I sincerely believe that World War Z (the book, not the atrocious Brad Pitt movie of the same name) would be on high school curricula across most of the US except for its genre. Deep themes. Sophisticated literary devices. Also, zombies.https://twitter.com/mayli/status/968044956186062848 …
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There's also quite a bit of the "Let's take a jaunt around the world and Experience Cultures Different Than Ours" and while those are sarcasm caps it was clearly high-effort and sincere. (Including the rare acknowledgement for high school fiction that US culture is complicated.)
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It also manages to be a better Lord of the Flies without even trying, has a better case for monarchism than the entire US lens on the English literary canon tossed off in two paragraphs of flavor text, has a critique and countercritique of US power, etc etc.
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