Interesting! Some of the lists strike me as pretentious. Actual children might be ruined for life for being forced to read these books. I think they're overly broad with respect to "children". Most of these lists are really geared toward teenagers. I can't imagine asking an actual child to read Paradise Lost. Vanity Fair? It's a good book, but required reading for kids? No. Gotta dsiagree with that one. Ulysses? Is that writer on crack? For cripes sake, you need a PhD to "get" this book. Look, we want to create people who are excited and eager readers and you don't do that by force feeding them Joyce or Eliot. Lyrical Ballads? Oh, please. Maybe I'll come up with my own list. What's yours?

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