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This is going to be a much longer list than the one I had a few weeks ago. I liked to loved most of the assigned reads in school, including:
1. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
2. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (but I thought these two should have listened to their parents and not been so impulsive or dramatic!)
3. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
4. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
5. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
6. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
7. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
8. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (even though it made me permanently suspicious of books about beloved pets and what will probably happen to those poor animals by the final scene)
9. The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
10. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
11. Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (although I wanted a sequel where his poor mother went off into the woods to find herself while Henry stayed home to do all of the washing, mending, gardening, and cooking for once!)
12. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) by Chinua Achebe
13. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson (I wish we had lived in the same era. I think she and I could have been great friends).
14. Selected Poems by Langston Hughes (I feel the exact same way about Mr. Hughes and wish I could have been his friend, too).