I really liked To Kill a Mockingbird even though I barely remember it.
The Giver. I mean goddam.
I had to look that one up. Looks like I barely missed that one, I had just aged out of the target demographic when it was published. Huh, it won a Newbery, so it must be good! Wait, what the heck, this book sounds like it was huge, how did I now hear of this before? Ok, well, I guess I gotta pick up a copy now.
Oh wow, it’s going to be a great experience, enjoy!
I liked it too, can recommend
Brave New World. That teacher got me into some sci-fi & dystopian greats!
Both Lord of the Flies and 1984 were great.
1984 is an amazing book that is increasingly relevant
Quite a few:
I am David.
The Grapes of Wrath.
.1984.
A Fortunate Life.
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.
All quiet on the Western Front
Still one of my favorites all these years later.
Siddhartha
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.Metamorphosis.
And from my youngest days, “The Murder of The Math Teacher”
The Faraway Lurs. It started my love affair with fantasy.
HHGTTG - we had a pretty cool teacher
Der Junge im gestreiften Pyjama
It’s a good book, deeply unfortunate about it being inaccurate and harmful though.
Hatchet
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.
