What books did you read at school?

[OneUmberJoker]

mice and men and blood brothers

I take it you don’t mean the ones we secretly passed around for the rude bits! ‘Forever Amber’ - so very tame by current standards!

Books we had to read, which I actually enjoyed at 14 or 15, included Cranford and Northanger Abbey.

Ah, i have fond memories of passing round are you there God it's me Margaret in year 7 and then forever when we were in year 11.

Thomas Hardy. Hated it.
midsummer nights dream
Romeo and Juliet
Across the barricades. Loved that read the rest of the series.
Roll of thunder hear my cry, also excellent.

Lord of the Flies I also hated. And to make it worse we red it in what would now be year 9 and then two more years for O Level.

I'm not sure if teachers had any say in which books we read but if they did who thought any pupil in a girls' school wants to read about boys going gradually more insane and more violent?

Shakespeare we did A midsummer night's dream.

Across the barricades wasn't an official reading book but it was in the library and I think we all read it.

I'd read When Hitler stole Pink rabbit at junior school but the sequels were, again, in the library.

I read a lot at home, lots of science fiction. The town library would do a sale every so often and I would come home with a carrier bag of books.