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In reply to the discussion: Are you as well-read as a 10th grader? Take our quiz. [View all]MineralMan
(146,284 posts)44. It's not a bad list, but it's heavy on late 20th century black history
books. I've read many of those, but not all the ones on their list.
It also leaves out a lot of what I consider to be the real "common core."
Like all book lists, it's limited in its scope and tilted in one direction too far. I've been reading an average of a book a day for over 60 years, so I'm not surprised that I've read most of these, there are many missing that should be there.
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I loved this book, both from a historical and an ecological prospective. N/T
Big Blue Marble
Jan 2013
#85
That was me, too. I've read all the older stuff but not the newer non-fiction.
Shrike47
Jan 2013
#26
I suspect that many of those books were written after I left high school and college
wryter2000
Jan 2013
#68
Banning "To Kill a Mockingbird" because it contains the "n" word is the absolute dumbest,
Nye Bevan
Jan 2013
#45
Yeah, where's Hawthorne, & Dostoevski, & Dylan Thomas, & Yukio Mishima, & Stephen Crane & ...
patrice
Jan 2013
#42
I mean, I can see them skipping Mark Twain, though he IS Great, because everyone reads Twain.
patrice
Jan 2013
#66
No Walt Whitman, no Philip Roth, No Silivia Plath, No John Updike, No Leo Tolstoy?
Drahthaardogs
Jan 2013
#93