bueno, Mártir >El conde Lucanor
Year two english >Julius Caesar >The Canterbury Tales >Beowulf >The Odyssey >Things Fall Apart >A few Henrik Ibsen plays spanish >Garbage. Don't think we even read a real book
Year Three: english: >A Farewell to Arms >Modernist poetry >Some token women and nigger writers, absolute trash because the teacher was a golden retriever girl straight out of an american university spanish >El Cid >Lazarillo de Tormes >Don Quijote (Part I) >La familia de Pascual Duarte >Cien años de soledad
Year Four: english: >Some terrible essays, It was a rhetoric class and the teacher was another american golden retriever girl so we had to read jewish propaganda the whole year spanish >Siglo de oro verse and theater >Divine Comedy >Borges >Kafka >Oedipus cycle >Don Quijote (Part II)
i only had 2 good teachers, one for second year english, the other for third/fourth year spanish
Jace Anderson
I grew up in a border town in the states, so a lot of us are pretty decent at spanish, but the only books we ever read was shit about immigrants coming over here and the only thing we ever watched was Pan's Labyrinth ad nausem
Cajas de Carton was literally the only book I even remember, everything else was forgettable or just random articles about capitalist exploitation of south america
Cooper Gonzalez
jajaja wtf is wrong with america. spanish lit is seriously one of the best, i would say better than french. don't pay attention to chicano """intellectuals""""
Sebastian Johnson
>Shitty UK Comprehensive Wilfred Owen Poems Romeo & Juliet Animal Farm An Inspector Calls Of Mice & Men
Adam Roberts
It's been a decade since I've been in high school so this is an incomplete list. I went to a pretty posh (for public school) high school in the US. >Freshman Things Fall Apart. The Alchemist. Romeo and Juliet, Harun and the Sea of Stories >Sophomore 1984, Lord of the Flies, Night, Macbeth. >Junior The Adventures of Huck Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye >Senior I had finished my humanities by that time so I stuck with theater and greek mythology.
Shit tier list I know.
Cameron Wood
Apáczai?
Impressive list btw. I had my matura 2 years ago in a kinda prestigious STEM HS. We only had a single assigned book a year. 10th was an exception IIRC, but then they were all plays (Romeo and Juliet, Tartuffe, Nora). It’s hard to imagine a whole class reading so much at home. My classmates just read the summaries for a 2 and called it a day. By 11th our teacher was considerate enough to give out tests that could be maxed out by reading a 300 word sum up.
We spent 2 fucking weeks popcorn reading Chekhov in class. We were 17-18 who had to be taught like 10 year olds. STEM-plebbery never ceases to amaze me.
Mason Thomas
Szent István which is funny since it's also a STEM focused high school, but ironically our humanities teachers were far superior to science ones. Literally everyone who wanted to go to university in that field had to go to a private teacher. We had like 5-6 books per year at regular classes and 1-2 books to read in the summer. I also chose literature to be one of my facultative plus lessons, so I received additional books to read there(such as Anna Karenina, Don Quijote or Béke Ithakában). I went to HS in the 7th grade though so that has a part in why I had to read so many books there.
Dylan Anderson
I can't tell if you guys are joking. In New Zealand I read The Hunger Games, some shiity YA book where Australia got invaded, and more forgetable YA. Only lit we read over three years was Catcher in The Rye and Romeo and Juliet. Dropped the fourth year so don't know if it gets any better.
Jackson Cox
We read that trash ass book ROOM my senior year
Isaac Thompson
>flowers of evil ?????
Lucas Garcia
britbong education: >romeo & juliet >various poems, obligatory inclusion of wilfred owen >animal farm (with complete misinterpretation of its message) >macbeth >jane eyre >of mice & men
Anthony Flores
Connecticut, USA
Freshman Year >Romeo & Juliet, The Odyssey, Great Expectations Sophomore Year >The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Junior Year >Macbeth, The Handmaid's Tale, 1984, Beowulf, Wuthering Heights Senior Year >Hamlet, Frankenstein, Divine Comedy, Brave New World, Heart of Darkness
Jaxson Ward
In the UK
I read:
(Half of) Day of the Triffids Macbeth To Kill a Mocking Bird
That's pretty much it
David Baker
>They actually read the assigned readings Spooked.
Andrew Flores
From what i can remember: >Fr Romeo and Juliet, 1984 >Sp Lord of the Flies, Macbeth >Jr Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby, Huckleberry Finn, Song of Solomon >Senior Dante's Inferno, Frankenstein, Hamlet, Catch-22, Catcher in the Rye, A Brave new World, handful of poetry
Jaxon Sanchez
Canadian public highschool here Reading list included: >
William Collins
Shitty Northwestern American highscool readings included: >Romeo & Juliet >Some shitty YA novels >To Kill a Mockingbird >Animal Farm >The Scarlet Letter >Of Mice and Men >Macbeth >Othello >Assorted poetry >some Twain novels
Colton Reyes
Merica From what I remember,
>Fr Fellowship of the Ring (Was schoolwide read) Odessy The Kite Runner Oedipus
>Soph Divine Comedy (Also mostly inferno) Gilgamesh All Quiet on the Western Front Macbeth Antigone To Kill a Mockingbird Wuthering Heights Frankenstein
>Jr. Curious case of the dog in the nighttime (school read) Great Gatsby Catcher in the Rye The Things They Carried The crucible
>Senior Old man and the sea (school read) Huck Finn The Road Never Let Me Go Mother Night Kafka's metamorphosis And a bunch of poetry
I know I'm missing a bunch and a few might be out of order.
