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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

  1. 2.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

  2. 3.
    Watership Down
    by Richard Adams

  3. 4.
    Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Aesop

  4. 5.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

  5. 6.
    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende

  6. 7.
    Winesburg, Ohio (Bantam Classic)
    by Sherwood Anderson

  7. 8.
    And Still I Rise
    by Maya Angelou

  8. 9.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou

  9. 10.
    Days of Grace
    by Arthur Ashe

  10. 11.
    ?
    The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth
    by David Attenborough

  11. 12.
    Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  12. 13.
    Northanger Abbey (Modern Library Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  13. 14.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  14. 15.
    Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  15. 16.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

  16. 17.
    Pere Goriot (Signet Classics)
    by Honore de Balzac

  17. 18.
    Growing Up (Plume)
    by Russell Baker

  18. 19.
    Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
    by Samuel Beckett

  19. 20.
    Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887 (Broadview Literary Texts)
    by Edward Bellamy

  20. 21.
    Seize the Day (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  21. 24.
    A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
    by Robert Bolt

  22. 25.
    Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
    by Jorge Luis Borges

  23. 26.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

  24. 27.
    Mother Courage and Her Children
    by Bertolt Brecht

  25. 28.
    ?
    The Ascent of Man
    by Jacob Bronowski

  26. 29.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  27. 30.
    Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Brontë

  28. 31.
    Selected Poems (Perennial Classics)
    by Gwendolyn Brooks

  29. 33.
    Robert Browning: Poems (Highbridge Classics)
    by Robert Browning

  30. 34.
    The Good Earth (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Pearl S. Buck

  31. 35.
    The Way of All Flesh (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Samuel Butler

  32. 36.
    The Power of Myth
    by Joseph Campbell

  33. 37.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

  34. 38.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

  35. 39.
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    by Lewis Carroll

  36. 40.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

  37. 41.
    Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics)
    by Willa Cather

  38. 42.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

  39. 43.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

  40. 44.
    The Canterbury Tales
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

  41. 45.
    The Cherry Orchard (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Anton Chekhov

  42. 46.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin

  43. 47.
    The Ox-Bow Incident (Modern Library Classics)
    by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

  44. 48.
    The Moonstone (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

  45. 49.
    Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad

  46. 50.
    Lord Jim (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  47. 51.
    Alistair Cooke's America
    by Alistair Cooke

  48. 52.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

  49. 53.
    The Chocolate War
    by Robert Cormier

  50. 54.
    The Red Badge of Courage (Tor Classics)
    by Stephen Crane

  51. 55.
    To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family
    by JoAn D. Criddle

  52. 56.
    Lakota Woman
    by Mary Crow Dog

  53. 58.
    Madame Curie: A Biography
    by Eve Curie

  54. 59.

  55. 60.
    Origin of Species
    by Charles Darwin

  56. 61.
    Moll Flanders (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  57. 62.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  58. 63.
    Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
    by Sarah L. Delany

  59. 64.
    Bleak House (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  60. 65.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  61. 66.
    Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  62. 67.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  63. 68.
    The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    by Emily Dickinson

  64. 69.
    Out of Africa (Modern Library of the World's Best Books)
    by Isak Dinesen

  65. 71.
    A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel
    by Michael Dorris

  66. 72.
    The Brothers Karamazov (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  67. 73.
    Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  68. 75.
    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser

  69. 76.
    Sister Carrie (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser

  70. 77.
    The Three Musketeers (Modern Library)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  71. 78.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  72. 79.
    ?
    Tuxedo Junction: Essays on American Culture
    by Gerald Early

  73. 80.
    Adam Bede (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

  74. 81.
    Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

  75. 82.
    The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

  76. 83.
    Silas Marner (Bantam Classics)
    by GEORGE ELIOT

  77. 84.
    Murder in the Cathedral
    by T. S. Eliot

  78. 85.
    The Waste Land and Other Poems
    by T. S. Eliot

  79. 86.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

  80. 90.
    Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  81. 91.
    As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  82. 92.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  83. 93.
    Tom Jones (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

  84. 94.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  85. 95.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  86. 96.
    The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Ford Madox Ford

  87. 97.
    A Passage to India
    by E.M. Forster

  88. 98.
    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank

  89. 99.
    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Benjamin Franklin

  90. 101.
    The Death of Artemio Cruz: A Novel
    by Carlos Fuentes

  91. 102.
    The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
    by Ernest J. Gaines

  92. 103.
    The Forsyte Saga (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Galsworthy

  93. 104.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  94. 105.
    Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets, No. 4)
    by Allen Ginsberg

  95. 106.
    My House
    by Nikki Giovanni

  96. 107.
    Goethe's Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  97. 108.

  98. 109.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

  99. 110.
    She Stoops to Conquer (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Oliver Goldsmith

  100. 111.
    The Tin Drum (Vintage International)
    by Gunter Grass

  101. 113.

