book you had to read for school and actually enjoyed/found interesting.

[Arayis]

Fahrenheit 451, The Peleponnesian War, Empire of the Sun and Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

All required reading, but I actually enjoyed them, and now have copies of them on my book shelf...

 

[MelziGurl]

Across the Barricades, don't know if many have heard of it but I enjoyed that one in grade 9 in English.

 

[Spektre41]

Good ones: Of Mice & Men, The 5 People You Meet In Heaven, To Kill A Mockingbird (I read this one on my own but damn it is awesome)

Bad ones: The Great Gatsby, The Curious Incident of the Dog into the Night Time.

 

[Daymo]

I got to read Watchmen for an english assignment on graphic novels or short stories. Hadn't heard of it until then but it's been the best book I've read in high school so far. Animal Farm may beat it though, we read it in about a week's time.

 

[slamm]

The books that have to do with possible futures and alternate histories. I always wind up really thinking about them while I'm reading the books and even when I'm not about what it would be like.

 

[wewontdie11]

Just reminded of this by an advert for the upcoming TV adaptation, but I really enjoyed Skellig by David Almond when I was in school. Was well written for the intended age group and managed to maintain interest in spite of giving little about anything away at all.

 

[clarinetJWD]

My list of books I enjoyed in school was much longer than the ones I didn't enjoy. Some particular stand outs were:

1984
Catch-22 (My favorite book ever)
Poisonwood Bible
A Tale of Two Cities
Fahrenheit 451
Dandelion Wine

NeutralDrow: I forgot about Bless Me, Ultima. It was great!

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

Currently we are doing epic poetry.. We have "The Odyssey" and we are going to read maybe a chapter though.. Barnes and Nobles here I come.

That said, I liked reading "The Giver" in my Jr. Great books class.. And "To Kill A Mockingbird" this year in my 8th grade honors english.

(I have also read "Frankenstein" in my Jr. GRTBKS class, because I read ahead and finished "The Giver" so I had about 1-2 weeks of free time.)

 

[j0frenzy]

High school: Julius Ceasar, Night, Their Eyes were Watching God, Othello, Grendel.
College: Two Trains Running, Gem of the Ocean, The Stars My Destination and The Virgin Suicides(do not watch the movie. read the book). Incidentally, because of two of my English classes I read The Merchant of Venice and Middlesex and really wish I had read them for a class so that I could discuss them in a class. Oh well.

 

[EXPLICITasian]

i just read lord of the flies... ya didnt like it at all,

i did however like catcher in the rye, and the little prince

 

[ProfessorLayton]

I read "...and then there were none" and I actually really liked that one. But all the other ones were completely awful.

 

[Daniel Cygnus]

My all-time favorite required reading would be Jane Eyre, simply because for the entire first third of it, I hated it. Animal Farm would be a close second.

As everyone else has been saying, The Scarlet Letter was no good. Makes me wonder why it's so popular in schools.

 

[Dragonrabbit]

Brave New World was pretty awesome, and just perverted enough for us school children.
Animal Farm too, although I think I was the only person on campus who would say that.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

Animal Farm is one major case of "Don't judge a book by its cover" here is a copy paste from tvtropes
A clever Beast Fable satirizing the evolving Russian communism by George Orwell, as well as a book with two adaptations you should never, ever show your children.

Orwell tells, metaphorically, how the Russian Revolution would go if its participants were animals, and if you reduced Russia to the area of Manor Farm. When you get what the point of the book is - being a satire of Communism written during World War II - it's not hard to guess where the plot is going.

Noted.. Will pick this up, and the Iliad..

 

[Mstrswrd]

The Odyssey, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, I think that's it.

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

We read Animal Farm in Lit. this year, I liked it, although that might have been because I had read it before.

 

[Owned by 3 year olds]

Animal Farm, Catcher in the Rye, and Slaughterhouse V in this year. My english class is so awesome.

 

[the monopoly guy]

I really loved "The Giver".

Maybe I will re-read it some time.

 

[Lekonua]

I enjoyed Fahrenheit 451 more than I expected to. I knew almost nothing about it before I had to read it. Just had a vague understanding that it had to do with book burning.

Never knew it was science fiction.

 

[Aqualung]

The Grapes of Wrath. I don't care if an entire chapter was written about dust; the descriptions were written so passionately..