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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.

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

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  2. 2.
    Befriending the Stranger
    by Jean Vanier

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    The Fourth Turning
    by William Strauss

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  5. 7.
    Democracy in America
    by Alexis de Tocqueville

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  6. 8.
    The Gettysburg Address
    by Abraham Lincoln

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  7. 9.
    Life & Times of Frederick Douglas (Classics Library)
    by Frederick Douglass

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  8. 10.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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  9. 11.
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    by Malcolm X

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  10. 13.
    Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail
    by Frances Fox Piven

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  11. 14.
    The Jungle (Enriched Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair

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  12. 15.
    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

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  13. 16.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

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  14. 17.
    The First Circle (European Classics)
    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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  15. 18.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  16. 19.
    War & Peace (Konemann Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  17. 20.
    Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  18. 21.
    Oliver Twist (Collector's Library)
    by Charles Dickens

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  19. 22.
    Nausea
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

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  20. 24.
    Dead Man Walking
    by Helen Prejean

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  21. 25.
    Adventures of Huck Finn
    by Mark Twain

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  22. 26.
    Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles)
    by Karen Armstrong

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  23. 27.
    Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths (P.S.)
    by Bruce Feiler

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  24. 29.
    An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
    by Mahatma Gandhi

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  25. 30.
    Harry Potter Boxset Books 1-7
    by Rowling J. K.

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  26. 31.
    The Diary of Anne Frank
    by Wendy Ann Kesselman

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  28. 33.
    Gorillas in the Mist
    by Dian Fossey

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  29. 34.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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  30. 35.
    Jesus and the Disinherited
    by Howard Thurman

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  31. 36.
    Healer of Shattered Hearts
    by David J. Wolpe

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  32. 37.
    Night (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Elie Wiesel

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  33. 38.
    Art of Happiness
    by Dalai Lama

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  34. 39.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

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  35. 40.
    The World According To Garp
    by John Irving

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  36. 41.
    Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
    by Studs Terkel

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  37. 42.
    Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
    by Tom Wolfe

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  38. 44.
    The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  40. 46.
    Waiting for Godot
    by Samuel Beckett

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  41. 47.
    Fast Food Nation
    by Eric Schlosser

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  42. 48.
    Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006
    by Irma S. Rombauer

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  43. 49.
    Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Joseph Heller

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  44. 51.
    Animal Farm and 1984
    by George Orwell

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  45. 52.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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  46. 53.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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Created by jmc509 on Aug 01, 2007.