This topic is sort of geared towards those who were in high school from 2000-04. I'm doing a reading challenge and one of the topics is a book you were assigned in school. My memory is terrible and I can't remember much other than a couple classics. Hoping some here can suggest me a book that might trigger a memory of something I had to read? I know every school curriculum was different but I also feel there were probably a lot that we all collectively were reading.
A couple I remember so far (nothing of which is striking my fancy to re-read but will if I have to lol):
-Great Gatsby
-Lucky Jim
-Canterbury Tales
-All the Shakespeare
-Tuck Everlasting
-Catcher in the Rye
-To Kill a Mockingbird
by bakeryall
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We didn’t have required reading in our curriculum, but we did a novel study of I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier.
In Scotland for Higher English we did The Inheritors by William Golding, Macbeth, Death of a Naturalist (poetry collection) by Seamus Heaney. For sixth year we did Othello, Anthony and Cleopatra, Great Expectations and Hard Times by Dickens, and I’m sure there was something else I’ve forgotten. Elective works that I can recall were a choice of three George Orwell novels, some stuff by Iain Banks that I can’t recall, and a few other things (there was a list you could choose from).
The Crucible!
High school 2004-2008, this is what I can remember: The Iliad and The Odyssey, Romeo and Juliet, A Separate Peace, The Dead Poets’ Society, Pride And Prejudice, Macbeth, The Catcher In The Rye, Brave New World, 1984, Wuthering Heights, Flowers For Algernon, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Things They Carried, The Jungle
Jane Eyre
I graduated in 2002 and I remember having to read The Grapes of Wrath, The Crucible, Great Expectations, and The Scarlet Letter, and Jane Eyre.
Some of my favorite required reading books that I didn’t see mentioned in the comments:
And Then There Were None
A Raisin in the Sun
Ender’s Game
The Importance of Being Earnest
Night
Of Mice and Men
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Animal Farm
Lord of the Flies
The Bell Jar
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Catch-22