Books You Read In School?

[diet_orange]

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)

 

[thumbsdown]

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

 

[FarJyyUir]

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)

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I remember...

El Lazarillo de Tormes, Los Árboles Mueren De Pie and Der Kleine Vampir. The rest were all textbooks.

 

[Lg42inchtv]

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

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

The Tale Of Two Cities
The Count of Monte Cristo
And some collection of Greek and Roman mythology

 

[Soupmancer]

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.

 

[Wechseln]

No clue. I was obsessed with the X-Files Novels tho, they were at my highschool's library and I read them whenever a teacher failed to come to class.

 

[thumbsdown]

No clue. I was obsessed with the X-Files Novels tho, they were at my highschool's library and I read them whenever a teacher failed to come to class.

my mother loves x-files as well!

 

[ChronoArcaile2025]

Frog and Toad Books for me (jm happy that these books recently got a new 2D Animated TV Series adaptation by Apple TV +)

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!

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

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

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So yep,as you can see here,I also have great taste in good literature,not just a Gamer.XD

 

[bjork]

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.

 

[Aziamuth]

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

 

[qw90700]

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.

 

[nobitakun]

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.

 

[qw90700]

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!!!

lolol

 

[TinRattler]

Can't remember it was a long time ago since I quit school after 8th grade

 

[nobitakun]

Any book has pictures when you imagine!!!

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Your brain works very differently than mine

 

[Raidou Kuzunoha]

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.)

 

[qw90700]

Your brain works very differently than mine

We are people of different worlds!!! Alas alas!!! lol

 

[FarJyyUir]

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.

Mycoskie is such a cunt.
A relative of mine gave me that god awful book, I waited until my brother invited me over to his place & chucked it in the fire pit.
Some books deserve to be burned, especially those written by pretentious fart sniffers.
That's right I used the HARD R.

 

[Isegrim]

Too many to remember. I'll just post my two most enjoyable reads from high school.

The Hobbit - Decades before the Peter Jackson movies, we were already die hard fans of Tolkien as kids thanks to a certain Milton Bradley board game based on Ralph Bakshi's little known animated adaptation of The Lord of The Rings. That board game was the source of a multitude of screams, outrages, sadistic delights and tears in my family, it's one of those games that can make your friends morph into mortal enemies in the space of one afternoon. In my family, my uncle and my siblings kept playing this game and it often ends with someone storming off or someone in tears. Because of that board game, my older brother bought every Tolkien book and a lore dictionary on his work. So when my teacher to my delight assigned the Hobbit on our book report reading list, it was like Brer Rabbit being thrown into a briar patch. Naturally, I made a stellar report on it even though my classmates kept making fun of the book and inventing unspeakable obscenities from the title alone.

Animal Farm - This was just a random book that I found from the stack of books lying in our house. I loved the story for some reason, read it, re-read it and read reviews and some critical analysis on the work and then read the book all over again. When it came up on our reading list, it was just like the hobbit all over again and it was actually difficult to stuff into the timed essay everything I've collected over the years into it. Of course I got high marks for it natch...

 

[ChronoArcaile2025]

Your brain works very differently than mine

As a book Worm,I love both Childrens Books/Novels with Pictures and Some with Text (But mostly Picture Books) it depends on how you use your imagination to imagine the character in those sceneros which I found creative ways to expand my mind on how I can imagine characters with Text Alone,infact the Books I listed in this thread are some I highly reccommend (With both Pictures and TEXT),for example "The Peanut Butter and Jelly" Books have Beautiful Illustrations with TEXT

but either way,well all have our own opinions:P

But for some amazing Childrens Books with Just Pictures on every page combined with Cute Text,I highly reccommend the "Gabby: God's Littlle Angel" Series:P

 

[nobitakun]

As a book Worm,I love both Childrens Books/Novels with Pictures and Some with Text (But mostly Picture Books) it depends on how you use your imagination to imagine the character in those sceneros which I found creative ways to expand my mind on how I can imagine characters with Text Alone,infact the Books I listed in this thread are some I highly reccommend (With both Pictures and TEXT),for example "The Peanut Butter and Jelly" Books have Beautiful Illustrations with TEXT

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but either way,well all have our own opinions:P

But for some amazing Childrens Books with Just Pictures on every page combined with Cute Text,I highly reccommend the "Gabby: God's Littlle Angel" Series:P


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Yeah, these are nice. I don't care they are for children, if the story is fun I can read something like that. Plain text is very boring, and I have to read a lot for my job, I don't want to do it for leisure as well :(

 

[qw90700]

As a book Worm,I love both Childrens Books/Novels with Pictures and Some with Text (But mostly Picture Books) it depends on how you use your imagination to imagine the character in those sceneros which I found creative ways to expand my mind on how I can imagine characters with Text Alone,infact the Books I listed in this thread are some I highly reccommend (With both Pictures and TEXT),for example "The Peanut Butter and Jelly" Books have Beautiful Illustrations with TEXT

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but either way,well all have our own opinions:P

But for some amazing Childrens Books with Just Pictures on every page combined with Cute Text,I highly reccommend the "Gabby: God's Littlle Angel" Series:P


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I prefer fiction without visuals because thus I will have imagination freedom to imagine how stuff looks like, and no offense but my imagination tend to be cooler than original illustrations about fictions.
lol - said the guy imagined Severus Snape as a black man lolol

 

[Heinzu]

I never really read much at school that wasn't very cool and people always made fun of those who read. It was a strange school where I was not very nice.