Favorite Assigned Book

[Sarah]

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

[Janelle]

You all got to read such great books.... I detested assigned reading untill this year... Fredrick Douglass..autobiography...::shudders::

[Cheesemaker867]

i feel your pain

[Cheesemaker867]

I'd have to say Catcher in the Rye

[emmet]

my favourite assigned text so far this semester is the narrative of the life of frederick douglass, an american slave, which we're currently discussing in american lit.

[Rachel]

I read a bunch of that in my US History class this semester. It's really interesting.

[Allison]

Lord of the Flies and Pride and Prejudice.

I absolutley loved them both.

[Rachel]

So far mine has been Of Mice and Men. I wish I couldn't been assigned The Outsiders, I love that book :)

I also liked Tuesdays With Morrie and The Giver.

[thanx4noticin]

Grade School: The Giver, Journey, Number the Stars, and Sign of the Beaver
Middle School: The Devil's Arithmetic, The Boys’ War, The Endless Steppe
High School: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, The Odyssey, Fahrenheit 451
College and Grad School: Oh there are sooo many but a short list-
Shakespeare!
Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen
A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Life’s a Bitch by Roberta Gregory
The Making of the Middle Ages by R.W. Southern
Honor and Violence in the Old South by Bertram Wyatt-Brown
The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton
The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe by Robert S. Gottfried

[Brittaneee]

Elementry school : The Giver, Holes and Daniel's Story (all ironically were in grade 7)

High School: 1984, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Crysallids(sp?) (until the ending .. I hated the ending)

My lit class this year: The Picture of Dorian Gray

[heyjenowens]

I would have to say Tangerine by Edward Bloor. :]

[My school doesn't let us read awesome books like some of the other ones in this thread. xD Tangerine is excellent though.]

[Joanna]

montana 1948!

[Carly]

in 7th grade, the giver
to this day its my favorite assigned book
and in 10th grade, the once and future king
i mostly liked the first part with arthur's adventures
i dont read many of my assigned books
they are usually pretty boring and/or i dont have time to read them