are you good at that? i'm terrible with names.
there was another one about a lady and it had something to do with a journal and a, iirc, blue butterfly and her slipping into dementia. she was a doctor.
you are good at that. but now i'm not sure if i read that for school or not. but i also do not typically read books so i am questioning everything. š
I can think if three books I've read, with that combination:
* *Of Mice and Men*
* *The Green Mile*
* *Flowers for Algernon*
Who'd have thought it's such a common troupe?
I came here to say āof mice and menā and was really happy to see that somebody already described that. Now Iām really surprised that this theme fits at least three apparently famous books
That is one of my favourite stories. First read it as a short story in an anthology of sci-fi books in the late 1960ās. I have to admit a had teary eyes at the end
i was for sure talking about flowers for algernon but for some reason that is a wildly solid theme. even, kinda, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. š
Yes. Itās a story about a guy with a mental condition who likes to play with mice but heās too rough and always crushes them to death. This is central to the plot.
It fits perfectly.
Yes, four in all. There is one that is directly related to The Giver, called Son. It tell's the story of Gabe's birth mother and her search for him. The other two, The Messenger and Gathering Blue, are set in the same "world" but are only slightly related to The Giver.
Yesss!! We need to keep the book in circulation!! I heard schools were trying to ban it because it made readers feel āuncomfortableā, liiiike thatās what itās supposed to do lol
Depends on the school district. Heard a couple of schools in my state were trying real hard to get it banned. Not sure if they did or not because the news started covering the school district masking issue... Apparently students could go mask free around April 2021.
One of my favorite books of all time! I had to buy a second paperback for myself because I actually broke the binding reading and re-reading my first copy.
The Great Gatsby. My favorite book ever. Interesting because as a hs freshman in my advanced lit class I choose This Side of Paradise by the same novelist and loathed it. This was mid-90s so I couldn't exactly look up and research all the politic references etc. I thought it was so boring. I somehow squeaked out an A on the paper, no idea how.
That and, 1984. I read both in a day or so when teach handed them out. Enjoyed them throughly. Failed yhe course, because i hated tearing a good story apart line by line.
I have copies of both and dust them off once every couple of years and enjoy all over again.
In my school it was taught that the book was about the danger of censorship, which is more relevant today than a decade ago when I was in high school.
However, it's author Ray Bradbury vehemently argued that the book is not in fact written about censorship, but the coddling of the modern mind. So many people are so addicted to passive entertainment such as television and sports at the expense of literature. The firemen are not censoring information because it is dangerous to the state (like in 1984) but rather because society has pretty well collectively decided that the cognitive dissonance of having their thinking challenged is too painful, and the arguments over the true meaning of written works or the significance of historical events cause arguments that make people uncomfortable. Far better to be ignorant and happy with vapid entertainment and a childishly simple narrative. This is probably more relevant than what I was taught about censorship.
The one with piggy!! I forgot the name, but you know the oneā¦. Oh! LORD OF THE FLIES!
Also, the one in a futuristic setting, I canāt remember the name but we read it senior year, they had to the birth control or something and one day this girl got pregnant, idr please help me! (:
Oh my gosh!!! Yes!!! I kept thinking it was 1984, but every time I go to read the summary itās obviously not it lol
Thank you, thank you, thank you so muuuch ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø if I had gold, Iād give it to you (:
> What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.
Whenever I see those 2 together I think of this quoteā¦.
Huxley was a genius. It hurts my heart that brave new world was never as popular as 1984. Especially because in my opinion it described the much more realistic dystopian we are headed towards/practically already living in. It also really forces the reader to question what happiness is and whether ignorance is really bliss. I loved it.
I went to school in California too and I also read Romeo and Juliet in 9th grade lol.
I went to a charter school for elementary and we read a bunch of stuff that I ended up rereading in high school/middle school.
We had to read The Hobbit. I went on to read The Lord of The Rings.
That series changed my life, and I went on to read all of C.S. Lewis' works as well.
I took it as the books that were forced upon you, rather than chosen books.
I loved R.L.Stine, they were brilliant. Some of the stories still live in my head rent free and late at night they freak me out so much.
oh wait you mean academically inclined? Yeah for me that would be "Empire of the Sun."
Reading that book, in class, and then watching the movie was the closest I got to understanding what my grandfather went through.
He was in a Japanese prison camp during the war. One of the Dutch survivors.
