stephsk8r's "Required Reading at My High School (Class of 2002)"

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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 Chesterton High School in Chesterton, IN, in 1990. This is a list of the required texts for my English classes that I can remember. I’d love to hear others’ comments on the list and see what other people had to read in high school.

On at least two occasions, we were split up into groups and each group read a different novel. I don’t remember all of those, but I’ve listed the ones I do recall. I have not yet read most of the books assigned to other groups.

  1. 1.
    A Separate Peace
    by john knowles

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  2. 2.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  3. 3.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  4. 4.
    Of Mice and Men
    by Jon Steinbeck

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  5. 5.
    Mythology
    by Edith Hamilton

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  6. 6.
    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

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  7. 7.
    The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books)
    by Homer

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  8. 8.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  9. 9.
    Miller: Death of a Salesman (Plays in Production)
    by Brenda Murphy

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  10. 10.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  11. 11.
    The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald

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  12. 12.
    All My Sons

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  13. 13.
    The Once and Future King
    by T.H. White

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  14. 14.
    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  15. 15.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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  16. 16.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Cover to Cover Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  17. 17.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  18. 18.
    The Return of the Native
    by Thomas Hardy

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  19. 19.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  20. 20.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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  21. 21.
    Emma
    by Jane Austen

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  22. 22.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  23. 23.
    Sister Carrie (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Theodore Dreiser

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  25. 26.
    Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  26. 27.
    Billy Budd, Sailor (Enriched Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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  27. 28.
    Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  28. 29.
    Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

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  29. 30.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph, Conrad

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  30. 31.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  31. 32.
    The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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