The Books I Never Read

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I went to a really liberal high school, which emphasized reading books by women and people of color over old dead white guys. While I really liked this focus, it meant that a lot of the "classics" got left out.

So here is a non-exhaustive list of the books I never read for school... and have still yet to pick up:

• Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* by Mark Twain
• Emma by Jane Austen
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The majority of Shakespeare's works**
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Black Boy by Richard Wright
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

* There is a small chance I actually read this one. I can't remember if I read Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn, but I think it was Sawyer.
** Especially Hamlet, which many classes at my high school read. Exceptions being Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.