Favorite Book Read in School

[No Control]

I think we had this thread one day but I'll ask it anyway because it belongs in this catagory... What was your favorite book that you have read in school so far? (this includes College)

[Tanooki Suit]

1984, but that was my favorite book before we read it my Senior year. So I'd probably have to say Frankenstein, or a Modern Prometheus.

[selftitled85]

either the stranger by camus, brave new world by huxley, or devil on the cross by ngugi

[DeadOnSept.25th]

it would probably have to be a toss-up between "the giver" and "night". I only have two, because im not that big of a fan of reading, but i can say that i do read more now than i ever did in my life, so i guess thats a good thing.

[Dan08]

probably catcher in the rye

[Bishop]

Fehreinheit 451. It was the only book that I actually finished reading all throughout high school.

Also, The Outsiders is an amazing book.

[venus/bacchus]

"the giver"The Outsiders
yes, and yes

But my absolute favorite was probably either Catch 22, A Tale of Two Cities, or Three Theban Plays

[Tanooki Suit]

Fahrenheit 451
Amazing book. I love dystopic novels.

[_astheruinfalls]

The Giver and Of Mice And Men.

[im_random]

To Kill A Mockingbird
A Farewell To Arms
Macbeth..not really a book but eh

[venus/bacchus]

To Kill A Mockingbird
Maybe my favorite book. Too bad I didn't read it in school, or else it would have totally made the thread for me.

[Mercy Medical]

Haha! I don't have to read any books at my college. WOO! :)

[_astheruinfalls]

I like TKAMB, but the way we had to read it and the teacher just turned me off.

I'll have to re-read it.

[venus/bacchus]

I like TKAMB, but the way we had to read it and the teacher just turned me off.

I'll have to re-read it.
books are always better when you have to read them by yourself...my teacher almost killed A Tale of Two Cities for me.

[im_random]

Maybe my favorite book. Too bad I didn't read it in school, or else it would have totally made the thread for me.

Yeah, I've read it so many times yet I never get tired of it. So quality

[_astheruinfalls]

books are always better when you have to read them by yourself...my teacher almost killed A Tale of Two Cities for me.
Very true. I want to read it on my own pace. And I want to enjoy it.

I hate forced reading.

[venus/bacchus]

Yeah, I've read it so many times yet I never get tired of it. So quality
I know this isn't related, but I figured I'd tell you because you'll have a pity party with me.

I had tickets for Ben Folds on Saturday, but he came down with an upper respiratory tract infection, so he had to cancel. That son of a bitch.

[im_random]

I know this isn't related, but I figured I'd tell you because you'll have a pity party with me.

I had tickets for Ben Folds on Saturday, but he came down with an upper respiratory tract infection, so he had to cancel. That son of a bitch.

NO WAYYYY! That so sucks dude. I totally will have a pity party with you :(

[_astheruinfalls]

Hahaha.

I love how you said, "That son of a bitch." Since he got an infection, it just makes it funny.

Haha.

[Tanooki Suit]

Ben Folds is boring.

[im_random]

Oh damnit I just realized I am no longer rockin the Ben Folds avatar. Oh well.

I hate being forced to read books too by the way.

[Louise Heng]

Animal Farm
Fahrenheit 451
The Giver

I hated TKAMB with a fiery passion. The movie version was sooo bad, the girl who played Scout was so annoying >O

[im_random]

Ben Folds is boring.

A lot of people say that..I don't think so but whatever floats your boat. How many of his songs have you heard?

[venus/bacchus]

NO WAYYYY! That so sucks dude. I totally will have a pity party with you :(
yeah it does suck. Only $5 tickets too (college is beautiful). Oh well, what can you do?

[im_random]

yeah it does suck. Only $5 tickets too (college is beautiful). Oh well, what can you do?

woahhh 5 bucks? That's awesome..I can't wait for college.

[No Control]

Haha! I don't have to read any books at my college. WOO! :)



?!?!!!! Really?!?! I am quite jealous.....though at the same time not. Ive been asigned pretty sweet books, its just a pain when you have like 5 to read at one time.

Mine so far is A Farewell To Arms, Russia's War-Richard Overy (I Highly suggest this if you are into World War II history) as well as A Democarcy At War (also for people who are into World War II history on the American Side)

Both those authors writing are so smooth you really do not get bored of them, at least I dont. haha

[venus/bacchus]

ender's game
You got to read that in school? Why was my school so lame?

[Tanooki Suit]

ender's game
That's definitely one of my favorite books of all time.

[Chemical Love]

romeo and julliet
of mice and men
lord of the flies
fahrenheit 451

thats about it. there are some other alright books that i've read but these are the ones that stand out to me.

[aminorthreat55]

ender's game


YES!!!
High School: Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, To Kill A Mockingbird, Ender's Game, I forget the others.

