Challenge: Find a book you were assigned in school, but didn’t read. Still feeling guilty about the report you

wrote after skimming through—but not actually reading—a book you should have read in high school or

college? Now’s your chance to make amends with your conscience. Get a copy of that book and read it. How

would your younger self have reacted to or connected with the book?

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Reading ideas:

The Pearl

John Steinbeck

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

Democracy in America

Alexander de Tocqueville

A Book You Were Supposed to Read

In School but Didn’t