Which required reading that you read in school was your favorite ??
Which required reading that you read in school was your favorite ??
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Which required reading that you read in school was your favorite ??
I really enjoyed brave new world.. Have read it twice since.
Of Mice And Men
The Metamorphosis!
“Leaves of Grass” and “Their Eyes Were Watching God.”
In Dubious Battle and The Great Gatsby.
To Kill A Mockingbird
Catch 22
Ethan Frome
Tale of two Cities, To Kill A Mockingbird
I don’t think any of them, but I’m sure if I read them now I’d love them.
Watership Down
@Jodi I read that outside of school but it was amazing.
Tess of the Durbervilles
Wuthering Heights
To Kill A Mockingbird
Of Mice and Men
Lord of the flies.
AKA my 3 fave books ever
Nothing. I think I have opposition defiance disorder?. If im told to read it I hate it. Perhaps I should try read some of them again at my leisure.
To kill a mockingbird
Animal Farm
The Great Gatsby
Canterbury tales and Lord of the flies.
All I recall from grade school is a Houghton Mifflin book titled ‘Serendipity,’ and a story called ‘The Pushcart Wars.’ I can’t recall any enjoyable required read from high school or college.
Read in high school or college: The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Things Fall Apart, and The Jungle. I didn’t care for them then but have thought that I’d like to reread The Scarlet Letter. I have reread The Jungle.
The Great Gatsby
The hobbit
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Julius Caesar
Where the Red Fern Grows and anything by Poe.
Of Mice and Men, The Canterbury Tales
To Sir with Love
Can only remember two, Hamlet and Looking for Alibrandi.
Canterbury Tales
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. I re-read it a few years back and loved it just as much.
To kill a mocking bird
The Outsiders
Catcher in the Rye
The Bell Jar. It changed my life. Before that I didn’t know that there was anyone else like me.
1984 and The Great Gatsby
Animal Farm
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Vanity Fair by William Thackeray. Also loved the poetry of John Keats x
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.
The Once and Future King by TH White or Beowulf
Johnny Got His Gun. It was so sad but stayed with me forever.
None
The firm. By John Grisham
To Kill A Mockingbird really made an impact. And Animal Farm.
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand.
Wuthering Heights
animal farm and a midsummer nights dream
To kill a mockingbird
Scarlet letter
Of Mice and Men
The Color Purple, The Mayor of Casterbridge and The Scarlet Letter!?
I must be really old because very few of these books were required reading at my school!
Animal Farm
To kill a mockingbird
My Family And Oter Animals, My Mumm reembers me talking about all the Books I had to read for school with Fondness, My Teacher Miss Harrison made me love Books and Plays, My Familyand Other Animals and Animal Farm years later, we also read Toad of Toad Hall and years later read Wind In The Willows.
I managed to get around the required reading (I was reading Bradbury and Heinlein and books about the Holocaust and biographies of Marilyn Monroe at home, so I got my reading in 😉 ). I don’t know how I got around it without failing. Maybe the classes I took didn’t require them? I wish I *had* read some of them, because I still have not read Animal Farm or To Kill a Mockingbird or Catcher in the Rye.
Farenheit 451!! <3
You guys about to read The Firm? That’s awesome. All the ones I had to read were awful I don’t think I read a one of them because well I kind of figured that over the summer they just want to make sure you’re doing something and they don’t really even test you on it once you come back to school or it doesn’t even count so what’s the point.
Interesting that your “had to read” reading happened over the summer. All of my high school required reading (way back when) happened during the school year. I thought the choices were awful, too.
Oh I had to read stuff during the year 2 and I hated it
Paradise Lost? Beowulf? The Iliad? The Odyssey? Yuck!!!
Hiawatha
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Scarlet letter and the Canterbury tales
@Jennifer , me too! I was going to put exactly the same ones! What are the odds? ?
@Rachel that’s awesome!
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD/ROMEO AND JULIET/BRAVE NEW WORLD
To Kill A Mocking bird, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men
Love MICE and FLIES and the whole ANIMAL FARM
Brave New World and My Family and Other Animals.
Cold Sassy Tree was great!
Cold Sassy Tree was a school requirement? I enjoyed that book so much.
@Fran yes, 10th grade Literature class. That was my favorite class!
I’m amazed the school had you reading a book that was so much fun!
@Fran we had the best teacher! she had us read mostly good stuff! Of course there were the few that we had to drudge through.
@Fran that’s what I thought. We got mostly Dickens to read.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm
Romeo & Juliet
The Outsider’s and is still one of my favourite books.
Les Miserables, The Scarlet Letter, Ethan Frome, and Animal Farm off the top of my head. I hated them all because I have never liked being told what to read, lol.
“I hated them all because I have never liked being told what to read…”. Totally agree! Even now, when I can choose to be in a book club discussion, I won’t read the book unless I want to read it.
@Beth That’s why I haven’t joined a book club!
The stranger by Albert Camus
Oliver Twist