drbetteridge's "Recommended Reading for the Real Person"

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I consider myself intelligent and educated, but not very familiar with classic literature. At times I have dabbled with the classics, but the truth is- many of them are just too boring. I’m an avid reader, but now at 40, I have realized that I don’t have to read dull literature to be well read. It doesn’t make a person any more intelligent, only persistent and immune to napping. I originally borrowed someone else’s list, and am working on adding my personal favourites.

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    A Bell for Adano
    by John Hersey

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    A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
    by Barbara W. Tuchman

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    A Doll's House - Literary Touchstone Edition
    by Henrik Ibsen

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    A Bend in the River
    by V. S. Naipaul

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    A Fable
    by William Faulkner

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    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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    A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor

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    The Aeneid
    by Virgil (trans. Robert Fagles)

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    "A Confederacy of Dunces"
    by John Kennedy Toole

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    Aunt Phillis's Cabin
    by Mary Eastman

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    The Analects of Confucius
    by Confucius

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    A Day No Pigs Would Die
    by Robert Newton Peck

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    Age of Reason
    by Thomas Paine

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    A Death in the Family: A Novel
    by James Agee

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Puffin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin

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    Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classic) Paperback
    by L.M. Montgomery

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    Anne of Avonlea (Dover Juvenile Classics)
    by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

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    The Ambassadors (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry James

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    Arthur Mervyn
    by Charles Brockden Brown

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    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Puffin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner

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    Absalom. Absalom! by William Faulkner
    by William Faulkner

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    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank

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    An American Dream
    by Norman Mailer

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    AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS.
    by Flann. O'Brien

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    Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
    by Judy Blume

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    The Assistant
    by Bernard Malamud

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    All the President's Men
    by Bob Woodward

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    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

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    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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    Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee
    by Dee Brown

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    Burr: A Novel
    by Gore Vidal

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    Barnaby Rudge

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    The Book of Songs
    by Heinrich Heine

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    The Blithedale Romance
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    The Birth Of Tragedy
    by Nietzsche

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    Dickens, Charles-Bleak House

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