Books you've read for school.

[BECCALICIOUS!]

What are some of your favorites/least favorites???

Favorites:
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Left To Tell - Imaculee Ilibigiza
This I Believe - a collection of essays; multiple authors
All But My Life - Gerda Weissman Klein
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
I Heard the Owl Call My Name - Margaret Craven

Least Favorites:
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Peace Like A River - Leif Enger
Beloved - Toni Morrison
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Please Stop Laughing At Me - Jodee Blanco

[Rainbow Dash]

My fav was John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men

[Nicole!]

I have read (that I can remember)

-The Odyssey
-To Kill a Mockingbird
-Of Mice and Men
-Julius Caesar
-Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

[The Morrigan]

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Private Peaceful - Michael Morpurgo
The Tulip Touch - Anne Fine
The Tempest - Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare

These are the only ones I can remember but there's probably been more.

[Rainbow Dash]

oooh I loved To Kill a Mokingbird also

I've never been a huge fan of Shakespeare, I think it's the puns I can't stand :|

[Berries and Cream]

For 9th grade:
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare (again)
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Zoya's Story by John Follain and Rita Cristofari

We've finished Romeo and Juliet, and I think we're gonna start Great Expectations by Charles Dickins

In eight grade:
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep (for Academic Decathlon)

seventh grade:
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Sixth:
A Single Shard by Linda Park
Through the years earlier, I have also been required to read James and the Giant Peach by Rolad Dahl, Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, Island of the Blue Dolphin by Scott O'Dell, and some others I can't remember.

[noise94]

I'm a complete book worm, but I've yet to like a book we've read for school. They're always so cliche. Really hated Roll of Thunder, especially.

[Spellbound]

I loved To Kill A Mockingbird.

We're reading Huck Finn now and I don't particularly like it.

[llamasliketoparty]

Right now I'm reading Lolita and I just finished Dante's Inferno for my ap lit class. I hated reading Huckleberry finn and Cry, The Beloved Country.

[Dez]

I don't really remember all of the books I read, but I remember:

Night by Elie Wiesel was one of my favorite books read.
The Giver by Lois Lowry wasn't one of my favorites when I had to read it, but then I thought over its meaning and liked it.
Forged by Fire was an okay book...

[Stephanie]

Not books as such, but plays I have enjoyed are Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare and Journey's End by R.C. Sherriff.

[Lynne]

least:
TKM
the crusibles (worst..)
romeo and Juliet

Favorite:
ones that i got to choose myself!

[Marshmellow]

I didn't necessarily enjoy reading my favorites, but I did 'enjoy' per say writing the essays we wrote about each essay on certain novels compared to others. (Yeah, I know it's odd to say that I'd 'enjoy' writing an essay, but let's just say that some novels have better themes than others.)

Favorites:
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (11th grade)
1984 - George Orwell (12th grade)
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (11th grade)
The Giver - Lois Lowery (8th grade)
Night - Eli Wiesel (10th grade)
Antigone - Sophocles (10th grade)
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë (12th grade)
Dante's Inferno - Dante Alighieri (12th grade)
Native Son - Richard Wright

Least Favorites:
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (11th grade)
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger(10th grade)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (9th grade)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred D. Taylor(8th grade)
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison (12th grade)

Between third and twelfth grade we read a lot of books, and this isn't even a beginning list. xD In general, I'm a huge bookworm, I just don't like reading books for school. :/ Sometimes I like their messages, but to say I enjoy reading them, well, that'd be a lie. Now, if I were to be reading them on my own time and all, then I might enjoy them. Chances are, if we were reading Harry Potter in class I wouldn't like it. (Actually, we did read the first Harry Potter book in sixth grade.) In general, though, I'm a big fan of books with intriguing, interesting, and meaningful themes.

A lot of the books we've read in school, though, I'd love to re-read on my own time, just to see the difference.

