Teens who read widely are better able to handle complex concepts, score better on standardized tests and are generally more ...

We hear from Atlantic staffers about the books they read in high school that stuck with them. In an era when fewer young ...

Jenisha Watts: The book that impacted me the most in high school was The Color of Water ... This is what great literature is. This is the universal perspective. This is not, like, a specifically ...

Spencer Kornhaber: The book that probably most impacted me in high school was William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying. I think I read it junior or senior year in AP Literature. And I remember being ...