Required readings

[Paranoid Android]

What books would you recommend to high schoolers and why? What kind of books should be required to learn about?

I think The Second Sex of Simone de Beauvoir would be a really important one to teenagers and adults. Though I'm not sure they'd appreciate the thoughts about the working of society. Sometimes I think they really want to see the world in pink.

So?

 

[Da Blob]

Well, are we talking about really intelligent students?
In any event, a few not on most book lists

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy_of_the_oppressed


Social and Personality Development by David Shaffer
http://www.amazon.com/Social-Personality-Development-InfoTrac-Shaffer/dp/0534607004

The Psychology of Science by Abraham Maslow
http://books.google.com/books?id=3_40fK8PW6QC&printsec=front_cover

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_Christianity


The Essential Piaget
http://www.amazon.com/The-Essential-Piaget-Interpretive-Reference/dp/1568215207

Current Psychotherapies edited by Corsini & Wedding
http://books.google.com/books/about/Current_Psychotherapies.html?id=67yuMhJ5ieQC

I would also recommend to everyone that they invest some time in browsing through the Encyclopedia of Stress. Knowledge of the process of stress can be a life saving bit of information.
http://books.google.com/books?id=2Z...a=X&ei=Gy4YUMrzIImc8QTgnYGYBg&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBA
or something like this
http://books.google.com/books?id=HJwqWQhQELMC&dq=encyclopedia of stress&source=gbs_similarbooks

 

[Vrecknidj]

All of Shakespeare's works and the Bible. Then read whatever you want, you'll have loads of context.

 

[Cognisant]

The Practical Pyromaniac

Lies They Teach In School