What are some books every teenager should read before graduating?
I wasn’t such a big reader when I was in high school, but books I really like … Among The Thugs by Bill Buford is a piece of journalism. A lot of people don’t want to read journalism because they think it will be like the newspaper, but Buford is really funny, and what he’s writing about is amazing – there was a period in England when all the fans would riot after every soccer game. I heard about that. Yeah, the soccer hooligans. And he read about it and wondered What is going through their heads?Then he started to hang out with them, and get drunk with them, and it is just really funny. It unfolds like a little movie and you meet really amazing people. And there’s Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat by Ryszard Kapuscinski, who’s from Poland. He’s writing about Haile Selassie, the emperor in Ethiopia but he did it totally old school where his feet never touched the ground. It’s written from the point of view of all the people who waited on Selassie and served in his court. It’s like a f
