I really liked Catch-22. It's one of my favorite books. I also liked A Tale of Two Cities, but not until I got to the end. I liked everything by Ernest Hemmingway other than A Farwell to Arms. There have been a number of others, too.

I always got into the required reading. My teachers had really good taste. Some of my favourites, though were "To Kill a Mocking Bird." I thought this story was very symbolic and very meaningful. It, to me is one of the greatest "one hit wonders" books ever written. And the time period it was written was very appropriate, I think. Another favourite was "Rebecca". I found this story really interesting and I love British literature. Even though everything in that class, I absorbed like a sponge. My classmates would go to me instead of my teacher when they had questions, lol. I always read ahead and my teacher would get so mad at me and be all like.."don't say anything. >/". Let's see.....oh, I loved when we had to read "And then there were none" by Agatha Christi. That book was amazing. One of my favourite mystery books of all time.

6th grade - Prince Caspien by C.S. Lewis

7th grade - Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
8th grade - The Old Man & The Sea by Earnest Hemingway
9th grade - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
10th grade - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
11th grade - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
12th grade - Rebecca by Daphne Du Mauier, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Freshman Year [College] - Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell.

My junior year of high school, we had to read "Sarum" by Edward Rutherfurd--a huge historical fiction novel about Great Britain. Nobody in the class liked it but me. I was actually disappointed when we didn't discuss or get tested on the whole book, just the first few chapters, because I'd read the whole thing and loved it! I still have it on my bookshelf at home, and I've gone on to read several of Rutherfurd's other novels, including one about Russia and two about Ireland. I think most people would think I'm bonkers for liking these books so much, given how long and dense they are, but I love history, so they're just perfect for me!

Another book that I was required to read in school, that I still love, is "On Liberty," by John Stuart Mill. It's philosophy, not fiction, but I could reread it any time. I was assigned to read it twice back in college--in Nature of Politics my very first semester, and again in Western Political Traditions: Machiavelli to Mill in Spring of junior year.

I've liked plenty of other required reading books, but those two are the ones that stick out as books I've reread outside of having to for class.

The Hatchet; grade 5

Bridge to Terebithia, The Pig Man; grade 6

Animal farm; grade 7

Hunter in the dark; Grade 8

Freak The Mighty; Grade 9 I think

Crabbe, Z for Zachariah; Grade 10

A streetcar named desire; grade 12

Othello; at centre high

This happens a lot! Usually I think I'll hate books that I have to read for classes. But here goes:

In high school:
Lord of the Flies
The Chrysalids
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
The Tempest
Frankenstein

After high school:
What the Body Remembers
The Inheritance of Loss
Jane Eyre
Persepolis
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Paradise Lost

That's about all I can remember, but it's surprising how many books you actually wind up liking that someone else makes you read.

When I was in middle and highschool, I liked very few of ours. The Westing Game, though, turned out to be one of my favorites. I also liked The Cay and The Hatchet.

I wish I'd read Freak The Mighty in school! My school was overly strange about what we were and weren't allowed to read. -_- one of the bad things about an overly religious campus. They even disapproved of half of the books we were assigned.

The Count of Monte Cristo and Lord of the Flies = <33333

I adored getting these books even if I did get teased a bit when my friends were whining over reading them.

Ooh! I loved "Freak the Mighty"! I also liked "Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie", "The Outsiders", and "The Giver". ^^ All these books had powerful impacts and all had something I could relate to in them. And I also liked "Pictures of Hollis Woods". ^^

A lot of the books my English teacher found for us to read throughout high school were pretty much all the scifi unexplained type. It really annoyed me as that seemed more for a Science class or something. Then one year it was a disturbing book about how the natives were treated in the world. Some places worse than others. That one made me uncomfortable and almost ready for tears. I can't even really remember most of the titles of them either. Though The Chrysalids was one of them. That one was annoying then, but now it seems to be okay... Somehow...
And The Outsiders is a good one, too. Now.
I probably would have enjoyed Jane Eyre since it's based on the past as I was told, but that was never offered.
During High school I'd also prefer to read books of my own favourite genres during class instead. I didn't care what everyone thought. Just as long as I didn't have to read any of the stupid ones.

I always really enjoyed the reading we were assigned during school. I remember being one of the few people to actually enjoy reading Wise Blood my senior year in high school. All the dystopian literature I had to read was always fun, too.

You know a book I really loved reading?

Brave New World.
It was so out there but I guess I love it because it has so much science in it. It was amazing! The story was so...well thought out!

I had to read it last year

Lol, I loved most of the books we had to read. Especially Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth

A picture of Dorian Grey was also one of my favorites.

I HATED 1984 though.....

I think the title of the book was "Fallen Angels". Its about the vietnam war, and the toll it took on the soldiers. I just remember reading it in class, and trying to find it after since I really liked the book.

