What books did you read in High School?

Answer 1

quite a few!!

the diary of anne frank
lord of the flies
lord of the rings
the hobbit
a kestral for a knave
secret meeting
birdsong
regeneration trilogy
romeo and juliet
henry V
othello
the tempest
songs of innocence and experience
the handmaids tale
walt whitman - poems
the rivals
macbeth
point horror - i read so many of those in school!!
the silmarillion
island of the blue dolphins
silas marner
jane eyre
1984
vanity fair
anything by charles dickens

and loads more that i can't remember - i always had my head in a book - still do!!!

Answer 2

David Copperfield, The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, Grendel, The Lord of the Rings, textbooks with short stories. Sense and Sound , an anthology of poetry. Strunk and White's Elements of Style. The Stranger -- in French -- L'Etranger (Camus). Crime and Punishment. The Odyssey, The Iliad. Nikos Kazantzakis' The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel. The Sibyl (Par Lagervaast). The Last Unicorn (Peter S. Beagle). There must have been more.

I remember reading a lot of books and newspaper microfiche about World War II and the London Blitz for research for a paper I had to write. -- (This was before the birth of the Internet.)

Answer 3

Lord of the Flies, Alas Babylon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Beowulf (ugh), Le Morte D'Artur, The Canterbury Tales, Paradise Lost, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet

Answer 4

The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Tess of the D'ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
Goggle Eyes - Anne Fine
Nearly forgot - Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
I'm sure there were other ones but those are the important ones that stick in my mind.

Argh I keep remembering more - The Cherry Orchard and also Uncle Vanya by Chekhov.

Answer 5

A Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Pride And Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Waterland (Graham Swift)
A View From The Bridge (Arthur Miller)
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
Miramar (Naguib Mahfouz)
I Will Marry When I Want (Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii)
Season Of Migration To The North (Tayeb Salih)

Answer 6

Many. Mostly Romance Novels. Jude Devereaux. But my favorite English Class worthy:

Anthem by Ayn Rand
Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, The Pearl John Steinbeck.
As a HighSchool teacher I love the Inheritance Trilogy Eragon, Eldest, and hopefully the last one.

Answer 7

Goodnight Mr. Tom (for the second time in my life), and the first book of Artemis Fowl (these r only two of the many books u read in High School).

Answer 8

Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash", "Zodiac", and "Cryptonomicon"
William Gibson's "Neuromancer"
Robert Heinlein's "A Stranger in a Strange Land"

Best of Science Fiction annual collections (a few different years).

The Hitchhiker "Trilogy"

Tom Wolfe "A Man in Full"

F. Scott Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby"
Lord of the Flies
Beowulf and "Grendel"

Some Shakespeare, but I don't recall if I finished any of it.

Something by Vladimir Nabokov, forget the title
(not Manakins)

and I think, Annie Dillard, "The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"

Answer 9

The Outsiders
Joby
Carrie's War
Walkabout
Lord of the Flies
Henry IV Part One
A Kestrel for a Knave
Nineteen Eighty Four
Poems of Wilfred Owen

Totally different from the ones I teach these days. Apart from Lord of the Flies.

Answer 10

I remember several Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, Hamlet..

I remember reading The Great Gatsby, Beowulf, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Scarlett Letter.

I can't remember any others, it's been a looooooong time. LOL