>>25241768
Not that weird i am from argentina, there is no nation wide mandatory reading that i know of, but lots of people (i) read the following in school
Facundo, its about a gay that kinda gets turned on by gaucho culture idk i never reread that one
Man in quest for meaning
Cronica de una muerte anunciada, good book but latam does something where a below average book its godify just cause is from latam
Most argentians read one or a couple of these in school

>>25241768
OP here, I was forced to read mostly Brazilian literature, almost nothing "classic". But, on our senior year it was tradition that we'd make a play on a classic story. On my year, we did the Divine Comedy. I was the only motherfucker who read past Hell, but the teacher already had something planned so he did the script mostly by himself. So me and my friends were in the backing band for the show (I basically did the bass solo from "My Friend of Mysery" on loop).

>>25241777
That's pretty funny, they never made you read Borges?
It's funny how I have similar memories with my own readings, we had to read O Cortiço by Aluísio Azevedo, terrible book (and I really love brazilian literature), and the only thing I remember is that there was a lesbian scene lol

>>25241786
No borges but maybe on others school since here its kinda a choice from the proffesor they can make you read anything, there you read mostly br books or portuguese books?

Ngl I’m really jealous your education even has the concept of mandatory reading. I’m a third worldie and my literature education mostly consists of “analyzing” (memorizing really) laughably short extracts from “indigenous” writers whose works no one bothers to read much nowadays.

>>25241786
>That's pretty funny, they never made you read Borges?
Not surprising. Borges ideas and themes were very distant (politically, philosophically, thematically etc) from the literary establishment of his time and have only grown to be more distant. People who make school programs aren't even prepared enough to understand his best works and if they were they would disagree with it.

>>25241768
Ender's Game is on the marine corp commandant's reading list (https://www.marines.mil/News/Messages/Messages-Display/Article/4351724/update-to-the-commandants-professional-reading-list-for-fiscal-year-26/), great book! Don't know if it was mandatory reading in any high schools

>>25242078
it's declined in the US, they just make kids read sections of books now and not whole books