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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

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  1. 251.
    Thirteen Stories
    by Eudora Welty

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  2. 252.
    The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  3. 253.
    Once and Future King, The
    by T. H. White

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  4. 254.
    The Importance of Being Earnest
    by Oscar Wilde

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  5. 255.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde

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  6. 256.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

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  7. 257.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

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  8. 259.
    A Streetcar Named Desire
    by Tennessee Williams

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  9. 260.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams

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  10. 261.
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    The Selected Poems Of William Carlos Williams
    by William C Williams

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  11. 262.
    The Piano Lesson (Drama, Plume)
    by August Wilson

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  12. 263.
    Look Homeward, Angel
    by Thomas Wolfe

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  13. 264.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

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  14. 265.
    William Wordsworth: Poems (Highbridge Classics)
    by William Wordsworth

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  15. 266.
    The Caine Mutiny: A Novel
    by Herman Wouk

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  16. 267.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright

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  17. 269.
    Poems (The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats)
    by W.B. Yeats

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  18. 270.
    The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

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  19. 271.
    The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  20. 272.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  21. 273.
    The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1)
    by Robert A. Caro

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  22. 274.
    John Adams
    by David McCullough

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  23. 275.
    The Chronicles of Narnia
    by C.S. Lewis

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  24. 276.
    Mere Christianity
    by C. S. Lewis

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  25. 277.
    Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Louise Erdrich

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  26. 278.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  27. 279.
    All the Pretty Horses (Vintage International)
    by Cormac Mccarthy

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  28. 280.
    The Human Stain: A Novel
    by Philip Roth

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  29. 281.
    A Thousand Acres: A Novel
    by Jane Smiley

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  30. 282.
    Alexander Hamilton
    by Ron Chernow

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  31. 283.
    The God of Small Things
    by Arundhati Roy

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  32. 284.
    White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Don DeLillo

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  33. 285.
    Johnny Got His Gun
    by DALTON TRUMBO

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  34. 286.
    Zondervan NIV Study Bible
    by Zondervan

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  35. 287.
    The Koran (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

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  36. 288.
    City of God
    by St. Augustine

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  37. 289.
    The Confessions of St. Augustine
    by Augustine

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  38. 290.
    Leaves of Grass (Bantam Classics)
    by WALT WHITMAN

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  39. 291.
    The Second Sex
    by SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

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  40. 292.
    Silence
    by Shusaku Endo

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  41. 293.
    A Rumor of War
    by Philip Caputo

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  42. 294.
    The Things They Carried
    by Tim O'Brien

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  43. 295.
    Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
    by Mark Bowden

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  44. 296.
    Of the Imitation of Christ (Vintage Spiritual Classics)
    by THOMAS KEMPIS

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  45. 297.
    Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
    by Nathan Mc Call

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  46. 298.
    The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
    by Louis Menand

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  47. 299.
    Fast Food Nation
    by Eric Schlosser

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  48. 300.
    A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book)
    by John Kennedy Toole

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