What was the *best* book they made you read in high school?

1984

to kill a mockingbird was great. there was this book we read about some guy named adam (i think?) during the start of the american revolution, i dont remember what it was called, but i enjoyed that one. my favorite though would probably have to be And then there were none by agatha christie. the teacher even gave us assignments where we had to act as investigators and make note of clues, and create dossiers on the characters and everything. it was fun

and even though i didnt like READING it, i loved the story in the illiad and the odyssy

Where the Red fern grows

Why you gotta hate on the histories?

Ok, perchance they are the weakest of his play genres. But they were also the earliest.

The best is hard to discern. In terms of most surprising, Romeo and Juliet as a freshman having never read shakespeare. Animal Dreams by suprised the hell out of me. Good stuff.

It wasnt required but a teacher once recommend me The Rules of Attraction and I dont think Ive ever managed to enjoy another book as much.

I can't think of much they made us read in school, we only did about 1/2 a book a term. Animal Farm was good though.

The Stranger - Camus

We had to read Siddhartha by Herman Hesse and The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro for an academic competition and I still love them.

My American lit class covered Farenheit 451 and A Brave New World.

I read Animal Farm while everyone else was discussing something else in freshman english.

Tess of the D'Urbevilles when I was in high school. Weirdly I wound up having to teach To Kill a Mockingbird once I became a high school teacher, and even though I hadn't thought much of it when I was in school, I loved it when I had to reread it to teach it. It's now one of my favourite books

The Outsiders.
I really liked that book.

To kill a mocking bird
The outsiders
The cipher in the snow (sad as fuck)

To Kill a Mockingbird. My copy is so well read at this stage it's falling apart.

Lord of the Flies was great, and then we did Romeo and Juliet which i hated.

I was in Advanced English in Middle School so I think that might count, my favorite book ever was "The Giver" by Lowry. I love all her books. Most of the Best books in High school I read no one forced me to read them.

Gatsby

This one of my favorite books when I was in high school.