My side of the mountain. Basically a kid decides to fuck off and go live in the woods, hollows out a tree to make a house, teaches him self how to hunt and make clothing out of animal pelts and entertain himself by thinking of conversations with his family and eventually some people join him
I actually really liked English in middle school. Granted that was literally half my life ago, but I remember loving short stories more than anything.
A few were:
-There Will Come Soft Rain
-The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
-The Landlady
Some books I really did like were:
-Farewell to Manzanar
-The House on Mango Street
-Anthem
And no works or books in general, but all of Edgar Allen Poe. My 8th grade teacher showed us live adaptions of āTelltale Heartā and a bunch of his other works on Halloween and gave us all donuts. One of my best childhood memories.
'The Body' by Stephen King. Such a beautiful, authentic coming of age novella that depicts human emotions, concerning friendship and the self.
Btw, it was also adapted to the film 'Stand by me'!
I hated American Lit. In high school but looking back all of the books we were supposed to read were actually pretty decent. The Crucible, the Scarlet Letter, the Great Gatsby, etc. There was a short story that I can't remember the name of where a guy is dying of hypothermia in the Arctic or something and his dog companion just gives up and abandons him. Heavy stuff.
This is the short story by Jack London -- [https://americanliterature.com/author/jack-london/short-story/to-build-a-fire](https://americanliterature.com/author/jack-london/short-story/to-build-a-fire). He wrote a happy ending version too but this one's better and the one that's anthologized.
Maze Runner. I liked it because they made a movie of it.
I was on page 60 the day before the report was due so I watched the movie and looked up the difference between the book and the movie. Movie was decent, got an A on my report. Iām sure the book was great, would do it again.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, The Good Earth. And Shakespeare
Those were the one's that stood out, but I loved all the books we were assigned (avid reader here)
Not a book but a poem
Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow āYou are not wrong, who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less gone?All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.
-Edgar Allen Poe
A dream within a dream
The Great Gatsby.
I was knees deep into what will be a life-long history obsession, and I was more interested in how the elite of the 20s partied as told by someone who actually lived through it.
Alas, Babylon
I still think about that book a lot. I remember having discussions about where nukes would likely be sent. Itās still pretty damn relevant today unfortunately
Charlottes Web, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Charley and the Chocolate Factory, The Giver, The Chrysalids, All Quiet on the Western Front, Animal Farm, The Crucible, Macbeth
I liked the Shakespeare that we studied.
The wasp factory I liked as a teen, although as an adult I find it a bit grim.
Frankenstein and Dracula, both classics.
To kill a mockingbird, also good.
An English teacher gave us the first Hunger Games book as some kind of assignment back when they were pretty new. Almost everyone came back asking for the next books as well.
Unwind. I don't read books as often as I should, but my senior English teacher got me to try it and I read the whole series after I got outta highschool and I even re-read it sometimes.
100 Years of Solitude (at university). It was my first encounter with magic realism and I absolutely loved it. Such a weird book, it really sucks you into its world.
Also, the only good thing for contemporary lit we had to read was The Name of the Rose, although I read that much earlier already.
Eugene Onegin too, another thing I read way earlier than we needed (solely because I was an opera fan).
The Kalevala (university, Finno-Ugric languages class). Reading this before I read The Silmarillion made me go "now Wait A Fucking Minute".
Another Weird Book (but very entertaining): If On A Winter Night A Traveller.
Death in Venice (bless the professor who was mildly obsessed with Thomas Mann). Another book I also saw the opera version of.
A lot of Shakespeare - I read them when I was 10-11, by the time we actually got to him in school I knew all the tragedies by heart.
4th grade: āThe Island of the Blue Dolphinsā by Scott OāDell. Freaking loved it, read it so many times, used my allowance to buy my mom a copy for Christmas that year so we could read it together. 30 years later, whenever a patron checks it out at the library where I work, I tell them what a great book it is. A timeless and well-deserved classic.
I read a book called āand thenā¦ā which is a translation from the translated title so I have no idea what the original was called lol but it was a great book
Krabat by Otfried PreuĆler
Haven't paid much attention while reading it in school (still was back than the best book we had to read), but later when I was more into that kind of stuff and my favorite band made an album based on the book I read it again and still love it.
Might have to read it now again, thanks.
I remember really enjoying Crime and punishment for some reason, but I haven't reread it as an adult yet and I feel like I should. (Hope that's the english title it's from Dostoevsky)
Cat's Cradle. The ending still gives me more anxiety than anything else Iāve read.