College: Politicking, Culture of Fear
Neither of those I actually had to read, I just saw em in the bookstore and they looked good, so I read them and they kicked ass.

Reading generally sucks for school, just because you associate work with it, but you can really find good books at a bookstore or library that you will like reading, I recommend doing that.

[venus/bacchus]

Since it appears everyone on here loves Ender's Game, I thought you'd be excited to know (if you didn't already) that the final book in the series is coming out March 2005 and it's called Shadow of the Giant.

I can't wait. And I'm even more excited for the Ender's Game movie (script by the guys who wrote X-Men and X-Men 2 and directed by Wolfgang Peterson who did Troy). I just hope they don't ruin it.

[BrandNew20]

Favorite Book: Of Mice and Men

Worst Book: Hard Times, so boring and meaningless

[Hilikus]

ive read alot. but i would have to say Lord Of The Flys that book totally owns.

[Tanooki Suit]

yeah, i heard about the movie a lot a while ago, and then...nothing. i hope they do a good job with it too bc thatd be sweet.

i think one of my favorites in the series is actually one of the parallels, Ender's Shadow. any of you guys read that? it's for the most part the same as ender's game, but follows it all from Bean's point of view. Bean is a thug, straight up.
Yes, I've read them all, they're very good also. I don't know which out of the entire Ender's universe is my favorite, actually. I really liked some of the sciency stuff in the last two books of the Ender's series with the changing of the genome, and the instantaneous travel, but I don't know. Ender's Game is probably my favorite.

[nightjarWI]

Really unoriginal, but Catcher in the Rye was among my favorite books read in school.

[takingback98]

Lullaby, Almost Lost, Outsiders, Smack, Basketball Diaries

[takingback98]

whoops i raed thoose all on my won except outsiders not in school, sorry i missread the title so i guess outsiders

[The Dove Song]

Catcher in the Rye, TKAMB, All Shakespeare plays.

I'm reading 'Night' right now. And we're just starting Hamlet.

I hated F451 and I hated red badge of courage.

[-whisp-]

catcher in the rye. awesome book.

[thepunkpig]

i would have to say lord of the flies, to kill a mockingbired and my favorite book ever, farhenheit 451

[Chemical Love]

of mice and men
fahrenheit 451
lord of the flies
romeo and juliette
to kill a mocking bird

[LoserlyFirefly]

Ender's Game was definitely my favorite from freshman year. I tried reading Speaker For The Dead but i got kind of bored of it. I think i'll just skip on to Ender's Shadow.

[Bishop]

Am I the only person that hates To Kill A Mockingbird?

[JoshCool7717]

The Odyssey.
I like Greek Mythology.

[The Bled 13]

1984, that's what really started me into politics, and gave me a big interest in how our government works and everything.

[Tanooki Suit]

1984, that's what really started me into politics, and gave me a big interest in how our government works and everything.
My favorite book of all time.

[Louise Heng]

Am I the only person that hates To Kill A Mockingbird?
I hate it too.

[Coronary Parasite]

Am I the only person that hates To Kill A Mockingbird?
definately not

but i also hated catcher in the rye so whatever...

[atticus_4132]

we read "faust" from goethe in german class....i really liked it...

[atticus_4132]

Atticus 4132, do you by chance know where atticus came from?

yeah.atticus was a roman knight.lived in athens.helped to build up the city after the romans came and destroyed it.and he was a kind of publisher in his days.....if thats what you meant then i know where atticus came from....

[drowningintears]

1984 is the only decent book ive read in my education so far, but i hate reading at school because they always make some illiterate idiot read paragraphs out loud and you would not believe how long it takes some people to read a page.

[venus/bacchus]

People hate Speaker For The Dead and To Kill A Mockingbird???

my world is spiraling out of control, I'm in utter shock

[dretti]

1984

[LoserlyFirefly]

People hate Speaker For The Dead and To Kill A Mockingbird???

my world is spiraling out of control, I'm in utter shock

I didn't say I hated Speaker For The Dead. The first few pages just bored me so i never got around to reading it all but i'll probably finish reading it again soon so I can take it off my "Must Read" list.

[venus/bacchus]

I didn't say I hated Speaker For The Dead. The first few pages just bored me so i never got around to reading it all but i'll probably finish reading it again soon so I can take it off my "Must Read" list.
I highly suggest you finish reading it. I loved it.

[aerohydra]

catcher and the rye, yeah that book was so amazing

my teacher introduced it by saying that green day wrote a song about

then i just kinda knew i had to read it

so yeah

[The Dove Song]

catcher and the rye, yeah that book was so amazing

my teacher introduced it by saying that green day wrote a song about

then i just kinda knew i had to read it

so yeah
Good motivation for wanting to read.

[MemoriesLinger]

Cather In The Rye and The Outsiders.

