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bkworm9's "Required Reading at My High School (Class of 2002)"

One of the things I like about Lists of Bests is being able to see what current and graduated high school students had to read in their classes and compare that to my own experiences. Some schools tend to stress different categories of literature.

I graduated from high school in 2002. This is a list of the required texts for my English classes that I can remember. Some of my mathematics and history classes also required certain books, but they are omitted here. I’d love to hear others’ comments on the list.

1.
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A Fantastic Bestiary: Beasts and Monsters in Myth and Folklore
by Ernst and Johanna Lehner
 
2. Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
 
3. The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
by Homer
 
4.
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The Illiad of Homer
by Louise R. Loomis, Ed.: Tran. Samual Butler Homer
 
5.
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Welcome to the Ark
by Stephanie S. Tolan
 
6. Sophocles: Antigone (Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama)
by Sophocles
 
7. A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
 
8. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
 
9. Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
by Emily Bronte
 
10. The Taming of the Shrew (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
 
11. The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
 
12. Walden: (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
by Henry David Thoreau
 
13. Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
14. The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
 
15. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
 
16. A Farewell To Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
 
17. Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics)
by Walt Whitman
 
18. Fifty Poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
 
19. William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)
by William Carlos Williams
 
20.
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Civil Disobediance
by Henry David Thoreau
 
21.
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THE BEAN TREES
by Barbara Kingsolver
 
22. Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
 
23. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
 
24.
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The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)
by Ayn Rand
 
25. Euripides: Medea (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
by Euripides
 
26. The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
 
27. Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature)
by Patrick McCarthy
 
28. Shakespeare's Sonnets (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
 
29. Anthem
by Ayn Rand
 
30. John Donne's Poetry (Norton Critical Edition)
by John Donne
 
31. A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
 
32. The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
 
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Created by bkworm9 on Apr 09, 2007.