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. 301.
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    The Orchard
    by Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi

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  2. 302.
    Our Lady of the Flowers
    by Jean Genet

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  3. 303.
    Oliver Twist
    by Charles Dickens

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  4. 304.
    Othello
    by William Shakespeare

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  5. 305.
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  6. 306.
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    Oedipus the King
    by Sophocles

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  7. 307.
    On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac

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  8. 308.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer

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  9. 309.
    O Pioneers
    by Willa Cather

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  10. 310.
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    On the Republic
    by Cicero

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  11. 311.
    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  12. 312.
    Oblomov
    by Ivan Goncharov

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  13. 313.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

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  14. 314.
    The Painted Bird
    by Jerzy N. Kosinski

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  15. 315.
    Play It As It Lays: A Novel
    by Joan Didion

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  16. 316.
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    The Pacificator
    by Daniel Defoe

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  17. 317.
    Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  18. 318.
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    The Prince
    by Machiavelli

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  19. 320.
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    Persian Letters
    by Montesuieu

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  20. 321.
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    Pastor's Fire-Side, The (2 Vols)
    by Miss Jane Porter

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  21. 323.
    Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  22. 325.
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    Petersburg
    by Andrey Bely

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  23. 326.
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    The Possessed
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  24. 327.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E.M. Forster

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  25. 328.
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    A Pair of Blue Eyes
    by Thomas Hardy

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  26. 329.
    The Portrait of a Lady
    by Henry James

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  27. 330.
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    The Power and the Glory
    by Graham Greene

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  28. 331.
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    Pippi Longstocking
    by Astrid Lindgren

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  29. 333.
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    Poems- Paul Celan
    by Paul Celan

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  30. 334.
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  31. 335.
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    The Prairie
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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  32. 336.
    Pedro Páramo
    by Juan Rulfo

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  33. 337.
    Plowshare in Heaven: Stories
    by Jesse Stuart

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  34. 338.
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  35. 339.
    The Pathfinder (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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  36. 340.
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    Philidore and Placentia
    by Eliza Haywood

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  37. 341.
    Poor Richard's Almanack
    by Benjamin Franklin

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  38. 342.
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    The Princess of Cleves
    by Madame de La Fayette

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  39. 343.
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    The Pilgrim’s Progress
    by John Bunyan

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  40. 344.
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    The Pirate of Naples
    by Mary Charlton

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  41. 345.
    Pride and Prejudice (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  42. 346.
    Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
    by Mao Tse-Tung

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  44. 348.
    Ragtime: A Novel
    by E.L. Doctorow

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  45. 350.
    The Return of the Native
    by Thomas Hardy

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Created by SweetartZ28 on Sep 13, 2008.
 

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