Below is the fifth and final installment from my “Favorite Books from Childhood” list, and I have two confessions. First, I don’t think I did much serious reading in high school outside of class! I do remember trading romantic suspense classics by Victoria Holt and others. Maybe required reading kept me busy, or I was tired, or playing volleyball or writing college admissions essays. Secondly: though I’m not going past age 18 here, I’ve made an additional list of books I wish I’d read as a child, but only discovered as a parent. I’ll post it tomorrow, as an addendum.
So, enjoy. Again, thanks for taking the time to share your favorites. I’ve loved hearing them and will be checking some of them out.
High School favorites:
All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren (finally about to re-read this)
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
Christy, by Catherine Marshall
The Magus, by John Fowles
Mistress of Mellyn, others by Victoria Holt
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey