The Book Snug Podcast
Chapter 20: Required Reading in High School (Goodreads Edition)
Sep 06, 2023
Season 1
Episode 20
Stephany Yoder and Julia Dagen
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We have a bit of a longer chapter today. In recognition of the start of another school year, we've decided to talk about books we were required to read in high school using a comprehensive Goodreads list to structure our discussion. The list contains 800 books, but we only look at the top 50. You can find the list here:
Required Reading in High School
Other books mentioned:
- Roll of Thunder, Here My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- White Fang by Jack London
- Call of the Wild by Jack London
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- October Sky by Homer Hickam
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