hollywollyd'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 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. 1.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  2. 2.
    ?
    The Illiad of Homer
    by Louise R. Loomis, Ed.: Tran. Samual Butler Homer

  3. 3.
    ?
    Welcome to the Ark
    by Stephanie S. Tolan

  4. 5.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles

  5. 6.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou

  6. 7.
    Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Emily Brontë

  7. 8.
    The Taming of the Shrew (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  8. 9.
    The Importance of Being Earnest
    by Oscar Wilde

  9. 10.
    Walden: (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
    by Henry David Thoreau

  10. 11.
    Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  11. 12.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  12. 13.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

  13. 14.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

  14. 15.
    Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics)
    by Walt Whitman

  15. 16.
    Fifty Poems of Emily Dickinson
    by Emily Dickinson

  16. 17.
    William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)
    by William Carlos Williams

  17. 18.
    ?
    Civil Disobediance
    by Henry David Thoreau

  18. 19.
    THE BEAN TREES
    by Barbara Kingsolver

  19. 20.
    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  20. 21.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  21. 22.
    The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)
    by Ayn Rand

  22. 23.

  23. 24.
    The House of Mirth
    by Edith Wharton

  24. 25.
    Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature)
    by Patrick McCarthy

  25. 26.
    Shakespeare's Sonnets (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  26. 27.
    Anthem
    by Ayn Rand

  27. 28.
    John Donne's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions)
    by John Donne

  28. 29.
    The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Created by hollywollyd on May 26, 2007.
 

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