So, I’ve never tried one of these threads before…but I thought I’d give it a go!
In my Sunday essay this week, I wrote about Harper Lee and her seminal book To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s one that whenever I mention it often gets the response Oh! That’s my favourite book of all time! I studied it in school…
This got me to thinking: what books did you discover through school (whether that be as a child, adolescent, or through further education) that have stuck with you into adulthood?
Drop yours in the conversation thread, and let’s compare notes :)
I gave up English at School at 16, didn't like the teacher, she put me off everything! But I had a wonderful French teacher at A Level, and I've never lost my memories of Camus: The Plague, so relevant recently; and the lovely Colette, The Ripening Seed. So proud of having studied them in French as well!
It's so interesting how a teacher can affect your interest in a subject, isn't it? I loved Camus' The Stranger, which I actually didn't read for study but read alongside my daughter when she took French A level, coincidentally! Colette is a writer I feel I should learn more about...SO impressed that you read them in French though, Sarah!
I also studied Camus in French - The Stranger. At the time I don't think I appreciated as much as I would as an adult, but the story has always stuck with me. I think it's interesting how different books mean different things depending on when you read them. Maybe it's time for a re-read!
I attended a High School in Yorkshire, England in the early 1970s, and the book that changed my relationship to the novel and my heartfelt response to literature was Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. It wasn’t that I had a charismatic teacher, or that I was a star student, but that I had entered that magical world- the conversation between author and reader - and my life has been enriched and rewarding because of this.
Such a lovely way to put it, Susan! Reading really does enrich our world and allows us to inhabit others, I think. Jane Austen is an author who has endured, I think because we can still find meaning and similarities to our own lives. Her writing is also very funny, at times! I think my favourites of hers are either Pride and Prejudice or Emma.
For me it has to be 'Of Mice and Men'. I think many people have studied it at some point, but it's one that's always stuck with me, particularly the character of Curley's Wife. I could still quote chunks of it now!
Ha! Yes, it's been a staple on the GCSE curriculum for decades! I know what you mean though; it stuck with me too. I always found the book so sad and somehow inevitable...Curley's Wife is a great character and a good English teacher can get a lot of teaching out of the language used about her! Thanks for commenting :)
Yes that's very true, even the fact that she's not given her own name is significant. There are a lot of interesting themes in the book - maybe that's why it's chosen by so many teachers! That, and the fact that it's not too long...
I read HG Wells The Time Machine back in school and it stuck with me, morphing over the years as commentary that fit how split society has gotten long past where and when the original narrative discourse was.
Thank you for sharing, Tracy! Ooh, I haven't read any HG Wells, I guess because I'm not a big sci-fi fan, but that's interesting on how it has affected how you see the split in society. I love when you return to a book and see it from different perspectives at different ages or circumstances.
Ah Kate - I am not a big sci-fi fan either. But The History Of Mr Polly and Kipps are two of the early 20th century's great comic novels, and set very much in the here and now - or there and then, anyway. He was a really interesting man, too.
Thanks for the tip; I've been thinking about writing a series on the wives of some of these 'great writers' of the past, so that might be something worth checking out.
Two very different books left lasting impressions on me. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card and The Good Earth by Pearl Buck. I have read them both many times and they still resonate with me all these years later.
TKAM is a primary example, I love having this discussion in person and online.
For me, top of mind is Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston - eye opening, epic, so southern in a way that I adore, romantic, surprising, and beautifully written. That is one of the most impactful books I have ever read, especially as I am inspired to write in a similar fashion.
I love the spirituality infused in that book and also in Beloved by Toni Morrison - again, history, spirit, heightened metaphor, and magical realism makes it so very impactful.
Wuthering Heights and short story: First Love by Ivan Turgenev - I also loved and found very impactful at the time that I read them in highschool, I'd like to return to those and re-member why. I think because they are so romantic. Similarly, Romeo and Juliet, naturally. 💗
Some great books listed here, Sophia! Hurston and Morrison's writing is sublime; and I loved Wuthering Heights. In a similar way to your appreciation of Hurston's southern writing, Emily Bronte wrote from and about the wildness of Yorkshire in the UK, which is where I'm from. Visiting the Bronte parsonage aftter reading the book and walking on the wild moors was really affecting. I loved visiting Jamaica Inn in Cornwall for the same reason after reading Daphne du Maurier's book.
