~~Before 10th~~ (since I don't remember the exact year)
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare =[
Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya =[
A Seperate Peace by John Knowles =[
A House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros =[
My Brother Sam is Dead by Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier >=[

~~10th~~
Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare =[
Lord of the Flies by William Golding ]
Animal Farm by George Orwell =/
Anthem by Ayn Rand =]
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare =[
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka >=[

~~11th~~
The Crucible by Arthur Miller =[
Night by Elie Wiesel ]
The Stranger by Albert Camus =]
The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger =]
Meridian by Alice Walker
Othello by William Shakespeare =[
Hamlet by William Shakespeare =[

~~12th~~
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez =/
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen =/

There are soooo many more than that but I got bored and didn't feel like putting anymore time into this list. Interpret the smiley/frowny faces on your own.

AP American Studies was a really cool class I took, it was history and English combined. What I remember from summer reading was:
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (the ending's about hope, if anyone asks)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (the old man's a Christ figure, trust me)
The Crucible by Arthur Miller (pretty cool, I liked the parallels between witch hunts and McCarthyism, it tied in well to the history part of the course)
The Awakening by Kate Chopin (women's lit, dissatisfaction with being forced into the cult of domesticity)
The worst book during that class was Moby Dick, we had to read 50 pages a night, and that was just for the English half of our class...This work taught me English is BS, our teacher dwelled on the metaphor of the water spout, and later we read a letter between Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife, in which he thanks her for mention of the water spout metaphor, but informs her it was unintentional.

Winter break we were assigned Uncle Tom's Cabin and I liked that a lot.
Other books I remember from that class: McTeague, Madame Bovary, The House of the Seven Gables, The Great Gatsby, Ethan Frome, The Age of Innocence

It's funny the original poster had to read The Invisible Man; my younger brother was assigned that last year, I told him I had a copy and gave him the HG Wells book. Apparently there's a new Invisible Man in town.

Books that reappear the most: Canterbury Tales, Beowulf
Most painful summer reading: A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Billy Budd
Best Required Reading: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

i only remember " the odesssy".... it was long and hard to understand...

For year 7 we had to read & analyse these books:

*King of Shadows. It is about Shakespear and how some boy went back in time and met him. It was... ok, i suppose. Not something I would want to read though.

*Two Weeks With The Queen PLAY. It is a play. So it sort of sucked...

*The Invention Of Hugo Cabret- it is considerably interesting, not great, but interesting. There are great sketches at like, every 3 pages so I was thoroughly entertained (that like contradicts me saying that is wasn't great but I was entertained at the pictures... It was like a manga) But I disliked the historical crap in it and the general storyline... I disliked the ending.

*Silver Donkey- it was... really random. It was meant to be touching; inspiring even, but it wasn't. I don't think reading about a donkey being a hero and a donkey talking to a sky was all that great (seriously, I was like WTF at the bit when the sky was talking to the donkey) and donkeys carrying wounded people...
The novel involves these bits about World War 1 BUT it didn't have 'that' feeling. You know, the feeling which allows us to empathise with everyone and make us sad... The book lacked that (to me, at least). So when some random person died in the book and there was a description about the corpse, I was like: . I know, I'm morbid but still... (= =). I absolutely couldn't relate to the book at all. Even though it had real historical stuff in it, I felt it was terribly unrealistic.

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...Currently reading Catch-22 for AP Lit. It's freakin` hilarious.

In class, we're reading Hamlet. Wow, it's the most difficult thing to understand. ._.;;

We just finished Crime and Punishment a little more than a week ago. I didn't finish it though... 'cause I was really lazy. =w=;; But I enjoyed the parts that I read. Dostoevsky is a genius.

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I <3 Hamlet!!!! I seriously love my Language Arts teacher for teaching us Hamlet the right way that made me love it. Enjoy it. Even after a year of finishing it, I still find myself quoting/getting references to the play.

My favorite out of all the quotes: " For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

When you finish the play(or at least get to the last scene), here's something that should make you laugh:Sassy Gay Friend - Hamlet

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Okay... my book list is going to look monstrous compared to what everyone's written... and this is isolated to my high school required reading... the time when I read them may be off... and I think I still might be missing 1-2 books from this list since it's been so long ago...

9th grade
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
"Romeo and Juliet" (William Shakespeare) (seriously?! such brash "lovers")
The Hobbit (J. R. R. Tolkien) (oh those riddles...)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) (tortured story but the ORIGINAL ENDING was worth it)

10th grade -- so monstrous... I seriously am still in awe at this list...
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) (beautiful, touching)
The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros) (where did all the punctuation go?)
Farewell to Manzanar (Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding) (zomg... how saaaaad)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith) (awwww... touching, coming of age, loved it!)
Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut) (loooool... boku-maru anyone? )
"Hamlet" (William Shakespeare)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (on the fence... wanted to take my finger, poke it deeply into my eye and twirl it around just so that I'd be entertained during the first I dunno... 20 or so chapters of her AWFUL journey... then came Mr. Rochester and it got a bit better...)
"Julius Caesar" (William Shakespeare)
Edith Hamilton's Mythology (I'm sure I liked some of the stories...)
The Inferno (Dante Alighieri) (on the fence... prose was hard, levels of hell were interesting)
Purgatorio (Dante Alighieri) -- assigned 1 chapter per person for class project
Paradiso (Dante Alighieri) (yeah... the prose was getting to me... and I just got lost)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston) (beautiful, sad)
The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan) (pretty good, some stories I liked more than others)

11th grade
Cannery Row (John Steinbeck) (hrrm... can't remember, so indecisive face for now)
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles) (pretty good... super messed up, but enjoyed it)
The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger) (awwwww... that carousel scene...)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) (for sure I didn't like certain characters)
"The Crucible" (Arthur Miller) (damn you teenage girl! damn you!!)
"Death of a Salesman" (Arthur Miller) (I wanted to give the salesman a hug!!)
"Much Ado About Nothing" (William Shakespeare) (Kenneth Branagh made the play even better in the movie we watched as a follow up)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou) (wonderful, beautiful, touching, sad... Maya Angelou, you are an amazing person!!)