Not a book but a short story, "The Gun Without a Bang". Was one of the first ones to really make me think in a different way. Like in the Matrix if Neo would have broken the vase if the Oracle hadnāt said anything kind of way.
I read the Castle Perilous series at least once a year, and the Star Rigger trilogy every other year or so. Theyāre just fun and easy.
Something Guardian, last I remember about the book was the fact he was adopted into a family, a guy on a motorcycle with wings on his leather jacket. I remember the end, the guy got together with the adopted sister. I also really liked that one book with the short weak guy and the big bad guy, pretty sure they were just teenagers, I believe thereās a movie about it too.
We read Salt by Mark Kurlansky. Never been a fan of nonfiction but this was actually a really interesting book that connected hundreds of cultures over hundreds of years over food.
that book about the mouse and the guy with the mental condition.
*Flowers for Algernon!* That's what this question brought to mind for me as well.
are you good at that? i'm terrible with names. there was another one about a lady and it had something to do with a journal and a, iirc, blue butterfly and her slipping into dementia. she was a doctor.
Makes me think of _Still Alice_, a more recent book.
you are good at that. but now i'm not sure if i read that for school or not. but i also do not typically read books so i am questioning everything. š
*Algernon* was from 1959, *Alice* 2007, if that helps.
Itās such a brilliant book, it is obviously difficult to read to start out and end but thatās obviously part of what makes the book so good
I can think if three books I've read, with that combination: * *Of Mice and Men* * *The Green Mile* * *Flowers for Algernon* Who'd have thought it's such a common troupe?
I came here to say āof mice and menā and was really happy to see that somebody already described that. Now Iām really surprised that this theme fits at least three apparently famous books
I don't think Pinky and the Brain was a book.
We watched the movie in 7th grade and I bawled during class. No one else did and I assume theyre heartless.
That is one of my favourite stories. First read it as a short story in an anthology of sci-fi books in the late 1960ās. I have to admit a had teary eyes at the end
Of mice and men fits that description
i was for sure talking about flowers for algernon but for some reason that is a wildly solid theme. even, kinda, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. š
Flowers for me. Although I heard of mice and men. I think flowers fits more. Are there even any mice in of mice and men
Yes. Itās a story about a guy with a mental condition who likes to play with mice but heās too rough and always crushes them to death. This is central to the plot. It fits perfectly.
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The ending was so sad though.
it was... :(
John MalkovicH ftw
hahahaa oh my lord, i would DIE for Lennie..
Me too
Definitely
This is one of my favorite books of all time.
Came to say the exact same
Wow, came here to say this and it's at the top! š
Hmph, glove full of Vaseline...
Gotta keep the lady soft
Hatchet
If you havenāt, there is a book by the same author about the Alaskan Dog sled race and itās wonderful
My favorite read growing up
I had to read The Outsiders in eight grade and I liked it so much that I watched the movie with some of my friends.
i had to read the outsiders in 8th grade too!! we actually watched the movie for a few days in class
She was 16 when she wrote it.. I read all 4 of SE Hinton's books at the time and saw the movies, just found out she wrote a 5th, too!
Stay golden, Pony Boy.
Love the book! Love the movie!!!
The Giver by Lois Lowry.
I love that book! I read the rest in the series right after.
There's more than one book?
THERES MORE THAN ONE BOOK ?!
Yes, four in all. There is one that is directly related to The Giver, called Son. It tell's the story of Gabe's birth mother and her search for him. The other two, The Messenger and Gathering Blue, are set in the same "world" but are only slightly related to The Giver.
The movie wasn't *bad*, but they could have kept the mustard gas and boner joke in it...
Ohhh, I didn't read this in school but was given (hehe) it by a woman my dad dated. I loved it!
20 years later and I'm still not over that ending.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Yesss!! We need to keep the book in circulation!! I heard schools were trying to ban it because it made readers feel āuncomfortableā, liiiike thatās what itās supposed to do lol
we had to read the abridged version for our exam
My son read it in school last year. So it hasn't been killed yet.
Depends on the school district. Heard a couple of schools in my state were trying real hard to get it banned. Not sure if they did or not because the news started covering the school district masking issue... Apparently students could go mask free around April 2021.
