Using data from Goodreads, Stacker compiled a list of 50 timeless books, plays, and epic poems commonly found on high school reading lists. In 2011, a Missouri High School pulled it from library shelves after complaints it was anti-American.Ĭertain books deserve a first, second, or maybe even a third read. Kurt Vonnegut’s "Slaughterhouse-Five," a book about an American soldier doomed to repeat history, has been controversial for decades. In 2018, "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" were dropped in a Minnesota school district because they contain racial slurs. Sometimes parents, teachers and school-board officials disagree on what kids should or shouldn’t read in high school. George Orwell’s "1984," a novel published in 1949 about a dystopian future where the government controls the truth, even surged to the Amazon best-sellers list in 2017, shortly after former President Trump’s advisor Kellyanne Conway described falsehoods as " alternative facts." While more high school curriculums should include modern, diverse writers like Amy Tan and Malala Yousafzai, certain classics-like John Steinbeck’s "The Grapes of Wrath" and Sandra Cisneros’s "The House on Mango Street"-endure. Research shows that reading fiction encourages empathy.
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