{"id":12868,"date":"2013-07-11T08:15:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T13:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12868"},"modified":"2013-07-11T08:15:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T13:15:51","slug":"a-quiz-books-you-should-have-read-in-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/11\/a-quiz-books-you-should-have-read-in-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quiz!  Books You Should Have Read In High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buzzfeed as a collection of book covers with the title &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/spenceralthouse\/23-books-you-didnt-read-in-high-school-but-actually-should\" target=\"_blank\">23 Books You Didn\u2019t Read In High School But Actually Should<\/a>&quot;.  I&#8217;m not really sure why they thought it was a <em>high school<\/em> requirement, especially given the state of current public high schools in the United States, but.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, here&#8217;s the list, and I&#8217;ve emboldened the ones I&#8217;ve read (although most in college or after):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>The Great Gatsby<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Night<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Lord of the Flies<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Heart of Darkness<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Catcher in the Rye<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Of Mice and Men<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Slaughterhouse Five<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Frankenstein<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Animal Farm<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Waiting for Godot<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Mrs. Dalloway<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Brave New World<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>As I Lay Dying<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Catch-22<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Bell Jar<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Death of a Salesman<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Beowulf<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Metamorphosis<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Their Eyes Were Watching God<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not bad.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the books selected reflect the preferences and probably the <em>books I&#8217;ve read<\/em> sensibility of the person who compiles the list.<\/p>\n<p>So, ultimately, it measures how many books I&#8217;ve read that that fellow has read and thinks are important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buzzfeed as a collection of book covers with the title &quot;23 Books You Didn\u2019t Read In High School But Actually Should&quot;. I&#8217;m not really sure why they thought it was a high school requirement, especially given the state of current public high schools in the United States, but. At any rate, here&#8217;s the list, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12870,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12868\/revisions\/12870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}