infinitii888'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. 151.
    The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
    by Maxine Hong Kingston

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  2. 152.
    Darkness at Noon
    by Arthur Koestler

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  3. 154.
    Born on the Fourth of July
    by Ron Kovic

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  4. 155.
    Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
    by Jonathan Kozol

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  5. 156.
    Sons and Lovers (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  6. 157.
    Inherit the Wind
    by Jerome Lawrence

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  7. 158.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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  8. 159.
    Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)
    by Aldo Leopold

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  9. 160.
    Main Street (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Sinclair Lewis

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  10. 161.
    How Green Was My Valley
    by Richard Llewellyn

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  11. 162.
    The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics)
    by Jack London

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  12. 163.
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    The complete poetical works of Longfellow (The Cambridge poets)
    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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  13. 164.
    Machiavelli's The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

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  14. 165.
    J.B.: A Play in Verse
    by Archibald MacLeish

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  15. 167.
    Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories
    by Thomas Mann

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  16. 168.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

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  17. 169.
    Doctor Faustus
    by Christopher Marlowe

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  18. 170.
    The Communist Manifesto
    by Karl Marx

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  19. 172.
    Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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  20. 173.
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    Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World
    by David Maybury-Lewis

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  21. 174.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Carson McCullers

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  22. 175.
    The Member of the Wedding
    by Carson McCullers

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  23. 177.
    Moby-Dick (Bantam Classic)
    by Herman Melville

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  24. 178.
    The Crucible (Penguin Plays)
    by Arthur Miller

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  25. 179.
    Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays)
    by Arthur Miller

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  27. 181.
    The Cruel Sea (Classics of War)
    by Nicholas Monsarrat

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  28. 182.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  29. 183.
    Sula (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Toni Morrison

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  30. 184.
    Bailey's Cafe (Vintage Contemporaries)
    by Gloria Naylor

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  31. 185.
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor

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  32. 186.
    Long Day's Journey into Night, Second edition
    by Eugene O'Neill

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  33. 187.
    1984: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

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  34. 188.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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  35. 189.
    Learning Tree
    by Gordon Parks

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  36. 190.
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    DR. ZHIVAGO
    by BORIS PASTERNAK

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  37. 191.
    Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Alan Paton

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  38. 192.
    The Bell Jar (P.S.)
    by Sylvia Plath

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  39. 193.
    Plato: Republic
    by Plato

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  40. 194.
    Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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  41. 195.
    The Chosen
    by CHAIM POTOK

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  42. 196.
    In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1, Swann's Way
    by Marcel Proust

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  43. 197.
    The Crying of Lot 49
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  44. 198.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Marie Remarque

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  46. 200.
    Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie (Perennial Classics)
    by Ole Edvart Rolvaag

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