I think many people have their favourite Shakespeare; whether they had to endure it at school or fell in love. Mine is Cleopatra followed by Othello.
Although it wasn't on my school curriculum, a friend doing an English Higher passed onto me a copy of The Great Gatsby. On first reading I wasn't overwhelmed, but I reread it in 2012 after finding a second hand copy, and have read it every year since! From my own studies, I did Tender Is The Night for English Lit A Level and adored it - another book I reread often. Ditto Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, and Janice Galloway's The Trick Is To Keep Breathing. There are so many wonderful new books out all the time, it takes a very special book to keep me going back to it!
So true! There are so many books out there that we can't always find the time to re-read lots, which makes the ones we do re-read extra special, I think. I'm a big fan of Rhys and have read most of her works. Also loved The Great Gatsby.
Although not a high school or academic book Danny Champion of the a world sticks with me. It was the way my teacher, Mr Lloyd read it with such passion that always made me want to read. Now I am a primary school teacher and am never far away from a copy of that book. 🤩Great question.
I bet you are not alone in remembering a Roald Dahl classic! I didn't read a lot of his books at school, but came to them when the kids were young and enjoyed reading (and watching) many of them, particularly Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Lovely that you get to read it to your own classes now - full circle! 😀
We read Animal Farm in our last junior year . We took turns to read out loud, which I found very frustrating as many of my classmates were not so good at reading, but it did make a strong impression. Having re- read it, along with many of Orwell’s books I’m still amazed at how relevant he is, even now.
I also read Animal Farm in high school; it left a mark. As did Lord of the Flies. That might have been earlier, maybe 6th grade (so maybe 10 or 11 years old) and it was terrifying, especially because I had just started wearing glasses and couldn’t help identifying with Piggy.
Thanks for sharing, Wendy. Orwell is a writer I have never read, though my husband and daughter have both enjoyed his books. It's uncanny how some of these writer's works still remain relevant, isn't it?
I read Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism (in a commented edition by a Portuguese philosopher) when I was probably too naive to understand it fully, and I've never forgotten it. Another one is Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. It was at a time when I started contemplating pursuing studies in Politics or in Philosophy. Somehow, I have shamefully never read To Kill a Mockingbird, maybe I should move it to the top of my TBR. Thank you for sharing this!
Sartre is an impressive start! I read Catcher in the Rye when I was maybe too old for it, as I can imagine encountering it in my disaffected youth, it would have spoken to me more! Don't be ashamed of not reading Mockingbird! There are several books I hate admitting I haven't read. Just maybe inch it onto the tbr 😀
I love this question. I'm immediately transported to my high school friend's living room, reading together aloud, one chapter each, doing the voices, reading Grapes of Wrath for honor's English. I'm thinking that nostalgia and the performative element of this read contributes to the very memory of 'classroom literature.' This reading also inspired me to read East of Eden, now one of my favorite reads. Fast forward to uni, with a heavy reading load as I faked my way through Anna Karenina, which is now my favorite book. However, it only became so when I had the leisure to read it without having to submit a paper on it. This has me thinking that a book really finds you, depending where you are. Pressure reading v. pleasure reading truly shapes an experience with text and leaves that first impression.
Thank you for this thoughtful reply, Yelena. I also read Grapes of Wrath in high school and was lucky enough to attend a local theatre production of the play, which really brought it to life. You make a really good point though: does a book feel different when read for pleasure versus study...interesting. I have found that some books I really ended up loving have bee 'pressure reads' for study, which I think I might have given up on otherwise! So there's that. But I love the idea that 'a book really finds you, depending where you are'.
Toni Morrison's Beloved - for the book but also because it was the first book assigned in school that had really captured my interest as a reader in a long time. I am a voracious reader but had stopped reading much that was assigned in school because old dead white men writers weren't appealing to my teenage girl self and I was able to get by without doing the reading.
