2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald There are few books that you know everyone is going to read in high school, but this is one of them. With vividness and delicacy, Fitzgerald depicts the ...

I’m Hanna Rosin. Last week, we talked about how college students struggle to read whole books these days. One issue, it turned out, was that they weren’t reading whole books in high school.

In high school, we suddenly all became obsessed with prohibition and the 1920s and Daisy Buchanan. Also, because it was one of the shorter books on the required reading list, people actually read ...

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 ...

If high-school English teachers are going to insist on inflicting The Great Gatsby on every last American teenager (“It’s not even Fitzgerald’s best book!”; “It’s fine, but on the ...

Last month, Rose Horowitch wrote the article “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books,” which sparked a lot of debate. Professors told Horowitch that their students felt overwhelmed ...

In the series, the pair toured the country looking for the best places to eat, drink, and smoke up. To celebrate the “High Holidaze” on April 20th, he’s planned the annual “420 super sesh ...

At Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C., the 11th-grade honors English students are reading The Kite Runner. And students like Megan Bell are reading some heavy-duty books in their spare ...

The best books carry the power to transport, inspire, and educate their readers. Everyone has an indisputable list of what they consider “the best”. It may be a book read in high school, or ...

Thank you, Charles. And thank you, guys. Rosin: Thank you to my colleagues who shared their books from high school, and to the listeners who sent theirs in.

Shane Harris: Reading is just so central to my mind to what it means to be human. Helen Lewis: Whatever you do when you read fiction is commit a small act of empathy. You think about situations ...