Toward a Qualitative Reading Incentive

I had this discussion with my high school students recently.

Every reading incentive we've seen is based on the idea that children should be encouraged to read - a lot. -- e.g., the local elementary school awards prizes based on number of pages, and per book completed; and the local library does something similar.
We haven't seen any incentive programs that seek to direct children toward reading good books, only toward reading lots of books.
In fact, when I look at the lists of what the kids are reading, the worst possible writing seems to predominate.

We agreed that there is a difference between books and good books; and that it's worth encouraging children to choose the latter.

"What do you think?" I asked. "Is it possible to make an incentive program for children to read good books, or is the definition of a good book too subjective?"

Hm.

They suggested that you could give students a list of books to choose from.

Keep thinking about it.