This site doesn’t let me uncheck books, but if I could, I would uncheck those I read in high school for the following reasons: 1) Time – it’s been 7 to 10 years since I read these; 2) Standards – a few of these I skipped or skimmed chapters to keep up with the class, and now I only count books if I’ve read them completely; 3) Tastes – Being older, better educated, and having read so much more literature, my response to material is completely different now. Re-read so far: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, Beowulf, The Catcher in the Rye, The Metamorphosis, Brave New World, The Stranger, The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, Great Expectations, The Scarlet Letter, Things Fall Apart, Of Mice and Men, Heart of Darkness, The Grapes of Wrath, Crime and Punishment.
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Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
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Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Popular Classics)
by William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare - Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
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Brave New World (P.S.)
by Aldous Huxley
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
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The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
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The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
by Arthur Miller
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Death of a Salesman (Viking Critical Library)
by Arthur Miller
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
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The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
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The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
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Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
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Hamlet (Norton Critical Editions)
by William Shakespeare
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