They blamed cell phones, standardized tests, and extracurriculars, and they mostly agreed that the shift began in high school ...

But years later, in perusing the required reading tables at bookstores, I’ve discovered that these books I missed in high school are some of the best I’ve read, or most important.

There was a 200% increase in books banned over the previous school year, according to a PEN America report.

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 ...

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 ...

My own high school stuck close to the classics, making conservative choices that I had to supplement on my own time. This is normal. But given little structure for finding the great books of my ...

Young people don’t read entire books in college because they rarely or never read them in high school.