What books or plays, etc were you forced to read for school?

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and most importantly did you like any of these books that you were required to read?

me i had to read
Jane Eyre
1948
Hamlet
The Bluest Eye 
The Awakening
Wuthering Heights
Farenheit 451
Bud Not Buddy
Their Eyes Were Watching God
King Lear

there's a whole lot more but out of this list i only liked Hamlet and Farenheit 451 .

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

USA;  Macbeth;  King Lear;  The Mill on the Floss;  A Tale of Two Cities;  Native Son;  Silas Marner;  A Separate Peace;  Treasure Island;  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.  Two that I hated were Walden and Robinson Crusoe.

WillLynn 1 · Answer

Miss Jane Pittman
Huckleberry Finn
The Scarlet Letter
Wuthering Heights
Little Women
Candide
Romeo and Juliet
Othello
Macbeth
Julius Cesar
The Iliad
The Great Gatsby
Oedipus Rex
Lysistrata
The Catcher in the Rye
Animal Farm
The Hobbit
To Kill a Mockingbird
Walden
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men

Those were the ones I had to read in High School. I couldn't stand them then but now that I'm older, I've actually gone back and reread most of them and enjoyed quite a few. Steinbeck is an incredible author. Unfortunately there were still a couple that I disliked even more.

Giselle · Answer

I'm a Senior (adv.)
-Julius Caesar
-Our Town
-Many Edgar Allan Poe stories
-To Kill a Mockingbird
-Farenheit 451
-Of Mice and Men
-Frankenstein
-Christmas Carol
-Animal Farm
-Macbeth
-The Crucible
-excerpt from The Iliad and The Odyssey
-The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

The books I liked the most was:To Kill a Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451, The Lion, The Witch, and the wardrobe(I read the other six books in the series outside of class and I love them all!), and Of Mice and Men.

jukebox · Answer

Animal Farm
Romeo and Juliet
A Separate Peace
Of Mice and Men
Farenhiet 451
Ethan Frome
The Awakening
Othello
Macbeth
The Poisonwood Bible
The Heart of Darkness
Good Omens
Neverwhere
Life of Pi

I liked Good Omens and Life of Pi. I love Ray Bradbury so Farenheit 451 was cool too.

Jenn · Answer

Lord of the Flies 
The Odyssey 
Romeo and Juliet 
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 
Born Confused 
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 
To Kill a Mockingbird

My Flying Toast OWNS Yours! · Answer

Plato's Republic- Horrible
The Prince by Machiavelli- See above
Voltaire- ok
Their Eyes Were Watching God- Bad
A Tale of Two Cities- ok
Secret Life of Bees- good
The Odyssey- horrible
Brave New World- good
Dante's Inferno- good
Romeo and Juliet- ehh
Ender's Game- Great


And I'm only a Sophmore!

Eileen · Answer

You read Jane Erye? Two girls in a book read it. Well, I had to read The School Story  by Andrew Clements and Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe.

MOLLY :)♥ · Answer

Old brown Suitcase (Or something to that effect)
Titanic
In the Heat of the Night
The Hobbit
A Midsummer Nights Dream
Romeo and Juliet
The Chrysalids
Farenheit 451
Slaughterhouse 5
Henry IV (maybe V?? idr)
Handmaid's Tale
1984

And some more but I can't remember the titles
I liked Slaughterhouse 5 when I read it on my own, but it was awful to read in school. 1984 was okay but that's it.

Anonymous · Answer

This year (in grade 11 adv)...
The Merchant of Venice
Pride and Prejudice
The Chrysalids (reading now)
The Horse Whisperer (reading now)
The Sun Also Rises (summer reading)
Catcher in The Rye(summer reading)

Misha A · Answer

Hamlet
Macbeth
Scarlet Letter
Lord of the Flies
The Mountains (some sort of saga aboutevil Tripods)
The Red Pony

(None of which I enjoyed, by the way.)

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