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

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When I was in high school 9th and 12th Grade English Teacher had a "Recommended Reading List for the Well Educated Adult". I had the list for several years after and liked that I had a list of classics and quality books, both fiction and non-fiction. Sometime in the last 5 years I lost the list. This list is an attempt to re-create it and have a major lists of books folks should read.

This list has been compiled from various lists which can be found online and also from my own personal input. Hopefully it will not be easy to tell which is which.

Accept no substitute. :)

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  1. 1.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  2. 2.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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  3. 3.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  4. 4.
    The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  5. 5.
    Winesburg, Ohio (Bantam Classic)
    by SHERWOOD ANDERSON

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  6. 6.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

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  7. 7.
    Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

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  8. 8.
    Things Fall Apart: A Novel
    by Chinua Achebe

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  9. 9.
    Watership Down
    by Richard Adams

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  10. 10.
    Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Aesop

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  11. 11.
    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende

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  12. 12.
    And Still I Rise
    by Maya Angelou

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  13. 13.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou

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  14. 14.
    Days of Grace
    by Arthur Ashe

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  15. 15.
    Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  16. 16.
    Northanger Abbey (Modern Library Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  17. 17.
    Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  18. 18.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

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  19. 19.
    Pere Goriot (Signet Classics)
    by Honore de Balzac

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  20. 20.
    Growing Up (Plume)
    by Russell Baker

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  21. 21.
    Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
    by Samuel Beckett

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  22. 22.
    Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887 (Broadview Literary Texts)
    by Edward Bellamy

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  23. 23.
    Seize the Day (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  24. 25.
    A Man for All Seasons
    by Robert Bolt

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  25. 26.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

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  26. 27.
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    The Ascent of Man
    by Jacob Bronowski

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  27. 28.
    Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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  28. 29.
    Selected Poems (Perennial Classics)
    by Gwendolyn Brooks

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  29. 31.
    Robert Browning: Poems (Highbridge Classics)
    by Robert Browning

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  30. 32.
    The Good Earth (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Pearl S. Buck

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  31. 33.
    The Way of All Flesh (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Samuel Butler

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  32. 34.
    The Power of Myth
    by Joseph Campbell

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  33. 35.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

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  34. 36.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

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  35. 37.
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    by Lewis Carroll

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  36. 38.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

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  37. 39.
    Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics)
    by Willa Cather

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  38. 40.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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  39. 41.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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  40. 42.
    The Cherry Orchard (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Anton Chekhov

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  41. 43.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin

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  42. 44.
    The Ox-Bow Incident (Modern Library Classics)
    by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

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  43. 45.
    The Moonstone (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

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  44. 47.
    Go Ask Alice
    by Anonymous

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  45. 48.
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    The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth
    by David Attenborough

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  46. 49.
    The Chocolate War (Laurel Leaf Books)
    by Robert Cormier

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  47. 50.
    Mother Courage and Her Children
    by Bertolt Brecht

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Created by karenbeth on Aug 18, 2006.
 

Comments

yay! — 1 year ago

This list has some “new” things on it, and I appreciate it muchly. Thanks for posting a truly helpful list :D


Gina
Las Vegas

Untitled — 2 years ago

What a great list! Thanks for posting this.