High School: To Kill a Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies are ones I learned a lot by reading and still enjoy

Obasan and the Timothy Findley one where he goes to war I got a lot more out of when I reread them as an adult

Stone Angel will always be one of my favorites (our English teacher had her quote "I became a writer when to introduce oneself as a Canadian woman from the prairies was to apologize for oneself three times" on the board and I ran right out and bought the rest of her books)

We did Romeo and Juliet instead of Hamlet because the Leo movie came out that year and the teachers caved to pressure, then we did MacBeth the next year

I got to pick books off the "extended reading list" (which I think was code for "get the nerd to shut up so we can teach the other kids") and that's where I discovered The Stand and Power of One and Les Mis and Phantom of the Opera and Fried Green Tomatoes

In college the ones I remember are

Beowulf (don't EVER take a course on just Beowulf)

Coming of Age in Mississippi by Annie Moody - that one really made an impression on me