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
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.
All quiet on the Western Front
Still one of my favorites all these years later.
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.
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”
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.
The Faraway Lurs. It started my love affair with fantasy.
Hatchet
Slaughterhouse-Five.
