10 Required High School Reads Worth Diving Into Again

"My most memorable high school read has to be Tess of the D'Urbervilles, which I studied in my final year. There were two separate groups for English literature lessons, and I remember being really annoyed that we had to read 'boring' Thomas Hardy while the other group got Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, which I thought was far more "me." It ended up being the first school book in a long time that I loved so much, I read ahead long before we finished it in class. Hardy's world was so much darker than the classic British novels I'd read up to that point and opened up a whole new world to me." — Gemma Cartwright, editor, UK fashion and beauty