Britain's Education Secretary doesn't want people reading. That's not the way Michael Gove has or would spin it, but he is trying to prevent people reading in general and specifically about poverty, social injustice and the how mobs can be led. Specifically, he's taking Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Crucible – my personal favourite – off the UK schools' syllabus.

So let's just keep buying them. Buy them for ourselves, buy them for our children, buy them for our schools.

Of Mice and Men (UK editions, US editions)

To Kill a Mockingbird (UK editions, US editions)

The Crucible (UK editions, US editions)