What is your favorite book that "they" made you read?
 

If I had to pick a favorite book that "they" made me read; you know the summer assigned reading list you were given at various points(hopefully)during your education.

If I had to say, it would probably be To Kill a Mockingbird, Grapes of Wrath second. Red Badge of Courage was okay, but sort of hammered you over the head with its symbolism, or maybe that was more the instructors fault.

Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye"...

Hands down: To Kill a Mockingbird

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cry the beloved country. fortunately i moved from one school to another and missed silas marner. forty two years later i still haven't read it yet. i still read huck finn and tom sawyer every couple of years.

roux, they made you read catcher? as i recall that was one of the banned books, at least in boston anyway.

Great Expectations. I hated it at first, but then got really into it, and loved it.

those phoneys made me read it, so I sat on the floor and wrote "Fuch You" in crayon right at knee level, just to mess with their heads. Did not care much for that one, Catcher in the Rye.

nobody made me read anything... they tried to but i ignored it...

I had to read Snow Crash and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress for a sci-fi lit class. Also kept my symbolic logic books, i like doing the problems in them.

Heart of Darkness

My g/f "suggested" i read Pema Chodron's books, along with some Osho. She was right. Pema rocks.

Shakespeare.

gatsby

One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Emil i Lönneberga by Astrid Lindgren.

+1! Gatsby was awesome.

Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye

No particular book. At an early age I decided I liked to read. Thousands of books later, the following concept haunts me:

"So many books, so little time".

Moby Dick.

"Catcher in The Rye" was probably the best because its one of the few I almost read the whole way through. I was never required to read "To kill a mocking bird", "grapes of wrath", etc etc.

I also really liked the select passages I had to read from "Walden"(although that was for college and not highschool)