Top Ten All Time Favorite Books From Your English Class

First of all, I finally broke my 49% cumulative! Finally!  To commemorate this joyous occasion, I am joining a blog hop! I was inspired by Whispers of a Barefoot Medical Student, which I just discovered.  I fell in love with the blog and her Top Ten Book Lists. Top Ten Tuesdays at The Broke and the Bookish seems like the perfect blog hop given that I was an English major in college. This week's Top Ten is "Top Ten All Time Favorite Books in X Genre". Taking a break from medicine and going back to my English major roots, here are my Top Ten All Time Favorite Books "You May Have Read In Your High School English Class, but Fell in Love With Anyway":

1. Paradise Lost by John Milton.

 So this isn't technically a book, but it is one of my all time favorites. I don't reread it cover to cover often, but sometimes I flip through the dog-eared pages. 

2. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

3. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

4. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 

5. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. 

 Ok, this one isn't a book either, it's a play, but it's so wonderfully funny I can't help myself! 

6. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert

7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 

 Duh. 

8. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

9. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. 

 It seems unfair that I only have one of the Bronte sisters on this list, because I really did love Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, but Wuthering Heights trumps them both. 

10. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. 

 I think any list of classic literature has to include Dickens by definition, right?

*Outside of The Scarlet Letter and The Great Gatsby, I didn't read any of these in my high school English class.  Nothing ruins a wonderful book quite like reading it in a high school English class, am I right?

Tell me any of your Top Ten Books you may have read in a high school english class, but fell in love with anyway!