[LittleFish]

9th Grade:

The Odyssey by Homer - eew
Animal Farm by George Orwell - good
Beowulf by ... Some guy from a long time ago - EEW
Anthem by Ayn Rand - Loved it!
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - Strange, but good concept
Lord of the Flies - weird, but again, good concept
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Good
Night by Elie Wiesel - Great, but very sad
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare - the original teen romance... Eew

10th Grade (so far):

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas - Good, but way too long
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck - Meh
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - Amazing, but soooo sad
One Flew Over the Kuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey - very funny, a good allegory

And we're going to read For Whom the Bell Tolls soon... Not looking forward to it. I hear it's very boring.

[Tara.]

I like Romeo and Juliet. And Number the Stars. Dicey's Song.

Never did like To Kill a Mockingbird.

[Release9]

I liked several books:
Esperanza Rising
Goodnight Mr. Tom
Kira-Kira
Tuck Everlasting
Where The Red Fern Grows
Diary of Anne Frank
Myth of the Summer Moon
Fahrenheit 451
And I really don't like these:
The Call of the Wild
The Giver
Out of the Dust
A Single Shard
Ugh...A Single Shard has got to be one of the most action-less novels ever written.
Anything with a Newbery Logo on it is usually horrible. But I did like The Witch Of Blackbird Pond, A Wrinkle In Time, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, and Princess Academy

[Elizabeth]

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Dubliners
The Grapes of Wrath
To Kill a MockingBird
Romeo ande Juliet
Diary of Anne Frank
The Jungle
Night
Lord of the Flies
The Great Gatsby
Huckleberry Finn
The Crusibles
Of Mice and Men
The Odyssey
Brave New World

Those are the books I've read so far in high school.

[Ellie]

Favourites;
The Color Purple
Goodnight Mr Tom
The Kite Runner
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men

Neither liked/disliked;
Hamlet
A Christmas Carol

Least favourites;
The Scarlet Letter (absolutely hated it xD)

[Sea Monkey]

I have read:-


Romeo & Juliet- Shakespeare
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Kenzuki's Kingdom- Michael Morpurgo
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Private Peaceful - Michael Morpurgo

Most of them were in the Junior part of school.

[GleeLover514]

Where the Red Fern Grows (Amazing book, buy the ending is soooo sad)
The Giver (Totally Amazing :O)
The Outsiders
The Odyssey
I'm going to be reading Romeo and Juliet next semester
I think that's really all for now, or at least all that I can remember.

[ColorGuardChick]

liked:
Romeo And Juliet - Shakespeare. 9th grade. Loved it.
Night - Elie Wiesel. 10th grade. One of the best books i've ever read.
Anthem - Ayn Rand. 10th grade. very short novella, only 12 chapters. flew through it, didn't want it to end.
Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom. 10th grade. very touching and captivating.

disliked:
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury.
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens.
^^ both 9th grade. hated Fahrenheit 451 more, but neither were at all enjoyable.

[Verità]

My favorites were probably:
~Othello
~The Things They Carried
~Lord of the Flies
~Brave New World
~The Scarlet Letter

[bitesize]

The bookseller of Kabul.

[losing touch.]

hound of the baskervilles by arthur conan doyle
holes by louis sachar
of mice and men by john steinbeck
an inspector calls by J. B. Priestley
curious incident of the dog in the night-time by mark haddon

there are more but i can't remember the titles.. :/

then shakespeare obviously..
much ado about nothing
romeo and juliet
the merchant of venice
a midsummer night's dream

[Saphire]

Personally, I think it's impossible to enjoy any book that you have to do at school because you analyse it SO much that it takes all of the entertainment factor out of it.

Prime example.. Lord of the Flies - Eurgh.

[MegaMadness]

To The Wild Sky, Harry Potter and The Philosphers Stone, Lockie Leonard, The Machine Gunners.
I've actually enjoyed all of those books.

[Power Cosmic]

Ooh, A Journey's End, A Catcher in the Rye and anything by Shakespeare, some of Donne's metaphysical poetry and more= things I've loved. I was always into my literature ^^.

