To Kill a Mockingbird. 1984. Pride & Prejudice. Catch-22. Each of these novels is considered a timeless treasure, a piece of literature that impacted generations with its themes and social commentary.

Classic books stand the test of time by capturing readers’ attention generation after generation. They focus on themes that people across continents, religious backgrounds, socioeconomic circumstances ...

This post was updated Feb. 1 at 8:19 p.m. Your AP Lit summer reading is coming to a theater near you. In October 2025, director Guillermo del Toro retold the tale of Frankenstein and his startlingly ...

It has been a century since the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal classic “The Great Gatsby.” Since then, it has become a staple in classrooms around the United States, a definitive member ...

Teachers at Kamiak High School in Mukilteo, Washington, voted in February to remove "To Kill a Mockingbird" from required reading material for ninth graders, while still allowing teachers to teach the ...

The classics are making a comeback. The great books of the past, which have been in danger of falling by the wayside as people read less and less, are suddenly reentering the zeitgeist. Guillermo del ...

You know what drives me crazy? When everyone agrees on something in literature that's just plain wrong. We've all heard the same interpretations of classic characters repeated so many times they feel ...

In 2012, the web series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries took the literature-loving internet by storm. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries was the first of its kind: a web series adapted from classic literature, in ...

This week, millions of students and teachers are taking part in Read Across America, a national literacy program celebrated annually around the birthday of Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss.

When you read Tolstoy in English, you are reading someone else's interpretation. Translators make thousands of invisible ...