[Alice_Draconus]

Required reading during Junior year:
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Into The Wild" by Jon Krakauer
"The Crucible" by Arthur Miller
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
"Skinny Dip" by Carl Hiaasen
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain

Required summer reading for Senior year:
"Mythology" by Edith Hamilton
"1984" by George Orwell
A Choice between "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver, "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens, or ...another book whose title has escaped me as I did not consider reading it. XD
And
A autobiograpy/biograpy on an inspirational person of out choice.

Mythology is currently killing my brain. D: Not what I expected at all... v_v

[DontEatChalk]

I'm almost done reading Frankenstein for leisure and I really love it Frankenstein's a big jerk >_____>


1984 IS FREAKIN' AWESOME, HANDS DOWN. I love all books by George Orwell lol <3 Favourite is Animal Farm. :]

[strawberry.llamas]

for junior year:
so far for summer reading,

The Bell Jar
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

i don't know for the rest of the year though

The Bell Jar was a good book ^^
and Cuckoo's nest was such a good movie!!! Didn't read the book...yet
the author of Cuckoo said he'll never watch the movie...because they completely changed the p.o.v. from Chief's to McMurphy...kind of

Ken Kesey, who wrote the original novel, said he would never watch the movie version and even sued the movie's producers because it wasn't shown from Chief Bromden's perspective (as the novel is).

source: imdb

Night is such a touching and deep book.
I hope you like it haha.

hehehe i already read it...it was during sophomore year...this fall i'm going to be a junior

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]Required reading during Junior year:
"The Crucible" by Arthur Miller

^ the crucible was a good book!
read it during freshman year for fun.

1984 IS FREAKIN' AWESOME, HANDS DOWN. I love all books by George Orwell lol <3 Favourite is Animal Farm. :]

^ i love Animal Farm!!! Read it for World Studies in 10th Grade.
i heard the movie was pretty...trippy


Favorite Books of all Time:
The Perks of Being a Wall Flower by Stephen Chbosky (Sp?)
The Messenger by Markus Zusak
The Phantom Toll Booth by Norton Juster (teacher read this to our class in 3rd grade. still my favorite <3)
Paper Moon by Joe D. Brown
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick (so awesome cuz my 8th grade eng teacher would make different voices)
Borgel by Daniel Pinkwater (lol my 8th eng teacher would read aloud...each character had a diff voice )

and so much more

but this isn't a book thread oh well ^-^

[_serene]

Going to junior year:
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
My Antonia by Willa Cather

Have to read 2 of them but I don't know which ones are good ;/ I read their synopsis but can't really tell.
Any recommendations?

[aznsweetie143]

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Beowulf
Grendel - John Gardner
Macbeth - Shakespeare
Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
The Homecoming - Harold Pinter

and some other outside readings and an entire thick poetry book....

This is the joy of taking AP English lit

omg, I LOVE all these books. @_@

The only summer reading I have to do for English II G/T is Lord of the Flies. Easyyy.

[miarin]

Wow I didn't know high schools in America had reading lists. In my high school (and still now in college) we only know what novel we are doing a week or so before we borrow them from the library. But a reading list sounds like a good idea, so I might adopt it for the holidays

For the past year I had;

Chemistry; Conquering Chemistry by Roland Smith
Physics: Senior Physics by Moyle (some of the answers in the book are wrong)
English; The importance of being Ernest by Oscar Wilde and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Maths; Maths Quest Year 12
Chinese; worksheets lol

[Flyingfishkora]

Summer AP Lit:

Frankenstein
A Lesson Before Dying

...that's it

During the year:

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Oedipus
Hamlet
The Metamorphosis
Gulliver's Travels
Pride and Prejudice
The Stranger
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Everyone seems to have a lot more to read than me D:

[AsianBamboo]

the system --- for gov

for english:

pride and prejudice <3 darcy
eats, shoots, and leaves
freakonomics

Oh my gosh.
Your school.... can I go there?

Those are three brilliant books to be forced to read.

[with love.]

i have a month left and i haven't even started. > <
i have to read:

the adventures of huckleberry finn (and write a journal about it)
of mice and men
grapes of wrath (or wrath of grapes, idk)
the old man and the sea

:/

[strawberry.llamas]

i have a month left and i haven't even started. > <
i have to read:

the adventures of huckleberry finn (and write a journal about it)
of mice and men
grapes of wrath (or wrath of grapes, idk)
the old man and the sea

:/

of mice and men was such a sad book TT ^ TT
the movie was good as well!
it's a short book...me thinks

[sunnicherri]

Required summer reading for Senior year:
"Mythology" by Edith Hamilton
"1984" by George Orwell
A Choice between "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver, "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens, or ...another book whose title has escaped me as I did not consider reading it. XD
And
A autobiograpy/biograpy on an inspirational person of out choice.

