Literally any book that you now dislike due to school. This also applies to other literature styles as well.
Mine is The Hunger Games. I had to read it las year in school and it drove me insane. We started doing the novel study in early February and didn’t finish until May. I finished the book in less than two weeks, so I was pretty much just reading personal books all through English class for close to two months.
It’s not even like we had to analyze it super intensely. It was projects like ‘Make a playlist for a character of your choice’ and we had vocabulary tests every week, that were a joke. It was multiple choice for words like quest and forage. I know that English wasn’t everyone’s first language but come on.
I didn’t even like the book that much in the first place, so all of this was just adding to the misery.
Of Mice and Men.
Just felt like the book was just pountlessly cruel and misogynistic. Like I get its set in the Great Depression but it felt bad even for that time period. Couldn’t pay me to re-read it now.
And this is coming from someone who read Shakespeare in their free time because they liked it.
I also hated this book. I want to re read as an adult to see if I have a newfound appreciation for it.
Well I hope you get some enjoyment out of it from another fresh look. I just couldn’t.