BiblioFiles #55: On Making Booklists

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What is the secret to making a good booklist – for yourself or for your students? What belongs on the best booklists? In this episode the BiblioFiles crew chats about their own various experiences with making booklists and discusses how different personalities react to them. We talk about the difficulties a teacher encounters when crafting a booklist for their students and throw around some approaches that have worked for us.

Referenced Works

– Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

– Moby Dick and Billy Budd by Herman Melville

– Paradise Lost by John Milton

– Augustine’s Confessions

– The Gift of Fire by Richard Mitchell

– David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

– Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

– How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler

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