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 think the way the teachers teach also matters a lot. I loved doing novel studies with good teachers, but I was miserable doing them with my high school English teacher(small town, so same teacher for all grades). She was one of those teachers who marked us based on how much we agreed with her, and did some other stuff that made me feel defensive before the novel studies even started.
When you get one teacher who grades like that, it can ruin future teachers for you as well, because there will always be anxiety about being punished for having the “incorrect” opinion that stifles a persons ability to have fun and be creative.
I don’t know how much I would have even picked up on that if it weren’t for my grumpy jerk college lit teacher who gave me average marks until I wrote a scathing paper tearing apart a novel study that pissed me off and got the best grade I’d ever had lol.