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Could you post the list for those of us “Beyond the Firewall(s)”?
Not so sure. I’ve read most to them, but I’m not sure I would have missed much if I didn’t.
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Aside from 2-3 books, I can’t imagine another list being that bad.
I’ve read most of those.
Two books I would add.... Anna Kerrenina by Tolstoy and Lolita by Nobokov. Both are page turners for sure.
I’ve actually read a surprising number of these. More than half.
I love to read and read a lot of history as well as classics....
I’ve read most of these and hardly consider them essential...my opinion.
Most written in the twentieth century? Hmmm....
Crap like this is the basis of our declining education IMO. Orwell and most of the books are appropriate, but it’s amazing how much time is wasted on crap like Catcher in the Rye, Death of a Salesman, and Catch 22. Kids don’t need to learn liberal-psychotic crap, which is exactly what it is. I had to suffer through all of that, when if properly motivated I could have easily had a bachelor’s degree in a useful science by the time I was 18. I wasn’t old enough to know that was when I was forced to waste my precious life reading it and answering stupid questions, etc. Notice Victor Hugo or Winston Churchill isn’t on the list? Same old recycled crap!
Read eight of those in high school (as part of the curriculum) and one in college. Read about three of those independently.
I did have to read Beowulf in high school and I don’t remember it now at all. I do remember disliking it at the time, but then, I didn’t like yogurt then, either.
Bad list. Animal Farm and 1984 are must reads. We are living Atlas Shrugged, not on the list
I’ve read more than half of these. Didn’t enjoy most of them, but I’ve read them.
To Kill a Mockingbird and 1984 were good. The rest...bleah!
Read all by age 22 except for Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Mrs Dalloway, As I lay Dying (teacher slapped a Faulkner paperback out of my hand and said Don’t ever bring that trash near me!), and Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Don’t I get a prize for participating?
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Not Catcher in the Rye again!
I read all but two of these in high school or college. I don’t think this list is trying to be the only books to read; I certainly read a number of Shakespearean plays/poetry, and my high school aged son is reading them, now. Some of these books were enjoyable, but many were not.
How things have changed. We read 4, 8, 12, & 15 in high school. Advanced Placement (what they call it now. It was “Enriched” when I was in school) read 1 & 18. at least IIRC & probably 2, 17, & 20 also.
I read Slaughterhouse Five (& other Vonnegut novels) in high school & saw the movie several times to glean as much as I could from it, & Frankenstein because my senior term paper in english was on Percy Bysshe Shelley. We read Godot (which I detested) & Beowulf in college.
One book that (imho) didn’t make the list (that we read in high school) was Cry,
The Beloved Country. I had used Cliff’s Notes in school, but my co-worker, a couple of years later, was reading it & liked it, so I finally read it. It was really, really good. Probably my first “marathon” read.
Teachers have a hard time getting many students to read one book, much less 23.