What books did you read at school?

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mice and men and blood brothers

Far too many to list!

Did you only read two?

I'm old and did English Lit O Level. I remember doing Chaucer's Prologue, Twelfth Night and An Inspector Calls. I don't remember doing any novels or stories which is a bit odd.
A Level novels were The Rainbow, Wuthering Heights and Slaughterhouse Five. Loads of poetry.

Smith by Leon Garfield (brilliant book, recently re-read)

War Horse by Michael Morpurgo (hated it)

Fireweed by Jill Paton Walsh (fantastic)

Lord of the Flies (hated)

There were more and a lot of Shakespeare, war poetry etc

Some really turgid Victorian novels like Bleak House (Dickens) and The Return of the Native (Hardy).

For O'Level English Lit: Pride &Prejudice, Great Expectations and A Pattern of Islands. Others before that but I can't remember since.

In my time I read Mary Stewart, Jean Plaidy, Catherine Cookson, Neville Shute, Agatha Christie, and tried hard with the Brontes.

We didn't have the options available for teenagers now.

Great Expectations and Return of the Native. Also, Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf, Letters to Alice and Regeneration.

Loads. Specific set text novels were Far From the Madding Crowd for GCSE and Beloved for A level.

My darling, my hamburger.

O level, Macbeth and Northanger Abbey may have forgotten something
A level at college The Wife of Bath and the Knights Tale, Two Cheers for Democracy, Brave New World, Portrait of a Lady
Retook at night school, Anthony and Cleopatra, Return of the Native, Portrait of the Artist as a Young man think I've forgotten something

Roll of thunder hear my cry.... still have a copy now at 56

O Level - Great Expectations and Romeo & Juliet. Books - so many impossible to list and at least one a week and worked my way through the authors in my local library. Favourites, in my teens, were auto / biographies of cinema greats, MM Kaye, Ira Levin, R F Delderfield, Victoria Holt / Jean Plaidy. Still read most days.

I remember Carrie’s War vividly. There was also one about the death of grass - it may well have been called The Death of Grass - and all a bit post-apocalyptic. Withering Heights. Plus the Shakespeare (Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Twelfth Night). Don’t actually remember much else.

O level Henry IV part 1, Cry, the Beloved Country and poetry of Thomas Hardy, before that Romeo and Juliet, Kes, World WarI poetry Lord of the Flies1984, the importance of being Ernest.

The Millstone by Margaret Drabble. Lots of others, but this is the one I remember the most.

Lord of the flies , the long the short and the tall and Romeo and Juliet for gcse, war poetry - dulce et decorum est
Measure for measure, The merchants tale, Emma and othello for A level.
Also Thomas hardy’s awful poetry about his wife dying who he’d ignored for years and his dead cat.

Daz 4 Zoe
The Crucible
Lord of the flies
Great Expectations
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
Others as well. The first in the list really stuck me hard in year 9.

I don't remember all of them.
In lower secondary (Yr7-9 in new money) I remember us reading The Eighteenth Emergency By Betsy Byers and The Ghost of Thomas Kemp by Penelope Lively (I think?).
For years I thought we did Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kastner. My sister did it in 1st Year (Yr7) and for some reason I was convinced my year group read it too. I read it a few years ago - turns out I hadn't read it before 😂
There was one book about some children witnessed a crime and we watched a film adaptation which was from the 70s and quite possibly one of Children's Film Foundation films. We all just laughed at the 70s fashions.
The only one I remember in depth for GCSE was The Outsiders by SE Hinton. We watched the film and I became slightly obsessed with both the book and the film - buying my own copies of both.
I don't really remember us studying many other books at GCSE in depth but do remember watching several film versions (like the animated Animal Farm and the old black and white Midwich Cuckoo's). Our GCSE English Lit was 100% coursework and no exams so maybe my school cut corners.
I chose to do A-level English Lit because "I like books". Unfortunately I was still all about Judy Blume and Sweet Valley Twins at 16 so simply didn't understand much of the books we studied.
We did the Handmaids Tale - which I hated. But I hated it because I didn't understand it.
We also read A Room With a View which I think I actually did like.
We watched both film versions of Handmaids Tale and Room With A View.
My school really did like showing us film versions 😂😂

Topsy and Tim 😀

Stig of the dump.

@VerbenaGirl Carrie's war was a TV programme too we used to watch at school I think? I had a feeling we did this at primary school.

GCSE we did Macbeth and not sure what else. An inspector calls was definitely at secondary school and animal farm but I think pre GCSE. Not sure.

A level was Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd...Jane Eyre, Auden poetry. Shakespeare was Henry IV part one and King Lear. We saw both at the theatre which was cool.

There was some TS Elliot somewhere but can't remember when . It was murder at the cathedral I think.

I came here to say Biff and Chip but realised very quickly you meant secondary school.

I remember reading Macbeth but not much else . We did a lot of poetry.

Primary school was Carries War and
Good night Mister Tom ( loved it and the film is excellent too)

I enjoyed English, it was my favourite subject. I wish I carried it on in further education. Too late now.

Of Mice and Men (loved it)
Lord of the Flies (disturbing)
The Hobbit (meh)

Memory been jogged thanks to @Peculiar23 , the war poets yes Dolce et Decorum est.

English was my favorite subject but I just couldn't pass the A level

@NooNakedJacuzziness I would have loved to have done The Hobbit Portrait of a Lady and Portrait of an Artist were such hard work. I don't think I even read Portrait of a Lady, rubbish lecturer - we had 4 different ones at college

In year 7 we did a book by Nicholas Fisk about a woman who came to stay with a family who said she was a great aunt but it turns out she was a robot.
Then in year 8/9 we did the tv kid and gregory's girl. A midsummer night's dream.
For gcse we did lord of the flies, an inspector calls, macbeth and some short stories from the anthology book that we could write notes in and take into the exams. We also did poems by Seamus Heaney about farms that were a bit gruesome.

Secondary school started in 1984:
Romeo and Juliet
Merchant of Venice
Of mice and men
The Diddakoi

also a book about a boy growing up with an inferiority complex - bugging me that I can’t remember the name of the book