Certain books I never would have picked up if I had not been forced to. Some I was happy to put back down again but others became my favorites:
1. 100 Years of Solitude - Senior year of high school
2. Floatplane Notebooks - summer reading before junior year
3. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - summer reading before senior year
4. The Van by Roddy Doyle
5. Emma by Jane Austin
6. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin --4, 5, 6 all from the same college lit course
7. Devices and Desires by P. D. James. Junior year of high school. One of two mysteries I've ever read.
I read mysteries all the time, but haven't tried P.D. James. I know the name though. That's a start.
ReplyDeleteI like this idea...what was I forced to read? And what was I glad about after?
ReplyDeletePD James is excellent. Also Minette Walters. Very old-style British.
ReplyDeleteI also read The Van by Roddy Doyle as it's a Man Booker Prize winner I think.
I've read one PD James. And Floatplane Notebooks.
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