Which books did you enjoy when you were a student?

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I recently read an article about the books that we read at school. A journalist asked junior high students which mandatory books they enjoyed the most and which books they enjoyed the least. The article inspired me to think about the books that I enjoyed. In my Danish class we read a novel by a Norwegian author. The book describes a young girl who gradually becomes blind. She is in denial and she tries to hide the truth from herself and from other people, but eventually she has to accept the truth. We were supposed to read and discuss a few chapters at a time but I read the entire book the first day, and I really liked it. I also remember another book that I (sort of) enjoyed. It is novel by a local author, and it describes a psychiatric hospital during the 50s. It describes lobotomy and other things that aren't a part of psychiatric treatment today. The historical parts of the novel were interesting, but I really disliked the writing style. The author uses fragmented sentences and sometimes it hard to understand the meaning. Some authors do that to illustrate the way that people with mental disorders are thinking, but this author uses the same writing style in books about other topics. Some of the other authors I liked were Ursula K. Le Guin and Shirley Jackson. In my English class we had a horror theme, I don't remember the names of the authors or the short stories, but there were some great stories.