Favorite Assigned Book

[Sarah]

what's your favorite book you've been assigned to read?
mine's The Outsiders

[Bird Zuill]

I really liked Red Badge of Courage and All Quiet on the Western Front. I feel crazy for saying that because everyone else said those books were beyond boring. I guess the reason I liked them is because my teachers didn't make us over analyze them, so I actually got to enjoy them. So many good books were ruined by having to analyze every single sentence.

[caimarsh]

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly

 

Both of these books are freaking amazing.

[nindogs]

To Kill a Mockingbird.

[Morgan Braun]

I couldn't choose just one but heres a short list

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Ghost Girl by Torey Hayden

The Giver by Lois Lowry

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

[Alex]

Reading Great Expectations in my freshman year introduced me to Charles Dickens, starting a chain reaction which completely broadened my taste in literature to things I would have never thought that I would enjoy.

 

There aren't any books this year which I've enjoyed, but that's probably because the only thing we've been assigned is The Crucible...

 

 

[Ado]

probably the simple gift

we usually get assigned books I don't like

[Hannah Renee]

Catcher in the Rye, Fahrenheit 451, and The Great Gatsby

[Jessica Wd]

Harry Potter and the Philosphers stone.
We read it in year 3 (so we were 7). From there I went on to read everyone of them. 4 times.
So thank you Mrs Green for getting me hooked.
Yes my year 3 English teacher could easily be related to John and Hank.

[EmiMonsterRAWR]

Lord of the Flies or Private Peaceful.

[Brooke]

So far The Outsiders, Of Mice And Men, and Hunchback.

[Stefanie Smith]

Brave New World was by far the best assigned reading I've ever gotten. Strictly speaking, it wasn't assigned -- it was for more of a lit circle type thing, so we got to choose what book we would be assigned...

The best ACTUALLY assigned book I've ever read was 1984. :) What can I say? I'm big on dystopias.

[Steven Olson]

Well.. I know my honors English class will be assigning 1984 and Brave New World.. but I already read them.. so does that count? Those are two amazing books.

 

Other than that, Hiroshima by John Hersey was very moving, and from back in sixth-ish grade, The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Candide by Voltaire was entertaining as well.