[Tanooki Suit]

Not a book, really, but I absolutely loved reading Graham Greene's short-story "The Destructors". Brilliant, I recommend it to everyone.

[Bishop]

People hate Speaker For The Dead and To Kill A Mockingbird???

my world is spiraling out of control, I'm in utter shock

I just never saw what was so great about it and everybody acted like it was the greatest book ever and I'm just thinking that it was boring.

Of course my favorite book ever would have to be this side of paradise so maybe my ideas of good and bad are a bit askew.

[ReFuSeD!]

Animal Farm.

[Bishop]

A version of To Kill a Mockingbird that I can really get into.

http://www.stanford.edu/~scodary/tkam.htm

Warning: It's long.

[razberryglitz]

mythology

[burn with power]

Wellllll, not to many. haha.

Well for school requirements, it's a tie between "The Crucible" or "To Kill a Mockingbird"

but for silent reading, i really loved "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"

[G.I.R.]

The short stories and books by Edgar Allan Poe.

[_astheruinfalls]

Edgar wouldn't like Slipknot because they suck.

[organizedchaos]

The Great Gastby, To Kill A Mockingbird and Stranger in a Strange Land

[aolsux]

oh shit, i'm supposed to be reading a book over the break...haha, thanks to this thread for reminding me

my favorite read in school was probably animal farm

[aolsux]

Edgar wouldn't like Slipknot because they suck.
haha

[when 4ever ends]

probably catcher in the rye

i definitly agree i love that book, now my class is reading the adventures of huckellbery fin

horrible book in my opinion

[evolpics]

the jungle isnt bad

[sleepygrlgreen]

yeah...i'd have to go with either the brave new world or slaughterhouse five.

[sleepygrlgreen]

haha

very off topic, but how close is reading, pa to philadelphia (near the delaware river)?

[woe-kitten]

Eugghf. GCSE and A Level syllabus English is so bad.

Best: Pride and Prejudice, The Comedians (play), The Tempest (play), A Scanner Darkly (cheating because it was for coursework) aand A Clockwork Orange.

Worst: Lord of the Flies, The Bell Jar.

Catcher in the Rye IS awesome, as is 1984...though I'm not entirely sure that Greenday are a good reason for anything.

[AEast317]

the great gatsby

[LV03]

crime and punishment
geek love

[AnF1500]

yeah...i'd have to go with either the brave new world or slaughterhouse five.

I like Slaughterhouse Five.
I also loved Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, and 1984.

[noodledancer]

high school- cat's eye (ap english), hot zone (bio), the jungle (ap u.s. history?)

undergrad- the aneid, five comedies: miles gloriosus, menaechmi, bacchides, hecyra and adelphoe, immunobiology

grad- biostatistics: how it works, epidemiology beyond the basics, mountains beyond mountains

[Broken Parachute]

Fahrenheit 451
Catcher in the Rye

[CellarGhosts]

the Outsiders
Animal Farm

I know, I'm still in high school, but those are both ones I've really enjoyed.

[iwasahero]

Watership Down
Cannery Row

[lindZ629]

Catcher in the Rye
The Outsiders
Animal Farm
Anthem

[halifaxonfire]

Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Outsiders
Of Mice and Men
The Giver
Anthem
Across Five Aprils

damn..looking back, my schools actually made us read some quality books.

[daniellee]

The Giver.
The Outsiders.
Of Mice And Men.
To Kill A Mockingbird.

[atticus1492]

As I Lay Dying

[myplasticyou]

the clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order by samuel p. huntington

[NWADOC]

The Most Dangerous Game

[bduke13]

The Most Dangerous Game

Yea that was a really good short story. I always thought that it would make a good movie

[ohthethrill]

the great gatsby
slaughterhouse five
lord of the flies

[Khaos]

its a close between Siddhartha and To Kill A Mockingbird

P.S. i HATED "The Giver" and think it was the worst book I have read in school

[NickBender]

The Outsiders
Farenheit 451

My school's book list sucks, bad. I read The Outsiders in a gifted reading class in 8th grade.

[Iamhome]

I read a book when I was in like 6th grade which I loved. "The Well".. It was about racism.

[Shatter590]

animal farm

[icyeyes26]

Catcher in the Rye

[BoiledFrogs.]

To Kill A Mockingbird

[lushintransit]

I'm assuming we're talking HS & below since all of college is reading...in that case....Catch-22.

[notoaststereo]

the perks of being a wallflower

[SanePsychotic]

Either Animal Farm or The Giver. Probably closer to Animal Farm.

[alexxxisonfire]

1984
Ape and Essence
Brave New World
The Giver
TKAMB
F451

My English teacher made Hamlet a lot of fun. Othello too. We got to watch the bad ass Laurence Fishburne version.

[Mitch]

The Great Gatsby
Lord of the Flies
Death of a Salesman (assuming plays count)

[capnhook54]

Hmm..

