Required Reading in High School

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

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I don't even remember

Hence, you had to read shit.

seriously fuck this book
also >scotland

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

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.

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.

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

Nobody read it

>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

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.

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

Croatian high schools are fucking based holy shit.

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

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.

I went to high school, for computer shit.

Where are you from?

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

Belarus.

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

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

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

But I did.

>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.

t. newfie

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

>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

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

>singapore
>secondary school
>lit class

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

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.

indiana, usa

>kill mockingbirds
>night
>huckleberry finn
>frankenstein

i wish i read a good book ever

>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

What do you thing of M&M?

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

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.

>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

>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

FUCK

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.

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.

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.

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
vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/vce/english/VCE_EngEAL_Text_List16.pdf
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

Remembered another one:
>The Pearl

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

>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.

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.

Forgot The Odyssey and Julius Ceasar

And also forgot
To Kill a Mockingbird
Huckleberry Finn

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

Ne seri, čitao si negdje pola toga i dio samo u pjevanjima/pojedinim pričama.
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.
Half of the high schools are gymnasiums so it's not bragging.
The rural area my family is from has a higher % of well read people than Zagreb desu.

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.

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,

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

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,...

Oh and Ovid in the Latin classes.

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.

Bukowski. Weird.

Od kud si?

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.

had to read dragontails, left a lasting impression on me

A distinct drop in quality after the teacher got sacked.

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

Austria:

The Metamorphosis

Zagreb
Rodbina pretežno iz hercegovine

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.

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

Absolute garbage tier schooling system here.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Country? Obviously USA, but still asking

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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.

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

>Canada

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

>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)

>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

Is it really that bad there?
Even Österland seems to be doing better What about Denmark and Norway?

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