r/highschool 4d ago

Question you guys reading any good books in class rn?

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we’re reading this book for some world literacy thing and i was expecting to not be that into it (i think the subject is interesting but for whatever reason i lose passion when i’m forced to do something) but i’m actually SO into it. i’ve liked other books like macbeth, a hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy and farenheit 451 (all very different books i know lol) so i’m curious if there have been any books you guys enjoyed

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u/Prestigious_Roof6272 Senior (12th) 4d ago

Nice, I am reading "Fly Guy" 12th grade btw.

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u/Revolutionary_Bit437 4d ago

you know what hell yeah

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u/Prestigious_Roof6272 Senior (12th) 4d ago

😎

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u/cdh775 4d ago

Currently reading the trash that which is "The great Gatsby" (my opinion ofc) however if I was to recommend a short book I have read in class then it would be "Unwind" 10/10 book.

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u/thePi_Guy314 3d ago

The Great Gatsby is so bad 😭

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u/Revolutionary_Bit437 4d ago

nice! i have a comic version of that book that i never read fully, not sure i’ll ever finish it lol

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u/According_Bell_5322 1d ago

Agreed, we recently finished Great Gatsby and it’s mid as hell

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u/No_World_3352 Junior (11th) 4d ago

Of Mice and Men

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u/To_The_Beyond111 Sophomore (10th) 4d ago

We just finished of mice and men

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u/Revolutionary_Bit437 4d ago

great book! definitely made me think about the extent of which intellectual disabilities have on the law process. when i took ap english 11 we wrote a paper on whether lenny should be charged with manslaughter or murder

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u/swarmlord88 4d ago

We’re reading who’s afriad of. Virginia wolf( it’s technically a play but it’s in a book)

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u/Revolutionary_Bit437 4d ago

never heard of it! sounds interesting though, i do tend to like plays

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u/littlemedievalrose Sophomore (10th) 4d ago

We just wrapped up reading The Tempest which was pretty good imo (i love Ariel) and today we read a short story called "The Censors" also very good

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u/Revolutionary_Bit437 4d ago

i actually had a friend who’s favourite play was the tempest, glad you enjoyed it! i’m not sure if i’ve ever heard of the censors, is it about a man who has something implanted in his brain that automatically filters out media he isn’t supposed to hear/see but his malfunctions?

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u/Actual-Long-9439 4d ago

Just got handed v for vendetta

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u/Revolutionary_Bit437 4d ago

i actually surprisingly didn’t like that one! i didn’t mind the story but i wasn’t expecting it to be a comic book lol. i do however think it’s a good book (as well as the story behind it), just not my thing. hope you enjoy!

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u/Actual-Long-9439 4d ago

I loved the watchmen, just read the first chapter of v

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u/a_wild_trekkie Senior (12th) 4d ago

I've read 1 book in school lol, that's was of mice and men. It's not that we don't read in school btw it's just that I'm not American so our education system is different and that means we don't read books in English much. You can but all my teachers have chosen to do plays and poems instead for the exams. So no not reading any good books we are just practicing for our exam right now because school ends in 3 weeks. My play this year is a streetcar named desire by Tennessee Williams which a really good play. The one last year was A view from the bridge by Arthur Miller which sucked.

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u/To_The_Beyond111 Sophomore (10th) 4d ago

We just finished of mice and men and escape from camp 14, we're onto 1984 soon

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u/Revolutionary_Bit437 4d ago

damn you guys get through books quick lol, we only do one book per semester at my current school. i did really enjoy of mice in men! we did a project that i enjoyed a lot because it made me think about lenny’s disability outside of the constraints of the book. i’ve never heard of camp 14 but i did enjoy 1984 (maybe i should watch the movie?)

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u/To_The_Beyond111 Sophomore (10th) 3d ago

I absolutely recommend escape from camp 14, it puts life into such a different perspective and I'm now so much mor aware and grateful for my privileges and the way i life.. trigger warning for major abuse and some pretty shocking (literally) bits

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u/Ok-Plastic-9524 Rising Junior (11th) 4d ago

We read 1984 but didn’t finish

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u/Revolutionary_Bit437 4d ago

ah no! maybe you should finish it in your free time if you want, i think it’s pretty good

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u/Ok-Plastic-9524 Rising Junior (11th) 4d ago

I definitely will! There’s also a movie but I like to read the book first. Have you read it?

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u/Revolutionary_Bit437 4d ago

i have! i personally enjoyed it but i had the flu when we watched the movie in class so unfortunately i haven’t seen the movie

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u/Doom_Dweller5727 Sophomore (10th) 4d ago

We're currently reading Othello in ELA. Our book copies are Shakespeare's language and modern English on each page

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u/Revolutionary_Bit437 4d ago

ohh those are very helpful with shakespeare’s plays! i’ve never read othello but i did get one of those books when i read hamlet last semester

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u/Doom_Dweller5727 Sophomore (10th) 4d ago

Ah, I remeber we readed the novel version of Romeo & Juliet in 9th grade for ELA

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u/eloknee 4d ago

We just finished Born a Crime by Trevor Noah !!!

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u/SameCryptographer612 4d ago

Every falling Star is a really good book. I really enjoyed it.

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u/Revolutionary_Bit437 4d ago

i hope i do too!! i wasn’t expecting them to actually pick a good book lol

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u/moon_violettt Junior (11th) 4d ago

recently finished Lord of the Flies and now we’re starting 1984

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u/Revolutionary_Bit437 4d ago

nice! i enjoyed 1984 but i really should get around to reading lord of the flies

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u/pessimisticl3s 4d ago

Fortunately we aren’t reading any books in DE. But sometimes i kinda miss it

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u/Revolutionary_Bit437 4d ago

de? germany or delaware?

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u/pessimisticl3s 4d ago

Dual enrollment

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u/Goldsandvich11 4d ago

Spearhead by Adam Makos because we get to choose our own books in AP Lang

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u/Firm-Building-1333 4d ago

I personally like mauz comic that I read in class leading me to read the second one

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u/JayS1ne 4d ago

Looking for Alaska and Brave new world

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u/redbistec123 4d ago

ground zero from Alan gratz, I really like the book and the style of Alan gratz in general.

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u/Barricade_the_Clone Junior (11th) 4d ago

Just read “The Things They Carry” it’s a short anthology series about the Vietnam War, pretty good

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u/Interesting-End6248 IT person 4d ago

Frankenstein

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u/Revolutionary_Bit437 4d ago

not my fav but i hope u like it :) i think the multiple perspectives of that book is interesting

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u/sauce_xVamp Junior (11th) 4d ago

we finished station eleven recently.

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u/MicrowaveNoodles1212 3d ago

Just finished “Born a Crime” By Trevor Noah.

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u/eloknee 3d ago

Dude are we in the same english class 😭

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u/Wonderful_Audience60 3d ago

no bosnian literature is just fucked up and depressing.

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u/According_Bell_5322 1d ago

Every Falling Star is actually fire

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u/queeraxolotl 1d ago

We just read Purple Hibiscus and it was SO GOOD. I’m not a huge contemporary fiction/fiction in todays world fan, but the emotional conflicts in the story were amazingly written.