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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    Georges
    by Alexandre Dumas

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    The Good Soldier
    by Ford Madox Ford

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    The Golden Notebook
    by Doris Lessing

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    Great Expectations (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  6. 157.
    Gulliver's Travels
    by Jonathan Swift

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  7. 158.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  8. 159.
    The Gypsy Ballads of Garcia Lorca
    by Garcia Lorca

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    The Gulag Archipelago, 3 Volumes ( 3 Volume set), Complete
    by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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  11. 162.
    Go Tell It On The Mountain
    by James Baldwin

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  12. 163.
    The Good Earth
    by Pearl S. Buck

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  13. 164.
    Gone With the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  14. 165.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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    The Hand of Ethelberta
    by Thomas Hardy

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    Housekeeping
    by Marilynne Robinson

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    A House for Mister Biswas
    by V.S. Naipaul

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    A Handful Of Dust
    by Evelyn Waugh

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    Hunger
    by Knut Hamsun

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  21. 172.
    The Heart of the Matter
    by Graham Greene

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    Elsa Morante - History

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    His Family - The First Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel
    by Ernest Poole

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  25. 177.
    The House of Souls
    by Arthur Machen

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  27. 182.
    Hard Times (Signet Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  28. 183.
    Hamlet
    by William Shakespeare

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    How Green was my Valley
    by Richard Llwellyn

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    A House of Gentlefolk
    by Ivan Turgenev

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  31. 186.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Carson McCullers

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    The heart of the hills, by John Fox, Jr; illustrated by F. C. Yohn
    by John (1863-1919) Fox

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    Bellow, Saul-Herzog

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  34. 189.
    The Histories
    by Herodotus

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    His Family
    by Ernest Poole

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    Homer-The Iliad

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    I, Claudius
    by Robert Graves

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    Independent People
    by Halldor Laxness

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    The Idiot
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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    O'Neill, Eugene-The Iceman Cometh

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    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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    I Canti (Complete Poems)
    by Giacomo Leopardi

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