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