Top 5 favorite books from english class?

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<p>1) To Kill a Mockingbird
2) Cyrano de Bergerac
3) The Scarlet Pimpernel
4) The Book Thief
5) The Alchemist</p>

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<p>The Great Gatsby (10th Grade)
Slaughterhouse-5 (10th Grade)
Brave New World (11th Grade)
East of Eden (12th Grade)
The Brothers Karamazov (12th Grade)</p>

<p>My schools Honors/AP English program is pretty good about picking out interesting novels to read to prep for the English Lit test.</p>

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<p>I’m only in 8th grade, but my favorite books so far are:

  1. The Catcher in the Rye (read by teacher’s suggestion)
  2. To Kill a Mockingbird (This year)
  3. The Giver (6th grade)
  4. Macbeth (does that count since it’s a play? Read it this year)
  5. Anna Karenina (read by teacher’s suggestion)
    These aren’t really in order because it’s hard to decide.</p>
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<p>1.The Catcher in the Rye
2. A Separate Peace
3. Lipstick Jihad
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
5. Macbeth </p>

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<ol>
<li>1984</li>
<li>To Kill a Mocking Bird</li>
<li>Animal Farm</li>
<li>Ethan Frome</li>
<li>Maus I & II</li>
</ol>

<p>Catcher in the Rye is honorable mention XD</p>

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<ol>
<li>The Great Gatsby (11th)</li>
<li>The Scarlet Letter (11th)</li>
<li>Maus I (10th)</li>
<li>Catcher in the Rye (9th)</li>
<li>The Kite Runner (Summer reading - 10th) </li>
</ol>

<p>Absolutely hated One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (11th)</p>

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<ol>
<li>The Great Gatsby</li>
<li>The Catcher in the Rye</li>
<li>Great Expectations</li>
<li>Notes from the Underground</li>
<li>The Stranger</li>
</ol>

<p>But I also love Of Mice and Men an The Grapes of Wrath!</p>

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<ol>
<li>The Great Gatsby</li>
<li>A Separate Peace</li>
<li>Brave New World</li>
<li>Waiting for Godot (I count this)</li>
<li>Anna Karenina</li>
</ol>

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<p>1) The Great Gatsby (8th and 9th)
2) Seperate Peace (8th)
3) Watership Down (7th)
4) Jane Eyre (7th)
5) 1984 (9th)</p>

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<p>I’m reading The Kite Runner for 10th summer reading too! I’m glad you like it. I haven’t started it yet, but it looks like a pretty easy read.</p>

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<p>Wow, I wish that had been my 10th grade summer reading book…read it on my own, loved it.</p>

<p>Also, I would’ve put Maus on my list, but we actually read it for World History instead of English, so I didn’t think it would count; otherwise it would be my #1 tied with Persepolis.</p>

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<ol>
<li>Pride and Prejudice (12th grade)</li>
<li>The Great Gatsby (11th grade)</li>
<li>A Visit from the Goon Squad (12th grade)</li>
<li>Fahrenheit 451 (10th grade)</li>
<li>The White Tiger (12th grade)</li>
</ol>

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<p>Flowers for Algernon
(even though I read it in seventh grade)</p>

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<p>The Great Gatsby
Into the Wild
Of Mice and Men
The Crucible
etc</p>

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<p>1) The Great Gatsby (11th)
2) Brave New World (9th)
3) The Things They Carried (11th)
4) Fahrenheit 451 (8th)
5) Kaffir Boy (10th)</p>

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<p>The Great Gatsby
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Hamlet
Pride and Prejudice
To Kill a Mockingbird</p>

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<p>A Separate Peace
Lord of the Flies
The Giver
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
To Kill a Mockingbird</p>

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<p>A Separate Peace (9th)
The Odyssey (9th)
Out of the Dust (7th)
Julius Caesar (10th)
The Great Gatsby (11th)</p>

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<ol>
<li>Brave New World (12th)</li>
<li>Romeo and Juliet (9th)</li>
<li>One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (12th)</li>
<li>Mrs. Dalloway (12th - very difficult and too many semi-colons, but very beautiful too)</li>
<li>Their Eyes Were Watching God (11th)</li>
</ol>

<p>I think my least favorite was Waiting for Godot. The only time it was entertaining was when our two class clowns acted it out. Otherwise, it was way too boring.</p>

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<p>@elleya- Yay! I’m excited to read it now!</p>

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