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re: If you could require 5 books to be read (and tested) to graduate HS what would they be?
Posted on 7/3/26 at 6:58 pm to udtiger
Posted on 7/3/26 at 6:58 pm to udtiger
1) Moby-Dick Herman Melville
2) Animal Farm George Orwell
3) Lord of the Flies William Golding
4) Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
5) 1984 George Orwell
2) Animal Farm George Orwell
3) Lord of the Flies William Golding
4) Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
5) 1984 George Orwell
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Posted on 7/3/26 at 6:59 pm to Lizardman2
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The Outsiders — S.E. Hinton, 1967
Really good.
Id also suggest Hatchet and anything by Jack London
Posted on 7/3/26 at 7:02 pm to udtiger
1. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
2. 1776 by David McCullough
3. The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffen
4. Animal Farm by George Orwell
5. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
2. 1776 by David McCullough
3. The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffen
4. Animal Farm by George Orwell
5. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Posted on 7/3/26 at 7:06 pm to udtiger
The five books that never see a library in schools anymore
Posted on 7/3/26 at 7:11 pm to udtiger
1) The Holy Bible
2) Atlas Shrugged
3) The Creature from Jeckyll Island
4) The Wealth of Nations
5) The Art of the Deal
2) Atlas Shrugged
3) The Creature from Jeckyll Island
4) The Wealth of Nations
5) The Art of the Deal
Posted on 7/3/26 at 7:13 pm to udtiger
Animal Farm
1984
1984
Posted on 7/3/26 at 7:15 pm to udtiger
quote:
1) The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien 2) Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand 3) The Camp of the Saints - Jean Raspail 4) The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 5) There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch - Milton Friedman
I like your list, but I would substitute Frederick Hayek, the road to Serfdom for the Lord of the rings. One reason is that a hell of a lot of kids will read the Lord of the rings anyway.
Posted on 7/3/26 at 7:19 pm to udtiger
Total Resistance- By Major Hans von Dach
Ruby Ridge- By Randy Weaver
The Wealth of Nations- By Adam Smith
The Prince- By Niccolò Machiavelli
Leviathan- By Thomas Hobbes
Ruby Ridge- By Randy Weaver
The Wealth of Nations- By Adam Smith
The Prince- By Niccolò Machiavelli
Leviathan- By Thomas Hobbes
Posted on 7/3/26 at 7:19 pm to udtiger
1) Atlas Shrugged
2) Fahrenheit 451.
3) The Camp of the Saints
4) The Gulag Archipelago
5) Where the Red Fern Grows
2) Fahrenheit 451.
3) The Camp of the Saints
4) The Gulag Archipelago
5) Where the Red Fern Grows
This post was edited on 7/3/26 at 7:24 pm
Posted on 7/3/26 at 7:39 pm to BigTigerJoe
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need - Andrew Tobis
The Pearl - John Steinbeck
Not a book - Gift of the Magi - O. Henry
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need - Andrew Tobis
The Pearl - John Steinbeck
Not a book - Gift of the Magi - O. Henry
Posted on 7/3/26 at 7:46 pm to udtiger
Every single book by Thomas Sowell
Posted on 7/3/26 at 7:50 pm to PlanoPrivateer
Fiction only
Animal Farm
Of Mice and Men
Mother Night
Love in time of Cholera
Charlotte’s Web
Much of humanity is covered in those relatively compact novels.
Animal Farm
Of Mice and Men
Mother Night
Love in time of Cholera
Charlotte’s Web
Much of humanity is covered in those relatively compact novels.
Posted on 7/3/26 at 7:59 pm to Powerman
quote:
Right. Then these people would rather stab their own eyes out before ever reading another book again.
I had to read "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand for AP English in 11th grade. The book was totally wasted on me as a 17 year old because I did not have the life experience or depth of intellect to understand it at the time. All I could think of was "Architects are frigging bananas.
Many great books require life experiences before you can appreciate them for their full value.
High school should begin to teach you how to learn by reading. College should teach you how to question that knowledge and research further
With that, the books I would recommend:
1 - Anything from the "for dummies" books that matches your interest.
2 - Choose your own adventure books. (Teaches consequences for choices)
3 - How to win friends and influence people.
4 -Huckleberry Finn (as another poster said above) captures a unique moment in history without bias that shows honest interaction between races.
5 - Starship Troopers, a tale about citizenship and why that is important when making choices about how government operates.
This post was edited on 7/4/26 at 12:17 am
Posted on 7/3/26 at 8:04 pm to BigTigerJoe
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Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
This is absolute GOLD, but it wouldn't resonate with high schoolers. Bradbury wrote it as a complaint against TV vs books, but in today's world we can extend that to devices and the internet. He highlighted how propaganda is used to subdue the populace as well as how someone who finds themselves outside of that system will be persecuted.
He also wrote "The Veldt" which tells the story of children raised by a computer because the parents were absent at work. The computer eventually guides the children to kill the parents because they want to keep playing with the computer. Very applicable today
Posted on 7/3/26 at 8:07 pm to udtiger
Fiction: Animal Farm
Moby Dick
The Brothers Karamazov
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
David Copperfield
Nonfiction: The Gulag Archipelago
1776
John Adams
Mornings on Horseback
Truman
Lincoln
Moby Dick
The Brothers Karamazov
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
David Copperfield
Nonfiction: The Gulag Archipelago
1776
John Adams
Mornings on Horseback
Truman
Lincoln
Posted on 7/3/26 at 8:09 pm to udtiger
"Anatomy of the State" - Murray Rothbard.
"The Vision of the Anointed" - Thomas Sowell.
"Economics in One Lesson" - Henry Hazlitt.
Just those three. Get these students a healthy distrust of government and "planners" early.
"The Vision of the Anointed" - Thomas Sowell.
"Economics in One Lesson" - Henry Hazlitt.
Just those three. Get these students a healthy distrust of government and "planners" early.
Posted on 7/3/26 at 8:11 pm to stuntman
quote:
"The Vision of the Anointed" - Thomas Sowell.
Read that one about 20 years ago and really enjoyed it
Posted on 7/3/26 at 8:17 pm to BigTigerJoe
Holy Bible (nlt)
Holy Bible (kjv)
Holy Bible (nkjv)
Holy Bible (niv)
Holy Bible (message)
Holy Bible (kjv)
Holy Bible (nkjv)
Holy Bible (niv)
Holy Bible (message)
Posted on 7/3/26 at 8:19 pm to udtiger
I was enjoyed options.
Alas Babylon
Great gatsby
Lord of the flies
To kill a mockingbird
1984
Night
Of mice and men
The odyssey
Shakespeare .. one of theusuals.
Alas Babylon
Great gatsby
Lord of the flies
To kill a mockingbird
1984
Night
Of mice and men
The odyssey
Shakespeare .. one of theusuals.
Posted on 7/3/26 at 8:26 pm to Powerman
Same.
His explanation of the "constrained" vs the "unconstrained" visions is perfection.
His explanation of the "constrained" vs the "unconstrained" visions is perfection.
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