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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    Decameron
    by Giovanni Boccaccio

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    The Death of Artemio Cruz
    by Carlos Fuentes

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    The Dunciad
    by Alexander Pope

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  4. 104.
    The Death of the Heart
    by Elizabeth Bowen

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    Dr. Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

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    The Day of the Locust
    by Nathanael West

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  8. 108.
    Dog Soldiers
    by Robert Stone

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    Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
    by Nikolai Gogol

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  10. 110.
    Death of Virgil
    by Hermann Broch

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  11. 111.
    Desperate Remedies (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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    Death Comes for the Archbishop
    by Willa Cather

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  13. 113.
    A Doll's House
    by Henrik, Ibsen

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    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Vasilivich Gogol

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  15. 116.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel de Cervantes

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    Dracula: The Definitive Edition (Barnes & Noble Books)
    by Bram Stoker

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    Dream of the Red Chamber
    by Cao Xuegin

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  19. 120.
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    The Daisy Chain
    by Charlotte Mary Yonge

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  20. 121.
    Death of a Salesman
    by Arthur Miller

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    The Death of Ivan Illych
    by Leo Tolstoy

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    The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
    by Joao Guimaraes Rosa

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  23. 125.
    The End Of Summer
    by Rosamunde Pilcher

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  24. 126.
    East Of Eden
    by John Steinbeck

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  25. 127.
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    Essays
    by Michel de Montaigne

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    Evelina
    by Fanny Burney

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    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
    by Jules Verne

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    Edwardina
    by Catherine Harris

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  29. 132.
    Emma (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  30. 133.
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    Unknown-The Epic Of Gilgamesh

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  31. 134.
    Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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    The Forest of Montalbano
    by Catherine Cuthbertson

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    Far From The Madding Crowd
    by Thomas Hardy

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  34. 138.
    Finnegans Wake
    by James Joyce

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  35. 139.
    Four Quartets
    by T. S. Eliot

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  36. 140.
    The Fall of the House of Usher
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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    Fathers and Sons (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Ivan Turgenev

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  38. 142.
    The Feminine Mystique
    by Betty Friedan

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  39. 143.
    The French Lieutenant's Woman
    by John Fowles

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    Falconer - John Cheever

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  41. 145.
    Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
    by Ray Bradbury

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  42. 146.
    A FAREWELL TO ARMS
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    Frankenstein (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Mary Shelley

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    Germinal
    by Emile Zola

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