7th Grade, Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.
I cried.
I reread the book 5 times, and memorized the plot.

Never Let Me Go by Murakami is a very amazing and simple book, same goes for Woman in the Dunes, whose author I forget. Woman in the Dunes is kind of a crazy dystopian book like 1984 or Lord of the Flies in that it's all about "what is humanity?" but it all takes place inside a giant sand pit.


Slightly off topic but relevant, did anyone else besides me HATE Catcher in the Rye? I wanted Holden Caulfield to just freeze to death and stop complaining about how much life sucked. 300 something pages of angsty whining is not my kind of reading.

I liked most of the required reading.

10th grade - Monkey Bridge was on our list but I never got to read it as the school board said it was inappropriate but it's still on my lists of books to read if I could just find it. Lord of the flies and Night were two of my favorites that year. We read A Tale of Two Cities and it was good and all but it was really dry. I had to actually force myself to read that one.

11th grade- Scarlett Letter, A call to Arms, All quiet on the Western Front, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Great Gatsby and a few others. I liked almost all the novels we had to read that year; this isn't even half of them actually. I discovered after the fact that AP has a lot more novels to read than regular or honors. xD

12th grade - Actually...I didn't have much to read this year. The only thing I really remember was Ethan Frome and god did I hate that book. We focused mainly on poetry and analytical essays.

Oh lets see if I can remember any of the books had to read...

In no particular order:
At least 2 or 3 Icelandic stories. We worked quite long with that. One was "Njáls saga" I think.
And also had to read Hávamál.
Tristan & Isolde
Ondskan (the Evil) Jan Guillou
Lord of the Flies
Candide
Sofie's World
Of mice and Men
1984 George Orwell ( I had already read it before so accually didn't have to read much then)
Robinson Crusoe
The Canterbury Tales
The Count of Monte Cristo
Doktor Glas Hjalmar Söderberg
The daughters of Egalia Gerd Brantenberg

This is what I can remember. I really liked the last one of the list, it was diffrent. I liked Doktor Glas too, and Tristan & Isolde too. Ondskan was one of my favorite books when I was younger.
I disliked "of mice and men" and "Robinson Crusoe"

Originally Posted by redrabbit

Never Let Me Go by Murakami is a very amazing and simple book, same goes for Woman in the Dunes, whose author I forget. Woman in the Dunes is kind of a crazy dystopian book like 1984 or Lord of the Flies in that it's all about "what is humanity?" but it all takes place inside a giant sand pit.

I like Woman in the Dunes, I kinda have a thing for dystopic novels... That's why I have read it xD

Originally Posted by redrabbit

Slightly off topic but relevant, did anyone else besides me HATE Catcher in the Rye? I wanted Holden Caulfield to just freeze to death and stop complaining about how much life sucked. 300 something pages of angsty whining is not my kind of reading.

I HATED catcher in the rye!
I didn't have to read it though, I bought it and read it by own free will. Such a waste of money and time. But at least now I can say I have read it... >.<

I liked,
Macbeth
A Brave New World
Wuthering Heights
Romeo and Juliet
The Chrysalids
Julius Caesar
Beowulf
The Book of Negroes

The thing about these books is that they were all chosen by the same teacher in two different years..The wonders of having been in advanced English!

Wuthering Heights was surprisingly good! At first, I thought I'd die of boredom reading it but it got more interesting as I went on!

I love reading but it's sad that the books I read in my school is very depressing. They always kill off the main characters. But I do like My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan and the Odyssey by Homer. Even though I knew someone is going to die when I first pick up My Brother Sam is Dead, the book surprised me and it might be the only book I like that have character deaths.

Let's see...I liked:

- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Fahrenheit 451
- Hamlet .:dodges rotten fruit:.
- The Great Gatsby
- Their Eyes Were Watching God

Mm...I feel like there were more, but I can't think of them right now. xD
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I'm home schooled, so I don't get any required reading now... but I had to read The Westing Game in 5th grade and I loved it. Even bought a copy from the teacher xD

Ah, so many to choose from...

The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
The Tripod Trilogy John Christopher
The Secret of NIMH Robert C. O'Brien
The Outsiders S.E. Hilton
The Giver Lois Lowry
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes
Night Eli Wiesel
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Monster Walter Dean Meyers
The Adventures of Ulysses (Based on Homer's the Odyssey)
Oedipus Rex Sophocles
MacbethWilliam Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hamlet William Shakespeare

I think that's all of them that I liked/ remembered reading... :rofl:

I can't really remember most of the school assigned books because... I kinda read them all anyway. XD

But I remember that in 11th grade we had to read the entirety of Edgar Allan Poe and I LOVED IT. It was my favorite reading project in school.

There was another book I liked about a Chinese woman who was brought into America as a whore during the gold rush, but I can't remember the title.