Thanks, Kathryn. That is a really strong book, so I can see why it would have made an impression on you as a teenager (and beyond). I totally get the 'old dead white men writers' thing! One of the many reasons I set up my Substack newsletter to celebrate the stories of women! :)
And you’re so good at it! I still primarily read books by and about women … I didn’t realize that until recently but it’s always been true. Just what I drift towards most. I just appreciated that our teacher believed we could understand and appreciate Morrison at that age. We also read Ibsen’s A Doll House that year which I would like to reread or see performed.
A Doll's House is a classic; I also loved studying Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, and I remember discovering and devouring all of Tennessee Williams' plays - not for study, just for fun :)
I thought you would have a difficult time with this question, Kate! As I said on another comment, I was a bit late to Catcher and think I would have enjoyed it more had I been more youthful. Look forward to reading your guest post on it. Some great ones in your list; my teen has just finished reading The Crucible and was lucky enough to see a theatre production of it locally a few weeks ago and loved it.
In Australia we read ‘My Brilliant Career’ by Miles Franklin and a ‘a fortunate life’ by Albert Facey.. Both books were quite different, but both left an impact.
I always loved books. I remember ordering A Taste of Blackberries by Doris Buchanan Smith in the mid seventies through the Scholastic catalog. Very exciting! It's about friendship and sudden death. Pretty heavy for someone in elementary school, but I remember loving it.
I remember the Scholastic catalogue! In fact I have never forgotten a book from it about a young girl breaking the colour bar to go to school somewhere in the Deep South. Last year after a lot of googling I found it again. Of course I can't remember today!
The first book I remember sticking with me from school was The Great Gatsby. It was through that book (and then Baz Luhrmann's extravagant 2013 adaptation!) that I fell in love with studying the deeper meanings of literature and stories more generally. At university level – and after years of struggling on my own – I was finally taught how to understand Virginia Woolf's writing through A Room of One's Own and she's still my very favourite author to this day!
I love The Great Gatsby! Although unfortunately, I didn't get to study it, I just read it on my own. I haven't seen the film, but will maybe have to try it. I think that when you study literature on a deeper level, authors and books can open up to you in a way that feels difficult when you encounter them alone, such as you have found with Virginia Woolf. I have found this on several occasions with books or writers I found difficult at first.
The book itself didn't stick with me so much as the author whose complete works I read at 21. But in 7th grade when I was 12, my teacher Helen Berg read the entire A Tale of Two Cities to us. I hadn't been read to since I was about 5, so this stuck with me. I can still see her sitting on her desk, legs crossed, as she read that book to us every day.
I really think that being read to is such a lovely thing that we grow out of as adults. I recently heard a writer saying that he and his wife read to one another every evening, sharing a book, and I thought that was beautiful. I was so sad when my kids grew out of being read to at night! I have never forgotten my favourite teacher reading The Witches Daughter by Nina Bawden.
I went through a phase of reading aloud to myself in a Scottish accent to keep myself awake so I could read more pages. I should try that again. Maybe in a French accent this time as I'm studying French.
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Oh, acabo de buscar en Google Rayuela y suena fascinante! Tendré que ver si puedo conseguir una traducción al inglés. Estudié a otro escritor argentino, El beso de la mujer araña de Manuel Puig, que fue muy extraño pero también bellamente escrito. ¡Gracias por tu comentario!
I gave up English at School at 16, didn't like the teacher, she put me off everything! But I had a wonderful French teacher at A Level, and I've never lost my memories of Camus: The Plague, so relevant recently; and the lovely Colette, The Ripening Seed. So proud of having studied them in French as well!
It's so interesting how a teacher can affect your interest in a subject, isn't it? I loved Camus' The Stranger, which I actually didn't read for study but read alongside my daughter when she took French A level, coincidentally! Colette is a writer I feel I should learn more about...SO impressed that you read them in French though, Sarah!
I also studied Camus in French - The Stranger. At the time I don't think I appreciated as much as I would as an adult, but the story has always stuck with me. I think it's interesting how different books mean different things depending on when you read them. Maybe it's time for a re-read!
ok j'ai une copie de L'Étranger, putting it at the top of my list now!
Excellent! Parfait!
