Best School Books You've Ever Read

Pre-College Issues High School Life
1

<p>Mine would be Frankenstein, Brave New World, 1984, or The Things They Carried</p>

2

<p>The Great Gatsby, The Adventures of Huck Finn, The Catcher in the Rye</p>

3

<p>Great Expectations was my favorite, definitely</p>

4

<p>I second Brave New World.</p>

5

<p>Gatsby was amazing (movie this year - SO excited) :slight_smile: and I also loved The Things they Carried and Night</p>

<ul>
<li>anything written in the 50s/60s</li>
</ul>

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7

<p>Of Mice and Men and Macbeth. Also some brilliant poetry by Alfred Lord Tennyson.</p>

8

<p>To Kill A Mockingbird, The Book Thief, Freakonomics, Little Women (fifth grade).
I also like The Picture of Dorian Gray. I didn’t read it for school, but I think a lot of people do.</p>

9

<p>The Fountainhead. Nothing compares…<3</p>

10

<p>I loved loved loved Gatsby. Brave New World is up there too.</p>

11

<p>The Watson’s Go To Birmingham, idk why I like it so much it just is.</p>

12

<p>Life of Pi (loved it), The Great Gatsby, Catch-22 (yes, I just read that this year), and Fast Food Nation.</p>

13

<p>The Glass Castle and Macbeth</p>

14

<p>Oedipus Rex I found awesome!
Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, the kite runner, Animal Farm, and Things Fall Apart! </p>

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15

<p>Oh and A Prayer for Owen Meany, how could I of forgotten that one! Hah.</p>

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16

<p>The Great Gatsby, Slaughterhouse Five, The Catcher in the Rye, and To Kill a Mockingbird</p>

17

<p>The Great Gatsby
Antigone
To Kill A Mockingbird
Crime and Punishment
Brave New World
1984
Julius Caesar</p>

<p>I couldn’t shorten the list:)</p>

18

<p>I had already read it before but this year in my English Comp class we read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathon Safran Foer. Love it so much!</p>

<p>I also love Gatsby as well, and The Scarlet Pimpernel but that’s about it. My school doesn’t have the most exciting books in their curriculum.</p>

19

<p>The Great Gatsby is good. I’m halfway through it. I like it but most of the characters really annoy me.</p>

20

<p>I despised Bless Me, Ultima and loved Of Mice and Men :P</p>