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.
    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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  26. 180.

  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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  45. 199.

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

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