Some Novels for the Young (and Not So Young)

You often learn more about reality from fiction.

The word is out that college students are reading as little as possible. I won’t even speculate on what’s being read in high school. The preachy and woke titles peddled in many areas may give an inadvertent advantage to the non-readers.

Setting that aside, let’s pretend that we have to recommend reading for a larger audience and the key criterion would b…