JillyH's "Reading List for the Educated Adult"

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A list of great works – which I will hopefully work through sooner rather than later.

This list has been compiled from various lists which can be found online and also from my own personal input.

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  1. 1.
    Go Ask Alice
    by Anonymous
  3. 3.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe
  4. 4.
    Watership Down
    by Richard Adams
  5. 5.
    Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Aesop
  6. 6.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee
  7. 7.
    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende
  8. 8.
    Winesburg, Ohio (Bantam Classic)
    by Sherwood Anderson
  9. 9.
    And Still I Rise
    by Maya Angelou
  10. 10.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou
  11. 11.
    Days of Grace
    by Arthur Ashe
  12. 12.
    ?
    The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth
    by David Attenborough
  13. 13.
    Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  14. 14.
    Northanger Abbey (Modern Library Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  15. 15.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  16. 16.
    Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  17. 17.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin
  18. 18.
    Pere Goriot (Signet Classics)
    by Honore de Balzac
  19. 19.
    Growing Up (Plume)
    by Russell Baker
  20. 20.
    Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
    by Samuel Beckett
  21. 21.
    Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887 (Broadview Literary Texts)
    by Edward Bellamy
  22. 22.
    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.
    Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
    by Jorge Luis Borges
  27. 27.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury
  28. 28.
    Mother Courage and Her Children
    by Bertolt Brecht
  29. 29.
    ?
    The Ascent of Man
    by Jacob Bronowski
  30. 30.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë
  31. 31.
    Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Brontë
  32. 32.
    Selected Poems (Perennial Classics)
    by Gwendolyn Brooks
  34. 34.
    Robert Browning: Poems (Highbridge Classics)
    by Robert Browning
  35. 35.
    The Good Earth (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Pearl S. Buck
  36. 36.
    The Way of All Flesh (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Samuel Butler
  37. 37.
    The Power of Myth
    by Joseph Campbell
  38. 38.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus
  39. 39.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus
  40. 40.
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    by Lewis Carroll
  41. 41.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson
  42. 42.
    Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics)
    by Willa Cather
  43. 43.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather
  44. 44.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  45. 45.
    The Canterbury Tales
    by Geoffrey Chaucer
  46. 46.
    The Cherry Orchard (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Anton Chekhov
  47. 47.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin
  48. 48.
    The Ox-Bow Incident (Modern Library Classics)
    by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  49. 49.
    The Moonstone (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins
  50. 50.
    Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad

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Created by JillyH on Nov 08, 2006.
 

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