I attended a High School in Yorkshire, England in the early 1970s, and the book that changed my relationship to the novel and my heartfelt response to literature was Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. It wasn’t that I had a charismatic teacher, or that I was a star student, but that I had entered that magical world- the conversation between author and reader - and my life has been enriched and rewarding because of this.
Such a lovely way to put it, Susan! Reading really does enrich our world and allows us to inhabit others, I think. Jane Austen is an author who has endured, I think because we can still find meaning and similarities to our own lives. Her writing is also very funny, at times! I think my favourites of hers are either Pride and Prejudice or Emma.
Hi Kate
I agree with you. Emma is just marvellous! And Pride and Prejudice far funnier and sadder than any film or television production of which I’m aware.
For me it has to be 'Of Mice and Men'. I think many people have studied it at some point, but it's one that's always stuck with me, particularly the character of Curley's Wife. I could still quote chunks of it now!
Ha! Yes, it's been a staple on the GCSE curriculum for decades! I know what you mean though; it stuck with me too. I always found the book so sad and somehow inevitable...Curley's Wife is a great character and a good English teacher can get a lot of teaching out of the language used about her! Thanks for commenting :)
Yes that's very true, even the fact that she's not given her own name is significant. There are a lot of interesting themes in the book - maybe that's why it's chosen by so many teachers! That, and the fact that it's not too long...
That's true! You don't want a huge doorstop to study...unlike on my degree when I had to endure Dickens's 'Dombey and Son'...yikes!
I read HG Wells The Time Machine back in school and it stuck with me, morphing over the years as commentary that fit how split society has gotten long past where and when the original narrative discourse was.
Thank you for sharing, Tracy! Ooh, I haven't read any HG Wells, I guess because I'm not a big sci-fi fan, but that's interesting on how it has affected how you see the split in society. I love when you return to a book and see it from different perspectives at different ages or circumstances.
Ah Kate - I am not a big sci-fi fan either. But The History Of Mr Polly and Kipps are two of the early 20th century's great comic novels, and set very much in the here and now - or there and then, anyway. He was a really interesting man, too.
Thanks for the tip! I might have to reconsider and check it out...
Absolutely loved High Fidelity and About a Boy, btw 😀
There’s a great chapter on Wells’ marriage in Katie Roiphe’s brilliant book Uncommon Araangements.
Thanks for the tip; I've been thinking about writing a series on the wives of some of these 'great writers' of the past, so that might be something worth checking out.
Two very different books left lasting impressions on me. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card and The Good Earth by Pearl Buck. I have read them both many times and they still resonate with me all these years later.
Love those!
Interesting; I haven't read either of those, although I have heard of the Buck one. Thank you for sharing, Matthew.
TKAM is a primary example, I love having this discussion in person and online.
For me, top of mind is Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston - eye opening, epic, so southern in a way that I adore, romantic, surprising, and beautifully written. That is one of the most impactful books I have ever read, especially as I am inspired to write in a similar fashion.
I love the spirituality infused in that book and also in Beloved by Toni Morrison - again, history, spirit, heightened metaphor, and magical realism makes it so very impactful.
Wuthering Heights and short story: First Love by Ivan Turgenev - I also loved and found very impactful at the time that I read them in highschool, I'd like to return to those and re-member why. I think because they are so romantic. Similarly, Romeo and Juliet, naturally. 💗
Some great books listed here, Sophia! Hurston and Morrison's writing is sublime; and I loved Wuthering Heights. In a similar way to your appreciation of Hurston's southern writing, Emily Bronte wrote from and about the wildness of Yorkshire in the UK, which is where I'm from. Visiting the Bronte parsonage aftter reading the book and walking on the wild moors was really affecting. I loved visiting Jamaica Inn in Cornwall for the same reason after reading Daphne du Maurier's book.
I think many people have their favourite Shakespeare; whether they had to endure it at school or fell in love. Mine is Cleopatra followed by Othello.
lovely! thanks for sharing - piquing my interest in these books :)
Although it wasn't on my school curriculum, a friend doing an English Higher passed onto me a copy of The Great Gatsby. On first reading I wasn't overwhelmed, but I reread it in 2012 after finding a second hand copy, and have read it every year since! From my own studies, I did Tender Is The Night for English Lit A Level and adored it - another book I reread often. Ditto Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, and Janice Galloway's The Trick Is To Keep Breathing. There are so many wonderful new books out all the time, it takes a very special book to keep me going back to it!
