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. 201.
    The Jungle Books (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Rudyard Kipling

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  2. 202.
    Jude the Obscure
    by Thomas Hardy

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  4. 204.
    The Jewish State
    by Theodor Herzl

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    Julie
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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  6. 207.
    Jonathan Livingston Seagull
    by Richard Bach

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  7. 208.
    The Jungle (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair

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  8. 209.
    Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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  9. 210.
    Jacques the Fatalist and His Master (Penguin Classics)
    by Denis Diderot

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    Temple Shakespeare - King Lear

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    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby
    by Charles Dickens

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    The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner
    by John Nicol

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  14. 217.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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    LIGHT IN AUGUST
    by William Faulkner

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    Live and Let Live
    by Catharine Maria Sedgwick

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    Loving
    by Henry Green

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  18. 222.
    The Leopard (Paperback)
    by Giuseppe di Lampedusa

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  19. 223.
    Lyrical Ballads (1798)
    by Willam Wordsworth & Samuel Coleridge

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  20. 224.
    The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  21. 225.
    Little Big Man
    by Thomas Berger

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  22. 226.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

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    Leaves of Grass
    by Walt Whitman

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  24. 228.
    Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
    by Kingsley Amis

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    The Ladies Defiance
    by Lady Mary Chudleigh

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  26. 230.
    A Laodicean (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  27. 231.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  28. 232.
    Looking Backwards
    by Edward Bellamy

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    Les Miserables
    by Victor Hugo

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  30. 234.
    The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
    by Wilkie Collins

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    The Last Chronicle of Barset
    by Anthony Trollope

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    Meditations Poetiques
    by Lamartine

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    Memoirs of a Cavalier
    by Daniel Defoe

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  35. 239.
    Medea
    by Euripides

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    Moll Flanders
    by Daniel Defoe

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  37. 241.
    Mahabharata
    by William Buck

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    Memoirs
    by Saint-Simon

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    The Milesian Chief: A Romance
    by Charles Robert Maturin

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    The Metamorphoses
    by Ovid

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    The Mother and Daughter
    by Mary Julia Young

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  42. 247.
    The Mistress of Husaby: Kristin Lavransdatter, Vol. 2
    by Sigrid Undset

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  43. 248.
    The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  44. 249.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

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    The Misforturnes of Elphin
    by Thomas Love Peacock

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