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10 Favorite Book I Read in School (Required Reading)
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Two of my favourite books are on this list- To Kill a Mockingbird and The Outsiders! I read them both in school as well. I enjoyed Macbeth too.
When my niece told me she was reading The Outsiders in middle school, I basically screeched in happiness. 😂 I told her I was jealous that she gets to experience the book for the first time.
Some GREAT books on here. I would have loved Macbeth so much more if I hadn’t spent two whole months dissecting every bit of it. Sigh. Thus A Midsummer’s Nights Dream is my favorite Shakespearan play. But the rest of these are awesome. The Outsiders is one of my favorites. And TKAM is my all time favorite.
I have intensely studied Macbeth too, so the more I learn about it the more I love it. And yay, another The Outsiders fan! The Outsiders has been a favorite book of mine since middle school.
Haha, I hated Hatchet and The Scarlet Letter – but I bet it depends a lot on who your teacher was too. I did LOVE Bridge to Terabithia.
So true. I was very lucky to have so many passionate teachers. They made me love reading and books so much.
Hi! I read so many of these too! I read Death of a Salesman instead of The Crucible. I don’t think I was ready for a lot of these in high school. I’ve had to reread a lot of classics that I read then because I don’t remember them or didn’t fully understand them ( I was still too hopeful lol).
Great list!
Leslie
Every time I hear the title Death of a Salesman, I think about Buffy’s long-winded speech in the episode called Restless, where she says “men and their sales,” LOL.
I read three of those in school, and totally loved To Kill a Mockingbird. I really enjoyed The Scarlet Letter and liked how it fit with the other books we read in American Lit class (all the books had some sort of prejudice in it).
If I taught high school English, I think these are the books I would always turn to.