Best Books You've Been Assigned to Read

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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?

[Fedfan691]

Huck Finn

[DrewDevil]

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.

[eviljeff]

Catch-22 ftw

[sightless]

1984

[theben]

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

only good shakespeare- titus andronicus

[Tron]

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Also, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

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

[Tron]

Those who have read The Inferno:

Do you have a version you recommend?

[Buffalo Davis]

[XXXNoahXXX]

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