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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    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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    Billy Budd, Sailor (Enriched Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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    Babbitt
    by Sinclair Lewis

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    The Bridge of San Luis Ray
    by Thornton Wilder

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    The Book of Disquiet
    by Fernando Pessoa

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    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

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    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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    The Bluest Eye
    by Toni Morrison

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    The Book of Sand
    by Jorge Luis Borges

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    Borges: Collected Fictions
    by Jorge Luis Borges

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    The Big Sleep (Penguin Fiction)
    by Raymond Chandler

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    Clarissa
    by Samuel Richardson

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    The Canterbury Tales
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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    Castle of Otranto
    by Horace Walpole

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    Coming of Age in Mississippi
    by Anne Moody

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    The Captain's Daughter (Hesperus Classics)
    by Alexander Pushkin

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    The Complete Illustrated Stories and Poems
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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    The Confessions of Nat Turner
    by William Styron

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    Candide
    by Voltaire

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    The City of Pleasure
    by Arnold Bennett

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  22. 73.
    common sense
    by Thomas Paine: Penguin Classics

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    Critique of Pure Reason (Philosophical Classics)
    by Immanuel Kant

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    Cecilia
    by Fanny Burney

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    Camilla
    by Fanny Burney

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    Confessions of Zeno
    by Italo Svevo

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    A Christmas Carol
    by Charles Dickens

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    Captain Fracassa
    by Theophile Gautier

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    Carmen
    by Prosper Mérimée

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    The Complete Sherlock Holmes
    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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    Crime and Punishment
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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    Corinne, or Italy (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Madame de Stael

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    Children of the Ghetto
    by Israel Zangwill

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    The Counterfeiters (Twentieth Century Classics)
    by Andre Gide

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    The Count of Monte Cristo
    by Alexandre Dumas

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    The Castle
    by Franz Kafka

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    Children of Gebelawi (African writers series)
    by Najib Mahfuz

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    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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    The Call of the Wild
    by Jack London

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    Cat's Cradle
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  44. 96.
    Call It Sleep: A Novel
    by Henry Roth

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    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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    The Crying of Lot 49
    by Thomas Pynchon

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    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

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