Re: A Modern Reading List for High School?
of the lists I like SoloAJ's the best - I think people are getting a tad idealistic thinking high schoolers will read Dostoyevsky.
As for short stories, I suppose it's trite thanks to Donnie Darko, but the Destructors is pretty good. Araby is a terrific little story and relates to childhood exceptionally well. Hamlet is also one of the most 'adolescent' Shakespeare plays - the Prince is basically Holden Caulfield with murderous rage.
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