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
Both Lord of the Flies and 1984 were great.
Brave New World. That teacher got me into some sci-fi & dystopian greats!
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.
Der Junge im gestreiften Pyjama
It's a good book, deeply unfortunate about it being inaccurate and harmful though.
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.
Siddhartha
Hatchet
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
Island of the blue dolphins was an immense gateway for me.
Probably To Kill a Mockingbird and Fahrenheit 451 were my two favorites from my high school years.
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.
Neuromancer The Things They Carried The Catcher in the Rye
Slaughterhouse-Five.
The Crysalids
Still one of my favorites
I enjoyed that one too, I never forgot Sophie was it and her extra toes.
The owl who called my name, catch-22, invisible man, Lord of the flies and so many more.
I specifically remember really liking bud not buddy, but also remember very little about it
Oh my God, I've never seen any reference of this book anywhere. I read it when I was super young and couldn't understand anything except some of the racial stuff (I'm mixed), read it again as a teenager and was so glad I did. I don't want to touch it now and ruin the nostalgia but I really loved it as a kid.
I don't really ever hear anyone else talk about it either. I'm guessing it was picked by my teacher and wasn't a common book to read in school. Ms. Hoke was wonderful. I'm white but went to magnet schools so I was surrounded by folks of all different races and financial backgrounds as a kid, and that book was probably my first introduction to the idea that some folks treat others differently for the color of their skin
Connected to another post here: Brothers Karamazov. It was a mandatory read for philosophy class when I was 17. It’s one off my favorite books.
We had many other mandatory reads, but most were from my home country and are not that internationally famous.
I enjoyed To Sir, With Love and The Crysalids.
Out of Mind by J. Bernlef really stuck with me. A story about a man suffering from Alzheimer's, his life seamlessly flowing over into memories. At times he suddenly awakens from them, realizes his current state, and a terrible emptiness engulfs him.
The Odyssey.
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