Kohustuslik kirjandus

Out.com tekitas päris naljaka võrdluse kui pani kõrvuti kahe USA keskkooli nn. "kohustusliku kirjanduse" nimekirja. Esimene kool, Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District on pärit Texase osariigist, teine, Harvey Milk High School for LGBT students asub New York City's.

Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District:
Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express
Michael Crichton - Timeline
Frank McCourt - Angela’s Ashes
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
Jane Austen - Emma
Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
Emma McLaughlin ja Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries
Alexander McCall Smith - The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Isabel Allende - Daughter of Fortune

Harvey Milk High School for LGBT students in New York City:
Anne Mazer - American Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories
Martin Sherman - Bent: The Play
David Levithan - Boy Meets Boy
Sister Souljah - The Coldest Winter Ever
James McBride - The Color of Water
Brent Hartinger - Geography Club
E. Lynn Harris - Just As I Am
Brent Hartinger - The Last Chance Texaco
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

Lisaks leidsin ka veel ühe hollandist pärit analoogse listi:

Shakespeare
Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
Tennessee Williams - Suddenly Last Summer
Christopher Isherwood - Mr. Norris Changes Train + Goodbye to Berlin
Herman Hesse - Narziss und Goldmund
Jean Cocteau - Querelle
Luis Cernuda - La realidad y el deseo
Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty
Harvey Fierstein - Torch song Trilogy