Chicks On Lit discussion

I am curious what someones favorite assigned reading was in High School or College. For me, I enjoyed reading plays for the most part because it gave me an opportunity to act.

For me back in high school the following come immediately to mind: The Great Gatsby, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Greek mythology, Beowulf, To Kill a Mockingbird.

Favorites? To Kill A Mockingbird, Great Expectations, Tale Of Two Cities, Sons and Lovers, Black Like Me, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Johnny Got His Gun,... holy cow! I can't stop - there were so many good things. And I find the variety amazing for someone who went to high school in the 60's. As I look back, we read classics but we also read some pretty controversial things. My senior English teacher was your stereotype of the spinster - but a VERY intelligent, challenging woman.

In college, I really liked reading . At the time, I didn't know any of O'Connor's work and I fell in love with it after this.
Another book I can't say that I loved, but really got my attention was . I read it in high school and again in college. Both times this book scared the living daylights out of me.

Tina wrote: "In college, I really liked reading . At the time, I didn't know any of O'Connor's work and I fell in love with it after this.
Another book I can't say that I loved, ..."

The Handmaids Tale is pretty vague. A lot of scary things happens to the heroine as well as the other girls, and a vague make up your own ending, scared and annoyed me at the same time.

To Kill a Mockingbird was hands down my favorite assigned reading ever. I also loved the plays Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Inherit the Wind and Antigone (the Jean Anouilh version) from high school.

From college (and I went to a very different school...) Mrs. Dalloway, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Nervous Conditions for fiction and The Secret Lives of Girls: What Good Girls Really Do--Sex Play, Aggression, and Their Guilt and The Making of the Atomic Bomb for non-fiction.

Greek mythology fresh man year in high school and I really liked A Midsummer Night's Dream in college.

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Yellow Wallpaper

I read The Yellow Wallpaper a few years ago, and loved it! Wish I had read that back in HS.

8th grade English - To Kill a Mockingbird. The first of many times I have read this book.


Read in college, but not assigned - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

This was assigned reading in first year university and led to a life-long love affair with the works of Robertson Davies.

Catch-22

Of Mice and Men

I found a couple from college when I was cleaning out the spare room last week: The Taboo Scarf and Other Tales (from one of my psychology classes) and Diaries of Women (from one of my writing classes). I've apparently lost my copy of One Day in the Life of Ivan Donocivich (? spelling) which I remember from one of my lit classes. There was also a memoir written by one of my professors who survived the German invasion of Poland and the holocaust, but I didn't own the book, it was from the college library. I wish I could remember the title. It was an amazing book.

The play, The Doll House and The Yellow Wallpaper.

Any of the correspondence written by the American Founding Fathers, anything by Thomas Paine, Rip Van Winkle, The Good Earth, The Awakening, Brave New World (not necessarily in that order). I read The Handmaid's Tale as an adult when a friend was assigned the book for one of his classes, and I adored it.

Oh! and I was assigned some of the best poetry in college. I hated poetry up until my American Literature class.