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

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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

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

  3. 253.
    The Once and Future King
    by Terence Hanbury White

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

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

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

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

  8. 259.
    A Streetcar Named Desire
    by Tennessee Williams

  9. 260.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams

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

  11. 262.
    The Piano Lesson
    by August Wilson

  12. 263.
    Look Homeward, Angel
    by Thomas Wolfe

  13. 264.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

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

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

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

  17. 269.

  18. 270.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood

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

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

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

  22. 274.
    John Adams
    by David McCullough

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

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

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

  26. 278.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  27. 279.
    All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1)
    by Cormac McCarthy

  28. 280.
    The Human Stain: A Novel American Trilogy (3)
    by Philip Roth

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

  30. 282.
    Alexander Hamilton
    by Ron Chernow

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

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

  33. 285.
    Johnny Got His Gun
    by Dalton Trumbo

  34. 286.
    Zondervan NIV Study Bible
    by Zondervan

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

  36. 288.
    City of God
    by St. Augustine

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

  38. 290.
    Leaves of Grass (Bantam Classics)
    by Walt Whitman

  39. 291.
    The Second Sex
    by Simone de Beauvoir

  40. 292.
    Silence
    by Shusaku Endo

  41. 293.
    A Rumor of War
    by Philip Caputo

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

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

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

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

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

  47. 299.
    Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
    by Eric Schlosser

  48. 300.
    A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole

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Created by drwhooo on Jul 25, 2007.
 

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