Mythology is currently killing my brain. D: Not what I expected at all... v_v

Mythology was amazing! I read it frosh year. It had really good short stories. Avoid Great Expectations, it wasn't thatgreat.

[lxh]

Summer AP Lit:

Frankenstein
A Lesson Before Dying

...that's it

During the year:

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Oedipus
Hamlet
The Metamorphosis
Gulliver's Travels
Pride and Prejudice
The Stranger
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Everyone seems to have a lot more to read than me D:

Ooomg, you guys have to read The Stranger. I'm sorry, good luck with that >>.
But Metamorphosis is a great book, especially the beginning, one of Kafka's best lines, I'd say.

Here's my list :
For senior year:

Running in the Family by Michale Odanntje
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

IB students read weird books >>;

[Carmen.]

^ YES the first sentence of The Metamorphosis was just...so full of meaning.

"When Gregor Samsa woke up one moring from unsettling dreams, he found hiself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin."
(Really depends on your translation; mine's by Stanley Corngold).

Just one sentence...but so "pregnant with meaning" as my English teacher would say haha.

You're so lucky you only need to read two books for your senior year

[Epiphanydawning]

^ YES the first sentence of The Metamorphosis was just...so full of meaning.

"When Gregor Samsa woke up one moring from unsettling dreams, he found hiself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin."
(Really depends on your translation; mine's by Stanley Corngold).

Just one sentence...but so "pregnant with meaning" as my English teacher would say haha.

You're so lucky you only need to read two books for your senior year

I want to read the book now. x]

I'm going to be a sophomore and we have to read All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque for the honors english classes.
Have to write a response journal too. Thank popsicles that an essay or the like isn't required. ^^

All freshmen classes were required to read Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies but somehow my class didn't..we read The Giver instead which spawned awesome class discussions. But I'm planning to read those two books on my own.

[WannaBTutor]

^ YES the first sentence of The Metamorphosis was just...so full of meaning.

"When Gregor Samsa woke up one moring from unsettling dreams, he found hiself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin."
(Really depends on your translation; mine's by Stanley Corngold).

Just one sentence...but so "pregnant with meaning" as my English teacher would say haha.

You're so lucky you only need to read two books for your senior year

You do know that there are various versions of the first sentence in The Metamorphosis, right? Wikipedia compiled a nice discussion here, and I personally read the story via Project Gutenberg. But, then Project Gutenberg changes everything slightly to avoid lawsuits.

[talksound]

the summer reading-

Moby D ick
Invisible Man
some poetry

[tOasty]

Going to junior year:
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
My Antonia by Willa Cather

Have to read 2 of them but I don't know which ones are good ;/ I read their synopsis but can't really tell.
Any recommendations?

No one helped you, so I will. I remember I hated The Red Badge of Courage when I read it in fifth or sixth grade (I went to a hardcore elementary school). If I remember correctly, it was a difficult read, but that might have been because I was in fifth/sixth grade. Fahrenheit 451 and My Antonia are both good though. I read them both freshman year. Good luck with junior year!

[chobit145]

Going into Junior Year:
Tumbling - Diane McKinney-Whestone
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
Bone - Fae Mynenne Ng

I'm reading them in the order I listed them.
Tumbling seems good so far, but I'm going to dread reading The Things They Carried, it just doesn't seem interesting T_T
But saving best for last :]

[kwalkinz]

I have to read Fahrenheit 451. Its by far the most boring and confusing book I've ever read in my life.

[viasarah]

Sophomore year:
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Candide by Voltaire
Lord of Flies by (don't remember author)
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
Sophicles I: Antigone by (don't remember)
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (not w/ class but for project)
The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini (not w/ class but for project)
Dante's Inferno by Dante
The Jungle by (don't remember)
The Prince by Machiavelli
Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
All Quiet on the Western Front by (don't remember)


Summer:
Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan (AP Micro/Macro Econ)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (1 book for English since I didn't choose to take AP Lit.)
Thousand Splendid Suns by Khled Hosseini (just for funsies)
Harry Potter Series (funsies)