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5 Books I Read In School I Actually Enjoyed
A reading list with books students can learn from and enjoy
For most students, reading required books for school has become an unfortunate and often dreaded chore.
I don’t know what it is about some high school English teachers and professors assigning awful books for coursework, but it seems to be a regular occurrence. For many students, reading books at school is their main exposure to literature, so having an unpleasant reading experience can unfortunately turn them off reading forever.
While I have been forced to read some particularly dreary literature, fortunately my educational experience has also been marked by some moving books that taught me about life, history and human nature.
Below is a list of some of the novels I read for school that I still think about to this day. As a current university student, I look forward to exploring more worlds of fiction and non-fiction and perhaps add more works to this list.
1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby is one of the more popular novels on this list. It is also one of the most read books in secondary school classrooms across North America. The novel was published by prolific American author F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925 and follows the…
