(Maansi Srivastava | NPR)This summer, we asked you to tell us about the books you read in high school that profoundly affected you. So, at the start of a new school year, with gratitude to English teachers past, present and future, here’s what you told us about the books that shaped you. Gene Kahane, 66, Alameda, Calif., remembers “getting” Holden as a teen — and he grew up to become a high school teacher himself. helped me to understand that conformity and acceptance of systems is not the only answer.” Autumn Gonzales, 47, of Portland, Ore., read the book in high school. Oliver Odenbaugh, 75, of Seymour, Tenn., read Walden as a senior in high school.