I've always been the type of person who tends to skip or skim a lot of the assigned reading, especially when I felt that the teacher or professor didn't seem all too passionate about it themselves. My thought process being that if they only seemed to have half-heartedly skimmed the literature, then I should be able to get away with that, too. And either way, there were always still enough truly mandatory reads that I had to get through.
However, recently I've taken a class with a really good reading list for the first time and it really kept me engaged. So I wanted to ask what books you all have been assigned at school or at uni/college that you initially started reading because you were forced to, but then ended up really enjoying?
Personally, my surprisingly favorite books in school were: The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Love Virtually by Daniel Glattauer, Metamorphoses by Ovid, the Iliad and Odyssey by Homer, and The Verrine Orations by Marcus Tullius Cicero.
My favorite reads in university were: From the Caramel Factory by Sata Ineko, The Thirteenth Night by Higuchi Ichiyou, and The Red Chamber by Edogawa Ranpo.
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Only ever one, and it was for Biology: The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins.
Other than Shakespeare, our English texts were turgid. Unman, Wittering, and Zigo for example. Or, The Go-Between.
I absolutely loved *Lord of the Flies* and *The Bluest Eye*
Maus by Art Spiegelman, one of my college classes had it as required reading.
Les miserables by victor hugo and rizal’s el filibusterismo. 🍻
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The day of the Triffids
To kill a Mockingbird.