I tried posting on r/books but it didn’t let me, so I’m going to try and post here.
I’m curious to see what schools thought were important for their English class and if it varies by a huge margin across the country (or internationally). I honestly wasn’t a big reader back in high school and didn’t fully read some of them, maybe because I didn’t like how we were “forced” to read a specific thing. I’m a big reader now that I’m older and there’s some books that were actually great and I would love to give them another go. For context, I went to a high school in California. I can’t remember ALL the books we read, but here were a few:
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
1984 by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 452 by Ray Bradbury
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Things Fall Apart by Chinhua Achebe
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Hamlet and Othello by Shakespeare
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Night by Eli Wiesel
Maus by Art Spiegelman
by kima-