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

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This was "borrowed" from jsherry :)

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. :)

-jsherry

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  1. 51.
    Lord Jim (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  2. 52.
    Alistair Cooke's America
    by Alistair Cooke

  3. 53.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

  4. 54.
    The Chocolate War
    by Robert Cormier

  5. 55.
    The Red Badge of Courage (Tor Classics)
    by Stephen Crane

  6. 56.
    To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family
    by JoAn D. Criddle

  7. 57.
    Lakota Woman
    by Mary Crow Dog

  8. 59.
    Madame Curie: A Biography
    by Eve Curie

  9. 60.

  10. 61.
    The Origin of Species
    by Charles Darwin

  11. 62.
    Moll Flanders (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  12. 63.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  13. 64.
    Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
    by Sarah L. Delany

  14. 65.
    Bleak House (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  15. 66.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  16. 67.
    Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  17. 68.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  18. 69.
    The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    by Emily Dickinson

  19. 70.
    Out of Africa (Modern Library of the World's Best Books)
    by Isak Dinesen

  20. 72.
    A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel
    by Michael Dorris

  21. 73.
    The Brothers Karamazov (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  22. 74.
    Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  23. 76.
    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser

  24. 77.
    Sister Carrie (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser

  25. 78.
    The Three Musketeers (Modern Library)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  26. 79.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  27. 80.
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    Tuxedo Junction: Essays on American Culture
    by Gerald Early

  28. 81.
    Adam Bede (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

  29. 82.
    Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

  30. 83.
    The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

  31. 84.
    Silas Marner (Bantam Classics)
    by GEORGE ELIOT

  32. 85.
    Murder in the Cathedral
    by T. S. Eliot

  33. 86.
    The Waste Land and Other Poems
    by T. S. Eliot

  34. 87.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

  35. 91.
    Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  36. 92.
    As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  37. 93.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  38. 94.
    Tom Jones (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

  39. 95.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  40. 96.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  41. 97.
    The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Ford Madox Ford

  42. 98.
    A Passage to India
    by E.M. Forster

  43. 99.
    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank

  44. 100.
    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Benjamin Franklin

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This is Jenn's list. Only Jenn can edit it. You can make your own version of this list.
Created by Jenn on Dec 30, 2006.
 

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