Sometimes, high school reading assignments make a lasting impression. Listeners from across the country called to describe the books they’re still thinking years after high school. At the top of the list were Herman Hesse’s “Soddhartha” and the novels of George Orwell and Toni Morrison. But listeners also remembered being inspired and moved by books that opened their eyes to poetry, history, and science.
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