We hear from Atlantic staffers about the books they read in high school that stuck with them. In an era when fewer young ...

Jenisha Watts: The book that impacted me the most in high school was The Color of Water ... Instead, I think I absorbed them ...

Spencer Kornhaber: The book that probably most impacted me in high school was William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying. I think I read it junior or senior year in AP Literature. And I remember being ...