ugogrl's "Recommended Reading List for the Well Educated Adult"

1. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

3. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

4. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

5. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins

6. Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins

7. Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins

8. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

9. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel

10. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne

11. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

12. The Red Pony by John Steinbeck

13. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

14. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

15. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

16. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

17. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

18. East of Eden by John Steinbeck

19. The World According to Garp by John Irving

20. The Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks

21. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

22. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

23. The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff

24. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

25. Island by Aldous Huxley

26. 1982 by George Orwell

27. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

28. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

29. Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde

30. The Dead Zone by Stephen King

31. Tommyknockers by Stephen King

32. Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King

33. The Tempest by William Shakespeare

34. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

35. Song of Soloman by Toni Morrison

36. Beloved by Toni Morrison

37. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

38. Don Quixote: The Man of La Mancha by Cervantes

39. The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult

40. Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult

41. Missing Mom by Joyce Carol Oates

42. The Stranger by Camus

43. The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown

44. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

45. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

46. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

47. Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

48. Charlie and the Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl

49. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

50. The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

51. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

52. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

53. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

54. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

55. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid

56. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

57. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lihiri

58. Bicycle Days by John Burnham Schwartz

59. The Twenty-Seventh City by Jonathan Franzen

60. Floating In My Mothers Palm by Ursula Hegi

61. Diamond Dust: Stories by Anita Desai

62. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

63. The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans

64. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

65. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

66. The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

67. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

68. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

69. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

70. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

71. The Tales of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

72. The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield

73. The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

74. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery

75. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

76. The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

77. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

78. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

79. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

80. Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg

81. Siddhartha by Hermann Heese

82. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

83. The Complete Illuminated Books by William Blake

84. Return to Laughter by Eleanor Smith Bowen

85. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum

86. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

87. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

88. Drop City by T. Coraghessan Boyle

89. Contact by Carl Sagan

90. The Lover by Marguerite Duras

91. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

92. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

93. Personhood: The Art of Being Fully Human by Leo F. Buscaglia

94. The Human Animal by Phil Donahue

95. Passing by Nella Larsen

96. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

97. The Giving Tree by

98. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

99. Aesop’s Fables by Aesopus

100. Hamelt by William Shakespeare