Freshman yr: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Trojan War Sophomore yr: MacBeth, Romeo and Juliet Junior yr: Dante's Inferno, Julius Caesar Senior yr: Beowulf, Hamlet I know for those of you who love books, these are excellent choices but for a guy (like myself) who grew up reading Garfield, it's a killer.

Some heinous piece of sh*t called "Seal Morning" about some kid that adopts a seal. And just for giggles I googled it while writing this answer and discovered that they made a tv series out of it in 1986. Have we no shame??!? Thank God that I discovered Stephen King the same year I read this steaming pile, otherwise I never would have picked up a book for pleasure ever again.

"All the Pretty Horses" gets my title for worst book forced to read, although it's not actually all that bad. I just have this deep-seated loathing for Faulkner-esqe writers and the fact that we had to read it from a tape by a guy who had the most horrible diction didn't help matters. I tried making the book more bearable by imagining a subtextual relationship between Blevins and John Grady (a forbidden affair, doomed to tragidy! The real source of Rawlins' anger!) but it only helped a little bit. The second worst book for me is "Huckleberry Finn". I love Twain, and most of what he wrote, but this book just...ugh. Ugh ugh ugh.

any thing by d.h.lawrence,possibly everything he ever wrote.why the school system ever considered him to be worth reading is beyond me.the man was a total fool.

Huckleberry Finn, it may well be a classic, but the language was so hard for me to understand and to be honest, since I had to cover 2 books from 5, I chose not to read the book from cover to cover as I just could not get into it.

I just couldn't bring myself to slog through Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. I've tried since then, and I still find my mind wandering between one sentence and the next.

Anything by Shakespeare - reading it is so mind-numbingly boring. His plays were meant to be performed, not read, and I really enjoy film versions of them because they hang together really well. One year, we had Othello on records (remember those?) and the difference between reading and hearing was astounding.

It would be a toss up between Passage To India by E M Forster or Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy. After we had slogged our way through the nonsensical, confusing Passage To India, we found out that Forster was so unhappy with the book, that he had intended to completely rewrite it (before he died), saying it was confusing and contradictory...if the b...author hated the book, why did we have to read it? And if he thought it was badly written, why is it considered a classic? Same with Return of the Native. When it came out, it was serialised in some women's magazine...the ending upset so many ladies that Hardy rewrote it to make it happy...how can you sell out like that and still have your work considered worthwhile?

Just your basic Moby Dick. I love to read, even the long dreary stuff, really love outdoorsy, adventurish stories but this left my bored to tears. Ihave read Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare, all sorts of things but Moby Dick was horrible. I haven't a clue why it is a classic anything.

"The Grapes of Wrath" Steinbeck may be a great writer, and talented and all that, but I really hate that book. It was so boring and depressing. I'm really not overly fond of "Of Mice and Men" either. I think we were subject to reading a Steinbeck novel in every grade in high school.

Anything by Dickens was the worst for me. I just couldn't make myself read that crap. I know he's supposed to be some great writer - but I guess he just isn't for me. I would read one sentence and completely lose interest. Shakespeare isn't my favorite either. I don't mind watching the plays, but reading them sucks. (And we had to read Hamlet EVERY YEAR during high school because the teachers were so convinced that it was the best thing ever that they ALL wanted to teach it!) I am also not a Steinbeck fan. I guess I've picked three really famous well-respected authors there on my list - but I'm just being honest. I hated having to read that stuff. Don't get me wrong - I love to read. I read books all the time. I loved "Brave New World" & "Rebecca" which I had to read my freshman year. And I'm sure there were other ones I didn't find so un-interesting... but I much prefer to read for enjoyment... I hate reading something knowing I have to be looking for themes and symbols, and all that stuff they want you to write about when you're done with the book in school. That really takes the enjoyment out of reading a story.

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman Fahrenheit 411 House of Seven Gables (by one of the Bronte sisters, but who knows which one) anything by Steinbeck, including the Grapes of Wrath Lord of the Flies And some book where a dysfunctional family was taking the rotting corpse of their mother to town for their own selfish reasons in a cart. I forget what it was, but it was the WORST.

I hated "The Sound and the Fury"

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

Catcher in the Rye. What shit. what trash/

The Red Badge of Courage

honestly,the bible.among the thousands of books,it remains the only book that i've read that i don't understand.i touch the bible and swear.

Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood

Freakin' John Steinbecks 'The Red Pony" BORING and DEPRESSING! Nearly forty years on I still resent having to waste so much time on it!

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. Stream of consciousness writing can slip into an irreversible coma for all I care :P

Death of a Salesman & A Streetcar Named Desire our english teacher was a nutter. he told us wat was gonna happen in the end after reading just a few pages! GGRRRR.

Alas, Babylon. It was so outdated in the 80's but my English teacher told us she was required to put it on her curriculum. I mean the book was written in the 1950's and it's take on nuclear war was very neive.

Animal Farm by George Orwell...complete boredom..and an evil and underhanded way of sneaking in extra pointless history lessons.:(

The Catcher in the Rye...I absolutely hated it.

I dunno. I deliberately forgot! Heh!

Feirenheit 451! Was the most horrible book I have ever read. . . Oh and I had to read it twice both times I only made it half way through which is probably why I had to take the class again twice. But I couldn't help it! It was just one of those books you cannot force yourself to read at all.

War of the World By H.G Wells boring-boring, I love reading but hated this book!

The Chocolate War and Catcher in the Rye. I see some people didn't like Fahrenheit 451 - I love that book. Ray Bradbury is the man.

A Seperate Peace by John Knowles.

my english teacher made us read the play waiting for godot, and i slept through the first act. i became obsessed with the second act, however, and then obtained my own copy of the play :]the second worst that i never caught on to