noblelady'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. 201.
    Cyrano De Bergerac
    by Edmond Rostand

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  2. 202.
    Call It Sleep: A Novel
    by Henry Roth

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  3. 203.
    The Catcher in the Rye

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  5. 205.
    Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years
    by Carl Sandburg

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  6. 206.
    The Human Comedy
    by William Saroyan

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  7. 207.
    No Exit and Three Other Plays
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

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  8. 208.
    The Nine Tailors
    by Dorothy L. Sayers

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  9. 209.
    Ivanhoe (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Walter Scott

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  10. 210.
    Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  11. 211.
    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  12. 212.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  13. 213.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  14. 214.
    Man and Superman (Penguin Classics)
    by George Bernard Shaw

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  15. 215.
    Pygmalion (Penguin Classics)
    by George Bernard Shaw

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  16. 216.
    Saint Joan (Penguin Classics)
    by George Bernard Shaw

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  17. 217.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  18. 218.
    The School for Scandal (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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  19. 219.
    On the Beach
    by Nevil Shute

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  20. 220.
    The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
    by Upton Sinclair

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  21. 221.
    Ceremony (Contemporary American Fiction Series)
    by Leslie Marmon Silko

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  22. 222.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Signet Classics)
    by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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  23. 223.
    Antigone (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Sophocles

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  24. 224.
    Oedipus Rex (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Sophocles

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  25. 225.
    Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by John Steinbeck

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  26. 226.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  27. 227.
    Treasure Island (Signet Classic)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  28. 228.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bantam Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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  29. 229.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

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  30. 230.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

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  31. 231.
    Race
    by STUDS TERKEL

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  32. 232.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  33. 234.
    Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry David Thoreau

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  34. 235.
    Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Library of America)
    by Alexis de Tocqueville

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  35. 236.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  36. 237.
    War and Peace (Modern Library Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  37. 238.
    A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
    by Barbara W. Tuchman

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  38. 239.
    Fathers and Sons (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Ivan Turgenev

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  40. 241.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

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  41. 242.
    The Aeneid (Penguin Classics)
    by Virgil

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  42. 243.
    Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics)
    by Voltaire

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  43. 244.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by KURT VONNEGUT

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  44. 245.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  45. 246.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

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  46. 247.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  47. 248.
    Night
    by Elie Wiesel

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  48. 249.
    The Time Machine (Tor Classics)
    by H. G. Wells

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  49. 250.
    Thirteen Stories
    by Eudora Welty

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Created by noblelady on Oct 13, 2006.
 

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