Island of the Blue Dolphin, Heart of Darkness (both in high school and in university), To Kill A Mockingbird, Flowers for Algernon, Lord of the Flies (amusingly timed with the Biography class disecting fetal pigs and them marching through our class with pig heads...), several Margaret Atwood books, 1984, Lost In The Barrens. Northern Canada in the 90s but had some phenomenal teachers.