[Borges]

What would you propose schools teach instead?

[Mmogamer]

Dunno but who wants to read bone dry dull stuff like that?
Like trying to read Faulker. Just ugh.

[vladimir998]

Well we can always pick books from the same time period: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/672954.All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front

Or we can go for very, very old classics in very modern translations: http://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Homer/dp/0872203522/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367011366&sr=8-1&keywords=iliad+stanley+lombardo

http://www.amazon.com/Aeneid-Vergil/dp/0300151411/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367011383&sr=1-1&keywords=sarah+ruden+aeneid

[discostu]

Every episode of VH1s old “Behind the Music” tells basically the same story. I like Gatsby but I don’t see it as necessary reading for anybody.

[kabumpo]

I could give you a 100 book list - but you’d have to pay me $10,000.