Getting rid of Mark Twain's original Huckleberry Finn from national education would not be such a bad. It would allow for a more diverse set of books used nation wide. As demonstrated by the National Council of Teacher of English the top 10 most commonly read books in High School, Huckleberry Finn came in third for the public school with 70% of all national highschool requiring it and also, came in third place for private high school with 56% of them requiring the student to read Huckleberry Finn (table). A national set that is mostly based on American Classics with only one white female writer, Harper Lee, and 9 other caucasian men including Mark Twain. Meaning that in the national set there is not a lot of diversity with what content students