The Giver
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Outsiders
Pigman
Romeo and Juliet

We're gonna start reading Macbeth is a couple of weeks, which I am extremely pumped for. Shakespeare = the shit.

[OriginalGEEKsta]

Siddhartha. (11th Grade)
Animal Farm. (9th Grade)
Chronicles of Narina: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (%th Grade)
Fast Food Nation (Freshman Year in College)

[alyssa_k]

'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Wuthering Heights'.

[eMart]

High school:1984
College: things they carried
Jr. High: flowers for algernon
Elementary: my fathers dragon
Pre school: richard scary coloring book

[fixatedon1star]

Things they carried, Catcher in the Rye, and Night

[blimpcityhero11]

The Great Gatsby

[ForTheBest]

The Giver in grade school, Lord Of The Flies in 8th grade, and Flowers For Algernon in high school

[sum41fanatic]

it wasnt for school, but the eragon and eldest were awsome! and i am sooooo syked for book three

[MasonR5]

Catcher in the Rye (trite choice, but still), Johnny Got His Gun, Cat's Cradle, THE GOD DELUSION (wasn't required, but recommended in my Intro to Religion class...very, very good)

[nonamesleft]

James and the Giant Peach hands down

[nonamesleft]

it wasnt for school, but the eragon and eldest were awsome! and i am sooooo syked for book three

syked?

[Exsanguination]

On The Road

[avengedtbs]

catcher in the rye

[missmatilde]

catcher in the rye
that's one of my favs as well! :-)

[PadraicPrincess]

the great gatsby, the adventures of huckleberry finn, lord of the flies, to kill a mocking bird, animal farm

most hated book in HS: the scarlet letter

[missmatilde]

plus I really liked most of Joyce's stories in the dubliner, and the portrait of dorian gray (party kids have some history ;-))

[peacelovemusic]

In silent reading time I read comics or something with a title that will get teachers freaked out like How To Be A Villian or The Fine Art Of Escaping From Prison.
In class I hate all the books they make us read. Has anyone not fallen asleep reading To Kill A Mocking Bird?

[alyssa_k]

In silent reading time I read comics or something with a title that will get teachers freaked out like How To Be A Villian or The Fine Art Of Escaping From Prison.
In class I hate all the books they make us read. Has anyone not fallen asleep reading To Kill A Mocking Bird?

I don't know what part of the book you are on but I found the first part of the book quite boring. I loved the second part though. It is still one of my favourite books.

[XxIronistxX]

to kill a mockingbird, lord of the flies, the scarlet letter, & the great gatsby

[musicroxmysox]

In silent reading time I read comics or something with a title that will get teachers freaked out like How To Be A Villian or The Fine Art Of Escaping From Prison.
In class I hate all the books they make us read. Has anyone not fallen asleep reading To Kill A Mocking Bird?


:-D haha i'm sure your teachers loved you for that they were probably all afraid you were planning to kill them or something

[notpaidxtoxpose]

Lord of the flies.
I was the only person in my class to actually like it.

[dejaxentendu]

Lord of the flies.
I was the only person in my class to actually like it.



i had a book crush on ralph
i was in the 5th grade hahaha

[dejaxentendu]

oh and worst books ever read in school
JOHNNY TREMAIN and NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
horrible horrible literature


i loved tuck everlasting and to kill a mocking bird (the movie ecspecially)

[m_rue]

A Clockwork Orange

[FScott]

The Giver in like 7th grade (I even remember stealing a copy before school led out that year, I still have it)

[Tinyxeatsxstars]

1984
Good book.
EDIT; We used Incubus - Talk Show On Mute for our presentation.


and like ^ said The Giver. It's a classic, but I hated the ending.
Oh! and The Giving Tree, it isn't a novel ... but it was a cute book.

[FScott]

Yeah I didn't care for the ending but just recently I wikied The Giver (1993) and its actually the first of Lois Lowry's sort of trilogy. Gathering Blue (written in 2000) and The Messenger (2004). The Messenger brings back Jonas from The Giver. I haven't had a chance to pick them up yet though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gathering_Blue

warning: don't read the spoilers if you plan on reading them (unless you like to know how they end beforehand)

[MixtapexxDeath]

I think The Outsiders and Flowers for Algernon were the only books i have liked so far


and I hated Great Expectations.

[dejaxentendu]

Yeah I didn't care for the ending but just recently I wikied The Giver (1993) and its actually the first of Lois Lowry's sort of trilogy. Gathering Blue (written in 2000) and The Messenger (2004). The Messenger brings back Jonas from The Giver. I haven't had a chance to pick them up yet though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gathering_Blue

warning: don't read the spoilers if you plan on reading them (unless you like to know how they end beforehand)



i dont like lois lowry's writing those anastsia krofasjdfksaf;j books are pure torture
if i couldn't bring my self to finish the giver
would i get through gathering blue and the messenger
are they better than the giver
should i give those a chance?
soo many questions

[{Comatose}]

lol...
i used a scanner darkly for an end-of-year book report in 9th grade...
it's still one of my favorite books to this very day...

