So I’ve shared my favorite reads from my high school and college classes—but if I’m really honest, I definitely wasn’t 100% on reading assignments. So here are some of the books I was assigned to read in high school and college . . . and I didn’t.

	Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë	This is a sad story: we were assigned to read this my senior year of high school, but after only a few days, another teacher wanted the books, the only set we had at our school. So we gave them up (though at least one friend read the whole thing really quickly before we had to turn them in). I really lucked out later that year when I drew a passage from WH for my IB oral analysis exam—and the teacher said she’d meant to take that out, and I could draw again (John Donne FTW!).
	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers	Just didn’t have time
	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain	Ag! A classic! Barely cracked the cover.
	Great Expectations by Charles Dickens	Another classic! I totally read the first part of this book, and I didn’t find it as horribly boring as everyone else. But then I just . . . stopped. Apparently just when it was getting good.
	Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut	I was supposed to read this for the History of Technology. At least I think it was Player Piano. Yeah, that’s how little I read of it. I was in a very heavy reading semester (I can think of 3 classes with a total of 18 books to read from that semester, and I had at least two others on my schedule), and I decided I could let one book in each class slide. (Later I discovered one class had quizzes on every book. Fortunately, not this one!)
	The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald	Wait, what? Yep. It’s my favorite book and I read it in high school, but it was assigned at least once (I think twice) more in college, and I figured I remembered it well enough to muddle my way through. Yep.