So I got my loooooong reading list for school this year yesterday - want to see?

[Ava]

The Iliadby Homer
Odes by Horace
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Infernoby Dante
Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory
The Playsby William Shakespeare
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
On the Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin
History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Tristam Shandy by Laurence Stern
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry James
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Day's Work by Rudyard Kipling
Chance by Joseph Conrad
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence
The History of Mr Polly by H G Wells
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
Tartuffe by Moliere
Love for Love by William Congreve
The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Checkhov
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
The Power and The Glory by Grahame Greene
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
Afternoon Men by Anthony Powell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Catcher in The Rye by J D Salinger
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
A House for Mr Biswas by V S Naipaul
Hemlock and After by Angus Wilson
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
The Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith
Right Ho, Jeeves by P G Wodehouse
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Madame Bovary by Gustaye Flaubert
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Le Grande Maeulne by Alain-Fournier
The Plague by Albert Camus
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Dead Souls by
Confessions of the Confidence Trickster Felix Krull by Thomas Mann
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The New Oxford Book of English Verse editor Helen Gardner
Poems by John Keats
Lyrical Balladsby Wordsworth & Coleridge
Don Juan by George Byron
Idylls of the King by Tennyson
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald
Collected Poems by T S Elliot
Collected Poems by W Auden
High Windows by Philip Larkin
Les Fleurs du Mal by Baudelaire
Civil Disobedience, Thoreau
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Charles Darwin
On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, James Clerk Maxwell
Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche
The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud
Pragmatism, William James
Relativity, Albert Einstein
The Mind and Society, Vilfredo Pareto
Psychological Types, Carl Gustav Jung
I and Thou, Martin Buber
The Trial, Franz Kafka
The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Karl Popper
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, John Maynard Keynes
Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre
The Road to Serfdom, Friedrich von Hayek
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener
The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung , Mao Zedong
Non-Violent Resistance: Satyagraha, Mohandas K. Gandhi
Demian, Hermann Hesse
Paradise Lost, John Milton
Goethe's Faust, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Antigone, Sophocles
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H.Lawrence
Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
A Room With a View by E. M. Forster
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Don Juan by Lord George Gordon Byron
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Middlemarch by George Eliot
She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard
The Fight by Norman Mailer
Nelson Mandela: No Easy Walk To Freedom by Barry Denenberg
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Notre-Dame of Paris by Victor Hugo
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by
Robert Louis Stevenson
Bram Stoker's Dracula by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Baby doll by Tennessee Williams
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Emma by Jane Austen



yeah... it's loooong. luckily i've already read quite a few of them.

[DS1]

1. Civil Disobedience, Thoreau

:thumbsup:

[Ava]

7. i'm looking forward to that one

[Blue-Jay]

2. It's sort of long....I guess.

[Ava]

4. for highschool! yes .. it's VERY long

all of my friends have a list that is 10 maybe 15 books at the most in public school.

[JTG of the PRB]

3. Hey! Quit padding that list!

I saw "The Canterbury Tales" on there TWICE!

:P

[Ava]

8. yeah i've noticed a few typos

that's my teech's fault, not mine though :P

[JVS]

5. If you read all of them within one school year, there is no fucking way that your reading is...

close and attentive enough. Pick 2 for each week, spend real time reading them, get cliff notes for the rest.

[Ava]

6. actually i read about a book a day if the book is 400 or less pages

and sometimes more than that. i enjoy reading so even after reading some during my school work time of the day i read in my chill out time too.

[JVS]

11. Blowing through books is not the same as reading them. You can run Faust in front of your eyes in..

several hours, but doing so is not engaging with the text. Reading is a mental not a physical procedure, and it is very unlikely that rushing is going to help you gain insight into the material. Reading all the books in the world is not as useful as reading a handful and truly understanding them.

[Ava]

14. to assume that i just "blow through books" is not good

i don't do that. is it impossible to think that someone may be able to read a book quickly and understand it at the same time. i don't claim that i'll be able to go through all of these books quickly and understand them, but i've done it in the past and absolutely loved the books i read (the stranger, fahrenheit 451, 1984, animal far, of mice and men, and others among them). you don't have to "blow through books" to read them in a day... you just take the time to sit down and red for a few hours, work on something else, then finish up by reading a few more hours in the afternoon.

[JVS]

17. Go visit a university and ask a professor whether you should read 200 or 300 books each year.

I did the same thing you are doing when I was your age, in retrospect I got very little out of most of the books. They need to be studied, examined, and scrutinized.

[ghostsofgiants]

35. I was about to say the same thing.

There is no way you can read books that quickly and take anything away from them.

[AllegroRondo]

9. ALL of Shakespeare's plays?

Thats enough for an entire school year in itself.

