freckle717's "I want to be educated - a book list"

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A list of 100 books I haven’t read yet (modern and classic) and think are important for being a well-rounded, educated adult.

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  1. 1.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  2. 2.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  3. 3.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  4. 5.
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    by Dave Eggers

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  5. 6.
    1984
    by George Orwell

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  6. 7.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac

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  7. 8.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

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  8. 9.
    Secret Life of Bees
    by Sue Monk Kidd

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  9. 10.
    Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature)
    by Patrick McCarthy

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  10. 11.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

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  11. 12.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  12. 13.
    Waiting for Godot
    by Samuel Beckett

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  13. 14.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller

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  14. 15.
    Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
    by Azar Nafisi

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  15. 16.
    Farenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

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  16. 17.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray - Literary Touchstone
    by Oscar Wilde

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  17. 18.
    The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Cormac McCarthy

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  18. 19.
    Bee Season: A Novel
    by Myla Goldberg

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  19. 20.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou

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  20. 21.
    The World According to Garp
    by John IRVING

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  21. 23.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    by Milan Kundera

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  22. 25.
    Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  23. 27.
    Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
    by Barbara Ehrenreich

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  24. 28.
    Out of Africa
    by Isak Dinesen

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  25. 29.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

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  26. 30.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  27. 31.
    The Virgin Suicides
    by Jeffrey Eugenides

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  28. 32.
    The House on Mango Street
    by Sandra Cisneros

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  29. 33.
    The Godfather
    by Mario Puzo

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  30. 34.
    One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

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  31. 35.
    The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)
    by Ayn Rand

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  32. 36.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

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  33. 37.
    The Alchemist (Plus)
    by Paulo Coelho

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  34. 38.
    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anthony Burgess

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  35. 39.
    The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Barbara Kingsolver

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  36. 40.
    A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by John Kennedy Toole

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  37. 41.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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  38. 42.
    The Last of the Mohicans
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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  39. 43.
    The Cider House Rules
    by John Irving

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  40. 44.
    Me Talk Pretty One Day
    by David Sedaris

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  41. 45.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  42. 46.
    The Namesake
    by Jhumpa Lahiri

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  43. 47.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice (Crime Masterworks)
    by James M. Cain

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  44. 48.
    Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  45. 49.
    The Shining
    by Stephen King

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  46. 50.
    Water for Elephants
    by Sara Gruen

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