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bfbottorff's "Recommended Reading List for the Well Educated Adult"

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. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation  
2. Things Fall Apart: A Novel
by Chinua Achebe
  
3. Watership Down
by Richard Adams
  
4. Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics)
by Aesop
  
5. A Death in the Family
by James Agee
  
6. The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
  
7. Winesburg, Ohio (Bantam Classic)
by SHERWOOD ANDERSON
  
8. And Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou
  
9. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
  
10. Days of Grace
by Arthur Ashe
  
11.
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 The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth
by David Attenborough
  
12. Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
13. Northanger Abbey (Modern Library Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
14. Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
15. Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
16. Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
  
17. Pere Goriot (Signet Classics)
by Honore de Balzac
  
18. Growing Up (Plume)
by Russell Baker
  
19. Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
  
20. Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887 (Broadview Literary Texts)
by Edward Bellamy
  
21. Seize the Day (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
22. The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
23. The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
by Michael Berenbaum
  
24. A Man for All Seasons
by Robert Bolt
  
25. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook, 186)
by Jorge Luis Borges
  
26. Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
  
27. Mother Courage and Her Children
by Bertolt Brecht
  
28.
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 The Ascent of Man
by Jacob Bronowski
  
29. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
30. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
by Emily Bronte
  
31. Selected Poems (Perennial Classics)
by Gwendolyn Brooks
  
32. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by Dee Brown
  
33. Robert Browning: Poems (Highbridge Classics)
by Robert Browning
  
34. The Good Earth (Oprah's Book Club)
by Pearl S. Buck
  
35. The Way of All Flesh (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Samuel Butler
  
36. The Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell
  
37. The Plague
by Albert Camus
  
38. The Stranger
by Albert Camus
  
39. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
  
40. Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
  
41. Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics)
by Willa Cather
  
42. My Antonia
by Willa Cather
  
43. Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  
44. The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
  
45. The Cherry Orchard (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Anton Chekhov
  
46. The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
  
47. The Ox-Bow Incident (Modern Library Classics)
by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  
48. The Moonstone (Oxford World's Classics)
by Wilkie Collins
  
49. Go Ask Alice
by Anonymous
  
50. Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Joseph Conrad
  
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Created by bfbottorff on Jul 13, 2007.