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

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

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1. Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads
by Gil Bailie
  
2. Befriending the Stranger
by Jean Vanier
  
3. Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives
by Wayne Muller
  
4. The Fourth Turning
by William Strauss
  
5. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
by Dave Grossman
  
6. Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version With The Apocrypha And The Deuterocanonical Books  
7. Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
  
8. The Gettysburg Address
by Abraham Lincoln
  
9. Life & Times of Frederick Douglas (Classics Library)
by Frederick Douglass
  
10. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  
11. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
  
12. Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States (Medicine & Society)
by James W., Jr. Trent
  
13. Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail
by Frances Fox Piven
  
14. The Jungle (Enriched Classics)
by Upton Sinclair
  
15. Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
  
16. A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
by John Irving
  
17. The First Circle (European Classics)
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  
18. The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
19. War & Peace (Konemann Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
20. Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
21. Oliver Twist (Collector's Library)
by Charles Dickens
  
22.
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 Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
  
23.
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 Crime of Punishment, Presidential Commission Report (1960's)  
24. Dead Man Walking
by Helen Prejean
  
25. Adventures of Huck Finn
by Mark Twain
  
26. Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles)
by Karen Armstrong
  
27. Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths (P.S.)
by Bruce Feiler
  
28. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Martin Luther King
  
29.
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 An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
by Mahatma Gandhi
  
30. Harry Potter Boxset Books 1-7
by Rowling J. K.
  
31. The Diary of Anne Frank
by Wendy Ann Kesselman
  
32. An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming
by Al Gore
  
33. Gorillas in the Mist
by Dian Fossey
  
34. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  
35. Jesus and the Disinherited
by Howard Thurman
  
36. Healer of Shattered Hearts
by David J. Wolpe
  
37. Night (Oprah's Book Club)
by Elie Wiesel
  
38. Art of Happiness
by Dalai Lama
  
39. Invisible Man: A Novel
by Ralph Ellison
  
40. The World According To Garp
by John Irving
  
41. Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
by Studs Terkel
  
42. Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
by Tom Wolfe
  
43. Tyranny of Kindness: Dismantling the Welfare System to End Poverty in America
by Theresa Funiciello
  
44. The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
45. A Wreath for Emmett Till (Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors (Awards))
by Marilyn Nelson
  
46. Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
  
47. Fast Food Nation
by Eric Schlosser
  
48. Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006
by Irma S. Rombauer
  
49. Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
by Joseph Heller
  
50. Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by William Golding
  
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Created by jmc509 on Aug 01, 2007.