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

Note: books marked "not worth consuming" simply mean that I read them, but didn’t particularly enjoy them. Many will disagree, but that is why I made this my list!

Thanks to -jsherry for posting the original list.

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1. Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon
  
2. Go Ask Alice
by Anonymous
  
3. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation  
4. Things Fall Apart: A Novel
by Chinua Achebe
  
5. Watership Down
by Richard Adams
  
6. Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics)
by Aesop
  
7. A Death in the Family
by James Agee
  
8. The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
  
9. Winesburg, Ohio (Bantam Classic)
by SHERWOOD ANDERSON
  
10. And Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou
  
11. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
  
12. Days of Grace
by Arthur Ashe
  
13.
?
 The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth
by David Attenborough
  
14. Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
15. Northanger Abbey (Modern Library Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
16. Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
17. Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
18. Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
  
19. Pere Goriot (Signet Classics)
by Honore de Balzac
  
20. Growing Up (Plume)
by Russell Baker
  
21. Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
  
22. Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887 (Broadview Literary Texts)
by Edward Bellamy
  
23. Seize the Day (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
24. The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
25. The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
by Michael Berenbaum
  
26. A Man for All Seasons
by Robert Bolt
  
27. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook, 186)
by Jorge Luis Borges
  
28. Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
  
29. Mother Courage and Her Children
by Bertolt Brecht
  
30.
?
 The Ascent of Man
by Jacob Bronowski
  
31. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
32. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
by Emily Bronte
  
33. Selected Poems (Perennial Classics)
by Gwendolyn Brooks
  
34. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by Dee Brown
  
35. Robert Browning: Poems (Highbridge Classics)
by Robert Browning
  
36. The Good Earth (Oprah's Book Club)
by Pearl S. Buck
  
37. The Way of All Flesh (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Samuel Butler
  
38. The Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell
  
39. The Plague
by Albert Camus
  
40. The Stranger
by Albert Camus
  
41. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
  
42. Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
  
43. Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics)
by Willa Cather
  
44. My Antonia
by Willa Cather
  
45. Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  
46. The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
  
47. The Cherry Orchard (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Anton Chekhov
  
48. The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
  
49. The Ox-Bow Incident (Modern Library Classics)
by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  
50. The Moonstone (Oxford World's Classics)
by Wilkie Collins
  
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Created by cozycoleman on Jan 21, 2007.