[Ruby Riot]

High school: Joseph Heller - Catch 22
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Kathrine Kressmann Taylor - Addressat Unbekannt
Thea Beckmann - Hasse Simonsdochter
Amélie Nothomb - Stupeur et tremblements
Joseph Bedier - Tristan et Iseut


Uni: short stories: Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
Shirley Jackson - The Lottery
novels: Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials (I'm taking a Children's Literature course ^^)
Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein, etc (Team Creature here, screw Victor)
Christa Wolf - Medea Stimmen
Heinrich von Kleist - Die Marquise von O.

Hmz, seems like I got a little carried away there for a minute. ^^

[MADSTA]

So far, I've read some pretty shitastic books in school. The only good one was The Outsiders.

[selftitled85]

in hs i was a fan of "the stranger" by albert camus, "brave new world" by alduous huxley, and "all quiet on the western front" by i forget who.

[Broken Parachute]

in hs i was a fan of "the stranger" by albert camus, "brave new world" by alduous huxley, and "all quiet on the western front" by i forget who.I am reading The Stranger for school this summer.

[jump3182]

Where the Red Fern Grows
A Seperate Peace

Never liked Lord of the Flies or Great Expectations

[Clarity14]

The Westing Game

[dejaxentendu]

The Westing Game


thats one of my all time favorites
props to your school for assigning that

[Kharisma]

Thus far, To Kill A Mocking Bird had been the best piece of literature that I've read in Highschool.

Hopefully Bonfire Of The Vanities will be better.

[trindaddy]

am i the only one who read and/or liked bless me ultima? sidhartha was good, and so was song of solomon.

[newspapercutout]

The Great Gatsby... amazing book..

But i don't think i would have liked it so much if i didn't have the teacher i had.. he was sweet, he would jump out the window and stuff to prove points in stories and if he were talking about a river or pond or something he would spill water ont he floor and jump in it, he would even throw his stool at the blackboard to show anger when he would be reading books.. So i think it was the only book i ever paid attention to.

I remember during Gatsby he walked out into the hall way to scream "the son of a bitch didn't even stop" how he never got in trouble by the school is beyond me.

[newspapercutout]

Never liked Lord of the Flies or Great Expectations


I thought Lord of the Flies was a horrible book.. followed by the horrible movie my teacher shoved down our throats.

[CellarGhosts]

Ive never read "Lord Of the Flies" but it gets reccomended alot...

[maiabean]

Go Ask Alice

Had to read it in my 9th grade health class.

[-whisp-]

Catcher in the Rye

[myplasticyou]

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel Huntington. Its very interesting and applicable to anyone interested in political theory or international relations

[ofthejetage]

A Seperate Peace by John Knowles, its the World War II story of two teenage boys growing up in the war. Probably the most powerful story of friendship I've ever heard.
the book is so good it nearly burdens me

[Stereo Mike]

The Wasp Factory.

[peacelovemusic]

Where the Red Fern Grows

I thought that book was boring, and I had a weird experience with it.

*SPOILER ALERT*

When the dogs died in the last couple chapters, my teacher was sobbing too much to read it to the class, and I had to read it to everyone because I was 'taking it the best' by explaining to my classmates that Old Dan got disemboweled.

[WithYouInRckLnd]

In high school english:
Hamlet, Catcher In the Rye, The Great Gatsby, Cry the Beloved Country

College:
Bodega Dreams, Tao Te Ching,

Anyone ever read Life After God, by Douglas Coupland? It's one of my most favorite reads.

[Fallinto_rhythm]

The Great Gatsby... amazing book..

But i don't think i would have liked it so much if i didn't have the teacher i had.. he was sweet, he would jump out the window and stuff to prove points in stories and if he were talking about a river or pond or something he would spill water ont he floor and jump in it, he would even throw his stool at the blackboard to show anger when he would be reading books.. So i think it was the only book i ever paid attention to.

I remember during Gatsby he walked out into the hall way to scream "the son of a bitch didn't even stop" how he never got in trouble by the school is beyond me.






i love this book. it was amazing, and we actually just finished it.

[Thnks Fr Th Emo]

Tie between Animal Farm, the Oedipus Cycle, and Alas, Babylon.

[ArTkY_]

The Great Gatsby and Frankenstein.

[-whisp-]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime- read during a summer for high school. amazing book

[xjustinx]

Either 'Night' or To Kill A Mockingbird.

[etrox318]

to kill a mockingbird
a separate peace
twelve angry men
yma dream
romeo and juliet
catcher in the rye (didn't really read it for school but eh, he recommended it)
and a couple poems by emily dickinson

[MegH]

To Kill a Mockingbird and The Scarlet Letter

Macbeth was fun, as well.

