Books You Read In School?

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What are some books that you had to read in school?

I don't remember much from Elementary aside from "Watsons Go To Birmingham" and "Because Of Winn-Dixie". In high school I read "The Scarlet Letter", "The Catcher In The Rye", "1984", "Animal Farm", "Macbeth", "Hamlet", and "To Kill A Mockingbird" (actually got to watch the film adaptation in class while I was reading it too)
 
iliad, romeo and juliet, robinson crusoe (almost died here), blindness (saramago), buncha other stuff... I've always liked to read the stuff school recommended tho, except robinson crusoe lol
 
Elementary
- Animal Farm
- Lord of the Flies
- Odyssey, The

Mid
- Romeo & Juliet (Watched the film adaptation concurrently; shotguns are long swords!)
- Diary of a Young Girl, The
- 1984
- Walden & Civil Disobedience
- House Divided, A

High
- Death comes for the archbishop
- Fahrenheit 451
- Good Earth, The (haven't read Sons)
- Hamlet (Macbeth for those in Weenie Hut Jrs)
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead
- Macbeth (Hamlet for those in Salty Spitoon)
- Tempest, The
- Mein Kampf (I was edgy fuck off; Much like Caulfield, the protagonist kinda sucks)
- Voltaire
- Red Badge of Courage, The
- Divine Comedy, The
- Scarlet Letter, The
- Penelopiad, The (I am not)
- Handmaid's Tale, The (a fan of Atwood)
 
I can only remember books I read in high school some of the books I read in high school were The Things They Carried, The Scarlet Letter, Ethan Fromme, an autobiography about Malcom X, and The Great Gatsby. there is one book I remember reading in Middle School and it was the giver
 
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Great Gatsby were the two I read that really stuck with me. I remember reading One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, To Kill A Mocking Bird, Catcher in the Rye, Othello, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Of Mice and Men, Heart of Darkness, A Streetcar Named Desire, As I Lay Dying, and probably a ton more in highschool.

I did a ton of reading in college with Frankenstein probably being my favorite there. I remember they required us to read the TOMS shoes guy book and uck. Standard "I was a small guy who got a small loan of a million dollars to start my business" thing. I'm really surprised I haven't read any Hemingway in my educational career. But I also haven't met anyone teaching who actually likes reading his stuff.
 
Frog and Toad Books for me :-> (jm happy that these books recently got a new 2D Animated TV Series adaptation by Apple TV +)
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Also "Wait Til Helen Comes" One of my Fav Ghost Stories by Mary Downing Hahn,The GooseBumps Books,The Baby-Sitters Club,the Original A.A. Milne Winnie the Pooh Novels (Publushed by A Dell Yearling Book),The Haunting of Cabin 13,The Camp Sunnyside Friends Books (Published by Avon Camelot) and one of my personal Favs!

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"The Peanut Butter and Jelly" Series publihsed by "Apple Paperback" Written by Dorothy Haas (with Illustrations done by jeffrey lindberg

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some of you may not know this yet,but a fun fact about me,as a kid,i was both "A Gamer" and "A Book Worm",crazy aint it.lol

As a Kid I also read alot of Garfield,Peanuts Comics and Calvin and Hobbes Comics on a Daily Basis,And I still read til this very day.lol

Infact,Thanks to our friends at "Internet Archieve" i've been revisiting some of these classic Books including some new Novels/Comics/Manga which I even made a huge list what I plan on reading.lol


So yep,as you can see here,I also have great taste in good literature,not just a Gamer.XD
 
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I don't remember any we had to, but I was sent to one of those gate schools in the mid-80s and the teacher there lent me a book to read that was about really gruesome bear attacks? It might be tame to me now, but I was 7 or 8 and remember really being spooked by it.
 
I don't think I could tell you about elementary. In Secondary, the ones that stuck out the most to me were:
  • La Celestina
  • El misterio de la cripta embrujada
  • La fundación
  • A Esmorga
  • Os dous de sempre
  • El Lazarillo de Tormes
  • Capitán Alatriste
Now I'm in university, undertaking English studies, and so far I had to read:
  • The Death of Ivan Ilich
  • As mulheres que amavam os videojogos
 
Honestly it was a forced duty to read and summary books throughout my whole academic life so I did read all the world classics that has a translation to my native language so I don't have to name each of them because everyone knows them lol. But perhaps what is bad is my country has tons of classic books already so also being forced to read world classics was too much for my brain. Around like 100 books per year is just wow yo lol. Relatively I was forced to read scientific and whatnot books during university way less!!! My country takes reading books too seriously and unlike Americans we don't shame people for being nerd for it, instead it's like what everyone should do here but we don't care if people don't care to read anyway.

However what I can say is I never read an American book as homework and during university American scientific books were what "never read" thing by my professors because "that's stupid" lol. Somewhat my country doesn't take Americans seriously in any way possible but I will avoid writing anything detailed about it. Instead Russian and Irish books are the most famous here.

What would be interesting to mention is despite it was a forced homework I liked some books that I would never read in my life. For example Moby Dick. I enjoyed the book more than I would. Clockwork Orange became one of my favourite books in my top 5. I appreciate the sense of humor of one of my teacher in high school to make me read The Devil's Dictionary and Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal lolol.
 
I was forced to read many books, but I read none as I don't like reading books with only text and no pictures. Books for children are ok, because they put cute pictures here and there, but hundreds of pages with only text are an absolute no-no for my brain, it never works regardless on how interesting the book is.
 
I was forced to read many books, but I read none as I don't like reading books with only text and no pictures. Books for children are ok, because they put cute pictures here and there, but hundreds of pages with only text are an absolute no-no for my brain, it never works regardless on how interesting the book is.
Any book has pictures when you imagine!!!

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Can't remember it was a long time ago since I quit school after 8th grade
 
The Mountain Wreath (or, long speeches about freedom, faith and destiny and then everyone murders each other or something. Think Hamlet but Balkan) and The Bridge on the Drina (or, random shit happens in, on, and around Drina... oh and there's a bridge in there, somewhere, maybe) are the ones I remember the most because both were a miserable slog to sit through.

Besides those, I know there were also tons of stuff from Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Pushkin, etc. (On a related note, the year is 2025, I think it's finally time to admit that Crime and Punishment was never good and like 90% of the shit that happens in there could easily be solved if Raskolnikov just took some antidepressants and touched grass.)
 

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