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Reading is rarely fun when it is forced on you. That's why so manyHigh School Kids Are so resistant and resentful of the books they have been assigned to read by their teachers. Even if a teenager of a teenager and high school is essentially that: a task is to read some of the greatest works in the history of literature, adolescence and moan like child labor in a mine coal. They get such a chip on their shoulder on these literary tasks that many of them are growing up and retreat at the mere mention of the classic books they have claimed once to read carefully.

It's time to recover your young version education from you who did not know better. Here are 40 pounds that you have probably ignored or, at best, skimmed to get a pass mark in English class. You may not have connected with these emblematic volumeslike a teenager, But there is definitely something that will resonate with you as an adult.

A lot of American expatriatesParty Too hard in Paris because they are so disillusioned and bored, then travel to Spain to watch the bullfight and then drink others. Was it the lost generation wandering aimless, or the best holidays of all time? (Also, try to understand Jake's mystery of Jake's "war wound" who let him helpless is much more fun like an anatomically adult.)

In the mid-nineteenth century, England, a poor orphan boy named pip isconvinced This, in one way or another, he will escape his miserable and poor life and to become a gentleman of means, then convince the woman of his dreams, Estella, to fall in love with him and get married. Then an anonymous benefactor makes him rich, and to the surprise of anyone, it does not make him happy and he ends up losing everything. It's like a boot of 500 pages of whyYou should not bother you to play the lottery.

When you firstread In high school, you were probably disappointed that the book was nothing like the film of the same name because it did not involveliterally Guy invisible wrapped in bandages.Boister-ring! But in adulthood, you are better able to appreciate the symbolism that Ellison weaves me brilliantly in its history, a portrait not only of a man who feels disabled by the country he has tried so much of Adapt to, but scars of racism that land under the surface and how blacks can feel invisible in American society.

It took Whitman 35 years to finishwriting This collection of poetry, and he even finished the last draft on his deathbed, so he should take a little more time to digest and give a sense to a single class of secondary poetry. Whitman celebrates nature and the human body and the soul in a way that only someone who has thought long and long ago about these subjects can really wrap his brain. "I'm big," wrote Whitman. "I contain multitudes." Do you remember this part? It may be time to come back to these words from the decline of age.

Holden Caulfield may haveseemed Like a character that only a confused and disillusioned teenager could really be identity with. But when you have a certain distance from these years, you realize how easy it was to see the world through Holden's eyes, sneering to phonies and anyone who does not fill your moral standards, and you start seeing how Teenage rebels do not always deserve to be imitated and some of them could actually be spoiled with rich children who must be ignored. "All the stubbornies hate when you call them to a Moron," says Holden, who could be a moron.

If the recent adaptation (Staring Michael Shannon and Michael B. Jordan) did not allow you to choose your old copy of Bradbury's Dystopian Classic, we will simply assume that you do not realize itwasA book first. Well, it's totally. And the gray-warning story about a future dystopia where books are banned and burned by "firefighters" - and only legal pleasures look at huge wall-mounted television, driving too fast and listening "Radio Shell" with devices to ear -side seems a little more familiar to real life than he didback when you were in high school.

This award-winning Pulitzer novel was recently voted as "The new American novel is the best loved one"As part of the PBS series" Great American Read ", and it is unlikely that all these fans of Mockingbird do it only once when they were a second year in secondary schools. What is Fascinating to take another look at this story is to realize how much this story is realized how much was Atticus Finch, who had more to lose than a case of justice. Defend a black man accused in Alabama In the mid-1940s was the incarnation of a hopeless task, but Atticus fought with the certainty of someone who knows that the good thing is not always the same as the easy or safe thing.

"Let's go it," one of the characterssaid In the brutal satire of Orwell, "our lives are miserable, laborious and short." Of course, it refers to manor animals overworked and abused, which end up deciding to revolt their oppressors and create a new government that looks great to the Soviet Union during the communist rule, but with more hooves. It is an allegorical tale on the nature of power and even moral decay of good ideas, and although it has been written a lot of its time, there are certainly notes of modern totalitarianism to make the book more relevant than ever .

Although it waswriting More specifically about the German soldiers of the First World War, the story of coming lively and ripping the horrors of war, both on the battlefield and in the relative security of the house, has the impression of being too Easily written in (and about) modern wars. There is no action and adventure that we are expecting fictitious war epic - just terrifying realities, and daily struggle to stay alive a little longer.

"There is no sorrow bigger than reminding happiness in times of misery." Wait, was this line really in the book of Dante, that you probably haverecall Especially as a bizarre poem about a guy who takes a tour of life after death, purgatory and heaven, and then wrote about it? There are many quotes like this - which looks like something written by a middle-aged guy who woke up to feel sad - that you missed the first time.

