High School Reading List - a project of sorts

Warning, I'm not sure what this has to do with books OR a readerly life, but just go with me for a moment.

Last year my son's 3rd grade class performed a shortened version of Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. Hamlet happens to be my favorite play and so I was quite chuffed to hear that he was excited to be participating as King Claudius. He nailed his role, all of his lines, and at 9, has a warm place in his brain surrounding Shakespeare. Thank goodness for good teachers, am I right?!

Let's fast forward to the present when I stumbled upon this gem of an Instagram account for SpakNotes. Yes, that SparkNotes that I used to run to in times of shame when I hadn't read the book for class and didn't know what I was going to write about for the essay and didn't have time to actually do the work I should've done when the essay was assigned! And they're funny (see above for proof).

This thought sped me to a spiral of remembering the books I had loved in High School and how that was like, half a life ago, and what would I think about them if I read them now, as a totally responsible and different person.

Here's the books/plays that I identified with and remember loving as a high schooler:
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Hamlet
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Other asides:
I think I missed the day we read The Lottery by Shirley Jackson so I'll have to look that up sometime. I was highly annoyed by Lord of the Flies and The Catcher in the Rye, don't remember anything about The Great Gatsby, already revered TKAM, I didn't like Of Mice and Men AT ALL because I felt like it played with my emotions to no fortunate end and that's unfair.

I think it would be just as interesting a project to revisit the High School reading list for the ones I hated as it would be for the ones I really enjoyed. I smell a fun self-imposed book project coming up! If I count up all the ones I mentioned here, that's 14 books from my youth to revisit. Sounds fun, doesn't it?!

Did you have any favorites in high school? Have you re-read any of them since then? What about the ones you hated?