The weakly written, factually inaccurate anti-drug/rock that we were forced to read are things I that I loathed every minute of and ended up reading my own book behind it. ¬_¬.

[DeadlySin]

Kindred and To Kill a Mocking bird.
DON'T ASK ME WHO THEY ARE BY. I'm not smart lol and don't rememeber.

Things fall apart
I HATED. Ugh. Who the hell can remember all those crazy names?

[Kanye West]

In elementary School I remember reading Twelfth Night and James and the Giant Peach

In high school, we read: Alias Grace; The Giver; Oedipus Rex; Hamlet; Romeo and Juliet; To Kill a Mockingbird; and a few other forgettable titles

In university, I read: Oryx and Crake, Frankenstein, The Golden Spruce, The White Bone, and Silent Spring.

I'm not a huge fiction fan, and the only ones I would choose to read again are the Shakespeare titles, and Oryx and Crake.

[Cabron]

I despise The Outsiders and Touching Spirit Bear, both of which we had to read for school. And yes, we're almost in high school. -__-;; I'm pretty sure our teachers think we're illiterate.

[Floriferous]

Completed:
The Giver
The Odyssey
The Outsiders
Where the Red Fern Grows

Reading Now:
Romeo and Juliet (Love, Love, LOVE this book O.o)
Animal Farm (I totally hate this book, personally I'd rather watch grass grow then read it. Although the writing style is amazing)

[littlemimus]

right now im reading atlas shrugged. great book

[Spontaneous Smile]

My favorites were Thr3e by Ted Dekker and To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee were my favorites.

I don't care for anything by shakespeare very much. Not that it's bad; it's just I don't like to have to think really hard just to understand what they are saying. I understand it, but it's hard to keep up with when you have to think about the dialect.

[Kitty.]

I recently read The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom. It was pretty good.

[Chromata]

Favorites:
Invisible Man (11th grade)
The Awakening (11th grade)
The Bluest Eye (11th grade)
Romeo and Juliet (9th grade)
Catcher in the Rye (10th grade)
The Secret Life of Bees (10th grade)
Gone With the Wind (in preparation for 11th grade)
A Separate Peace (10th grade)
To Kill a Mockingbird (8th grade)

Least favorites:
Moby Dick (11th grade)
The Once and Future King (12th grade)
Things Fall Apart (12th grade)
Touching Spirit Bear (6th or 7th grade)
Spoon River Anthology (8th grade)
Walden (11th grade)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (11th grade)
Our Town (10th grade)

I used to despise Lord of the Flies, The Scarlet Letter, and Le Petit Prince (yes, in the original French). However, once I had either read the book again (LOTF) or finished the book (the other two) I warmed a little bit to them.

[kenzie]

9th Grade
To Kill a Mockingbird
Of Mice and Men
A Separate Peace
Fahrenheit 451
Romeo & Juliet
Oedipus Rex

10th Grade
A Tale of Two Cities
Lord of the Flies
MacBeth
Antigone
Things Fall Apart

11th Grade
In Cold Blood
Grapes of Wrath
Huckleberry Finn
Great Gatzby

12th Grade
Crime and Punishment
Hamlet
Scarlet Letter

Those in bold were my favorites.

[Reverie.]

Favorites:
Of mice and men
Friedrich
Great Expectations

Least favorites:
1984 (hated it..the film made me cringe too...accurate though)

plays:
Merchant of venice
Macbeth
I'm a minger
A taste of honey

[craz33me]

To Kill A Mockingbird is my favorite! (I've read it 7 times, and twice for school)
Romeo and Juliet
Of Mice and Men

This isn't really a book but it's an essay..
I can't think of the name but it's by Jane Goodall.

[kag22]

Favorites:
Of Mice and Men
Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird

And I love anything by shakespeare, but my fave is Hamlet

[Leela]

I really haven't read many books for school but here's the short list:
Favourites:
- Room 13
- Of Mice and Men
-Frankenstein
-The Tempest

Hated:
- Romeo and Juliet (ugh, just ugh)