SweetartZ28's "Recommended Reading List for the Well Read Adult"

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My list began with me wanting to read one book from every year since 1800… then 1700… then wanting to be able to consider myself "well read". These are all books that I hope to read eventually, be it as an exemplary piece of the time period, their historical significance, or just for the pure pleasure. They are my selections from about 60 various lists, as well as non "listed" selections for their respective time period.
If anyone who stumbles across my list knows of some good reads from the 16th-18th Centuries, I’m obviously lacking. I would welcome the recommendations. I am mostly interested in fiction, but if it held a significant impact on society, I owe it to myself to read it.
This list should also be inclusive of 99% of books from the following lists: Pulitzer Prize Winners for Novel/Fiction; Oprah’s Book Club; Newbery Medal Award Winners (as a well read adult, you should be able to steer a child in the course of reading); BBC’s the Big Read; Time Magazine’s All-Time 100 Novels (1923-present); Costa (Whitbread) Book Awards: Book of the Year / Best Novel; and several other award lists.

(This will probably be a work in progress for a long time… I have a lengthy list.)

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  1. 101.
    The Castle
    by Franz Kafka

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  2. 102.
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    Children of Gebelawi (African writers series)
    by Najib Mahfuz

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  3. 103.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  4. 104.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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  5. 105.
    The Call of the Wild
    by Jack London

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  6. 106.
    Cat's Cradle
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  7. 107.
    Call It Sleep: A Novel
    by Henry Roth

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  8. 108.
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    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  9. 109.
    The Crying of Lot 49
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  10. 110.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

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  11. 112.
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    Decameron
    by Giovanni Boccaccio

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  12. 113.
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    The Death of Artemio Cruz
    by Carlos Fuentes

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  13. 114.
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    The Dunciad
    by Alexander Pope

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  14. 115.
    The Death of the Heart
    by Elizabeth Bowen

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  15. 116.
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  16. 117.
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    Dr. Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

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  17. 118.
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    The Day of the Locust
    by Nathanael West

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  18. 119.
    Dog Soldiers
    by Robert Stone

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  19. 120.
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    Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
    by Nikolai Gogol

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  20. 121.
    Das Kapital, Gateway Edition
    by Karl Marx

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  21. 122.
    Death of Virgil
    by Hermann Broch

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  22. 123.
    Desperate Remedies (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  23. 124.
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    Death Comes for the Archbishop
    by Willa Cather

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  24. 125.
    A Doll's House
    by Henrik, Ibsen

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  25. 126.
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    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Vasilivich Gogol

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  26. 128.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel de Cervantes

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  27. 129.
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    Dracula: The Definitive Edition (Barnes & Noble Books)
    by Bram Stoker

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  28. 130.
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  29. 131.
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    Dream of the Red Chamber
    by Cao Xuegin

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  30. 132.
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    The Daisy Chain
    by Charlotte Mary Yonge

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  31. 133.
    Death of a Salesman
    by Arthur Miller

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  32. 134.
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    The Death of Ivan Illych
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  33. 136.
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    The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
    by Joao Guimaraes Rosa

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  34. 137.
    The End Of Summer
    by Rosamunde Pilcher

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  35. 138.
    East Of Eden
    by John Steinbeck

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  36. 139.
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    Essays
    by Michel de Montaigne

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  37. 140.
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    Evelina
    by Fanny Burney

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  38. 142.
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    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
    by Jules Verne

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  39. 143.
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    Edwardina
    by Catherine Harris

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  40. 144.
    Emma (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  41. 145.
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    Unknown-The Epic Of Gilgamesh

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  42. 146.
    Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  43. 147.
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    The Forest of Montalbano
    by Catherine Cuthbertson

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  44. 148.
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    Far From The Madding Crowd
    by Thomas Hardy

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  45. 150.
    Finnegans Wake
    by James Joyce

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Created by SweetartZ28 on Sep 13, 2008.
 

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