About to start The Big Sleep.
Finishing up White Fang and I swear to god this is the cutest sh!t i've ever read.
Speaking of schoolroom standbys, I'm also reading the Laura Ingalls Wilder "Little House" books. It's an...interesting series. The books are deeply racist and written in the service of a political project that's glaringly obvious as an adult reader, but you can also see why generations of children and parents have found them so endearing.
I’m not sure if you’ve gotten to the Rocky Ridge/Ozark books yet, but they add a great deal of context. I’d hardly call any of the books “deeply racist.”
“Why don’t you like Indians, Ma… This is Indian country, isn’t it? What did we come to their country for, if you don’t like them?”
The books also provide one of the earliest records of black doctors practicing on white patients in America, and I believe the first one recorded as a “settler doctor”.