I changed my philosophy of teaching literature a bit over the years. It used to be there was a canon of literature that all AP students "must" read, and we taught them as works to the whole class. Unfortunately, what that tended to foster was a lot of Sparksnoting it because, frankly, kids won't read what they don't want to read. I still do a few things as a whole class, but I've found giving more choice (still from a list of "quality" literature) gets more students actually reading entire works instead of finding shortcuts through novels they aren't interested in. My students are actually reading much more now than in the past, so it seems to be working. The challenge has been finding how to help them learn to analyze and read deeply when I have 50 or more different novels all going at once. I obviously can't be the expert on every novel, but they can be taught to discover these things for themselves. It can be done. Just takes a different approach and a lot of work in teaching literary criticism, archetypes, rhetorical analysis, etc. Once they learn that they can research the works for themselves, they really get into it and are rather proud of how capable they are of doing that for themselves.