It is possible toomniper Symbolism in the beloved Fitzgeraldmaster's degree. Yes, the green light at the end of the Daisy dock could represent the hopes and aspirations of Gatsby for the future. Or it could be just a green light. And the charming and the rich Jay Gatsby can very well be a living embodiment of the American dream, with all his faults and ideals and his youth pain for something better. Or he could just be a rich Jerk. Whatever the case, this book is simply great dish.

It's not always easyread-Excellently when you are younger and you learn about human ability to inflict sufferings on his colleague seems to be a pretty big weight to continue your shoulders - but it's an important thing to remember, especially in the world of Today, where scars of racism has never been as alive.

Located in the Ohio post-Civil War, he follows a former slave who believes that the ghost of his child does she die she is killed to protect the girl from the breathtone of a slave owner Who captures - reincarnated as a young woman named loved. This book also invented a new word to describe an emotional answer called "memory", which means remembering the past while fiercely resisting the idea of ​​coming back.

Maybe it's just us, but when we are firstreadShakespeare, we did not understand half. We pretend, especially that we had an idea of ​​what his characters said. We had the GIST of this one: the ghost of the dead father of Hamlet told him that he was murdered by his uncle, Claudius, then Hamlet The Assassina and a group of other people, then killed himself.

But the beauty of the hamlet is not the carnage; It's the poetry of Shakespeare's language. "To be, or not to be: it's the question," says Hamlet in his most famous monologue. "What no more noble in the mind of suffering scandalous fortune slings and arrows, or take weapons against a sea of ​​trouble and put them end to the end? Dying: Sleeping." Yes, we will be honest, we are still not sure that the eleven of this speech is about. But his meaning becomes more intriguing with every year passing.

When this hilarious satire and spot-onconcentratedDuring a second world war Bombardier in the American Air Force, trying to stay healthy and living despite the bureaucratic idiocy in times of war, appeared in the early 1960s, it is related to readers disillusioned by the Vietnam War. But really, it is an ideal novel for anyone who thinks there is something inherently stupid and illogical of war in general. There has never been a better novel for the pacifist with a sense of dark humor.

This story of a group of British boys who getfailed on a deserted island and try to create a semblance of the order using a conch shell, until everything goes to the south (because it was obviously due), is not really on the Children's inability to govern more than the right way to hunt a wild wild pig.

No, Golding's gold novel speaks to the fractures to infect any society of human beings, where a charismatic leader can win by the majority promising to protect them from certain "monsters" non-existent while demonizing the leader who wants Just calm down and take care of each other. Hmm, not sure why it seems if relevant in 2018, but maybe you can find something.

Technology is not our friend in this terrifying vision of the future, where cloning has replaced human reproduction and there is a pill to eliminate any unpleasant emotion. The government has transformed the population into virtual slaves by keeping them in a state of perpetual happiness.

But as a characterrage, hewants The right to be unhappy ", not to mention the right to become old and ugly and impotent; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be ugly; the right to live in a constant apprehension of what Can happen tomorrow. " It's a good reminder that joy 24/7 may seem like a good idea in theory, but freedom will always be preferable to pre-packed euphoria.

"It may be unfair," says Hosseini, "but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a day, can change the course of a lifetime." If this sentence does not give you goose bumps, then you are probably a teenager who only readsCeremony rider Because your teacher has assigned it, and it will take another decade to the maximum before being ready for this heartbreaking story of a young Afghan boy who overcomes racism, war and his own cowardice to find a better life. .

Published When Angelou was at the beginning of the quarantine, this memoir - the first in a series of seven parties - covers only the first 17 years of his life in the rural arkansas, but his strength and perseverance against a racial hatred is amazing. A girl with a inferiority complex finds her confidence, and at an age where most of us thought that ball dates and duties, she learned to find her way through "the puzzle of the inequality and hatred ".

Why take another crack toreading Homer is really, really,really Long poem on the odysseus really, really,reallyA long trip on his island of Ithaca at home, in which he meets monsters of the sea, a cyclope, lotus eaters and many others threatened him in a body? Because, despite a writing of 2,800 years ago 2,800 years ago and comprising 12,12110 lines of typing hexameter (all that is), people continue to be fascinated by the Odysseus, a "blunt man and Total days trained and still on the course, once he looted the insiding heights of Troy. "

There were at least 60 translations, including by thevery first woman Tackle the text just a year ago. There is a universality in history, on the surmounted by adversity and do the long trip at home, which transcends the time and the place and, apparently, a very archaic language.

An award-winning epic of Pulitzer whochronic Despair and the implacable optimism of people who have survived the Great Depression. The Joads, a family of Oklahoma Farm, leave their familiar environment for California, shot by the promise of jobs and a future. Along the way, they meet the best and worst of America, insane tragedies and unbreakable dignity and are part of the struggle between powerless and powerful power. "In the souls of the people," Steinbeck writes ", the grapes of anger fill up and grow heavily, becoming heavy for the vintage." If that does not make your pulse fast, you could be clinically dead.

