Best Books You\'ve Been Assigned to Read
 

The majority of books you are assigned to read in class are going to be miserable, if only for the fact that you are assigned to read them. However, a few are able to overcome this obstacle and actually be enjoyable.

The most enjoyable book I was assigned in high school was Sophie's World. While it is certainly no classic, it was a fun and light introduction to philosophy, which I have since become capitvated with.

Opening Skinner's Box has been my favorite non-fiction of my college career thus far, which was assigned for my introductory psychology class.

I also enjoyed The Bacchae by Euripides very much.

Yours?

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Huck Finn

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A Brave New World in college. Also, a lot of Shakespeare.

Dante's Inferno was badass in high school. Also, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and Emily Dickinson.

I loved Call of the Wild and Where the Red Fern Grows in junior high.

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Catch-22 ftw

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1984

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brave new world
dante's inferno (only so I can pretend to be well read)
lord of the flies

only good shakespeare- titus andronicus

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Good one, I only read Song of Myself, though... I need to find that book.

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Those who have read The Inferno:

Do you have a version you recommend?

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The first three I've read in the original Latin/Greek. All of these books are worth reading.