Kyle Harrison
to-read
Catch-22
- Author
- Joseph Heller
- Published
- 1961
- Pages
- 523
- Recommended
- Once
Catch-22
Why it’s on the list: Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel, drawn from his own sixty missions as a B-25 bombardier: Yossarian wants to stop flying, and the rule that keeps him in the air is the title. It is less about the enemy than about an institution whose procedures have detached from the purpose they were built for.
Where I heard about it
- Dissident Teacher — on A Library to Build Great Americans, a 468-title curriculum published in December 2025, in the Ages 13-99+ band under Fiction.
About this edition
The curator linked the Simon & Schuster 50th-anniversary paperback (523 pages), which includes Christopher Buckley’s introduction. Lexile 1140.
Connections
- A Library to Build Great Americans — the curriculum this came from; a 468-title reading list published in December 2025 by the Substack writer Dissident Teacher, of which Kyle is carding only the Ages 13-99+ band.
- Joseph Heller — the author, himself a wartime bombardier.
- World War II — the setting.
- War
- Literature