[Ava]

10. i'm supposed to try to read all of these

however if i don't finish all of them i don't think it'll be the end of the world. ;)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. No Book Has Had A Greater Impact On My Thinking

On Liberty, John Stuart Mill

[TZ]

13. Some really good stuff on the list

Pleased to see that Charles Darwin is on the list. I never read that till college and even then it wasn't *mandatory*.

[Richard Steele]

15. Wow, your teacher's a BITCH!

:rofl: Just kidding- I just thought it was funny as heck
the last time someone told you that, and I couldn't resist
repeating it.

:hide:

[Ava]

16. oh no you diiii-iiint!

she is not :P

i'm going to tell her.... oooooooooo... you are going to be in troooouuuuuble!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. Whoa, where do you go to high school?

The college students I used to teach always whined indignantly when I required them to read at least one book about Japan every semester.

[Ava]

25. i homeschool

this year my primary focus is literature because it is my senior year and in the past few years i've focused on trig/algebra, a lot of history(which i love), biology, physics, and anatomy. this year i'm focusing on literature especially, and also calculus, trig, and spanish(and i'm hoping to do some italian too). all of the classes i'm taking will help me have a better chance of getting into a good college and get a scholarship.

now back to reading. i've got to finish up today's schoolwork and finish the book i already started then make a trip up to the library. ;)

[RetroLounge]

19. Quite a list!

Should be a fun year of reading.

:hi:

RL

p.s. because I can't resist a plug, if you are buying them used, I have a whole bunch of these in the store.

[yellowdogintexas]

20. yeah, support RetroLounge! But see inside, too.

some of these I read for fun, on my own. But as an English Major, I had a whole semester of Chaucer, of Shakespeare, of American Drama.

This list looks like you are in college taking the following:

American Novel
English Novel
Continental Novel
Shakespeare
American Drama
Continental Drama
Chaucer
Victorian Lit
Existentialist Literature
and the generalist required for graduation courses, choose one if you want to graduate from this institution:
Survey of American Literature
Survery of English Literature

ALL AT THE SAME DAMN TIME!!!

What the Hell High School do you go to anyway? And what the hell else do you have to take this year?
You should be able to opt out of a bunch of college stuff with this under your belt, I hope this is an ultra AP college credit course you are taking

[Ava]

27. well i homeschool and i will be getting credit for all of this

as i posted above this year my primary focus is literature because it is my senior year and in the past few years i've focused on trig/algebra, a lot of history(which i love), biology, physics, and anatomy. this year i'm focusing on literature especially, and also calculus, trig, and spanish(and i'm hoping to do some italian too). all of the classes i'm taking will help me have a better chance of getting into a good college and get a scholarship(my mom has 5 kids to send to college! lol). ;)

[Haole Girl]

21. You'll be so glad you read all of those when you get to college..

I had such a disadvantage, especially in comparative literature, without that background. Truly... I could NOT catch up. It was physically impossible. There was no way to read the new book AND the one they were comparing (which everyone else had read in their prep schools or private schools). But, I was told my writing was "below average, or average at best," anyway.

What I am trying to say is this: be grateful someone cares enough to give you the tools you'll need!

:hi:

[zanne]

22. Good luck with the Karamazov Brothers...

You'll probably have to read each page twice because your mind will wander to anything even remotely more interesting.

[RebelOne]

23. I agree. Even the movie was boring.

[GirlinContempt]

24. I thought you had to read A Farewell To Arms last year.

[Ava]

26. as i said in my op, i've already read quite a bit that is on the list

:hi:

[GirlinContempt]

28. Oh, ok. Just confused

about why a teacher would assign it 2 years in a row.

[HughBeaumont]

29. Good thing "Gravity's Rainbow" isn't on there.

That'd take you at least 3 months alone.

Good thing you're homeschooled. You have more time to get through that than your average kid in a 7-hour/day classroom would.

[LibDemAlways]

30. I assume you have math, science, history,

and electives as well. Sounds like you have your work cut out for you. Good luck this school year. On edit, I just read your response that you homeschool. My daughter has a friend who is a competition-level ice skater who is schooled at home and her schedule is nothing like yours. Have to give you credit. You are getting an excellent education.

PS My daughter attends a "Blue Ribbon" public school in Southern Cal and her freshmen reading list consists of The Outsiders, Of Mice and Men, a dumbed down version of Romeo and Juliet, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Fahrenheit 451. Doesn't sound like much, but it will be quite a shock for her. All she had to read last year in 8th grade was Tom Sawyewr!

[Connonym]

31. That's a great start for September, what's the October list look like?

:-P

[Beausoir]

32. Good god. That's just crazy.

[Shell Beau]

33. That is some serious reading there. I read about a book or two a week.

But damn!!

[begin_within]

34. And nothing by Kerouac?

As usual, Kerouac gets the shaft by the literary establishment (while still selling 100,000 copies each year).