Sadness
Crying inside at all the fantastic books my school never had us read because it was small hick town.
*The Outsiders
*A Wrinkle in Time (I may be misremembering this. I read it in college for Children's Lit I know)
*The Lord of the Flies
*Fahrenheit 451(actually enjoyed and have read two more times)
*The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (this is a super cheat, but it was what got me writing. It's only illustrations with titles. But we had to create our own stories and I feel in love with writing and illustrations).
I came from a small town, who had us read the bare minimum and I am lucky my mom at least was insistent we read all the time outside of school. Most of the stuff everyone else mentioned I had to read on my own -_- And I liked some of my English teachers...their hands were just tied.