What Books did you have to read in school by grade

[Kyrian007]

Its been a long time, I don't remember all of them.

2nd grade, Charlotte's Web
3rd grade, the entire Wrinkle in Time series
6th grade, 1984-and then watched the film (Nudity included, we had an awesome homeroom teacher. He also had us watch The Exorcist followed by a documentary on the making of The Exorcist.)
Junior year, an English literature class that featured several works from Nathaniel Hawthorne (OK, but I in general don't like stuff from that period) F. Scott Fitsgerald (I liked them) Willa Cather (ehh not terrible) and then Steinbeck (I can't stand Steinbeck.)
Senior year, what I thought was the complete works of Shakespeare. It turns out my teacher is in the school of opinion that believes Shakespeare did not write Titus Andronicus. I disagree, and have since read it. Other than that, plus the crunch of having to go through all of them in a single year... it was a great experience.
College, I was in an honors program and our literature portion of the gen ed requirement for non lit majors simply assumed we had read many of the classics already and only required that we read one we had not before and write a paper on them every 2 weeks, our choice. Before finding this out they gave us a blind survey of which classics we had already read, but generally we were on the honor system. I went from classic sci-fi to gothic horror generally.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Don't know which particular year I read them in, but I remember these:

Willem Elsschot - De Verlossing (Deliverance)
Willem Elsschot - Lijmen/Het Been (Soft Soap/The Leg)
Hugo Claus - Het Verdriet Van Belgi? (The Sorros Of Belgium)
Hugo Claus - De Geruchten (The Rumours)
Thea Beckman - Kruistocht In Spijkerbroek (Crusade In Jeans)
Herman Brusselmans - Het Mooie Kotsende Meisje (The Beautiful Puking Girl)
Hendrick Conscience - De Leeuw Van Vlaanderen (The Lion Of Flanders)
Louis Paul Boons - Pieter Daens
Tom Lanoye - Het Goddelijke Monster (The Divine Monster)
Jef Geeraerts - Gangreen

I don't expect many people here to know about them. Added English titles where I could.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Fucking hell this dredges up a lot of memories... just in general of high school, not of English class per se.

That said, I don't remember that many of the books we had to read/study... the usual Shakespeare, though...

Taming of the Shrew
Romeo & Juliet

Something by Thomas Hardy (think it was the Withered Arm...?)
View From the Bridge
To Kill a Mockingbird

And that's all I recall...! Yay for senility... -_-

Herman Brusselmans - Het Mooie Kotsende Meisje (The Beautiful Puking Girl)

That could do with a precis...!

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Herman Brusselmans - Het Mooie Kotsende Meisje (The Beautiful Puking Girl)

That could do with a precis...!

It's actually a collection of semi-autobiographical short stories that deal with themes of alcoholism, sex, love, weltschmerz and boredom. Most of Brusselmans' book titles don't have anything to do with what happens in those books, but are more reflections of the cynical worldview of his main characters, who are almost invariably racist, sexist, violent, cynical and all-around horrible people (who also almost invariably never end up 'winning' by the end). His books are somewhat similar in style to Charles Bukowski's work.

 

[Saint of M]

My worse one was Catcher in the Rye, largly because I wanted to strangle Holden with his own angst. It wasn't until a few months ago that it donned on me: Of course you are not suppose to relate to him. He's a fricken hipster. Still, it wouldn't be until I had to watch Being John Malkavitch for a college class maybe ten years latter that I wanted to see a fictional charecter die in a fire as badly as him.

 

[Hawki]

So, remembered some other stuff:

-If This is a Man

-The Removalists

-Death of a Salesman

 

[Worgen]

I mainly remember reading 'The Rule of Names' in high school. But, that's probably because it was one of the ones I quite enjoyed.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Uurgh, I'll try to remember. It's been a while.

The earliest book I remember reporting on was Plague 99, so that would've been fairly early on. Year 7 probably. After that I couldn't really tell you when I studied a book, just that I did. I remember we read Of Mice and Men, Mansfield Park, Frankenstein, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Dracula, Scars Upon my Heart and John Donne - Selected Poetry. We also watched and reported on a few films as well, notably Educating Rita and Kes.

Sorry I can't give years/grades for these, please bear in mind I'm going back to the early 90's here.

 

[Agema]

Christ. This is virtually ancient history for me.

So, from the UK at A-level Eng Lit (age 16-18; whatever that translates to in grades because we didn't use them when I went to school). We had to do 8 texts and my school taught the minimum possible number of novels allowed, preferring plays because they were less reading for the same ability to answer questions:

Novels: "The Bell" (Iris Murdoch), "Mansfield Park" (Jane Austen).
Plays: "Measure for Measure" and "The Merchant of Venice" (Shakespeare), "Volpone" (Ben Jonson), "Translations" (Brian Friel), "The Way Of The World" (William Congreve).
Poetry: Gerard Manley Hopkins

I can remember a few novels I did prior to that at high school age 11-16, but not at what age I did them. "I'm The King Of The Castle" (Susan Hill), "The Chrysalids" (John Wyndham), "Of Mice and Men" (John Steinbeck), "The Card" (Arnold Bennett), "Lord Of The Flies" (William Golding). I'm sure I read plenty more, but I couldn't dredge them from my memory without a prompt.