My guess is that over the next one to two decades, Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father will become one of the standards on high school and community college reading lists, like To Kill a Mockingbird,  or that Latina-authored snooze The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros.

I suspect there will be a big market in Cliff Notes among students who don't quite make it all the way through Dreams.

By the way, kids, the reason Lord of the Flies is on all school reading lists is because it's your teachers' way of letting you know what they think of you.