I think a few of these were mentioned already but it doesn't hurt to have duplicats:
Slaughter House five (was my personal favorite)
1984
Lord of the flies
Hamlet
Call of the wild (i read this one in college)
Into the wild
Dracula
Frankenstein
Romeo and Juliet
The hate you give
Feb 6, 2025
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god every once in a while i attempt to re-read call of the wild and then i make it 15 pages and get too sad and have to stop
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Wuthering Heights
Catcher In The Rye
Frankenstein
Jane Eyre
The Namesake
Animal Farm
Guns, Germs and Steel
Feb 7, 2025
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Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Not all of them are necessarily Highschool required reading, but they are mostly books I read around that time, and most are considered classics.
Feb 6, 2025
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okay so i don’t think a lot of the books i had to read in school are that worth reading so if i had to recommend a high school reading list here’s what i’d include (based on my thoughts and also my book-ish jobs. some of these came out after i was in school but this is a theoretical list anyways):
classics: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury; Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
realistic fiction: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson; The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros; Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
fantasy and dystopia: The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein; The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins; The Giver by Lois Lowry
historical nonfiction and autobiographies: An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People by Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; The Souls of Black Folk by WEB Du Bois; Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
graphic novels: Mis(h)rada by Iasmin Omar Ata; The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen; Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman (def read interviews with Spiegelman as well)
plays: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansbury; The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman
poetry and prose: Ballast by Quenton Baker; Blue Horses by Mary Oliver; The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
Feb 7, 2025
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Find happiness in the little things. Bask in the sun rise, take a moment to people watch grocery shopping or a cafe. Go on drives to nowhere in particular with your favorite playlist blasting. Read plays to a stuff animal audience and really dramatize the characters.
Jan 20, 2025
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I was uncertain if i met all the credit requirements as i had to petition alot of classes but my graduation application went through so I'll be graduating!
Jan 25, 2025
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We have one dying strip mall in this town and my friends and I just go there to wonder the few open stores left. We don't by anything we just peruse the places, make small talk with the shop keepers, sit and chat about the closed down shops on the benches.
I also frequent the antique stores, and just look at the history thats brought in. Sometimes the store keeper drops by while you look and offer facts on some of the items.
They get me out of the house and keep my mind off work and they're sometimes more accommodating than a coffee shop.
Jan 20, 2025