Hudson Cooper
I'm from Sweden. "Required" reading during my high school years was Oedipus Rex, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, parts of a Selma Lagerlöf novel and ca 5 pages of Hamlet. Swedish education is a meme. Genuinely considering home schooling my future children. I wager it'd be worth the probable lack of socialization because every single soul in this country is socially inept anyway.
Logan Walker
Upstate NY First Year: English Language General >Speak >Shakespeare >Miller >Walden >Fitzgerald >Poe >Dickens >Twain >Hemingway Second Year: English Lit >Beowulf >Milton >Shakespeare >Romantic Poets >Swift >Dickens >Shaw >Golding Third Year: World Lit >Gilgamesh >Homer >Greek Myths >Egyptian Myths >Oedipus & Antigone >Aristophanes >Divine Comedy >Goethe There was more, but I'm having trouble remembering exactly what. Reading was like 75% Greeks though. Final Year: Technical Writing or American Lit >technical writing was for the dumb kids who thought they were smarter than the teachers >American Literature was mostly short stories of people we read the first year
Brandon Miller
All posters mentioning 5+ books per year: was the class reading the entire thing or just excerpts for assignments? Because, for a kid/teenager who is anything but a social recluse, even some of these 5-8 books is like a year's worth reading on their own, nevermind with assignments from multiple other classes.
David Jackson
Multiple passages from every major Latin and Greek writer, in the original language Calvino's trilogy Madame Bovary The Satyricon Atonement Great Gatsby Divine Comedy And a bunch of poetry
Joseph Howard
Unfortunately included a lot of excerpting from the Epic Poems and some from the plays. For the most part things were intact, but a lot of them were there for short stories or poetry. I don't think any of the novels were abridged and plays were read in class.
Andrew Johnson
I remember reading (not in chronological order): Romeo and Juliet A Midsummer Night's Dream Oedipus and Antigone The Scarlet Letter Heart of Darkness Frankenstein One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (not specifically assigned, just for fun) To Kill a Mockingbird Of Mice and Men 1984 Things Fall Apart The Things They Carried Some book about a girl coping with rape Various short stories, mostly American lit
Austin Harris
Freshman: >Macbeth >A Raisin In the Sun >Tupac poems >Bukowski poems Sophomore: >The Awakening >The Great Gatsby >The Crucible >Death of a Salesman >Their Eyes Were Watching God >Bartleby Junior: >A Doll's House >Hedda Gabler >Oedipus the King >a bunch of YA shit Senior year >a bunch of YA shit
American education, Ladies and Gentlemen.
Daniel Brooks
Lmao, Australia is so much worse I don't remember the specific years but here's the books I read in Senior High School, sometimes you got to choose a different book from a specific theme: >Shakespeare: Hamlet/Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth >Dystopia: 1984/Brave New World/Fahrenheit 751 >To Kill a Mocking Bird >All The Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy)
Logan Perry
>751 How to spot a filthy phoneposter
Camden Sanders
>sp Of mice and men The crucible The great Gatsby >Jr Brave New world Random philosophy/self help >Sen Hamlet The tempest All the king's men Of mice and men again Great expectations Song of solomon Much Ado about nothing Edgar Allen Poe Poetry Pride and prejudice The Odyssey Catcher in the Rye The shipping news
Jonathan Anderson
I don't know if my school was weird for this, but we had to read at least one thing by Shakespeare every year. It was selective so that might have had something to do with it, but idk. >Year 7 was Midsummer Night's Dream >Year 8 was Merchant of Venice (I remember it because my friend stole the remote and paused the movie on a pair of tits) >Year 9 was Romeo and Juliet >Year 10 was Macbeth >Year 11 was Othello >Year 12 was Hamlet
We had a unit on picture books in year 7 which was surprisingly ok, unit on romantic poetry in year 8, a unit on gothic lit in year 10 we got either Frankenstein or Dracula depending on the teacher and a couple of Edgar Allen Poe short stories, Great Gatsby, To kill a Mockingbird, The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara, and a bunch of incredibly forgettable YA novels. Also a lot of Tim Winton for some reason.
Christian Johnson
Freshman year:
Alas, Babylon Great Expectations Oliver Twist Jane Eyre Julius Caesar A Separate Peace Oedipus Romeo and Juliet
Sophomore: Dante Club Excerpts from Inferno Walden Pond Scarlet Letter Great Gatsby Huckleberry Finn Grapes of Wrath Their Eyes were Watching God Death of a Salesman The Glass Menagerie Pride and Prejudice
Junior Year: Portrait of the Artist Macbeth Hunger of Memory Heart of Darkness
Senior: Poems on poems King Lear Othello Hamlet The Sun Also Rises A Streetcar Named Desire Catcher in the Rye Excerpts of Nietzsche We studied Harry Potter Antigone
This is all I can remember from the English department, took honors and AP the entire time. Went to a Catholic high school. They taught us grammar my freshman year, and they did SAT practice shit my sophomore and junior years. Senior year was GOAT(Harry Potter annoyed me, though).
Charles Young
OP here. I should note that there're hundred of public high schools like this in my country, and all had the same programme. I went to one of the allegedly top 3 in the country, and moat of the students didn't actually read these books. I was one of the more solid ones and I read 50% of these books. Since you are pretty surprised I'll also add on top of this list that we read around 20 more national works.
Hunter Morris
Yeah probably the advantage of the choice of my teacher(I'm the one who posted about a Hungarian school) is that students read almost everything. If we had to read stuff like the Iliad probably only a few kids would have read them.
Wyatt Robinson
>Tupac poems wtf
Christopher Fisher
oh and seeing that everyone is posting poems aswell, we had to read poems from pretty much every poet we learned about: from Sappho, Homer, Vergil, Horatius through Vogelweide, Villon to Boudelaire, Whitman etc.
