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Marlon and Jake discuss the books they’d banish from school reading lists—not ban but give a well-earned time out. They consider why the Bible shouldn’t make the cut, why mythology deserves to expand beyond the Greeks and Romans, and what kinds of books actually resonate with high school readers. Plus: why being a great book doesn’t necessarily make something a great book to teach—and whether length should matter.
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Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
“Who Am I This Time?” by Kurt Vonnegut
King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges
“The Aleph” by Jorge Luis Borges
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
You Can’t Take It with You by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
Butley by Simon Gray
The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
The Circle by W. Somerset Maugham