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. 201.
    The Histories
    by Herodotus

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  2. 202.
    His Family
    by Ernest Poole

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  3. 203.
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    Homer-The Iliad

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  4. 205.
    I, Claudius
    by Robert Graves

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  5. 206.
    Independent People
    by Halldor Laxness

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  6. 207.
    The Idiot
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  7. 208.
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    O'Neill, Eugene-The Iceman Cometh

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  8. 210.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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  9. 212.
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    I Canti (Complete Poems)
    by Giacomo Leopardi

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  10. 213.
    The Jungle Books (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Rudyard Kipling

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  11. 214.
    Jude the Obscure
    by Thomas Hardy

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  12. 215.
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  13. 216.
    The Jewish State
    by Theodor Herzl

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  14. 218.
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    Julie
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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  15. 219.
    Jonathan Livingston Seagull
    by Richard Bach

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  16. 220.
    The Jungle (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair

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  17. 221.
    Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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  18. 222.
    Jacques the Fatalist and His Master (Penguin Classics)
    by Denis Diderot

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  19. 224.
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    Temple Shakespeare - King Lear

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  20. 225.
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  21. 226.
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    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby
    by Charles Dickens

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  22. 228.
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    The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner
    by John Nicol

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  23. 229.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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  24. 230.
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    LIGHT IN AUGUST
    by William Faulkner

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  25. 231.
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    Live and Let Live
    by Catharine Maria Sedgwick

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  26. 232.
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    Loving
    by Henry Green

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  27. 234.
    The Leopard (Paperback)
    by Giuseppe di Lampedusa

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  28. 235.
    Lyrical Ballads (1798)
    by Willam Wordsworth & Samuel Coleridge

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  29. 236.
    The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  30. 237.
    Little Big Man
    by Thomas Berger

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  31. 238.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

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  32. 239.
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    Leaves of Grass
    by Walt Whitman

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  33. 240.
    Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
    by Kingsley Amis

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  34. 241.
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    The Ladies Defiance
    by Lady Mary Chudleigh

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  35. 242.
    A Laodicean (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  36. 243.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  37. 244.
    Looking Backwards
    by Edward Bellamy

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  38. 245.
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    Les Miserables
    by Victor Hugo

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  39. 246.
    The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
    by Wilkie Collins

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  40. 247.
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    The Last Chronicle of Barset
    by Anthony Trollope

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  42. 249.
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    Meditations Poetiques
    by Lamartine

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  43. 250.
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    Memoirs of a Cavalier
    by Daniel Defoe

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Created by SweetartZ28 on Sep 13, 2008.
 

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