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<\/a><\/p>\nTo Kill A Mockingbird<\/em> by Harper Lee<\/strong> was the top pick. Is it possible that anyone could make it through high school without reading this book?<\/p>\n Last of the Mohicans<\/em> – James Fennimore Cooper Did you ever wish you could have picked out which books you were assigned to read in high school? To complement our list of books that staff hated reading\u00a0 in high school, we have a second list of books that staff wished they were assigned to read. We hope this generates some discussion as some…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveys"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-5T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Great Gatsby<\/em> – F. Scott Fitzgerald
\nAnything by F. Scott Fitzgerald
\n Jane Eyre<\/em> – Charlotte Bronte
\nThe Narnia Books
\nBooks by Nevil Shute and Pearl S. Buck
\n The Pearl<\/em>
\nMore Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest)
\n Grapes of Wrath<\/em> – John Steinbeck
\n Gone with the Wind<\/em> – Margaret Mitchell
\nAnything by Virginia Woolf
\nCharles Dickens
\n Crime and Punishment<\/em> – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
\n Pride and Prejudice<\/em> – Jane Austen
\n The Awakening<\/em> – Kate Chopin
\n The Last Hurrah<\/em> – Edwin O’Conner
\n In Cold Blood<\/em> \u2013 Truman Capote
\n War and Peace<\/em> – Leo Tolstoy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"