In high school, my English teacher gave the class a long list of books for required outside reading. One book on the list that I didn’t pick up until college was Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit ...

I was thinking about the book that stuck with me the longest, Portnoy’s Complaint, the Philip Roth book, and I read it in high school. We had read some Philip Roth in the class, and they’d ...

This can be overwhelming and may have caused you to miss out on actually appreciating these classics, some of which have intriguing plots that aren’t boring ...

High poverty schools could make the same changes, but they would first have to figure out ways to get more books for students: free ones, used ones, a library grant, creating a school book ...