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Lord of the Flies
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The Catcher in the Rye
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Great Expectations
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The Old Man and the Sea
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Of Mice and Men
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Romeo and Juliet
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Heart of Darkness
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Beowulf
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Animal Farm
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Ethan Frome
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A Separate Peace
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The Red Badge of Courage
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Wuthering Heights
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Hamlet
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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Julius Caesar
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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Silas Marner
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The Outsiders
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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Macbeth
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The Call of the Wild
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Frankenstein
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A Tale of Two Cities
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1984
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Crime and Punishment
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Fahrenheit 451
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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The Pearl/The Red Pony
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The Pearl
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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The Crucible
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Robinson Crusoe
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Death of a Salesman
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The Fountainhead
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A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1)
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The Metamorphosis
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Night
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Don Quixote
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Othello
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As I Lay Dying
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The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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A Farewell to Arms
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The Sun Also Rises
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Emma
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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Babbitt
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The Canterbury Tales
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Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
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3.68 avg rating — 171,687 ratings
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Madame Bovary
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The House on Mango Street
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3.69 avg rating — 225,382 ratings
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Billy Budd, Sailor
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Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Persuasion
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Siddhartha
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Jane Eyre
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The Pilgrim's Progress
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The Yearling
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The Stranger
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Brave New World
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3.88 avg rating — 1,261,282 ratings
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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The Jungle
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Cry, the Beloved Country
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The Lovely Bones
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Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 442,106 ratings
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War and Peace
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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The Cherry Orchard
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Doctor Zhivago
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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Invisible Man
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Waiting for Godot
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The Odyssey
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Candide
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The Mill on the Floss
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Pride and Prejudice
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Fathers and Sons
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The Secret Life of Bees
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4.10 avg rating — 1,341,561 ratings
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King Lear
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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Wringer
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Taras Bulba
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Flowers for Algernon
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
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The Betrothed
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Holes (Holes, #1)
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Like Water for Chocolate
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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Richard III
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A Christmas Carol
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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Johnny Got His Gun
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The Pigman (The Pigman, #1)
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Reading any book purely because a curriculum demands it is never a good way to treat literature.


I disliked with a passion having to read this book. It was so tedious to me!"
This is our county's Big Read this year. Guess who's taking a year off from participating?


I absolutely hated this book, but some the books on the list i really enjoyed. Like To Kill a Mockingbird and P&P. How could anyone hate those?





True, now they are, but when you are made to read them at too young an age then the mere title brings back bad memories.


Worst book ever? Heart of Darkness. Reading that was like pulling teeth for me...

Not all of them, but a good number of them, yea. That is the thing about reader taste, what one likes, another may not. And I am sure the "being forced to read it," often left a bit of a trauma too. I know there are books that, had I not been forced, I may have at least appreciated. Having that trauma, there is no way in hell I am touching them again.

I did not put it, but I wish I had. Salinger owes me for the time I lost on that book. But hey, that is me. As librarians say, every book its reader, and every reader its book.

I did notice a few titles in Spanish, including one or two I was forced to read as well.

I agree. I remember hating most of the required reading back in high school (with the exception of Dickens, Shakespeare, and Bronte). But not anymore. I love most of them now.

Yes! I'm a huge Shakespeare fan and it's one of my favorites, but being made to read Romeo and Juliet in class (already knowing the show backwards and forwards) almost ruined it for me.
On a similar note- I've read three Steinbeck books now. The Grapes of Wrath and The Pearl, which I first read for school, I absolutely hated. However, when I read Of Mice and Men on my own, I loved it. I wonder if it has to do with being forced to read them and having classmates who will constantly bash on whatever they're assigned.


A Brave New World is the better dystopian novel of the two, I find.
And people had to read War and Peace in school? I feel soooo bad for you people D: You could keep a fire going for two hours with a book that big!
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I disliked with a passion having to read this book. It was so tedious to me!