What your favorite high school read says about you

It's sad to say that I've heard "I haven't read an entire book since high school!" too many times to count while working at Community Library. And while I think it would be great, awesome, refreshing and every other positive adjective for high school English classes to require some more contemporary titles, who can pass up a great classic? Surely not me!

When I came across an article called What Your Favorite Book From High School Says About You, I couldn't help but see if my favorite high school read made the list. And it sure did — in the number one spot. Here's what my favorite book from high school says about me, at least, according to guff.com.

The Great Gatsby:

"Your aspirations are not exactly limited to fame and wealth, but those are up there in the hierarchy of life goals.  You love to go out on the town with your pals and party till dawn and you have a reputation as an excellent drinking buddy.  Most people find you easy going and charming, which might have something to do with the fact that you just bought everyone a round of shots.  It’s possible that you do all of this so that you’ll stop thinking about your exes and how totally impressed they would be with your fabulously awesome lifestyle but regardless, like the hero of this tale or Fitzgerald himself, you’ll probably end up broke and alone and possibly killed – but boy, will it have been one hell of a ride."

While "most people find you easy going and charming" is ~obviously and totally~ true, I'm not at all hung up on my exes, and my lifestyle surely isn't extravagant. I paged through the rest of the list to see how many of the other mentioned titles I had already read, and which descriptions seemed the most relatable to my life. Turns out Fahrenheit 451 comes closest, even though I technically read that bad boy way back in 8th grade (Thank you Mrs. Wagner)!

Fahrenheit 451:

"You protest everything.  Especially if it has anything to do with the government and definitely if it involves the arts or cute kittens.  “Socially conscious” is what you would call yourself: tree-hugging, bra-burning liberal fanatic may or may not be what other people call you behind your back, but you don’t care – you’re too busy educating others and exposing them to their own ignorance while you simultaneously sign a petition to stop Internet censorship 482 times using proxy servers so that each of your votes will count.  You probably also watch a lot of Netflix and spend way too much time on Tumblr, which means, according to Ray Bradbury, you entirely missed the point of this book.  But whatever."

Also mentioned in the article are The Scarlet Letter, Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice, The Crucible, The Odyssey, Lord of the Flies, almost anything by Shakespeare, The Awakening, Heart of Darkness, To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye. Is one of these titles your favorite high school read? Find out what your favorite book says about you!

PS: The description for Catcher in the Rye made me laugh out loud!