I really liked To Kill a Mockingbird even though I barely remember it.
The Giver. I mean goddam.
I had to look that one up. Looks like I barely missed that one, I had just aged out of the target demographic when it was published. Huh, it won a Newbery, so it must be good! Wait, what the heck, this book sounds like it was huge, how did I now hear of this before? Ok, well, I guess I gotta pick up a copy now.
Oh wow, it’s going to be a great experience, enjoy!
I liked it too, can recommend
Both Lord of the Flies and 1984 were great.
Not to be That Guy, but I LOVED the catcher in the rye as a teenager. It spoke to my angsty teen heart.
That’s the beauty of it, aint it? It perfectly captures teen angst, so much so that you see it very differently when you’re a teen vs an adult.
In High School
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea
Both are easy reads, but I found a lot of depth in them in my formative years. Things don’t always go as planned, but we carry on.In Uni
Catch-22, I genuinely laughed out loud at so much, it still helps me laugh at infuriating bureaucracy.
Fear and Loathing in LV.
Both for an Americal Lit elective, read everything I could find by HST afterwards.Metamorphosis.
And from my youngest days, “The Murder of The Math Teacher”
Probably To Kill a Mockingbird and Fahrenheit 451 were my two favorites from my high school years.
The Odyssey.
Hatchet
The owl who called my name, catch-22, invisible man, Lord of the flies and so many more.
I liked Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I felt To Kill a Mocking Bird was only ok, although I got pretty confused in some of the court scenes.
All quiet on the Western Front
Still one of my favorites all these years later.
I enjoyed To Sir, With Love and The Crysalids.
1984 is an amazing book that is increasingly relevant
Siddhartha
Out of Mind by J. Bernlef really stuck with me. A story about a man suffering from Alzheimer’s, his life seamlessly flowing over into memories. At times he suddenly awakens from them, realizes his current state, and a terrible emptiness engulfs him.