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. 102.
    The Death of Artemio Cruz: A Novel
    by Carlos Fuentes

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  2. 103.
    The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
    by Ernest J. Gaines

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  3. 104.
    The Forsyte Saga (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Galsworthy

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  4. 105.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  5. 106.
    Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)
    by Allen Ginsberg

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  6. 107.
    My House
    by Nikki Giovanni

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  7. 108.
    Goethe's Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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  9. 110.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

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  10. 111.
    She Stoops to Conquer (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Oliver Goldsmith

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  11. 112.
    The Tin Drum (Vintage International)
    by Gunter Grass

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  13. 115.
    Roots
    by Alex Haley

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  14. 116.
    Mythology
    by Edith Hamilton

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  15. 117.
    Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  16. 118.
    Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  17. 119.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  18. 120.
    A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
    by Stephen W Hawking

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  19. 121.
    The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  20. 122.
    Catch 22
    by Joseph Heller

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  21. 123.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  22. 124.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  23. 125.
    The Old Man and The Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  24. 126.
    The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (Modern Library)
    by O. Henry

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  25. 127.
    Hiroshima (Vintage)
    by John Hersey

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  26. 128.
    Siddhartha
    by Hermann Hesse

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  27. 129.
    A Single Pebble
    by John Hersey

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  28. 130.
    Steppenwolf: A Novel
    by Hermann Hesse

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  29. 131.
    The Iliad (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

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  30. 132.
    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

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  31. 133.
    Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
    by Langston Hughes

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  32. 134.
    Les Miserables (Modern Library)
    by Victor Hugo

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  33. 136.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  34. 137.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  35. 138.
    A Doll's House (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henrik Ibsen

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  36. 139.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

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  37. 140.
    The Turn of the Screw (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry James

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  38. 141.
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    by James Joyce

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  39. 142.
    Ulysses (Vintage International)
    by James Joyce

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  40. 143.
    The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)
    by Franz Kafka

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  41. 144.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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  42. 145.

  43. 146.
    Complete Poems
    by John Keats

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  44. 148.
    Profiles in Courage
    by John F. Kennedy

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  45. 149.
    On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac

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  46. 150.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

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