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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    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

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    The Painted Bird
    by Jerzy N. Kosinski

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    Play It As It Lays: A Novel
    by Joan Didion

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    The Pacificator
    by Daniel Defoe

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  5. 305.
    Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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    The Prince
    by Machiavelli

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    Persian Letters
    by Montesuieu

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    Pastor's Fire-Side, The (2 Vols)
    by Miss Jane Porter

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  9. 311.
    Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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    Petersburg
    by Andrey Bely

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    The Possessed
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  12. 315.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E.M. Forster

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    A Pair of Blue Eyes
    by Thomas Hardy

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  14. 317.
    The Portrait of a Lady
    by Henry James

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    The Power and the Glory
    by Graham Greene

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    Pippi Longstocking
    by Astrid Lindgren

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    Poems- Paul Celan
    by Paul Celan

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    The Prairie
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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  20. 324.
    Pedro Páramo
    by Juan Rulfo

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    Plowshare in Heaven: Stories
    by Jesse Stuart

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    The Pathfinder (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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    Philidore and Placentia
    by Eliza Haywood

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  25. 329.
    Poor Richard's Almanack
    by Benjamin Franklin

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    The Princess of Cleves
    by Madame de La Fayette

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    The Pilgrim’s Progress
    by John Bunyan

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    The Pirate of Naples
    by Mary Charlton

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  29. 333.
    Pride and Prejudice (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  30. 334.
    Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
    by Mao Tse-Tung

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  32. 336.
    Ragtime: A Novel
    by E.L. Doctorow

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  33. 338.
    The Return of the Native
    by Thomas Hardy

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  34. 339.
    Riders of the Purple Sage
    by Zane Grey

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  35. 341.
    Revolutionary road
    by Richard Yates

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    Remembrance of Things Past (7 volumes)
    by Marcel Proust

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    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

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    Red Harvest
    by Dashiell Hammett

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    Robinson Crusoe
    by Daniel Defoe

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  40. 346.
    Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by William Shakespeare

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    The Red and the Black
    by Stendhal

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    The Redskins
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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  43. 349.
    Renée Mauperin
    by Edmond de Goncourt

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