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

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When I was in high school 9th and 12th Grade English Teacher had a "Recommended Reading List for the Well Educated Adult". I had the list for several years after and liked that I had a list of classics and quality books, both fiction and non-fiction. Sometime in the last 5 years I lost the list. This list is an attempt to re-create it and have a major lists of books folks should read.

This list has been compiled from various lists which can be found online and also from my own personal input. Hopefully it will not be easy to tell which is which.

Accept no substitute. :)

-jsherry

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  1. 151.
    Darkness at Noon
    by Arthur Koestler

  2. 153.
    Born on the Fourth of July
    by Ron Kovic

  3. 154.
    Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
    by Jonathan Kozol

  4. 155.
    Sons and Lovers
    by D. H. Lawrence

  5. 156.
    Inherit the Wind
    by Jerome Lawrence

  6. 157.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

  7. 158.
    A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)
    by Aldo Leopold

  8. 159.
    Main Street (Signet Classics)
    by Sinclair Lewis

  9. 160.
    How Green Was My Valley
    by Richard Llewellyn

  10. 161.
    The Call Of The Wild
    by Jack London

  11. 162.
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    The complete poetical works of Longfellow (The Cambridge poets)
    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  12. 163.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

  13. 164.
    J.B.: A Play in Verse
    by Archibald MacLeish

  14. 165.

  15. 166.
    Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories
    by Thomas Mann

  16. 167.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

  17. 168.
    Doctor Faustus
    by Christopher Marlowe

  18. 169.
    The Communist Manifesto (Signet Classics)
    by Karl Marx

  19. 171.
    Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

  20. 172.
    Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World
    by David Maybury-Lewis

  21. 173.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

  22. 174.
    The Member of the Wedding
    by Carson McCullers

  23. 176.
    Moby-Dick (Bantam Classics)
    by Herman Melville

  24. 177.
    The Crucible (Penguin Plays)
    by Arthur Miller

  25. 178.
    Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays)
    by Arthur Miller

  26. 179.

  27. 180.
    The Cruel Sea (Classics of War)
    by Nicholas Monsarrat

  28. 181.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  29. 182.
    Sula (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Toni Morrison

  30. 183.
    Bailey's Cafe
    by Gloria Naylor

  31. 184.
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor

  32. 185.
    Long Day's Journey into Night
    by Eugene O'Neill

  33. 186.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four, Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

  34. 187.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

  35. 188.
    Learning Tree
    by Gordon Parks

  36. 189.
    DR. ZHIVAGO
    by BORIS PASTERNAK

  37. 190.
    Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Alan Paton

  38. 191.
    The Bell Jar (P.S.)
    by Sylvia Plath

  39. 192.
    Plato: Republic
    by Plato

  40. 193.
    Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    by Edgar Allan Poe

  41. 194.
    The Chosen
    by Chaim Potok

  42. 196.
    The Crying of Lot 49
    by Thomas Pynchon

  43. 197.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

  44. 198.

  45. 199.
    Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie (Perennial Classics)
    by Ole Edvart Rolvaag

  46. 200.
    Cyrano de Bergerac (French Edition)
    by Edmond Rostand

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Created by somewherelse on Nov 15, 2007.
 

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