What's the best school related book you have read

[Porygon-2000]

Maus. We did it as part of our HSC for Modern History. It was... impactful, to say at the very least. Really brought home the scale of the insane cruelty of that time and place.

 

[shadyh8er]

Definitely 1984. That damn book pissed me off...and that was the whole point!

 

[D-Soul]

To Kill A Mockingbird. It shows how African-Americans can practically be blamed for ANYTHING even if they never did at all. I also find out it doubles as porn for some reason...

 

[Friendly Lich]

the giver, enders game, catch 22.

 

[Dangit2019]

I guess either Tom Sawyer or Where the Red Fern Grows.

A runner up would be Romeo and Juliet just because I had the translation version that explained all the dirty jokes.

 

[Podunk]

Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart". It was so good that I bought the book.

 

[RedDeadFred]

I really enjoyed The Life of Pi. The background part was a bit of a drag but it really helped show you who Pi was as a character before he started his epic journey.

Hamlet was also quite awesome. Oh and Ender's Game was really great too.

 

[Strain42]

The. Phantom. Tollbooth.

I read that book in the 7th grade and it still sticks with me. I freakin' loved that book.

 

[theswordsmn]

Not necessarily a whole book, but I remember the short story The Sound of Thunder.

 

[dystopiaINC]

hmmm, the Outsiders and the Giver would be tied for me. both were damn good and both I thought were shit until I reread years later.

 

[Olas]

Lord of the Flies, everybody always says they hate it but I thought it was really cool.
I also liked Hamlet more than I was expecting. It's a story of a man going into a downward spiral of existential insanity disguised as a simple revenge tragedy.
In Cold Blood - Because I'm a sadist apparently
Death of a Salesman - some nice gut wrenching anti-capitalist propaganda there

If I'm allowed to include ones I've read for University education then add Fear and Loathing, Fight Club, and Naked Lunch to that list.

I enjoyed reading The Giver when I was in school. Like, baby's first dystopia or something.

That made me laugh, but it's pretty true. Unfortunately that was the only distopia I ever read for school.

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

Holes and the Diary of Anne Frank.

 

[Berserker119]

The Magic Key!

Biff, Chip and Floppy were what defined reading in schools! They were the first books you read, they were the books that taught you to read and they were awesome.

You started on green, then went to yellow, red, blue... I think haha. It has been a long time.

They got more difficult with each colour.

I didn't even know I remembered this until I saw it.