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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  1. 1.
    A Bell for Adano
    by John Hersey

  2. 2.
    A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
    by Barbara W. Tuchman

  3. 3.
    A Doll's House - Literary Touchstone Edition
    by Henrik Ibsen

  4. 4.
    A Bend in the River
    by V. S. Naipaul

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    A Fable
    by William Faulkner

  6. 6.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  7. 7.
    A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  10. 11.
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor

  11. 12.
    The Aeneid
    by Virgil (trans. Robert Fagles)

  12. 13.
    "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

  18. 21.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Puffin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

  19. 23.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin

  20. 24.
    Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classic) Paperback
    by L.M. Montgomery

  21. 25.
    Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  22. 26.
    Anne of Avonlea (Dover Juvenile Classics)
    by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

  23. 27.
    The Ambassadors (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry James

  24. 28.
    The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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    Arthur Mervyn
    by Charles Brockden Brown

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    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

  27. 31.
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Puffin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner

  29. 33.
    Absalom, Absalom!
    by William Faulkner

  30. 34.
    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank

  31. 35.
    An American Dream
    by Norman Mailer

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

  33. 37.
    Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
    by Judy Blume

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    The Assistant
    by Bernard Malamud

  35. 39.
    All the President's Men
    by Bob Woodward

  36. 40.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

  37. 41.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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    Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee
    by Dee Brown

  39. 43.
    Burr: A Novel
    by Gore Vidal

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    Barnaby Rudge

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    The Book of Songs
    by Heinrich Heine

  44. 48.
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    The Blithedale Romance
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  45. 49.
    The Birth Of Tragedy
    by Nietzsche

  46. 50.
    Dickens, Charles-Bleak House

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