Books From High School- for the Back To School Challenge

Two lists follow. Books I read in high school, and literature classics I know I haven’t read. For the challenge, I’m open to reading and blogging one from either list. Also happy to suggest to other participants. Even if I’ve read it, I’m open to re-reading, now that high school is a distant memory. And I know both lists are incomplete. Start suggesting books, and I’ll put them in the list. But remember, “school” starts right after Labor Day. So I’d like to get something going for September.

I Read It In High School

Great Expectations- Charles Dickens (disliked)

To Kill a Mocking Bird- Harper Lee (loved)

Anna Karenina- Tolstoy (loved)

1984- Orwell (brr! hated!)

Cry the Beloved Country- Alan Paton (liked)

The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald (liked, sort of)

Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte (neutral)

Wide Sargasso Sea- Jean Rhys (loved)

Most of the Odyssey (loved)

Most of the Illiad (liked)

The Metamorphosis- Kafka (liked, I think)

A whole lot of Shakespeare

Tom Sawyer (liked better than Huck Finn, which I also read)

Pudd’nhead Wilson- Twain

Uncle Tom’s Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Dracula- Bram Stoker (not for class, but read in high school)

Frankenstein- Mary Shelley

Like Water For Chocolate- Laura Esquivel

Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen (disliked)

Things Fall Apart- Chinua Achebe (liked)

I Haven’t Read: (These are the ones that have come up recently as gaps in my knowledge.)

A Prayer For Owen Meany- John Irving

Brave New World- Aldous Huxley

Wuthering Heights- Bronte

anything by Isabel Allende

Asimov

Executive decision: Moby Dick and A Tale of Two Cities are too big for a challenge, this year.