12th grade -- this was like... ultimate dystopia year (with the exception of Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) <3 (Oh Mr. Darcy how I long for you!!!)
Kim (Rudyard Kipling) (torturous read... tortured summer read)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) (wow... messed up, but what a thriller!)
1984 (George Orwell) (same as above)
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf) + (never again will I read stream-of-consciousness)
Ragtime (E. L. Doctorow) (maaaan... that ending for that one story was tragically beautiful...)
"Ghosts" (Henrik Ibsen) (messed up!! so messed up!! but I liked it!)
"Our Town" (Thornton Wilder) (can't remember... I think it was just about everyday life...)
"Long Day's Journey into Night" (Eugene O'Neill) (zomg... I hope to never have a dysfunctional family like this ever... sooo messed...)

I'm horrible with names, so some I've forgotten the title of.
-The Giver, which I liked.
-Book about a girl living in a war torn country who has to dress as a boy to feed her family, and dig for mines and bones and stuff like that Liked it.
-Crappy book about Druids or something and these two kids that get warped back to ancient Europe. Hated it.
-Life of Pi, liked it.
-Lord of the Flies, liked it.
-Romeo and Juliet, hated it.
-Macbeth, meh.
-The Outsiders, liked it.
-Hamlet, liked it.
-The Crucible, hated it.
-A Wrinkle in Time, liked it.
-Midsummer Nights Dream, meh.
-Death of a Salesman, hated it.

And others I'm probably forgetting.

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Follow fashion, act normal;
Walk on the pavement, watch T.V.;
Save for retirement, obey the law.
Repeat after me: I am free.

School Required Reading? Hmm..I remember reading
(it's in order btw so yeah it got harder and harder to read, understand and to make a book review)

Holes by Louis Sachar, (i liked it so much, i read it 3 times, seriously)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, (liked it)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding, (read until some pages, thank god for sparknotes)
Animal Farm by George Orwell, (didnt read,thank god for sparknotes)
My Antonia by Willa Cather (my personal favorite)
This mythology book by Edith Hamilton (this got me into mythology. I liked it very much)
Complete poems by Carol Anne Duffy
A Room With A View by E.M. Forster (about rooms and views, seriously. and the one thing i liked about this is that its sooo good i fell in love with George Emerson)
Proof by David Auburn (awsome play! about a girl who is as genius as her father)
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (about family)
last but definitely one of my faves...
Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (yes, about this girl and how her sexuality changes.)


Yep, We don't do much literature in school at my country. Thank goodness we didn't touch any Shakespeare. Phew.

I love to read. Believe me, if its a book I'm interested in even just slightly I'll finish it. But hand me a book that kills I will definitely die!


Most Horrid Books I Had To Read:

The Old Man and the Sea
The Giver
Pride and Prejudice

Some Class Favorites:
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Dracula
Odysseus

Can't think of anymore

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"Cogito Ergo Sum"

learn it, live it, love it.

Well, in my junior year of High School I got away with reading a mess of Louis L'Amour rather than any of the suggested reading material. I'm still not sure how that worked. Maybe she was a western fan.

Well, let me think here. I had to read a number of books my senior year.

Brave New World (Crap)
Grendel (I liked beowulf so this kinda dragged itself down)
Beowulf (Once I got into it I quite enjoyed the story)
Frankenstein (BOOORING)
Jane Eyre (a bit girly but I will admit to having read the entire book in one sitting.)

And I like to read so those were just between my personal reading.

the only one i REAAAAAAAALLY hated was A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright. I gave up after reading 1/4 of it...

this was the only book I didn't bother reading during my grade 12 English class. I had to do around 5 quizzes and 2 essays and a part of the final exam that required knowledge from this book, but it was not worth the effort so I just made up stuff.

Death of a Salesman [it was ok]
a lot of Shakespearian stuff [not crazy about it but better than scientific romance]
Jpod [great book, not such a great thing to write an essay on]

and a lot more I dont remember.

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I'm forced to read Romeo and Juliet awhile back, but it didn't turn out THAT bad. The bad part is the play-acting we had to do afterward.. that took quite awhile..

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D'oh!

Hope my school had required reading.....

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Most Hated:
-To Kill a Mockingbird (overrated)
-Grapes of Wrath (too long)

Most Beloved:
-The Power of One (excellent!)
-A Separate Peace (sad ;-; )
-The Scarlet Letter (underrated)

Others:
-All Quiet on the Western Front
-Romeo and Juliet
-Macbeth
-1984
-Brave New World
-Animal Farm
-Slaughterhouse Five
-Lord of the Flies
-Heart of Darkness