Which books written in the past 10 years will be read in most high schools 20 or more years from now?
Which books written in the past 10 years will be read in most high schools 20 or more years from now?
They won't even read books in school 20 years from now :(
the brief wondrous life of oscar wao
the fault in our stars
cormac mccarthy's and murakami's novels
20 years from now books will be uploaded to our xenofeminist bodies
My book
A Brief History Of Ass Eating - Some fag and his feminist friend
my diary desu
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
This
And mind.
Almost certainly this.
not even joking
These and The Sellout.
...
We didn't read those in school, we read Catcher in the Rye and Hunger games.
We read 1984, 451, and LOTF
My sister actually read it last year in her eleventh grade English class.
Lmao same m8
What books did you lads read in high school?
Freshman:
-Kite Runner
-Harun and the Sea of Stories
-Interpreter of Maladies
-Romeo and Juliet
-Things Fall Apart
-Run
Sophomore Year:
-1984
-Hotel on the Corner of Butter and Sweet
-Black Boy
-Othello
-12 Angry Men
-Lord of the Flies
-The Princess Bride
Junior Year:
-The Things They Carried
-Into the Wild
-The Great Gatsby
-Various Harlem Renaissance Poets
Senior Year:
-Beowulf
-Canterbury Tales
-Hamlet
-Dracula
-The Power and the Glory
-The Boys in the Boat
The problem is that most of the great contemporary works of literature were written by grad students for reading by grad students and professors.
DFW was very critical of this trend, but ultimately succumbed to it. Teachers aren't going to try to get high school kids to read a 1,000 page novel with 100 pages of footnotes.
Required reading:
The Odyssey
Romeo and Juliet
The Crucible
Of Mice and Men
Beowulf
Hamlet
Frankenstein
Lord of the Flies
The Great Gatsby
Antigone
Farenheit 451
Catcher in the Rye
Personal reading for a grade:
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Siddhartha
The Divine Comedy
The Road
The Old Man and the Sea
Can't remember the rest
meant for
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
This will be read in every freshman English class nationwide by 2035.
It was already being used two years ago when I was back in high school
>tfw spent my days in AP English dicking around with friends and high on edibles
I could be so much further along
Well it's an easy diversity pick, so yeah. I'm pretty sure it's already being assigned.
We read Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children my senior year along with the Hunger Games.