jsherry'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. :)

-jsherry

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  1. 152.
    The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
    by Maxine Hong Kingston

  2. 153.
    Darkness at Noon
    by Arthur Koestler

  3. 155.
    Born on the Fourth of July
    by Ron Kovic

  4. 156.
    Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
    by Jonathan Kozol

  5. 157.
    Sons and Lovers
    by D. H. Lawrence

  6. 158.
    Inherit the Wind
    by Jerome Lawrence

  7. 159.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

  8. 160.
    A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)
    by Aldo Leopold

  9. 161.
    Main Street (Signet Classics)
    by Sinclair Lewis

  10. 162.
    How Green Was My Valley
    by Richard Llewellyn

  11. 163.
    The Call Of The Wild
    by Jack London

  12. 164.
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    The complete poetical works of Longfellow (The Cambridge poets)
    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  13. 165.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

  14. 166.
    J.B.: A Play in Verse
    by Archibald MacLeish

  15. 167.

  16. 168.
    Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories
    by Thomas Mann

  17. 169.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

  18. 170.
    Doctor Faustus
    by Christopher Marlowe

  19. 171.
    The Communist Manifesto (Signet Classics)
    by Karl Marx

  20. 173.
    Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

  21. 174.
    Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World
    by David Maybury-Lewis

  22. 175.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

  23. 176.
    The Member of the Wedding
    by Carson McCullers

  24. 178.
    Moby-Dick (Bantam Classics)
    by Herman Melville

  25. 179.
    The Crucible (Penguin Plays)
    by Arthur Miller

  26. 180.
    Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays)
    by Arthur Miller

  27. 181.

  28. 182.
    The Cruel Sea (Classics of War)
    by Nicholas Monsarrat

  29. 183.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  30. 184.
    Sula (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Toni Morrison

  31. 185.
    Bailey's Cafe
    by Gloria Naylor

  32. 186.
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor

  33. 187.
    Long Day's Journey into Night
    by Eugene O'Neill

  34. 188.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four, Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

  35. 189.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

  36. 190.
    Learning Tree
    by Gordon Parks

  37. 191.
    DR. ZHIVAGO
    by BORIS PASTERNAK

  38. 192.
    Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Alan Paton

  39. 193.
    The Bell Jar (P.S.)
    by Sylvia Plath

  40. 194.
    Plato: Republic
    by Plato

  41. 195.
    Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    by Edgar Allan Poe

  42. 196.
    The Chosen
    by Chaim Potok

  43. 198.
    The Crying of Lot 49
    by Thomas Pynchon

  44. 199.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

  45. 200.

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Created by jsherry on Mar 29, 2006.
 

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