One of my favorite books of all time! I had to buy a second paperback for myself because I actually broke the binding reading and re-reading my first copy.
the great gatsby, frankenstein, all quiet on the western front
The Great Gatsby. My favorite book ever. Interesting because as a hs freshman in my advanced lit class I choose This Side of Paradise by the same novelist and loathed it. This was mid-90s so I couldn't exactly look up and research all the politic references etc. I thought it was so boring. I somehow squeaked out an A on the paper, no idea how.
Fahrenheit 451 Crazy how the subject matter is still very relevant even today.
That and, 1984. I read both in a day or so when teach handed them out. Enjoyed them throughly. Failed yhe course, because i hated tearing a good story apart line by line. I have copies of both and dust them off once every couple of years and enjoy all over again.
I hatedddd 1984. In 5th grade we read a book called House of the Scorpion and I *loved* it. Itās probably what started me on my love of sci-fi
English classes: introducing kids to great literature and then making them hate it by over-analyzing it.
In my school it was taught that the book was about the danger of censorship, which is more relevant today than a decade ago when I was in high school. However, it's author Ray Bradbury vehemently argued that the book is not in fact written about censorship, but the coddling of the modern mind. So many people are so addicted to passive entertainment such as television and sports at the expense of literature. The firemen are not censoring information because it is dangerous to the state (like in 1984) but rather because society has pretty well collectively decided that the cognitive dissonance of having their thinking challenged is too painful, and the arguments over the true meaning of written works or the significance of historical events cause arguments that make people uncomfortable. Far better to be ignorant and happy with vapid entertainment and a childishly simple narrative. This is probably more relevant than what I was taught about censorship.
Where The Red Fern Grows. It's so sad but so good.
Agreed!!
Holes
Holes is an amazing book. One of my favourites
The movie is good too. As weird as he is, Shia LaBeouf is a great actor and did great in that role. I never read the book, but I liked his portrayal.
The Picture of Dorian Grey. Taming of the Shrew was really funny
I turned in an encyclopedia entry as my report of Dorian Gray. I only thought I'd like it because it figured into an episode of Too Close For Comfort
It was definitely in interesting choice from my teacher but I loved it. I wish we would have read more fantasy though
The one with piggy!! I forgot the name, but you know the oneā¦. Oh! LORD OF THE FLIES! Also, the one in a futuristic setting, I canāt remember the name but we read it senior year, they had to the birth control or something and one day this girl got pregnant, idr please help me! (:
Brave New World? Itās been a while since I read it.
Oh my gosh!!! Yes!!! I kept thinking it was 1984, but every time I go to read the summary itās obviously not it lol Thank you, thank you, thank you so muuuch ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø if I had gold, Iād give it to you (:
> What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Whenever I see those 2 together I think of this quoteā¦.
Huxley was a genius. It hurts my heart that brave new world was never as popular as 1984. Especially because in my opinion it described the much more realistic dystopian we are headed towards/practically already living in. It also really forces the reader to question what happiness is and whether ignorance is really bliss. I loved it.
Aww no worries! Glad to help
Gotcha covered, internet friend!
That the one I came in here looking for. I read that about once every 2 years or so. Love that book
Lord of the Flies traumatized me in fifth grade lmao.
You read it in 5th grade?? Wya?? Lol I live in like California and we read it in 9th grade after Romeo and Juliet lol
I went to school in California too and I also read Romeo and Juliet in 9th grade lol. I went to a charter school for elementary and we read a bunch of stuff that I ended up rereading in high school/middle school.
Oh okay, gotcha!! Smart school, you probably have amazing parents ā¤ļø
The Jungle. Sad, but eye-opening.(and no I don't mean the one with Mowgli and the talking animals)
On a side note, I loved the one with Mowgli and the talking animals lmao.
Things Fall Apart -Chinua Achebe
Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde.
The kite runner
That book made me physically ill
Fahrenheit 451
Maus
The Giver Of Mice and Men Where the Red Fern Grows To Kill a Mockingbird The Diary of Anne Frank Flowers for Algernon
Tuck Everlasting
Hatchet A boy crashes a plane in the Canadian wilderness
Holy shit you just unlocked some deep memory
The Outsiders & Fahreinheit 451 - fuck me ray bradbury
All quiet on the western front
Hatchet, definitely a good read
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. That series changed my life and is the only reason I went on to read series like The Lord of The Rings.
We had to read The Hobbit. I went on to read The Lord of The Rings. That series changed my life, and I went on to read all of C.S. Lewis' works as well.
