jmc509's "Recommended Reading List for the Well Educated Adult"

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These are books I would recommend for Americans in this first decade of the 21st century.

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  1. 1.
    Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads
    by Gil Bailie

  2. 2.
    Befriending the Stranger
    by Jean Vanier

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  4. 7.
    Democracy in America
    by Alexis de Tocqueville

  5. 8.
    The Gettysburg Address
    by Abraham Lincoln

  6. 9.
    Life & Times of Frederick Douglas (Classics Library)
    by Frederick Douglass

  7. 10.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  8. 11.
    Autobiography of Malcolm X
    by Malcolm X

  9. 13.
    Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail
    by Frances Fox Piven

  10. 14.
    The Jungle (Enriched Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair

  11. 15.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

  12. 16.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

  13. 17.
    The First Circle (European Classics)
    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  14. 18.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  15. 19.
    War & Peace (Konemann Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  16. 20.
    Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  17. 21.
    Oliver Twist (Collector's Library)
    by Charles Dickens

  18. 22.
    Nausea
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

  19. 25.
    Adventures of Huck Finn
    by Mark Twain

  20. 26.
    Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles)
    by Karen Armstrong

  21. 27.
    Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths (P.S.)
    by Bruce Feiler

  22. 29.
    An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
    by Mahatma Gandhi

  23. 30.
    Harry Potter Hardcover Boxed Set: Books #1-7
    by J. K. Rowling

  24. 31.
    The Diary of Anne Frank (Kesselman) - Acting Edition
    by newly adapted by Wendy Kesselman Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett

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  26. 33.
    Gorillas in the Mist
    by Dian Fossey

  27. 34.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  28. 35.
    Jesus and The Disinherited
    by Howard Thurman

  29. 36.
    Healer of Shattered Hearts
    by David J. Wolpe

  30. 37.
    Night (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Elie Wiesel

  31. 38.
    The Art of Happiness: a Handbook for Living
    by M.D. His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler

  32. 39.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

  33. 40.
    The World According To Garp
    by John Irving

  34. 41.
    Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
    by Studs Terkel

  35. 42.
    Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
    by Tom Wolfe

  36. 44.
    The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  38. 46.
    Waiting for Godot
    by Samuel Beckett

  39. 47.
    Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
    by Eric Schlosser

  40. 48.
    Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006
    by Irma S. Rombauer

  41. 49.
    Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Joseph Heller

  42. 50.
    Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by William Golding

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Created by jmc509 on Aug 01, 2007.
 

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