It was one of the first books torevealThe truth about life in Nazi concentration camps like Auschwitz and Buchenwald, stated from a teenager who survived him. It is all the real Wiesel author was released from Buchenwald when he was 16 years old and each page is filled with examples of unfathomable cruelty. Wiesel explains in the forefront that he wrote the book because he considered his "duty ... to bear the witness for the dead and for life". By reading his incredible memory, as difficult as possible, feels like the same type of duty.

It is subtitled "a romance", but we do not know that this 1850 novel is qualified as a romance in conventional sense, unless you like your love with a lot of persecution and shame. Located in a Super Puritanical Massachusetts of the 17th century, the novel introduces us to Hester Prynne, who has a girl out of wedlock and is forced by his community to wear the letter "A" on his clothes, to remind his neighbors daily than she committed "adultery." It's a stimulating story because it does not follow the same rules we would have for modern literary heroines, where a character like Hester could say, "[Forget] your misalison! I'm not guilty of nothing!" But Hawthorne's novel Hester does not only accept his sinful nature, but willing to serve his time with courage and certainty of spirit.

"The only thing you have encountered in this world is what you can sell." It's the Willy Lowman Council, a real aging village that is too exhausted to travel long distances, gives his biff and happy sons, and he could also be his recipe, sad as it is, for the dream. American. The Lowman family, Willy in particular, arediscovery It is more difficult to respect the lies that have kept them alive for so many years. Willy has nothing but nothing, but living by proxy through his son Biff, once a high school football hero is now right, good, a loser as dad. It's a brilliant game, no matter how old you read it, but this tragedy has a way to get under the older skin that you get, and the more you realize how much our lives and identities can be fragile.

There is no denying that the Kesy's book Jack Nicholson movie was a faithful and nicely given adaptation. But it's still not a replacement for reading the original, if only because the book (unlike the film) isRecountFrom the point of view of the leader, the half-indian schizophrenic that can be able to differentiate the fantasy of reality. Is it a reliable narrator, or just become confused by his own hallucinations? Whatever the truth, it is clear that Kesey does a matter against compliance and how we all voluntarily make prisoners to our own institutions.

Vonnegut intended forwrite Account of The Dresden Firebombing (13 to 15 February 1945) during the Second World War, which he hardly survived as a POW, but finally decided that he was desperate, like "there is nothing intelligent to tell a massacre ". Instead, he wrote a fictionscience fiction, no less about an American soldier named Billy Pilgrim, who is "insane" on time while taking into account prisoner during the Second World War and becoming to relive moments of his life again and again, not on which He wants to relive, as having barely survived the Firebombing Dresden. The largest literary realization of Vonsnegut was announced (and banned) for its representation of the horrors of the war. But as a reflection on the memory and how some terrible thoughts are impossible to escape, it is a book that you will come back toagain and again as you get older.

At least this modernist novel is as simple as simplistic as possible. Weto follow Clarissa Dalloway On a typical summer day in London, as she does non-qualifiable things as a walk in the park or talking with old friends or buys flowers or crown in an old admirer who still thinks she is married . But the pleasures of this story are in the tacit details, like the snobbery of the High Society of Clarissa and its "superfluous tenderness in all that pollutes" and just a general feeling that something darker is hiding under the surface, Something we never see but always present.

He had one of the most memorable opening lines of all literature ("it was the best time, it was the worst time") and whatfollowsIs a sprawling epic that follows three lovers in two cities, Paris and London (the title was not lying down), during the French Revolution. To his core, this novel is about how politics and personal life mingle in a complicated way. So, if you plan to spend the holidays with a parent who does not see on you with you politically, this classic could argue a second reading.

It seemed good that everything is a lot of nothing when we are firstread like a teenager. Little knew that Beckett's story of two guys in Bowler Hats, Vladimir and Tarragon, waiting for another guy named Godot-who obviously had no intention to show - was actually a great metaphor of the existential crisis of modern man.

Faulknercalled This novel his "tour de force" and, while he was not particularly humble, it is difficult to refute it. It is the history of the Bundrens, a family of poor whites in the south trying to understand how to get the body of their recently died matriarch at the cemetery 30 miles north of the family farm. What makes history remarkable is that it says many different points of view-15 different from the internal monologues of consciousness, including neighbors who think that the bundrens are crazy. It all said, it contains 59 sections, a few a few words, creating a breathtaking overview of a small deeply deep community that is much more than the eye.

The story of a poet who tries to end his life, written by a poet who ends his life, just a month afterThe jarThe publication is sufficient to fulfill English thesis tests of a thousand high school students. But how much new novel of the plate is autobiographical is not what makes this book worth seeing again. Expectations of the women of society in the way even living in a big city can make you feel isolated, there are so many 234 pages that will make your head in recognition of your head.