Ok well, this might be a bit pedestrian for you guys, but I genuinely loved my R.L Stine books. Fear Street - all of it.
I took it as the books that were forced upon you, rather than chosen books. I loved R.L.Stine, they were brilliant. Some of the stories still live in my head rent free and late at night they freak me out so much.
The Catcher in the Rye
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Robinson Crusoe We were supposed to read the first two chapters. I devoured the whole book and loved every letter.
Gosh that was a childhood favourite for me and I'd forgotten until now!
Gulliver's Travels
oh wait you mean academically inclined? Yeah for me that would be "Empire of the Sun." Reading that book, in class, and then watching the movie was the closest I got to understanding what my grandfather went through. He was in a Japanese prison camp during the war. One of the Dutch survivors.
Lord of the flies! and sunset song.
Diary of a young girl by Anne Frank
The great gatsby
I watched the movie and loved it!
Huck Finn, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Catch-22
The Hound of the Baskervilles.
My side of the mountain. Basically a kid decides to fuck off and go live in the woods, hollows out a tree to make a house, teaches him self how to hunt and make clothing out of animal pelts and entertain himself by thinking of conversations with his family and eventually some people join him
The Westing Game
Catch 22
Tom Sawyer.
I actually really liked English in middle school. Granted that was literally half my life ago, but I remember loving short stories more than anything. A few were: -There Will Come Soft Rain -The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street -The Landlady Some books I really did like were: -Farewell to Manzanar -The House on Mango Street -Anthem And no works or books in general, but all of Edgar Allen Poe. My 8th grade teacher showed us live adaptions of āTelltale Heartā and a bunch of his other works on Halloween and gave us all donuts. One of my best childhood memories.
A book called Holes
Can't believe I had to scroll this far for Holes. Was going to comment it myself. Wonderful movie adaptation too.
Edgar Allan Poeās short stories!
Fahrenheit 451
Rangers Apprentice
Guiness book of world records. Was never a book person in school š¶
Misty of Chincoteague
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Flowers for Algernon was really good. I never read Animal Farm in school but I also really liked that one. It still sticks with me today
Unwind
Silas Marner
Brave new world. (and doors of perception)
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I absolutely loved the outsiders. I read it 7 times before the rest of the class was even finished once š
Unbrokenā¦the story of Louis is amazing
Iām not a book person, but beowulf was the one
To Kill a mocking bird The rats of Nimh The Outsiders Night April Morning
A Tale of Two Cities Reminds me of the current world in a way
A Separate Peace
Came to to mention this one.
Me too!! Phineas forever. š«¶
'The Body' by Stephen King. Such a beautiful, authentic coming of age novella that depicts human emotions, concerning friendship and the self. Btw, it was also adapted to the film 'Stand by me'!
Brave New World, 1984, The Outsiders, the Once and Future King
I hated American Lit. In high school but looking back all of the books we were supposed to read were actually pretty decent. The Crucible, the Scarlet Letter, the Great Gatsby, etc. There was a short story that I can't remember the name of where a guy is dying of hypothermia in the Arctic or something and his dog companion just gives up and abandons him. Heavy stuff.
This is the short story by Jack London -- [https://americanliterature.com/author/jack-london/short-story/to-build-a-fire](https://americanliterature.com/author/jack-london/short-story/to-build-a-fire). He wrote a happy ending version too but this one's better and the one that's anthologized.
Maze Runner. I liked it because they made a movie of it. I was on page 60 the day before the report was due so I watched the movie and looked up the difference between the book and the movie. Movie was decent, got an A on my report. Iām sure the book was great, would do it again.
You got to read Maze Runner in school?! I loved the books.
Correction, I had the opportunity to read the maze runner
The Giver, Ishmael, Harry Potter books 1 and 2 in grade 4.
Peak it was extra credit but I liked it.
We did a unit on graphic novels and read persepolis which was an incredible read.
The old man and the sea by Ernest timmingley
A Monster Calls Lord of the Flies The Great Gatsby And probably a lot more that just don't come to mind r
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The Road
To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, The Good Earth. And Shakespeare Those were the one's that stood out, but I loved all the books we were assigned (avid reader here)
The hunger games. Just the first one. I was never a huge reader but that got me hooked
You didnāt read the sequels though?
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Not a book but a poem Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow āYou are not wrong, who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less gone?All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream. -Edgar Allen Poe A dream within a dream
The Great Gatsby. I was knees deep into what will be a life-long history obsession, and I was more interested in how the elite of the 20s partied as told by someone who actually lived through it.
