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 didn’t read many books before 7th grade. Before that it was comic books and my parents magazines. Seventh grade really opened up a new world. We had these wonderful anthologies from adult books, plays and poems along with a record that would have a celebrity reading a work of poetry. Since I watched a lot of movies that my folks did I was familiar with some of the authors and actors on the record. This was back in the early 70s btw. So there were brief pieces of stories that would illustrate a point or some sort of literary devise. If I liked a story or author, I could look at the publisher notes and pick out who I wanted to pursue. This started my love of reading. I never went after ap courses because “circumstances” but never quit loving to read. Maybe not being in classes that had to pick apart books was better for me, idk. But that’s how it worked out.