GCE - Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen - a bit dull for a fifteen year olds
Henry IV Part 1 - desperately dull and irrelevant at the time.
Tennyson poems - I really liked the Lady of Shallot.
I was cross with my English teacher at the time because she could have chosen a different selection. My sister 2 years earlier studied 'Brighton Rock' by Grahame Green - how good was that? She also studied modern poets and a much better Shakespeare play.