A traveling seller named Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning and discovers that he was inexplicably transformed "into a gigantic insect". It's a fantastic vanity, but the one who gets old if you are not old enough to enjoy it. It's not that teens do not have a strong imagination, but Kafka's macabre masterpiece is not really about the strangeness of a man becoming a bug. As we learn, Samsa is a hat at work, leading to an early grave thanks to its constant stress and its endless commitments. His new exoskeleton is not only grotesque, he also represents that Kafka points out, a man who is "already imprisoned by his employment debts and his parents".

Huck Finnescape His drunk father to browse the Mississippi river on a raft with his friend Jim, fleeting slave. It is considered one of the greatest American novels and a book that you should no longer read because of its overuse of racial epithets. We could argue that TWAIN simply used the flagrant racism for satiring the stupidity of the day. Or perhaps what has been for racism in 1884 was not the same as what we call racism in 2018. Whatever your opinions, it's a new coupon, and allowing you to Encourage to follow the lead of Huck and nightmares against beliefs backwards and say those who want to scare you to immoral behavior to verify.

Even if you have not alreadyread In high school, you already know the story of Captain Ahab and the White Whale. So why the trouble to read the thing at all, especially because it takes so long to go to good things, and there is an entire chapter devoted to marine biology? Specificallybecause It includes such moments of scraping of the head like this one. Moby Dick is not just a novel on a whale, but a book that defies all the idea of ​​what a literary story could be. As author Nathaniel Philbrick explained in his exploration of the timeless classic,Why read Moby-Dick?, Melville "withdrew the fictitious curtain and inserts an apparently irrelevant overview of himself into the act of composition."

AbandonedBy the only family she has ever known, Jane Eyre survives and even prosper at the pension school, becomes a governor, falls in love with her boss and ends up taking care of her true love. But it does everything without losing an inch of its integrity or its autonomy. This makes Jane a figure as extraordinary in literature; She is not a lady in distress, waiting to be saved, but a heroin more than able to take care of herself, even when she fails or makes mistakes, because she wants to define her life on her terms. "I'm not a bird; and no Note me," Jane said at some point. "I am a free human being with an independent desire."

It's a bit shocking how many people have seen only the film (s), assuming it's more or less the same thing. It's really not. The Monster movie is a silent beast, woody, while in the novel, the creature (not Frankenstein is the name of the doctor)To His own story - the book is divided into different sections, with several storytellers - where he says things like: "Life, although it is only an accumulation of anxiety, it's expensive for me and I'm going to defend." It is a much more interesting and poetically anxious monster that contains more complexities, then some bolts on his neck.

The book thatinspired Apocalypse now is about much more than Marlon Brando murmuring "horror ... horror". The original Novella tells the story of a boat trip in a new African river looking for a corrupt Ivory trader named Kurtz, "a merciless of pity and science and progress", which is a way Fantasy to say that he could be a little walnut. The subsection concerns the horrors of imperialism and the way the true "savages" could not be exactly who taught us to believe.

At 864 pages, not too high school students were sufficiently disciplined to do it throughout the thing. Their loss. The classic of Tolstoy, in which everyone is in love with someone who does not like them, is as if the best com never produces. Konstantin wantsmarry Kitty shtterbatsky, who has only eyes for Count Vronsky, which is much more interested in Ms. Karenina. There are several big lessons in Glan, including a fairly convincing affair for not rushing into a relationship, and to paraphrase rolled stones, you can not always get what you want, but if you try from time to time, You could find the lover to need.

It is impossible to read this newspaper,writing By a girl while hiding Nazis with their family in an Amsterdam attic and has not been touched. But with a few years under your belt and some experience with the way human beings can be at once surprisingly terrible and incredibly kind, this book will change you in a way that you can not even understand. And ifYou are a parent now, Well, get ready to cry ugly all the way.

One of the most important topics of this revolutionary novel about a woman will will who avoids the expectations of the black society in the early 1900s, that you will not find real fulfillment if you look outside of you -same. It's not an easy lesson for a teenager to enjoy. In addition, this book, by a woman who was called "The Black Faulkner",To A more subtle humor than you have noticed the first time.

Beowulf is proof that perception is everything. You can approach this epic poem as a very difficult and long reading, with the quasi-gibberish of all this old english, and it does not help when people tell you "This is one of the oldest stories ever written "As if it's done so it's better. But you may be more luck if you approach a story of a Trunt-As-Nail warrior that sails to a foreign country to help some brings to be terrified by a monster named Gromlded, and he tears The arm of the creature with his naked hands and nails on the door of their Hall Mead. And it's just the first scene! If you are one of those people complaining thatGame Of Thrones Have not always returned and you have not cracked this book recently, we have exactly the sympathy for you.

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