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

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. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
  
4. Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by William Golding
  
5. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
  
6. 1984
by George Orwell
  
7. On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Jack Kerouac
  
8. Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
by Victor Hugo
  
9.
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 Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
  
10. Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature)
by Patrick McCarthy
  
11. Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
  
12. The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
13. Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
  
14. Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
  
15. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
  
16.
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 Farenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
  
17. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Literary Touchstone
by Oscar Wilde
  
18. The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
by Cormac McCarthy
  
19. Bee Season: A Novel
by Myla Goldberg
  
20. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
  
21. The World According to Garp
by John IRVING
  
22. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
by Hunter S. Thompson
  
23. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
  
24. White Noise: (Great Books Edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Don DeLillo
  
25. Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
  
26. Amazing Grace: Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, The
by Jonathan Kozol
  
27. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
  
28. Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen
  
29. Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
  
30. Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by D.H. Lawrence
  
31. The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
  
32.
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 The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
  
33. The Godfather
by Mario Puzo
  
34. One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
  
35.
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 The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)
by Ayn Rand
  
36. In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
  
37. The Alchemist (Plus)
by Paulo Coelho
  
38. A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Anthony Burgess
  
39. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
by Barbara Kingsolver
  
40. A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics)
by John Kennedy Toole
  
41. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  
42. The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
  
43. The Cider House Rules
by John Irving
  
44. Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
  
45. Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
  
46. The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
  
47. The Postman Always Rings Twice (Crime Masterworks)
by James M. Cain
  
48. Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics)
by Edith Wharton
  
49. The Shining
by Stephen King
  
50. Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
  
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Created by freckle717 on Jun 02, 2007.