I liked Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I felt To Kill a Mocking Bird was only ok, although I got pretty confused in some of the court scenes.
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In High School
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea
Both are easy reads, but I found a lot of depth in them in my formative years. Things don't always go as planned, but we carry on.
In Uni
Catch-22, I genuinely laughed out loud at so much, it still helps me laugh at infuriating bureaucracy.
Fear and Loathing in LV.
Both for an Americal Lit elective, read everything I could find by HST afterwards.
Both Lord of the Flies and 1984 were great.
Quite a few:
I am David.
The Grapes of Wrath.
.1984.
A Fortunate Life.
Metamorphosis.
And from my youngest days, "The Murder of The Math Teacher"
Hatchet
Siddhartha
All quiet on the Western Front
Still one of my favorites all these years later.
The Crysalids
Still one of my favorites
I enjoyed that one too, I never forgot Sophie was it and her extra toes.
1984 is an amazing book that is increasingly relevant
Out of Mind by J. Bernlef really stuck with me. A story about a man suffering from Alzheimer's, his life seamlessly flowing over into memories. At times he suddenly awakens from them, realizes his current state, and a terrible emptiness engulfs him.
Island of the blue dolphins was an immense gateway for me.
Slaughterhouse-Five.
I specifically remember really liking bud not buddy, but also remember very little about it
Oh my God, I've never seen any reference of this book anywhere. I read it when I was super young and couldn't understand anything except some of the racial stuff (I'm mixed), read it again as a teenager and was so glad I did. I don't want to touch it now and ruin the nostalgia but I really loved it as a kid.
I don't really ever hear anyone else talk about it either. I'm guessing it was picked by my teacher and wasn't a common book to read in school. Ms. Hoke was wonderful. I'm white but went to magnet schools so I was surrounded by folks of all different races and financial backgrounds as a kid, and that book was probably my first introduction to the idea that some folks treat others differently for the color of their skin
Probably To Kill a Mockingbird and Fahrenheit 451 were my two favorites from my high school years.
Connected to another post here: Brothers Karamazov. It was a mandatory read for philosophy class when I was 17. It’s one off my favorite books.
We had many other mandatory reads, but most were from my home country and are not that internationally famous.
I enjoyed To Sir, With Love and The Crysalids.
Not to be That Guy, but I LOVED the catcher in the rye as a teenager. It spoke to my angsty teen heart.
That's the beauty of it, aint it? It perfectly captures teen angst, so much so that you see it very differently when you're a teen vs an adult.
The Odyssey.