[smokedsanity]

Either 'Night' or To Kill A Mockingbird.

Night wins my vote.

[goldfishy12356]

The Great Gatsby
To Kill A Mockingbird
1984
&
A Solitary Blue

[Yes. And?]

the giver, i guess. our books always sucked.

[eccentrikznchic]

animal farm

[patdnfobfan]

Catcher In The Rye & To Kill A Mockingbird

[Nevuk]

1984 + Grendel

[ahumananomaly]

i'd have to say The Outsiders, and Tuesdays With Morrie

[lyricals]

I really liked Macbeth & Hamlet, which is interesting because I don't like Shakespeare all that much.
The Red Badge of Courage was godawful though.

[yoyoninjagirl]

100 Years of Solitude

[Juliana101]

Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby.

[MasonR5]

i recently tried reading "Catch 22", got half way through, and just completely lost interest...maybe i'll finish it someday.

i'm currently reading "A Man Without A Country" by Kurt Vonnegut. just started, but so far it's funny as hell.

[lordofthefood1]

Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby.
woo me too
Except sometimes Gatsby pissed me off
The Bluest Eye was very good (kinda weird/sick at some parts though)

[blahme]

The Sun Also Rises

[myantiyou]

Power of One or All Quiet on the Western Front

[irinski]

I liked almost everything we had to read, but...

1. Catch-22
2. Pride & Prejudice
3. Slaughterhouse-Five
4. Grapes of Wrath
5. The Old Man & The Sea

[banana_hammock]

one flew over the cuckoo's nest, and to kill a mockingbird.

[FullCollapse299]

The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger

[Leesa]

Well I haven't read all of them since I just finished my Sophmore year, but I'd have to say Catcher in The Rye, Of Mice and Men, and Lord of the Flies were my favorite books I've read so far. Apparently the books set for next year are supposed to be pretty interesting, so I'm looking forward to that.

[Tellie Norisco]

A Separate Peace, Lord Of The Flies, and The Otterbury Incident. Also, Macbeth, which is a play, but whatever.

[XxmagnesiumxX]

Where the Red Fern Grows, The Giver,

i had a lot but i cant remember. damn summer.

[CubbyNick42]

I can't believe nobody's mentioned Native Son. It's the only book where I imagined every scene so vividly, it made me want to write a screenplay.

[TakingBackDowd]

A Corner Of The Universe.

[CubbyNick42]

I've never heard of it. What made it so great?
It's about a black man in 1940's Chicago who accidentally kills the daughter of an affluent white family he works for. You sympathize for him so much throughout the book, because it's not his fault, but it won't matter once the authorities catch up to him. You see how it changes him as a person as he thrown into this fight to survive. It sounds like a downer, and I guess it is a bit, but it's a hell of a read.

[noselove]

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

[geekchic]

to kill a mockingbird
any shakespeare
the giver
flowers for algernon

[kevincollateral]

the giver
flowers for algernon


agreed...these 2 i actually read

[walking_person]

The Outsiders and The Westing Game.

[ax-tina]

I didn't like any of the books we had to read in school until A Farewell to Arms and 1984.

[*crying stars*]

The Chocolate War, Slaughterhouse-Five.

[nivek87]

in high school i really enjoyed reading Life of Pi. In college I really liked all my Bible study stuff and Jonathon Livingston Seagul.

[Spewk]

all creatures great and small

[danika!]

The Giver by Lois Lowry xD

[WFUJerseyJon]

Catcher In The Rye & To Kill A Mockingbird


Ha ha, I came on to say the exact same 2. Amazing books. Though I also read Mike Lupica's Summer of 98 because I had to read a best seller for summer reading (and I'd already read all the Harry Potters that had come out at the time) and that was pretty awesome too.

[WFUJerseyJon]

The Giver by Lois Lowry xD

I know this is going to sound weird, as this is the reason most people like that book, but I HATED the ending. I appreciate and respect the meaning behind it, but I just wanted closure from that book. Up until that point I thought it was great.

[selftitled85]

this semester coming up i am taking russian lit and i am reading "brothers karamazov," "a hero of our time" by lermontov, and "master and margarita" by bulgakov. not to mention a shit ton of prose and poems by pushkin and tales written by gogol.

[Siren Silently]

Death of a Salesman.

[ESundy36]

Many of the books already mentioned I thoroughly enjoyed reading though most I refused to read for in class assignments and would read them at a later time. One book I read in class that really sticks out for me is We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories From Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch, it is such a powerful book.

[motioncity182]

Yea that was a really good short story. I always thought that it would make a good movie

there was a movie about it...i'm pretty sure it was made in the 30's, it was black and white and really corny. my teacher showed it to us after we read it.

