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.
The great gatsby through and through. I would also argue to kill a mockingbird but not on the same level. First time I read the great gatsby I thought it was so boring, hard to read and nothing substantial. In fact I actively remember engaging in conversation about how much I hated it. It was until a couple months later I started thinking about it and realized how good the story was. I re read it twice since then and now it’s one of my favourite books of all time. To kill a mockingbird was a bit better in the sense that that I could appreciate the story even in the school context, but I hated how we were pressured to read it. It made what is otherwise one of my favourite book as well, initially a bit of a drag and uninteresting.
Great Gatsby is mine. It was so boring and pointless, still can’t bring myself to give it another shot. I absolutely love To Kill a Mockingbird on the other hand, it’s up on my tops list.