Book Owl’s Blog

With the beginning of the school year here upon us once again, teachers are pulling out and dusting off the ole book reading list for the new school session.  For many of us now adults, our minds hold the bitter memories of being instructed to read, prepare book reports and for the unlucky selected torture of oral presentations! Ugh!

With the busy world and swirl of our daily lives, it can be relaxing to drift into another world in a book.  Surprisingly, it can be fun to re-read a book from the ole school book list you haven’t read in years!  Revisiting a book again, you get a better understanding of events and sometimes even pick up statement meanings that were misunderstood in the first reading.  Take a walk down memory lane and re-discovery (or discovery for the first time) these popular titles:

Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Of Men and Mice by John Steinbeck
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee