[linda_22003]

I did have Jules Verne in school, and a romp through most of the Sherlock Holmes stories, in 7th grade English. Am I alone in this?

[Little Ray]

So did I, but I checked them out of the Library. They weren't in textbooks.

[LexBaird]

Am I alone in this?

Starting around 7th grade level onward, the "classic" authors I can recall from public school:

Mark Twain
Shakespeare
Melville
Dumas
Dickens
Hardy
Hawthorne
Moliere
Conan Doyle
Thurber
Hemingway
Camus
Kafka
Sinclair
Orwell
Steinbeck
Coleridge
Poe
London
Cooper
Machiavelli

Chaucer

"Bullfinches Mythology"
Mallory
Wilde
Verne
Stevenson
Kipling
Crane
Harte
Hugo

I am sure there were others that slip my mind, plus a host of "not quite classical" that I read for school and for pleasure.

[AnAmericanMother]

I adored Sherlock Holmes, had read all the stories by junior high. Liked them so much I joined "The Goose Club of the Alpha Inn" at college. What fun!

I still re-read the stories occasionally, but if you haven't run across them and you like Sherlock Holmes, you really need to read Conan Doyle's historical novels. The very best are The White Company and Sir Nigel, although I also like Rodney Stone and the Brigadier Gerard stories.