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

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Thanks to Jsherry, I’ve adapted my own list. As a high school English teacher, I would LOVE to give out/create a list for my students. I also had one when I was younger, but it was a compilation from other peers.

I think my list will keep some major classics, remove some of the history/non-fiction books, and add some modern influential novels. Most of all, they will be books I really liked.

So often on these lists, I am ambiovolent about the title, so I plan to stick with books that are socially important AND that I truly enjoyed because I either fell for the character(s) or they made me think.

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  1. 101.
    The Death of Artemio Cruz: A Novel
    by Carlos Fuentes
  2. 102.
    The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
    by Ernest J. Gaines
  3. 103.
    The Forsyte Saga (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Galsworthy
  4. 104.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  5. 105.
    Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets, No. 4)
    by Allen Ginsberg
  6. 106.
    My House
    by Nikki Giovanni
  7. 107.
    Goethe's Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  8. 108.
  9. 109.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding
  10. 110.
    She Stoops to Conquer (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Oliver Goldsmith
  11. 111.
    The Tin Drum
    by Gunter Grass
  13. 113.
  14. 114.
    Roots
    by Alex Haley
  15. 115.
    Mythology
    by Edith Hamilton
  16. 116.
    Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy
  17. 117.
    Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy
  18. 118.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy
  19. 119.
    A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
    by Stephen W. Hawking
  20. 120.
    The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  21. 121.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  22. 122.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway
  23. 123.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway
  24. 124.
    The Old Man and The Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway
  25. 125.
    The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (Modern Library)
    by O. Henry
  26. 126.
    Hiroshima (Vintage)
    by John Hersey
  27. 127.
    Siddhartha
    by Hermann Hesse
  28. 128.
    A Single Pebble
    by John Hersey
  29. 129.
    Steppenwolf: A Novel
    by Hermann Hesse
  30. 130.
    The Iliad (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer
  31. 131.
    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer
  32. 132.
    Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics)
    by Langston Hughes
  33. 133.
    Les Miserables (Modern Library)
    by Victor Hugo
  35. 135.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston
  36. 136.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  37. 137.
    A Doll's House (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henrik Ibsen
  38. 138.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James
  39. 139.
    The Turn of the Screw (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry James
  40. 140.
  41. 141.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce
  42. 142.
    The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)
    by Franz Kafka
  43. 143.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka
  44. 144.
  45. 145.
    Complete Poems
    by John Keats
  47. 147.
    Profiles in Courage
    by John F. Kennedy
  48. 148.
    On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac
  49. 149.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

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Created by AugustSun on Aug 22, 2007.
 

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