So true! There are so many books out there that we can't always find the time to re-read lots, which makes the ones we do re-read extra special, I think. I'm a big fan of Rhys and have read most of her works. Also loved The Great Gatsby.
Although not a high school or academic book Danny Champion of the a world sticks with me. It was the way my teacher, Mr Lloyd read it with such passion that always made me want to read. Now I am a primary school teacher and am never far away from a copy of that book. 🤩Great question.
I bet you are not alone in remembering a Roald Dahl classic! I didn't read a lot of his books at school, but came to them when the kids were young and enjoyed reading (and watching) many of them, particularly Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Lovely that you get to read it to your own classes now - full circle! 😀
We read Animal Farm in our last junior year . We took turns to read out loud, which I found very frustrating as many of my classmates were not so good at reading, but it did make a strong impression. Having re- read it, along with many of Orwell’s books I’m still amazed at how relevant he is, even now.
I also read Animal Farm in high school; it left a mark. As did Lord of the Flies. That might have been earlier, maybe 6th grade (so maybe 10 or 11 years old) and it was terrifying, especially because I had just started wearing glasses and couldn’t help identifying with Piggy.
Oh, dear! I remember my daughter studying Lord of the Flies for GCSE and finding it terrifying, too!
Thanks for sharing, Wendy. Orwell is a writer I have never read, though my husband and daughter have both enjoyed his books. It's uncanny how some of these writer's works still remain relevant, isn't it?
I read Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism (in a commented edition by a Portuguese philosopher) when I was probably too naive to understand it fully, and I've never forgotten it. Another one is Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. It was at a time when I started contemplating pursuing studies in Politics or in Philosophy. Somehow, I have shamefully never read To Kill a Mockingbird, maybe I should move it to the top of my TBR. Thank you for sharing this!
Sartre is an impressive start! I read Catcher in the Rye when I was maybe too old for it, as I can imagine encountering it in my disaffected youth, it would have spoken to me more! Don't be ashamed of not reading Mockingbird! There are several books I hate admitting I haven't read. Just maybe inch it onto the tbr 😀
I love this question. I'm immediately transported to my high school friend's living room, reading together aloud, one chapter each, doing the voices, reading Grapes of Wrath for honor's English. I'm thinking that nostalgia and the performative element of this read contributes to the very memory of 'classroom literature.' This reading also inspired me to read East of Eden, now one of my favorite reads. Fast forward to uni, with a heavy reading load as I faked my way through Anna Karenina, which is now my favorite book. However, it only became so when I had the leisure to read it without having to submit a paper on it. This has me thinking that a book really finds you, depending where you are. Pressure reading v. pleasure reading truly shapes an experience with text and leaves that first impression.
Thank you for this thoughtful reply, Yelena. I also read Grapes of Wrath in high school and was lucky enough to attend a local theatre production of the play, which really brought it to life. You make a really good point though: does a book feel different when read for pleasure versus study...interesting. I have found that some books I really ended up loving have bee 'pressure reads' for study, which I think I might have given up on otherwise! So there's that. But I love the idea that 'a book really finds you, depending where you are'.
Toni Morrison's Beloved - for the book but also because it was the first book assigned in school that had really captured my interest as a reader in a long time. I am a voracious reader but had stopped reading much that was assigned in school because old dead white men writers weren't appealing to my teenage girl self and I was able to get by without doing the reading.
Thanks, Kathryn. That is a really strong book, so I can see why it would have made an impression on you as a teenager (and beyond). I totally get the 'old dead white men writers' thing! One of the many reasons I set up my Substack newsletter to celebrate the stories of women! :)
And you’re so good at it! I still primarily read books by and about women … I didn’t realize that until recently but it’s always been true. Just what I drift towards most. I just appreciated that our teacher believed we could understand and appreciate Morrison at that age. We also read Ibsen’s A Doll House that year which I would like to reread or see performed.
