Books assigned in school evoke strong feelings. You either love em’ or you hate em.’ In this episode, Marlon and Jake discuss the books they wished they were assigned in school and the ones they suffered through. Accompanying the books taught in school, there are, of course, the teachers who taught them. A teacher can make or break a book read in school. As a literature teacher (as well as Booker prize winning author), Marlon acknowledges there are some novels assigned in school that you have to work to understand that are really good, but sometimes those novels are not good and if it weren’t for being assigned in school, we wouldn’t still be reading it.Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Republic by Plato Jude the Obscure by Thomas HardyTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Tom Jones by Henry Fielding Middlemarch by George Eliot Call of the Wild by Jack London Bleak House by Charles Dickens Great Expectations by Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens David Copperfield by Charles Dickens The Warden by Anthony TrollopeWashington Square by Henry James The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Aspern Papers byHenry James The Ambassadors by Henry James Daisy Miller by Henry James Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain The Bondsman’s Narrative by Hannah Crafts Guerillas by VS Naipaul Miguel Street by VS Naipaul A Bend in the River by VS NaipaulA House for Mr. Biswas by VS NaipaulDog Soldiers by Robert Stone The Godfather by Mario PuzoShogun by James ClavellTia-pan by James ClavellKing Rat by James ClavellWhirlwind by James ClavellJulius Caesar by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William Shakespeare The Tempest by William Shakespeare King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard The Radiance of the King by Camara LayeHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice BurroughsThe Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton The Discourager of Hesitancy by Frank R. Stockton