  102. 114.
    Roots
    by Alex Haley

  103. 115.
    Mythology
    by Edith Hamilton

  104. 116.
    Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  105. 117.
    Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  106. 118.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  107. 119.
    A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
    by Stephen W. Hawking

  108. 120.
    The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  109. 122.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  110. 123.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

  111. 124.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  112. 125.
    ?
    The Old Man and The Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

  113. 126.
    The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (Modern Library)
    by O. Henry

  114. 127.
    Hiroshima (Vintage)
    by John Hersey

  115. 128.
    Siddhartha
    by Hermann Hesse

  116. 129.
    A Single Pebble
    by John Hersey

  117. 130.
    Steppenwolf: A Novel
    by Hermann Hesse

  118. 131.
    The Iliad (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

  119. 132.
    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

  120. 133.
    Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
    by Langston Hughes

  121. 134.
    Les Miserables (Modern Library)
    by Victor Hugo

  122. 136.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

  123. 137.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  124. 138.
    A Doll's House (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henrik Ibsen

  125. 139.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

  126. 140.
    The Turn of the Screw (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry James

  127. 141.

  128. 142.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce

  129. 143.
    The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)
    by Franz Kafka

  130. 144.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

  131. 145.

  132. 146.
    Complete Poems
    by John Keats

  133. 148.
    Profiles in Courage
    by John F. Kennedy

  134. 149.
    On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac

  135. 150.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

  136. 152.
    The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
    by Maxine Hong Kingston

  137. 153.
    Darkness at Noon
    by Arthur Koestler

  138. 155.
    Born on the Fourth of July
    by Ron Kovic

  139. 156.
    Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
    by Jonathan Kozol

  140. 157.
    Sons and Lovers
    by D. H. Lawrence

  141. 158.
    Inherit the Wind
    by Jerome Lawrence

  142. 159.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

  143. 160.
    A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)
    by Aldo Leopold

  144. 161.
    Main Street (Signet Classics)
    by Sinclair Lewis

  145. 162.
    How Green Was My Valley
    by Richard Llewellyn

  146. 163.
    The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics)
    by Jack London

  147. 164.
    ?
    The complete poetical works of Longfellow (The Cambridge poets)
    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  148. 165.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

  149. 166.
    J.B.: A Play in Verse
    by Archibald MacLeish

  150. 167.

  151. 168.
    Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories
    by Thomas Mann

  152. 169.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

  153. 170.
    Doctor Faustus
    by Christopher Marlowe

  154. 171.
    The Communist Manifesto (Signet Classics)
    by Karl Marx

  155. 173.
    Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

  156. 174.
    ?
    Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World
    by David Maybury-Lewis

  157. 175.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Carson McCullers

  158. 176.
    The Member of the Wedding
    by Carson McCullers

  159. 178.
    Moby-Dick (Bantam Classics)
    by Herman Melville

  160. 179.
    The Crucible (Penguin Plays)
    by Arthur Miller

  161. 180.
    Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays)
    by Arthur Miller

  162. 181.

  163. 182.
    The Cruel Sea (Classics of War)
    by Nicholas Monsarrat

  164. 183.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  165. 184.
    Sula (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Toni Morrison

  166. 185.
    Bailey's Cafe
    by Gloria Naylor

  167. 186.
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor

  168. 187.
    Long Day's Journey into Night
    by Eugene O'Neill

  169. 188.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by George Orwell

  170. 189.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

  171. 190.
    Learning Tree
    by Gordon Parks

  172. 191.
    ?
    DR. ZHIVAGO
    by BORIS PASTERNAK

  173. 192.
    Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Alan Paton

  174. 193.
    The Bell Jar (P.S.)
    by Sylvia Plath

  175. 194.
    Plato: Republic
    by Plato

  176. 195.
    Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    by Edgar Allan Poe

  177. 196.
    The Chosen
    by Chaim Potok

  178. 198.
    The Crying of Lot 49
    by Thomas Pynchon

  179. 199.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

  180. 200.

  181. 201.
    Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie (Perennial Classics)
    by Ole Edvart Rolvaag

  182. 202.
    Cyrano de Bergerac (French Edition)
    by Edmond Rostand

  183. 203.
    Call It Sleep: A Novel
    by Henry Roth

  184. 204.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

  185. 205.

