Required Reading
By Required Reading, Dr. Nic Hoffmann, Michael Carroll and Mike Burns.
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Dr. Nic Hoffmann, Mike Burns, and Mike Carroll are teachers at the Marist School teaching the American Experiment Class. In an attempt to update our curriculum, we have been reassessing the books we assign, we were assigned in high school and college, and the books we wish we assigned. Do people even read anymore? I mean, we do, but how do we keep the student engaged with the Required Reading.
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On Writing by Stephen King
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Candide by Voltaire
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Grendel by John Gardner
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar, Dave Johnson, and Killian Plunkett.
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Green Day - Dookie
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Against Heaven's Matchless King by Michael Carroll
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Redwall by Brian Jacques
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Tintin and the Blue Lotus by Hergé
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien.
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Just Kids by Patti Smith
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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World War Z by Max Brooks
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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A Wrong Cruelly Done by Michael Carroll
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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The Plague by Albert Camus
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May 02, 2023 |
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Billy Budd by Herman Melville
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Smile by Raina Telgemeier
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Beloved by Toni Morrison
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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All Quiet on the Western Front by Enrich Maria Remarque
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Foer
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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My Friend Dahmer
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May 27, 2022 |
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The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 2
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May 16, 2022 |
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The Things They Carried
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (Sample)
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (sample)
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (audio sample)
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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Clip from the Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Kindred by Octavia Butler
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Kids Books! Olivia by Ian Falconer, The Lorax by Dr. Seuss, and Poems by Jack Prelutsky
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Beowulf (Seamus Heaney Translation)
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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White Flight by Kevin Kruse
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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A Selection of Edgar Allen Poe’s (The Raven and Fall of the House of Usher) Writings
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Maus by Art Spiegelman
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
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May 19, 2021 |
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Batman – Arkham Asylum: A Serious Place on a Serious Earth
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May 06, 2021 |
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibrahim Kendi and Jason Reynolds
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Oct 22, 2020 |