[selftitled85]

the clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order by samuel p. huntington

may god have mercy on your soul...haha

High school:1984
College: things they carried
Jr. High: flowers for algernon
Elementary: my fathers dragon
Pre school: richard scary coloring book

at frosh orientation 4 years ago we had to read that and the writer spoke to us. i loved that book.

plus I really liked most of Joyce's stories in the dubliner, and the portrait of dorian gray (party kids have some history ;-))

god i fucking hate joyce. portrait of an artist as a young man is one of the most annoying and complex books i ever read at that point. i had nightmares about it. though dubliners wasnt too too bad.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel Huntington. Its very interesting and applicable to anyone interested in political theory or international relations

like i said before...may god have mercy on your soul...i have had to read this book like 6 times and it always bores me and never really introduces anything new to the table. maybe its just huntingtons style that annoys me but each time i read it each time i cared less and less.


everyone should read freakonomics. one of my favs ever.

[HavaBanana]

Fahrenheit 451 was good read along with Lord of the Flies
....toss up between those two.

and one of my teachers recommended Eragon to me. Not a traditional read (for me) but I enjoyed it to my surprise.

[framebyframe]

In public school: The Outsiders
In high school: The Catcher In The Rye

[laxcrs]

to kill a mockingbird

[active_health]

The Awakening by Kate Chopin- Changed my life.
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond- Made me want to kill myself, but was amazing nonetheless.

[Anthony Lutz]

I loved The Giver.

[thursday727]

Brave New World (read in english 4 last year)

[boykosaurus]

The Kite Runner

[selftitled85]

Brave New World (read in english 4 last year)

if it wasnt for the ending this book would end up being my favorite book of all time.

but it seems like huxley went crazy at the end and wrote the stupidest thing idea he could think of.

"i know...lets have a HUUUUUUUUGE orgy happen caused by soma and have the main character kill himself out of guilt!" BRILLIANT!!!! not to mention they more or less got rid of the most intriguing character by just sending him away. uggh if the book ended better i would read it again.

[Balibus]

"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien.
It is without doubt the FIRST and FOREMOST best account written on the subject of Vietnam.
Read it. Period.

[fromoc2dc]

The Awakening by Kate Chopin- Changed my life.


The Awakening was actually one of my least favorite books I ever had to read for school, mainly because of the ending. I remember the next book in that class was Handmaid's Tale and I liked that book infinitely better.

[WFUJerseyJon]

"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien.
It is without doubt the FIRST and FOREMOST best account written on the subject of Vietnam.
Read it. Period.

it is good, i read it in ap english senior year.

[crayola]

"Warriors Don't Cry"- read it in my 7th grade English class before we were told to stop because it was the unabridged version and one of the parents got incredibly angry. I got about halfway through it, and I've been trying to find another unedited version but I can't. =(

[takingbackrufio]

Some of these were a part of classes, others not. The point of the thread is probably for curriculum-books, so I'll say Animal Farm and Old Man and the Sea topped 'em.

Elementary: "The BFG", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "My Side of the Mountain", "Hatchet", "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe", "Wings of a Falcon"

Jr. High: "Holes", "The Giver", "Everworld" (series), "Sally Lockhart" (series), "Ender's Game", "Shade's Children", "Old Kingdom" (series), "Of Mice and Men"

High School: "Animal Farm", "Lord of the Flies", "Fight Club", "Hamlet", "Heat of the Night", "Death of a Salesman", "Old Man and the Sea", "His Dark Materials" (series), "Night"

University: "The Piano Lesson", "The Last Crossing" ... most of my year was non-fiction and stuff I read in my spare time was catching up on authors that I got into in Grade 12.

[Balibus]

Some of these were a part of classes, others not. The point of the thread is probably for curriculum-books, so I'll say Animal Farm and Old Man and the Sea topped 'em.

Elementary: "The BFG", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "My Side of the Mountain", "Hatchet", "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe", "Wings of a Falcon"

Jr. High: "Holes", "The Giver", "Everworld" (series), "Sally Lockhart" (series), "Ender's Game", "Shade's Children", "Old Kingdom" (series), "Of Mice and Men"

High School: "Animal Farm", "Lord of the Flies", "Fight Club", "Hamlet", "Heat of the Night", "Death of a Salesman", "Old Man and the Sea", "His Dark Materials" (series), "Night"

University: "The Piano Lesson", "The Last Crossing" ... most of my year was non-fiction and stuff I read in my spare time was catching up on authors that I got into in Grade 12.

Fight Club was an excellent book....
But I must say, to this day I still can't stand the Giver's ending. Interesting premise degenerated into vague "I give no insights" crapola from the old man...puhlease...the author just didn't know where they were going.

[fueledbyiz]

i'm actually really glad thye made us read to kill a mockingbird and the outsiders. i never would have on my own.