  186. 206.
    Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years
    by Carl Sandburg

  187. 207.
    The Human Comedy
    by William Saroyan

  188. 208.
    No Exit and Three Other Plays
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

  189. 209.
    The Nine Tailors
    by Dorothy L. Sayers

  190. 210.
    Ivanhoe (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Walter Scott

  191. 211.
    Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  192. 212.
    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  193. 213.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  194. 214.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  195. 215.
    Man and Superman (Penguin Classics)
    by George Bernard Shaw

  196. 216.
    Pygmalion (Penguin Classics)
    by George Bernard Shaw

  197. 217.
    Saint Joan (Penguin Classics)
    by George Bernard Shaw

  198. 218.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

  199. 219.
    The School for Scandal (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  200. 220.
    On the Beach
    by Nevil Shute

  201. 221.
    The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
    by Upton Sinclair

  202. 222.
    Ceremony (Contemporary American Fiction Series)
    by Leslie Marmon Silko

  203. 223.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Signet Classics)
    by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  204. 224.
    Antigone (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Sophocles

  205. 225.
    Oedipus Rex (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Sophocles

  206. 226.
    Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by John Steinbeck

  207. 227.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

  208. 228.
    Treasure Island (Signet Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

  209. 229.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bantam Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  210. 230.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

  211. 231.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

  212. 232.
    Race
    by STUDS TERKEL

  213. 233.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

  214. 234.
    The Poems of Dylan Thomas, New Revised Edition [with CD]
    by Dylan Thomas

  215. 235.
    Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry David Thoreau

  216. 236.
    Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Library of America)
    by Alexis de Tocqueville

  217. 237.
    Anna Karenina
    by Leo Tolstoy

  218. 238.
    War and Peace (Modern Library Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  219. 239.
    A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
    by Barbara W. Tuchman

  220. 240.
    Fathers and Sons (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Ivan Turgenev

  221. 241.

  222. 242.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

  223. 243.
    The Aeneid (Penguin Classics)
    by Virgil

  224. 244.
    Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics)
    by Voltaire

  225. 245.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  226. 246.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

  227. 247.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

  228. 248.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

  229. 249.
    Night
    by Elie Wiesel

  230. 250.
    The Time Machine
    by H. G. Wells

  231. 251.
    Thirteen Stories
    by Eudora Welty

  232. 252.
    The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

  233. 253.
    The Once and Future King
    by Terence Hanbury White

  234. 254.
    The Importance of Being Earnest
    by Oscar Wilde

  235. 255.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde

  236. 256.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

  237. 257.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

  238. 259.
    A Streetcar Named Desire
    by Tennessee Williams

  239. 260.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams

  240. 261.
    ?
    The Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams
    by William C Williams

  241. 262.
    The Piano Lesson
    by August Wilson

  242. 263.
    Look Homeward, Angel
    by Thomas Wolfe

  243. 264.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

  244. 265.
    William Wordsworth: Poems (Highbridge Classics)
    by William Wordsworth

  245. 266.
    The Caine Mutiny: A Novel
    by Herman Wouk

  246. 267.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright

  247. 269.

  248. 270.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood

  249. 271.
    The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  250. 272.
    Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  251. 273.
    The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1)
    by Robert A. Caro

  252. 274.
    John Adams
    by David McCullough

  253. 275.
    The Chronicles of Narnia
    by C.S. Lewis

  254. 276.
    Mere Christianity
    by C. S. Lewis

  255. 277.
    Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Louise Erdrich

  256. 278.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  257. 279.
    All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1)
    by Cormac McCarthy

  258. 280.
    The Human Stain: A Novel American Trilogy (3)
    by Philip Roth

  259. 281.
    A Thousand Acres: A Novel
    by Jane Smiley

  260. 282.
    Alexander Hamilton
    by Ron Chernow

  261. 283.
    The God of Small Things
    by Arundhati Roy

  262. 284.
    White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Don DeLillo

  263. 285.
    Johnny Got His Gun
    by Dalton Trumbo

  264. 286.
    Zondervan NIV Study Bible
    by Zondervan

  265. 287.
    The Koran (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

  266. 288.
    City of God
    by St. Augustine

  267. 289.
    The Confessions of St. Augustine
    by Augustine

  268. 290.
    Leaves of Grass (Bantam Classics)
    by Walt Whitman

  269. 291.
    The Second Sex
    by Simone de Beauvoir

  270. 292.
    Silence
    by Shusaku Endo

  271. 293.
    A Rumor of War
    by Philip Caputo

  272. 294.
    The Things They Carried
    by Tim O'Brien

  273. 295.
    Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
    by Mark Bowden

  274. 296.
    Of the Imitation of Christ (Vintage Spiritual Classics)
    by THOMAS KEMPIS

  275. 297.
    Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
    by Nathan McCall

  276. 298.
    The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
    by Louis Menand

  277. 299.
    Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
    by Eric Schlosser

  278. 300.
    A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole

  279. 301.
    Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
    by Joseph J. Ellis

  280. 302.
    Kindred (Bluestreak)
    by Octavia Butler

  281. 303.
    Survival In Auschwitz
    by Primo Levi

  282. 304.
    The Giver
    by Lois Lowry

  283. 305.
    The Forever War
    by Joe Haldeman

  284. 306.
    Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood (Unabridged)
    by Koren Zailckas

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