Books you should have read by now

I ran across this list of “What Books Every High School Student Should Have Read” today.  Interesting.  I must admit to being surprised at how many I have read.  Granted, I love to read, but I’ve never been much of one for the classics.  Give me a good Agatha Christie and I’m set (well, actually, not any more, since I’ve read all of them enough to pretty much have them memorized).

This was the result of asking a carefully selected pool of people, but it’s interesting nonetheless.  No book published in the last 30 years made the list, and Shakespeare’s plays (esp. Macbeth and Hamlet) was the only entry listed by a majority of the participants (71%).

So, once you get done with the Books that Build Character, get to work on these.  :o)  Oh, and don’t forget the regenerate Booklist and regenerate Musts in my righthand sidebar.  Time’s a-wasting.