A Doll's House is a classic; I also loved studying Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, and I remember discovering and devouring all of Tennessee Williams' plays - not for study, just for fun :)
I really couldn't get on board with Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot though...
...and thank you for the compliment, Kathryn! :)
Always delighted to see what you've worked on and learn from you.
I feel like I can’t answer because here I am teaching English and I will name a gazillion books 😆
Catcher in the Rye was such a formative book for me in school. I have a guest post for ME Rothwel coming out about it.
Honorable mentions: Jude the Obscure, Gatsby, The Crucible, Pride and Prejudice, Song of Solomon, Invisible Man. I’ll leave it there.
I thought you would have a difficult time with this question, Kate! As I said on another comment, I was a bit late to Catcher and think I would have enjoyed it more had I been more youthful. Look forward to reading your guest post on it. Some great ones in your list; my teen has just finished reading The Crucible and was lucky enough to see a theatre production of it locally a few weeks ago and loved it.
In Australia we read ‘My Brilliant Career’ by Miles Franklin and a ‘a fortunate life’ by Albert Facey.. Both books were quite different, but both left an impact.
Thanks, Josephine! I haven't come across either of those; I'm learning some new titles to check out 😀
There was a great film of My Brilliant Career.. but I can't find it anywhere now
No its disappeared. Such a beautiful Australian movie and book
I always loved books. I remember ordering A Taste of Blackberries by Doris Buchanan Smith in the mid seventies through the Scholastic catalog. Very exciting! It's about friendship and sudden death. Pretty heavy for someone in elementary school, but I remember loving it.
I remember the Scholastic catalogue! In fact I have never forgotten a book from it about a young girl breaking the colour bar to go to school somewhere in the Deep South. Last year after a lot of googling I found it again. Of course I can't remember today!
I haven't come across that title, but it sounds fascinating!
Tess of the D'Urbervilles for ALevel had a huge impact on me One of the contributions to my feminism. Still made me cry when I read it a few years ago
Oh, Tess...made me cry, too 😢 it's funny how we can often trace our beliefs and ideas back to our reading lives.
The first book I remember sticking with me from school was The Great Gatsby. It was through that book (and then Baz Luhrmann's extravagant 2013 adaptation!) that I fell in love with studying the deeper meanings of literature and stories more generally. At university level – and after years of struggling on my own – I was finally taught how to understand Virginia Woolf's writing through A Room of One's Own and she's still my very favourite author to this day!
I love The Great Gatsby! Although unfortunately, I didn't get to study it, I just read it on my own. I haven't seen the film, but will maybe have to try it. I think that when you study literature on a deeper level, authors and books can open up to you in a way that feels difficult when you encounter them alone, such as you have found with Virginia Woolf. I have found this on several occasions with books or writers I found difficult at first.
The book itself didn't stick with me so much as the author whose complete works I read at 21. But in 7th grade when I was 12, my teacher Helen Berg read the entire A Tale of Two Cities to us. I hadn't been read to since I was about 5, so this stuck with me. I can still see her sitting on her desk, legs crossed, as she read that book to us every day.
I really think that being read to is such a lovely thing that we grow out of as adults. I recently heard a writer saying that he and his wife read to one another every evening, sharing a book, and I thought that was beautiful. I was so sad when my kids grew out of being read to at night! I have never forgotten my favourite teacher reading The Witches Daughter by Nina Bawden.
I went through a phase of reading aloud to myself in a Scottish accent to keep myself awake so I could read more pages. I should try that again. Maybe in a French accent this time as I'm studying French.
Hola , Uno De Los Libros Que Descubrí En La Escuela , Fue Rayuela De Julio Cortazar , Un Libro Que Marco Mí Adolescencia , En Cuanto Al Descubriendo Del Genero Musical Jazz , Al Amor Por Las Viejas Calles De París Y Ha Los Escritores Iberoamericanos De Su Generación. Un Saludo.
Oh, acabo de buscar en Google Rayuela y suena fascinante! Tendré que ver si puedo conseguir una traducción al inglés. Estudié a otro escritor argentino, El beso de la mujer araña de Manuel Puig, que fue muy extraño pero también bellamente escrito. ¡Gracias por tu comentario!