Literally any book that you now dislike due to school. This also applies to other literature styles as well.
Mine is The Hunger Games. I had to read it las year in school and it drove me insane. We started doing the novel study in early February and didn’t finish until May. I finished the book in less than two weeks, so I was pretty much just reading personal books all through English class for close to two months.
It’s not even like we had to analyze it super intensely. It was projects like ‘Make a playlist for a character of your choice’ and we had vocabulary tests every week, that were a joke. It was multiple choice for words like quest and forage. I know that English wasn’t everyone’s first language but come on.
I didn’t even like the book that much in the first place, so all of this was just adding to the misery.
I thought Of Mice and Men was a beautiful story but my teacher insisted on analysing it as a product of the 1930s and focusing in on the characters’ clothes and attributes and how the whole thing was influenced by life in the Great Depression. I guess that’s important the beauty of that story to me is not in the history, it’s much more about the relationships between these characters because of what they’re going through and it just really turned me off having to write papers like that. Usually when a teacher has a really specific interpretive lens it turns me off because then they expect you to write that.