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Just wondering what books you think are important for a High School student to read. I'm actually a sophomore in University but I haven't read much fiction, and I haven't read any classics. And what I have read I'm sure I didn't pull any messages out of. So, I'd like to read some of the books I should have read when I was 16-18 years old.
If you post a suggestion, could you quickly write why you think it's an important book (if you have the time). Thanks a lot!
Answer
This list is from a website, but I took out all the ones I haven't read personally.
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. --Africa, being a refugee
Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg,Ohio.--life in small town America, 1920s
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Black woman growing up in America
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.Excellent books by early woman novelists
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.
Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales.Classic of middle English storytelling
Cisneros, Sandra. The House On Mango Street. hispanic American experience from a woman's perspective
Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim.
Cooper, James Fenimore. Last of the Mohicans.
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. He wrote this in the 1890s without ever having been to war
Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe.
Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield. two lclassic tales of growing up, England, 1800s
Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations.
Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment.Philosophical aspects of murder and repentance
Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie. a working class woman becomes a "working" woman
Du Maurier, Daphne. Rebecca. mystery thriller
Eliot, George. Silas Marner. a miser adopts an orphan, and how his life changes;1800s England
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man.a black man in America; a classic, like richard Wright's (below)
Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying. Poverty and family life in 1930s South
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. A developmentally disabled man and his dysfunctional family, American South
Frank, Anne. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.,
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies.
Gunther, John. Death Be Not Proud. Touching true story of his son's fight with brain cancer
Hardy, Thomas. Return of the Native.
Heinlein, Robert A. Stranger in a Strange Land.Classic social criticism in SCi-fi format
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. 3 war/post war stories of WWI
Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises.
Homer. The Iliad. the original adventure stories of western culture, 600 BC(same time as the old Testament/Jwewish Bible)
Homer. The Odyssey.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God.African American life, 1900s
Joyce, James. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.cooming of age in Ireland, early 1900s
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Life in the insane asylum
Knowles, John. A Separate Peace.Life in the boy's private school, US, 1950s
Malamud, Bernard. The Natural.
McCaffrey, Anne. Dragonsong.Fantasy
McCullers, Carson. Member of the Wedding. Family story, American South, 1950? Se was youn when she wrote it
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick.Whale story, metaphorical
Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind.
O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried.Vietnam war
Orwell, George. 1984.
Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country. south Africa during apartheid
Poe, Edgar Allan. Complete Tales and Poems.
Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe.
Shakespeare, William. Macbeth.
Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet.
Shakespeare, William. King Lear.
Shute, Nevil. On the Beach.
Sophocles. Oedipus Rex.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath.
Steinbeck, John. The Pearl.
Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony.
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden.
Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome.
Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie.
Wright, Richard. Black Boy.
Wright, Richard. Native Son.
This list is from a website, but I took out all the ones I haven't read personally.
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. --Africa, being a refugee
Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg,Ohio.--life in small town America, 1920s
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Black woman growing up in America
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.Excellent books by early woman novelists
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.
Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales.Classic of middle English storytelling
Cisneros, Sandra. The House On Mango Street. hispanic American experience from a woman's perspective
Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim.
Cooper, James Fenimore. Last of the Mohicans.
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. He wrote this in the 1890s without ever having been to war
Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe.
Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield. two lclassic tales of growing up, England, 1800s
Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations.
Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment.Philosophical aspects of murder and repentance
Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie. a working class woman becomes a "working" woman
Du Maurier, Daphne. Rebecca. mystery thriller
Eliot, George. Silas Marner. a miser adopts an orphan, and how his life changes;1800s England
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man.a black man in America; a classic, like richard Wright's (below)
Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying. Poverty and family life in 1930s South
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. A developmentally disabled man and his dysfunctional family, American South
Frank, Anne. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.,
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies.
Gunther, John. Death Be Not Proud. Touching true story of his son's fight with brain cancer
Hardy, Thomas. Return of the Native.
Heinlein, Robert A. Stranger in a Strange Land.Classic social criticism in SCi-fi format
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. 3 war/post war stories of WWI
Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises.
Homer. The Iliad. the original adventure stories of western culture, 600 BC(same time as the old Testament/Jwewish Bible)
Homer. The Odyssey.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God.African American life, 1900s
Joyce, James. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.cooming of age in Ireland, early 1900s
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Life in the insane asylum
Knowles, John. A Separate Peace.Life in the boy's private school, US, 1950s
Malamud, Bernard. The Natural.
McCaffrey, Anne. Dragonsong.Fantasy
McCullers, Carson. Member of the Wedding. Family story, American South, 1950? Se was youn when she wrote it
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick.Whale story, metaphorical
Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind.
O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried.Vietnam war
Orwell, George. 1984.
Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country. south Africa during apartheid
Poe, Edgar Allan. Complete Tales and Poems.
Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe.
Shakespeare, William. Macbeth.
Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet.
Shakespeare, William. King Lear.
Shute, Nevil. On the Beach.
Sophocles. Oedipus Rex.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath.
Steinbeck, John. The Pearl.
Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony.
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden.
Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome.
Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie.
Wright, Richard. Black Boy.
Wright, Richard. Native Son.
What books should a student know before leaving high school?
kk1977
As a teacher, I've put a great deal of thought into this question. I already have a personal idea of this, but I'm interested in learning what other people think.
What books do you think every high school student should know in order to become an informed part of our society?
Answer
I would say books such as "The Great Gatsby" "Catcher in the Rye" "Huckleberry Finn" "The Scarlet Letter" "Moby Dick" "The Dubliners" "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man" "The House on Mango Street" "The Stranger" "War and Peace" "Crime and Punishment"
Off the top of my head those are the books I remember reading in High School. I know I'm leaving out loads.
And of course read the works of Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Ezra Pound, and Chaucer.
Unfortuntaley, I wasn't really introduced to Virginia Woolf until after High School. But I would say that she's pretty important to get to know. Basically anyone from the Modernism era. The knowledge I've pulled from that era is incredibly useful nowadays.
I would say books such as "The Great Gatsby" "Catcher in the Rye" "Huckleberry Finn" "The Scarlet Letter" "Moby Dick" "The Dubliners" "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man" "The House on Mango Street" "The Stranger" "War and Peace" "Crime and Punishment"
Off the top of my head those are the books I remember reading in High School. I know I'm leaving out loads.
And of course read the works of Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Ezra Pound, and Chaucer.
Unfortuntaley, I wasn't really introduced to Virginia Woolf until after High School. But I would say that she's pretty important to get to know. Basically anyone from the Modernism era. The knowledge I've pulled from that era is incredibly useful nowadays.
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