Let's go back (or stay there), and talk about books you had to read in school.
Fahrenheit 451 was one of them, I actually liked it a lot.
Mathematics for Data Processing, Second Edition
Somewhat dry, lacked a satisfactory resolution.
Doña Bárbara, for History of Colombia and Venezuela. This book is actually pretty damn good D: Sort of a "rip-roaring adventure" with literary merit. And deep in the Venezuelan consciousness...I actually heard Hugo Chavez referencing it, calling Bush "Señor Danger" after one of the characters.
I read "The Bean Trees," by Barbara Kingsolver. I thought it was a really good book, I finished it ahead of my class, but it's a "chick-lit," and a romance, to boot, along with some political problems, attempted suicide and child abuse here and there.