American High School Canon

Shakespeare (Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet)
1984
Brave New World
Night
Grapes of Wrath (alternatively Of Mice and Men)
The Scarlet Letter
Antigone
The Crucible
Fahrenheit 451
The Odyssey
The Awakening
Their Eyes Were Watching God
That's all I can remember rn, I'll probably post more if they come to me.

>>8455172
Besides the stuff that was already mentioned here's a brief list of things I remember being assigned in high school

The Assistant
Go ask Alice
The Old Man and The Sea
Jane Eyre
The Things They Carried
Pride and Prejudice
Things Fall Apart
Ethan Frome
Angela's Ashes
Gulliver's Travels

There's more that I don't remember as well as those. Also I think the kids in this one AP history class had to read Candide.

Clockwork Orange
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Great Expectations
The Bluest Eye
Death of a Salesman

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

I dropped out after my 2nd year
Read
>Julius Ceasar
Was good, got to play Caesar and get stabbed with popsicle sticks by class. I used to have friends.
>Romeo and Juliet
Was good, class watched the movie and teacher stood in front of screen to cover boob shot.
>Night
Was okay, had to read aloud, did it in a funny accent and it ended up being a sad part, but I powered through with the accent.
>Anthem
Was shit, Rand is shit.
>Of Mice and Men
Was good, almost cried.
>The Odyssey (class skipped over some parts)
Was good, watched parts of a movie adaptation.

Was supposed to read
>Things Fall Apart
Didn't touch.
>Their Eyes Were Watching God
Read sparknotes or something online, passed the test.

Really glad I never read Catcher in school because I probably wouldn't have liked it then, in that environment.There were probably others that I'm forgetting.

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>>8455172
I got my IB diploma at a a school in the US, so yrmv.
I read:
Samuel Beckett's Trilogy
Ulysses
The Republic
The Making of Americans
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Absalom, Absalom!
The Sound and the Fury
The Waves
Paradise Lost
The Recognitions
The Tale of Genji (first book I ever read in high school)
Nausea
The Count of Monte Cristo (alongside Catch-22, my least favorite book)
Walden

And then we read these plays:
Peer Gynt
Hamlet
Othello
Blood Wedding
Our Town
A Streetcar Named Desire
Death of a Salesman (personal favorite alongside Peer Gynt)
A Doll's House
King Lear
The Tempest

There are some I'm forgetting for sure, but this is the gist of it.

To Kill a Mockingbird
My name is Asher Lev
Things fall Apart
Walden
Ulysses
Bless me, Ultima
A bunch more I can't remember.

>>8455223
California?

>>8455172
Will "How To Bomb The US Gov't" become part of the American high school canon?