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drbetteridge's "Recommended Reading for the Real Person"

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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2. A Bell for Adano
by John Hersey
  
3. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by Barbara W. Tuchman
  
5. A Doll's House - Literary Touchstone Edition
by Henrik Ibsen
  
6.
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 A Bend in the River
by V. S. Naipaul
  
7.
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 A Fable
by William Faulkner
  
8. The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
9. A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
  
12. Aesop's Fables (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)
by Aesop
  
13. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
by Joan W. Blos
  
14.
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 A Christmas Carol, The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Charles Dickens
  
15. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
  
16.
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 The Aeneid
by Virgil (trans. Robert Fagles)
  
17.
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 "A Confederacy of Dunces"
by John Kennedy Toole
  
18.
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 Aunt Phillis's Cabin
by Mary Eastman
  
19.
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 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)
by Mark J. Twain
  
20.
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 The Analects of Confucius
by Confucius
  
22. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Barnes & Noble Cla (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Lewis Carroll
  
23.
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 A Day No Pigs Would Die
by Robert Newton Peck
  
24.
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 Age of Reason
by Thomas Paine
  
25.
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 A Death in the Family: A Novel
by James Agee
  
26. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Puffin Classics)
by Mark Twain
  
27.
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 Unknown-The Arabian Nights: Tales From A Thousand And One Arabian Nights  
28. The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
  
29.
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 Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classic) Paperback
by L.M. Montgomery
  
30. Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
31. Anne of Avonlea (Dover Juvenile Classics)
by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
  
32.
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 The Ambassadors (Oxford World's Classics)
by Henry James
  
33. The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)
by Edith Wharton
  
34.
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 Arthur Mervyn
by Charles Brockden Brown
  
35.
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 All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
  
36. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Puffin Classics)
by Mark Twain
  
37.
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 As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
  
39. Absalom. Absalom! by William Faulkner
by William Faulkner
  
40.
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 Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
  
41.
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 An American Dream
by Norman Mailer
  
42.
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 AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS.
by Flann. O'Brien
  
43.
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 Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
by Judy Blume
  
44.
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 The Assistant
by Bernard Malamud
  
45. All the President's Men
by Bob Woodward
  
46.
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 All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
  
47.
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 Animal Farm
by George Orwell
  
49.
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 Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee
by Dee Brown
  
50. Burr: A Novel
by Gore Vidal
  
51.
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 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
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52.
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 The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni  
53.
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 Barnaby Rudge  
54.
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 The Book of Songs
by Heinrich Heine
  
55.
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 The Blithedale Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
56.
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 The Birth Of Tragedy
by Nietzsche
  
58.
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 Dickens, Charles-Bleak House  
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Created by drbetteridge on Jun 10, 2009.