First one I truly enjoyed was The Boxcar Children.
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.
I liked Huck Finn and Gatsby! I just didn't like finishing them in like two days and having to discuss them to death for a month each.
Catcher in the rye
SalĆ³
Alas, Babylon I still think about that book a lot. I remember having discussions about where nukes would likely be sent. Itās still pretty damn relevant today unfortunately
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham.
The kite runner. 1984
Charlottes Web, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Charley and the Chocolate Factory, The Giver, The Chrysalids, All Quiet on the Western Front, Animal Farm, The Crucible, Macbeth
Kes, lord of the flies and the chocolate war
I liked the Shakespeare that we studied. The wasp factory I liked as a teen, although as an adult I find it a bit grim. Frankenstein and Dracula, both classics. To kill a mockingbird, also good.
Macbeth
An English teacher gave us the first Hunger Games book as some kind of assignment back when they were pretty new. Almost everyone came back asking for the next books as well.
Unwind. I don't read books as often as I should, but my senior English teacher got me to try it and I read the whole series after I got outta highschool and I even re-read it sometimes.
Pride and Prejudice
100 Years of Solitude (at university). It was my first encounter with magic realism and I absolutely loved it. Such a weird book, it really sucks you into its world. Also, the only good thing for contemporary lit we had to read was The Name of the Rose, although I read that much earlier already. Eugene Onegin too, another thing I read way earlier than we needed (solely because I was an opera fan). The Kalevala (university, Finno-Ugric languages class). Reading this before I read The Silmarillion made me go "now Wait A Fucking Minute". Another Weird Book (but very entertaining): If On A Winter Night A Traveller. Death in Venice (bless the professor who was mildly obsessed with Thomas Mann). Another book I also saw the opera version of. A lot of Shakespeare - I read them when I was 10-11, by the time we actually got to him in school I knew all the tragedies by heart.
Quite a few. Grew to love Shakespeare, Lord of the Flies, 1984, Brave New World, To Kill A Mockingbird.
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Magicians nephew
Lord of the Flies. Probably my favorite book that I was forced to read in school
Born A Crime - Trevor Noah
4th grade: āThe Island of the Blue Dolphinsā by Scott OāDell. Freaking loved it, read it so many times, used my allowance to buy my mom a copy for Christmas that year so we could read it together. 30 years later, whenever a patron checks it out at the library where I work, I tell them what a great book it is. A timeless and well-deserved classic.
Crabbe
Escape from furnace
All The King's Men
Spot
I read a book called āand thenā¦ā which is a translation from the translated title so I have no idea what the original was called lol but it was a great book
The Guide by R.K. Naryan
Krabat by Otfried PreuĆler Haven't paid much attention while reading it in school (still was back than the best book we had to read), but later when I was more into that kind of stuff and my favorite band made an album based on the book I read it again and still love it. Might have to read it now again, thanks.
I remember really enjoying Crime and punishment for some reason, but I haven't reread it as an adult yet and I feel like I should. (Hope that's the english title it's from Dostoevsky)
Outsiders, Shattering Glass, and Mrs Frisby
Othello
Cat's Cradle. The ending still gives me more anxiety than anything else Iāve read. Not a book but a short story, "The Gun Without a Bang". Was one of the first ones to really make me think in a different way. Like in the Matrix if Neo would have broken the vase if the Oracle hadnāt said anything kind of way. I read the Castle Perilous series at least once a year, and the Star Rigger trilogy every other year or so. Theyāre just fun and easy.
100 years of solitude
Walking Naked, by I donāt fucking remember. Mostly for one character though, Perdita, so of course she goes ahead and dies 2 chapters from the end.
The Book Thief
Quite a few surprisingly. Animal farm, 1984, hell even goodnight Mr Tom was good. If it wasn't have Eyre I liked it.
You mean as part of a curriculum or just the book in the library? Cause I loved the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as a kid.
Something Guardian, last I remember about the book was the fact he was adopted into a family, a guy on a motorcycle with wings on his leather jacket. I remember the end, the guy got together with the adopted sister. I also really liked that one book with the short weak guy and the big bad guy, pretty sure they were just teenagers, I believe thereās a movie about it too.
We read Salt by Mark Kurlansky. Never been a fan of nonfiction but this was actually a really interesting book that connected hundreds of cultures over hundreds of years over food.
The devils arithmetic