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
  2. 2.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  3. 3.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston
  4. 4.
    Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by William Golding
  5. 5.
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    by Dave Eggers
  6. 6.
    1984
    by George Orwell
  7. 7.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac
  8. 8.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo
  9. 9.
    Secret Life of Bees
    by Sue Monk Kidd
  10. 10.
    Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature)
    by Patrick McCarthy
  11. 11.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike
  12. 12.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  13. 13.
    Waiting for Godot
    by Samuel Beckett
  14. 14.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller
  15. 15.
    Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
    by Azar Nafisi
  16. 16.
    Farenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury
  17. 17.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray - Literary Touchstone
    by Oscar Wilde
  18. 18.
    The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Cormac McCarthy
  19. 19.
    Bee Season: A Novel
    by Myla Goldberg
  20. 20.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou
  21. 21.
    The World According to Garp
    by John IRVING
  23. 23.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    by Milan Kundera
  25. 25.
    Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  27. 27.
    Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
    by Barbara Ehrenreich
  28. 28.
    Out of Africa
    by Isak Dinesen
  29. 29.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf
  30. 30.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by D. H. Lawrence
  31. 31.
    The Virgin Suicides
    by Jeffrey Eugenides
  32. 32.
    The House on Mango Street
    by Sandra Cisneros
  33. 33.
    The Godfather
    by Mario Puzo
  34. 34.
    One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey
  35. 35.
    The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)
    by Ayn Rand
  36. 36.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote
  37. 37.
    The Alchemist
    by Paulo Coelho
  38. 38.
    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anthony Burgess
  39. 39.
    The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Barbara Kingsolver
  40. 40.
    Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by John Kennedy Toole
  41. 41.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  42. 42.
    The Last of the Mohicans
    by James Fenimore Cooper
  43. 43.
    The Cider House Rules
    by John Irving
  44. 44.
    Me Talk Pretty One Day
    by David Sedaris
  45. 45.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  46. 46.
    The Namesake
    by Jhumpa Lahiri
  47. 47.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice (Crime Masterworks)
    by James M. Cain
  48. 48.
    Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  49. 49.
    The Shining
    by Stephen King
  50. 50.
    Water for Elephants: A Novel
    by Sara Gruen

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