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

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

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

  4. 4.
    Of Mice and Men
    by Jon Steinbeck

  5. 5.
    Mythology
    by Edith Hamilton

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

  7. 7.
    The Iliad of Homer
    by Homer

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

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

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

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

  12. 12.
    All My Sons (Library Edition Audio CDs)
    by Arthur Miller

  13. 13.
    The Once and Future King, Complete Edition
    by T H White

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

  15. 15.
    The Canterbury Tales
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

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

  19. 19.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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

  21. 21.
    Emma
    by Jane Austen

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

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

  24. 24.

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

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

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

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

  29. 30.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph, Conrad

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

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

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Created by stephsk8r on Apr 09, 2007.
 

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