What is your favorite book you remember reading when you were in high school?
What is your favorite book you remember reading when you were in high school?
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What is your favorite book you remember reading when you were in high school?
Great Gatsby
Required book – Of Mice and Men
Leisure – My Sister’s Keeper
I love Of Mice and Men!!!!
When we first met… read it like 50times… prob 100 pages lol
Sweet Dreams and Sweet Valley High
Magician’s Apprentice and Magician Master. Still my favorite books!
The Bell Jar
I read this book and found out way later it was based on a true story…. blew my mind.
Room with a View
Required book: Rebecca
Fun book: anything by Ellen Hopkins
Hatchet. The diary of Anne Frank. Number the stars.
The outsiders
I didn’t like reading in high school ? I remember reading Romeo and Juliet in class and Shane ??♀️
The Great Gatsby
Required: Of Mice and Men
Leisure: the Twilight books
The wind blows backwards and go ask alice
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. I don’t know why that stuck with me, especially since I hate cockroaches, lol. I also read Love Story on my own, and balled my eyes out. Also Go Ask Alice was another one that I really likes
The Old Man and the Sea
The Giver
To Kill a Mockingbird
Mr and Mrs Bojo Jones and Wuthering Heights
Siddhartha
Animal Farm
Hands down To Kill a Mockingbird
The Scarlett pimpernel
Same
Slipt by Alan Dean Foster
Island Of The Blue Dolphins
To Kill a Mockingbird
Of Mice and Men.
1984
To kill a mocking bird or wuthering heights
The great Gatsby
When legions die! It was written by Hal Borland. I love in the northwest corner of Connecticut where Mr Borland also lived. Well one night, while I was reading this book, I went off to my babysitting job, across the street from my house. When I rang the bell and walked in. There was a gentle man waiting there too. I had the book with me, and he saw the book I was reading and he asked if I was enjoying the book. I said ” Oh yes, very much ” he replied ” I’m very happy to hear that ” then he put out his hand to shake and said “I’m Hal Borland” One of the best memories ever. He signed my book and promised to let me know when he was writing, and he would let me read what he writing at the time.
Wow! Very cool!!!
That’s so awesome! I grew up in Torrington, Connecticut.
@Janet I love in Torrington Connecticut. I grew up in Canaan. Hal Borland lived in Salisbury, Frank McCourt lives in Norfolk where he did a reading from Angela Ashes. Auto correct changed the name of the book it should be When the Legends Die
@Melanie oh wow! When you said northwestern Connecticut I was thinking you might live there. I lived at 418 N Elm St across the street from Forbes school where I attended from 1958 – 1965. We moved to California in 1965 when I was 12 and I’ve been in Southern California since. I loved growing up in Torrington. The house we lived in was owned by Henry & Beanie Kaczmarck.
@Janet I know right where you are talking about! N. Elm Street grown up! We have a Wal-Mart and a Target too. But the park is beautiful and the Warner theater is still popular. I enjoyed reading your post. Small world.
@Melanie the last time I was there was in July 1993, I went and saw Henry & Beanie, they were so surprised because I was 40 and the last time they saw me I was 12.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
My all time favorite book! Ever!
@Melanie one of my favs too
To kill a mockingbird when I was in 8th grade. I think it was the only book I read in school and actually liked.
Angela’s Ashes
Handmaid’s tale
Native Son, A Tale of Two Cities
So long ago, very hard to recall. I don’t think I read much for fun, only things for school. I rather enjoyed Great Expectations
Silas Marner
farenheit 451!
Flowers for Algernon?
yes! 8th grade
@Tasha
Soohmore English
l had forgotten that book. It is a good book, I think I may read it again?
Romeo and Juliet
yes! 9th grade
Robinson Crusoe and To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird, Fu Manchu series by Sax Rohmer.
The Scarlet Letter
There are a lot, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Crucible, Inherit the Wind, Fahrenheit 451, The Wager (which is actually called The Bet), Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Street Car Named Desire, Animal Farm, the list goes on and on.
The Bet/Wager in school??? Cool school curriculum
Actually my English teacher only taught banned books, sure she told the school board, but they didn’t read or follow what books were banned. She did tell us in class, but the ones who loved to read like me and my friends, never told our parents, the other kids who were in our class didn’t either because they didn’t understand that it was against the rules to teach corrupt books that might change the way kids thought.
The Illustrated Man. Still have my copy — 32 years later!
I really liked animal farm
Harry potter
To kill a Mockingbird
Gone With The Wind
The Pigman….and Go Ask Alice.
Great expectations
Flowers for Algernon