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
  2. 2.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë
  3. 3.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  4. 4.
    The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  5. 5.
    Winesburg, Ohio (Bantam Classic)
    by Sherwood Anderson
  6. 6.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather
  8. 8.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe
  9. 9.
    Watership Down
    by Richard Adams
  10. 10.
    Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Aesop
  11. 11.
    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende
  12. 12.
    And Still I Rise
    by Maya Angelou
  13. 13.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou
  14. 14.
    Days of Grace
    by Arthur Ashe
  15. 15.
    Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  16. 16.
    Northanger Abbey (Modern Library Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  17. 17.
    Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  18. 18.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin
  19. 19.
    Pere Goriot (Signet Classics)
    by Honore de Balzac
  20. 20.
    Growing Up (Plume)
    by Russell Baker
  21. 21.
    Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
    by Samuel Beckett
  22. 22.
    Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887 (Broadview Literary Texts)
    by Edward Bellamy
  23. 23.
    Seize the Day (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Saul Bellow
  25. 25.
    A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
    by Robert Bolt
  26. 26.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury
  27. 27.
    ?
    The Ascent of Man
    by Jacob Bronowski
  28. 28.
    Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Brontë
  29. 29.
    Selected Poems (Perennial Classics)
    by Gwendolyn Brooks
  31. 31.
    Robert Browning: Poems (Highbridge Classics)
    by Robert Browning
  32. 32.
    The Good Earth (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Pearl S. Buck
  33. 33.
    The Way of All Flesh (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Samuel Butler
  34. 34.
    The Power of Myth
    by Joseph Campbell
  35. 35.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus
  36. 36.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus
  37. 37.
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    by Lewis Carroll
  38. 38.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson
  39. 39.
    Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics)
    by Willa Cather
  40. 40.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  41. 41.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer
  42. 42.
    The Cherry Orchard (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Anton Chekhov
  43. 43.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin
  44. 44.
    The Ox-Bow Incident (Modern Library Classics)
    by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  45. 45.
    The Moonstone (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins
  46. 46.
    Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
    by Jorge Luis Borges
  47. 47.
    Go Ask Alice
    by Anonymous
  48. 48.
    ?
    The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth
    by David Attenborough
  49. 49.
    The Chocolate War
    by Robert Cormier
  50. 50.
    Mother Courage and Her Children
    by Bertolt Brecht

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Created by karenbeth on Aug 18, 2006.
 

Comments

starsmtsu12

yay! — 3 years ago

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

Jul 19, 12:57AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

Gina

Untitled — 4 years ago

What a great list! Thanks for posting this.

Jun 06, 07:56AM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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