Books You Read in High School

[Crystallc87]

I didn't see some of these book on your list and I really enjoyed these in school. Some of them are repeated. I don't remember the authors...
1. The Giver
2. The Hatchet
3. Bridge to Taribithia
4. The Pearl
5. The Odyssey
6. The House on Mango Street
7. Of Mice and Men
8. The Red Badge of Courage
9. Romeo and Juliet
10. The Old Man and The Sea
There are a bunch more but I can't remember them all. But my favs were, The Giver and Bridge to Taribithia. I know there were more that I really enjoyed but I cannot remember them all :( I enjoyed all the books on that list, however.

[Justin]

Let's see..all the books I've read in school.

Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
A Handmaids Tale
The Catcher in the Rye
Of Mice and Men
I'm sure theres more but those are the only ones that I remember that stand out.

[Mark]

Stephen R. Donaldson - Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
Herman Hesse - Siddhartha
Piers Anthony - Xanth Series
Parke Godwin - Masters of Solitude
Ursula K Legiun - Left Hand of Darkness
Arthur C. Clark - 2001 A Space Odyssey
Richard Bach - Illusions
Frank Herbert - Dune Series

[Corey]

This Boy's Life
Fallen Angels

[Sarah]

It's interesting to me the difference between required reading for American schools and English schools. A lot of the books posted here I didn't read until I was at university - for instance Beowulf. And I'm very glad to not have been set Moby Dick and the Norton Anthology of literature as a teen! There was a lot of emphasis on Shakespeare at my school [we did at least one play every year], but we did also read a lot of modern classics.

Two I haven't seen on the list are
1. Kes by Barry Hines
2. An Inspector calls by J.B Priestly

[Nihar]

Ahh, so many people bringing up Lord of the Flies is bringing back high school memories...haha!

-Nihar
www.niharsuthar.com

[Scott]

Two I haven't seen yet:
1) A Day No Pigs Would Die
2) Black Elk Speaks

[Don]

Assigned books? Nothing very interesting that I can remember. But I still remember reading McKinlay Cantor's Andersonville, which was the first multiple-POV novel I ever read. At the time I was blown away (even though "blown away" wasn't to become a catch phrase for a few years).

It had a long term effect on me, so much that, years later, I've come to prefer writing in the multiple POV space.

[Renee]

Most of what we were assigned was okay. One was The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, probably because ours was an inner city school and they thought we could relate to the gangs or something. I had already read that one when I was in the third grade, so I was a little surprised that they had high school kids read it. Another one I liked was The Grapes of Wrath, which is still one of my favorites, along with To Kill a Mockingbird.