I made an argument in favor of keeping works of “serious literary value” in public schools. https://slate.com/life/2025/05/classical-education-book-banning-literacy-reading.html?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=traffic&utm_source=article&utm_content=web_share
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https://411press.net/2447/opinion/the-classics-why-im-obsessed/
(And not to add to the confusion over the term "classics," but I always like to share with potential Latin students that Morrison minored in Classics at Howard.)
Here are a couple of listings by publishers. How many on these listings would be rejected by the 'classical' folks?
Quite a few, I'd suggest.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/articles/100-must-read-classic-books
https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/classics/classic-books-to-read-before-you-die