Breakfast of Champions...which then inspired me to read all of Vonnegut's books

The Giver

Lord of the Flies

Sex education!

All of them. Otherwise my education would've been incomplete.

Three Players of a Summer Game.

A short story that became the play, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

Animal Farm.

The Good Earth

Great Expectations

Pretty much all of them

Specialised in Eng Lit at uni because of all the great books I was introduced to from Chaucer to ‘modern’ novels (they’re historic now 😄). Can’t remember too many I didn’t get to like eventually.

Plays: Death of a Salesman, MacBeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet

Lord of the Flies, with honorable mention to Brave New World

I really enjoyed Frankenstein (minus the tedious description of the mountains in the middle of it).

A fortunate life by Albert Facey

Of Mice and Men

Anna Karenina

The old classic, a tale of two cities...

All the Kings men

Lord of the flies - resonated with me alot, as i was being bullied in primary school at that time, i related to Ralph alot, the author was spot on in understanding how young boys think, the book gave me a deeper understanding of mob mentality.

Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joseph Conrad.

Every. Single. One.

Lord of the flies.

i was homeschooled so my dad read the bible all day

I have a BA in Literature and I read a lot of books in college that I wouldn't have read on my own. One summer I took a Black Fiction class and read Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison (1952) which I never would have read and enjoyed it tremendously.

Night.

That I can remember lol. A Tale of Two Cities, The Grapes of Wrath, A Brave New World,

The Hound of Baskerville

Most of the classics like Pride and Prejudice, Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, A Little Princess etc. And Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. After that I read most of Roald Dahl's books.

Most of them. I wanted to read all but it was hard to get them. Trying to find them was the most stressful part and the reason why I hated compulsory reading.

A kestrel for a knave
Great expectations
Lord of the flies

Not a book book but short story compilations. The Monkey's Paw (W.W. Jacobs), The Visitor (Roald Dahl) and The Open Window (H.H. Munro) were favorites.

Where’s Wally

Far from the Madding crowd - Thomas Hardy
Brave new world - Aldous Huxley
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
To mention a few.

All stayed with me for various reasons over the years

The Count of Monte Cristo

Actually, all the books I was required to read, I'm grateful to have read. But that's the one that leaps to mind.

None!! Our assigned books to read and report on were picked by the teacher nothing a high school boy or girl would ever read on their own.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, it helped by cheating and just watching the movie!!

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

aaaaaawww required i missed that one, no those books, i chose to read in my school library, when i was in primary school

None of them. I think we were suppse to read The Great Cuntsby at some point too.

Oh - I recall enjoying several books that were part of our English Literature syllabus:

No special order, but -

Factual: Thor Heyardhal's The Kon-Tiki Expedition - his account of how he and his team proved the possibility of ancient South Americans having used balsa-wood rafts with very basic, single square sails, to cross the Pacific to islands in its West.

The rest fiction:

H.G. Wells' The History of Mr. Polly. An imaginary biography of a haberdasher struggling to make ends meet from his not very successful shop, his slowly dying marriage, and his eventual escape.

John Meade-Faulkner's Moonfleet. Though fiction, and chosen by a remote examinations board, this novel about smuggling chimed with our school for it being set in our locality.(Thomas Hardy's novels would have done that, too, but none were in our syllabus.)

William Golding's The Lord Of The Flies. The original, in which the boys are all from English schools. It was Hollywood that translated the film version to American for no sensible reason. Its start is not very credible: it relies on all of the adults who had been on the aeroplance having died in the crash but all the children had survived unscathed. Nevertheless it is a chilling account of the boys attempting to survive despite being two groups from very different backgrounds, cooped up together on an otherwise unihabited island.


Previously to these, one book was called something like The Rose and The Crown ? By Thackery? I recall very little about it - as you will have guessed - but it was likely satirical, a comic story of some fictitious nation's royal family set some centuries ago. I have just tried to track it down but there are many novels and plays combing the two nouns; and without recalling either novel or novellist correctly, it was a lost cause.

We did not study any of Charles Dickens' novels; nor any American literature; but I think some American classics like Uncle Tom's Cabin[/] and [i]One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest are now in some UK school literature syllabii. Nor any translations of other nations' works.


The complete five-year course also had Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth, and George Bernard Shaw's drama version of the Aesop fable Androcles and the Lion.

Oddly, Wikipedia cites the last as



Wiki's real biography shows Shaw was born in Dublin; moved to London in adult life; had dual British and Irish citizenship. Although he wrote the screen-play for a Hollywood film version of Pygmalion he was not American and none of his writings are part of American literature, as the reference implies.

Mona the ballerina ( I don’t remember the title) it was something like that, it was a mouse dressed as a ballerina

I don't remember which ones I was required to read because I enjoyed reading a lot.

Things fall apart by chenua achebe

None 😅

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