John Lobron sits down at Hilltop Books for an Among Books conversation with Stephanie Marudas.

John is the librarian and a social studies teacher at Central High School in Philadelphia.

To learn more about John:

https://centralhighalumni.com/2016/12/students-dont-know-todays-library-can-set-back/

Episode hosted and produced by Stephanie Marudas of Kouvenda Media and mixed by Brad Linder. For more about Kouvenda Media and Hilltop Books:

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POST-SHOW READING LIST

The Underground Railroad

By Colson Whitehead

The East Indian

By Brinda Charry

Curious George

By Margret Rey and H.A. Rey

The Hobbit

By J.R.R. Tolkien

Biographies of Thomas Alva Edison, Ben Franklin, Amelia Earhart, Henry Ford

National Geographic Magazine

The Grapes of Wrath

By John Steinbeck

The Pearl

By John Steinbeck

Two Years Before the Mast

By Richard Henry Dana Jr.

"There's a Very Good Reason College Students Don't Read Anymore"

By Jonathan Malesic

Guest Essay published in The New York Times

October 25, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/opinion/college-university-students-reading.html

The Bible

The Quran

Billy Budd, Foretopman

By Herman Melville

***Additional titles John shared after the recorded conversation:

The Name of the Rose

By Umberto Eco

Meditations

By Marcus Aurelius

A Farewell to Arms

By Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

By Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

By Ernest Heminway

The Fire Next Time

By James Baldwin

Go Tell it on the Mountain

By James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son

By James Baldwin

Native Son

By Richard Wright

Small Things Like These

By Claire Keegan

The Hunter

By Tana French

The Searcher

By Tana French

In the Woods

By Tana French

The Heather Blazing

By Colm Tóibín

Brooklyn

By Colm Tóibín

Heart, Be at Peace

By Donal Ryan

The Queen of Dirt Island

By Donal Ryan

From a Low and Quiet Sea

By Donal Ryan

The Spinning Heart

By Donal Ryan

The Thing About December

By Donal Ryan

All We Shall Know

By Donal Ryan

A Slanting of the Sun: Stories

By Donal Ryan

History Through Literature booklist that John discussed on the episode:

https://sites.google.com/philasd.org/history-through-literature