***The Starry-Eyed Revue***: required reading

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the awesome ladies at The Broke and the Bookish. Apparently, they are overly fond of list-making and love to share their bookish lists with the rest of us book nerds. =) I'm game.

This week's list features the Top Ten Books I Was "Forced" to Read (either by teachers, friends, other bloggers, book club) -- doesn't necessarily have to be a BAD thing. Could be required reading, yes, but also book club, or just super enthusiastic friends "making" you read something!

Maybe I'm weird, but I liked most of the books that I had to read in school...there were exceptions, of course, but for the most part, I enjoyed reading anything I was given, whether it was an assignment or not. I guess it has a lot to do with the teacher teaching the material, too, and what kind of lessons they teach along with the required reading. Anyway, here are my top ten favorites out of those I was "forced" to read:

And honorable mention goes to Edith Hamilton's Mythology...even though I hated it when it was assigned in school, it's been an invaluable source through the years. I still refer to it when I can't remember something about the gods and their offspring.

As for books I read because friends and fellow bloggers were ready to force feed the books to me, here's a smaller list -- it takes a lot for me to cave to peer pressure. =)

After much prompting and prodding from others, I finally gave all of these a chance and loved them...like INFINITE STARS loved them. I wish I could unread them so I could experience them all over again for the first time. *sigh* Guess now it's my turn to push them on others. :D

What books were you forced or coerced into reading that you absolutely ended up loving? Or hating? I have some of those, too. :0)