Summer reading list in high school

weelass24 · May 2010

Did you have one? What did you have to read?

I am wracking my brain trying to remember what we had to read. It was ususally 4 or 5 books. I would like to read them again. This it what I remember so far:

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Death of a Salesman

weelass24 · May 2010

OH!!! The Red Pony and Of Mice and Men

two-pink-shoes · May 2010

We had one mandatory book each summer and a long list of recommended ones. The mandatory ones were the first ones we discussed in English class. I remember we did To Kill a Mockingbird and The Sound and The Fury. I don't remember which others were summer reading. But I read like a fiend back then: probably 50 books/summer.

Mysterious_wife · May 2010

Where the Redfern Grows

XXXXX222 · May 2010

1984 and Brave New World (we read them the same summer and to this day I get them mixed up but I liked them)

Dances with Wolves and Last of the Mohicans (same thing with these two)

Jane Eyre (yucky, awful book)

Scarlet Letter (ick)

Siddhartha

I'm sure there's more but I can't remember

preppynewlywed · May 2010

Mysterious_wife:
Where the Redfern Grows

This.

and Frankenstein, To Kill a Mockingbird, and the worst book ever written: A Separate Piece.

weelass24 · May 2010

Good ones! I had to read some of those. I managed to avoid 1984 somehow. Also, The Picture of Dorain Gray.

XXXXX222 · May 2010

weelass24:
Good ones! I had to read some of those. I managed to avoid 1984 somehow. Also, The Picture of Dorain Gray.

Ooh, I really loved that story. We read a lot of great books during the school year. I guess they gave us mostly stupid books in the summer to read on our own.

weelass24 · May 2010

preppynewlywed:

Mysterious_wife:
Where the Redfern Grows

This.

and Frankenstein, To Kill a Mockingbird, and the worst book ever written: A Separate Piece.

YES! We read Shelly's Frankenstien in class, though.

SeasideBride06 · May 2010

I know I had 3 every summer, but the only ones I remember is Lord of the Flies, To Kill a Mockingbird, and the Scarlett Letter.

zoieglow · May 2010

Brave New World

1984

The Jungle

Animal Farm

The Giver

Things Come Undone

In the Time of the Butterflies

Lord of the Flies

The Great Gatsby

Where the Red Fern Grows

Night by Elie Wiesel

Catcher in the Rye

Heart of Darkness

The Bell Jar

Danikat15 · May 2010

I remember A Tale of Two Cities and Les Miserables.

heather_09_15_07 · May 2010

I have copies of Night and To Kill a Mockingbird (my all time fave, hands down) and read them at least once a year.

OSUtiff · May 2010

The Old Man and the Sea

zoieglow · May 2010

OSUtiff:
The Old Man and the Sea

I love this book.

johannaknip · May 2010

The Once and Future King. Canterbury Tales.

buckin · May 2010

Yes. But for the life of me I can't remember back that far..seriously WEE you are taxing my brain to remember that many years ago.

::clasps head in pain::

greenclown · May 2010

preppynewlywed:
Mysterious_wife:
Where the Redfern Grows
This.
and Frankenstein, To Kill a Mockingbird, and the worst book ever written: A Separate Piece.

It's Peace, and that's one of my favorite books of all time.

I'm mixing up what we had to read in the summer and what we had to read during the school year:

8th grade - The Yearling and Tess of the d'Urbervilles

9th - Lonesome Dove (my favorite book ever) and two other things

10th - no clue, but there were three. I may be mixing up 9th and 10th

11th - no clue

12th - Schindler's List, Black Ice, and one other one that I can't remember.

bumpuser794640 · May 2010

I honestly think we only had 1 required summer reading book in HS, and it was before my senior year - Jonathan Livingston Seagull. And I HATED it. The only plus is that it was super-short.

We did read a lot of the other books mentioned during the school year.

Melaneigh1 · May 2010

9th grade I read: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.....others I don't remember

10th grade: Cold Sassy Tree, Grapes of Wrath, Their Eyes Were Watching God...one more I think?

11th grade: House of the Spirits...others?

12th grade: Lord of the Flies, and I think that was all. I opted out of AP English, so my reading list went down, lol.

mrs.maybride · May 2010

Summer of my German Soldier

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Pearl

Animal Farm

The Once and Future King

Madame Bovary

Candide

I cannot remember what I had to read before going into my American Lit. class, and I know that there were at least two other books on the summer list before my Senior year (the last two are from then).

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