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

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  2. 102.
    The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
    by Ernest J. Gaines

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  3. 103.
    The Forsyte Saga (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Galsworthy

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  4. 104.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  5. 105.
    Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)
    by Allen Ginsberg

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  6. 106.
    My House
    by Nikki Giovanni

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  7. 107.
    Goethe's Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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  9. 109.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

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  10. 110.
    She Stoops to Conquer (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Oliver Goldsmith

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  11. 111.
    The Tin Drum (Vintage International)
    by Gunter Grass

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  12. 113.

  13. 114.
    Roots
    by Alex Haley

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  14. 115.
    Mythology
    by Edith Hamilton

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  15. 116.
    Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  16. 117.
    Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  17. 118.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  18. 119.
    A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
    by Stephen W Hawking

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  19. 120.
    The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  20. 121.
    Catch 22
    by Joseph Heller

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  21. 122.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  22. 123.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  23. 124.
    The Old Man and The Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  24. 125.
    The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (Modern Library)
    by O. Henry

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  25. 126.
    Hiroshima (Vintage)
    by John Hersey

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  26. 127.
    Siddhartha
    by Hermann Hesse

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  27. 128.
    A Single Pebble
    by John Hersey

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  28. 129.
    Steppenwolf: A Novel
    by Hermann Hesse

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  29. 130.
    The Iliad (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

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  30. 131.
    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

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  31. 132.
    Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
    by Langston Hughes

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  32. 133.
    Les Miserables (Modern Library)
    by Victor Hugo

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  33. 135.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  34. 136.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  35. 137.
    A Doll's House (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henrik Ibsen

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  36. 138.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

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  37. 139.
    The Turn of the Screw (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry James

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  38. 140.
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    by James Joyce

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  39. 141.
    Ulysses (Vintage International)
    by James Joyce

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  40. 142.
    The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)
    by Franz Kafka

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  41. 143.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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  42. 144.

  43. 145.
    Complete Poems
    by John Keats

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  44. 147.
    Profiles in Courage
    by John F. Kennedy

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  45. 148.
    On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac

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  46. 149.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

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