Books That If You're Told To Read, Run in the Other Direction

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  • 1. The Phantom of the Opera (Le fantome de l'Opera) by Gaston Leroux, especially if you have to read it in French and French is not your native language.
  • 2. A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, long drawn out horrible book that I don't even remember the plot of.
  • 3.Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
  • 4. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • 5. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erica Maria Remarque
  • 6. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • 7. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
  • 8. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawerence
  • 9. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel
  • 10. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
  • 11. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (he's written soo many better plays, why this one?)