[MusicalSpirit]

Fight Club was an excellent book....
But I must say, to this day I still can't stand the Giver's ending. Interesting premise degenerated into vague "I give no insights" crapola from the old man...puhlease...the author just didn't know where they were going.


I agree. I hated the ending, although I enjoyed the rest of the book. The sequel was NOTHING compared to the first.

[AVAstar]

It would have to be a book called 'junk' which is basically about druggies!

Highly entertaining!

[CrashingHearts]

Hatchet, Tuck Everlasting, and Where The Red Fern Grows.

all middle school haha

[AvengeTheDead]

"1984" and "Farhenheit 451" (not 100% sure, but think i spelled that wrong).

[SNoeWHite]

The Color Of Water, To Kill a Mockingbird

[Darby Crashed]

It would have to be a book called 'junk' which is basically about druggies!

Highly entertaining!

I assume you mean 'Junk' by William S. Burroughs. Pretty excellent book; if you like it, I highly recommend the rest of his work.

[Jumpoff]

All is Quiet on the Western Front

Read it before I read it in school, but my favorite book I read in school nonetheless.

[xxLindseyxx]

The Glass Jar

[Sancho]

"1984" and "Farhenheit 451" (not 100% sure, but think i spelled that wrong).

Word, those are two of my favorite fiction books I've read in school.

Favorite non-fiction would be "The People's History of America" by Howard Zinn.

[selftitled85]

All is Quiet on the Western Front

Read it before I read it in school, but my favorite book I read in school nonetheless.

that is also one of my favorite books.

[Smash Adams]

Hatchet, Tuck Everlasting, and Where The Red Fern Grows.

all middle school haha
tuck everlasting was the only one on that list that I enjoyed
the other 2 were painful for me
"1984" and "Farhenheit 451" (not 100% sure, but think i spelled that wrong).

two of my favorites
throw in brave new world as well

[mattybobviously]

Lord of the Flies has always been my favorite book.

[asdflkj]

im reading that book now, but night was a good book about the holocaust

[erringtonavenue]

The Grapes of Wrath
The Catcher and the Rye
The Bell Jar
any Kurt Vonnegut
Crime and Punishment
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Good Man is Hard to Find

[xriotx]

Wuthering Heights.

[ohshizz]

the giver

[williek311]

I never read a book in school.

[wickedfaerie13]

the outsiders

[screamoutmyname]

probably either the Iliad or the Oddessy... or Maniac McGee hahaha

[LulaJay]

We were given lousy books to read at my school, but The Outsiders was the one exception. Still a favourite today.

[Volo]

Confederacy of Dunces definitely tops my list of required reading in high school. Close behind: Ender's Game, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

[BikeMore]

Favorite book, by far, that I have ever read for a class is The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. It's beautiful and definitely has some really strong imagery and is extremely emotive. I read it when I was a junior in high school and it remains my favorite book to this day.

[Baby VenomVeins]

Lord of the Flies

[AP_Punk]

1984

[Stupendous_Man]

I'd have to say The Great Gatsby. I read it back in 11th grade and it has since become one of my favorite books.

[FeynmanWannabe]

Cat's Cradle

[TheByrus]

american psycho

[LillieDesigns]

The Stranger by Camus takes the prize for me.

[E.VonDahl]

I can't remember which was my favorite, but I was a big fan of the Chris Crutcher books.

[quarterhorse101]

Nine Stories by JD Salinger <3
Lord of the Flies
The Things They Carried
Ender's Game --- wayyy back in 8th grade
Animal Farm

[Neo Cassady]

Fight Club

edit: If we're counting college too, then The Bell Jar.

[TheDemosRock]

we're reading Othello right now for english, it's not bad. Definitely my favorite Shakespeare.

I'd have to say my all-time favorite book read in school, though, is one that only a few of us read for a group project. It was like independent reading only for groups. So we had a book club, basically. My group debated long and hard and in the end, we chose In Cold Blood, and it's become one of my all-time favorites.

[CrazyRockGirl]

The Outsiders, which is prob my fav band and movie of all time...I red that in 8th grade

and The Scarlet letter I read in 11th grade literature

[Watson]

The Outsiders! i forgot about that book it was amazing. Dally was the man!

[contend in vain]

I think my favorites would be Of Mice and Men and Hiroshima
I've picked a few books for outside reading projects that I've really liked too, like Slaughterhouse Five, All the Pretty Horses, and a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

[scole]

Crime and Punishment. Epic novel and amazingly detailed.

[georgiachic22]

The Kite Runner was pretty much amazing. it almost had me crying at the end, it's so sad

[ascitiesburn101]

Lord of the Flies

[RickRoll]

L'Etranger-Albert Camus(gr. 12)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn(gr. 12)
Far From the Madding Crowd-Thomas Hardy(second year university)
Trainspotting-Irvine Welsh(fourth year university)

[_CR]

Slaughterhouse Five