We were in a weird academic stream at my high school - in 9th grade I remember reading Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut and The Physicists (a play). grade 10 I skipped. Grade 11 was third world literature and included A House for Mr. Biswas, One Hundred Years of Solitude and some short stories by Borges. In Grade 12/OAC It was religious themed literature and satire - Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley, God's Grace by Bernard Malamud and A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. The good news is that it was a joy and a novelty to read some "classics" outside of school
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