The Daily Stoic · 2026-06-17 · 5 min · 971 words

BONUS | 3 High School Books You Need To Read Again

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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Three books that I read in high school that I'm rereading now and you should too. Alright, so actually this year is the 100-year anniversary of the Great Gatsby. This is the copy that I read in high school. I actually, there's a new 100-year edition published by Scribner's that's really, really good.

I I this is the edition that I reread. As the ancients said, we never step in the same river twice. So I'm not the same person I was when I read this when I was 15 or 16. I'm not the same person I was when I reread it when I was 25 or 30 or 35. And rereading it now for probably the tenth time, I'm a different person.

And, you know, you always take different things from the books. What I like about this is my edition. You can see the different color highlighters, the different color notes. I clearly spilled food on it at some point.

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