Theduckthief's "Books you should read if you want to consider yourself well-read"

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This list was compiled from many other lists and my own experiences with certain books. As I read through the list I may add or remove books.

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    The Arabian Nights

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    Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

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  3. 3.
    The Holy Bible
    by Various Authors

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    The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

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    The Koran ( Penguin Classics )
    by Revised Translation by N.J. Dawood

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    Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

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    The Torah

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    The king of the mountains,
    by Edmond About

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  9. 10.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

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  10. 11.
    The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

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  11. 12.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams

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  12. 13.
    Prometheus Bound
    by Aeschylus

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  13. 14.
    A Death In The Family
    by James Agee

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    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

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    The Divine Comedy
    by Dante Alighieri

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    Hans Christian Andersen: Stories and Fairy Tales
    by Hans Christian Andersen

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    The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics)
    by Aristotle

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  18. 19.
    The Collected Works Of Billy The Kid
    by Michael Ondaatje

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    Emma (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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    Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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    Sense and Sensibility
    by Jane Austen

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    Daniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness
    by John Bakeless

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  24. 25.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

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  26. 27.
    Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
    by Samuel Beckett

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    Georges Bizet: Carmen
    by Georges Bizet

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  28. 30.
    Noughts and Crosses
    by Malorie Blackman

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  29. 31.
    The Magic Faraway Tree
    by Enid Blyton

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  30. 32.
    The Decameron (Signet Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio

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  31. 33.
    Borges: Collected Fictions
    by Jorge Luis Borges

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  32. 34.
    Jane Eyre (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charlotte Bronte

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    Wuthering Heights (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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    Fang and claw,
    by Frank Buck

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    On jungle trails (Adventures in English)
    by Frank Buck

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    Bring 'Em Back Alive
    by Frank Buck

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  37. 39.
    The Last Days of Pompeii
    by Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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  38. 40.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Bunyan

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  39. 41.
    Secret Garden (Children's Classics)
    by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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  40. 42.
    The Way of All Flesh
    by Samuel Butler

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    Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaul
    by Julius Caesar

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  42. 44.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

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    Death Comes for the Archbishop
    by Willa Cather

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    Paul Celan: Poems
    by Paul Celan

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  46. 49.
    Journey To The End Of The Night
    by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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Comments

javert
Arlington

Master of Ballantrae — 21 weeks ago

is listed twice.


tnm16
Tehran

Untitled — 2 years ago

I like that you included Magic Faraway Tree! :) Fantasy stories are as strong as mythology, if not treated as such critically.


Theduckthief
British Columbia

Beowulf — 2 years ago

I just finished this Anglo-Saxon epic. If you want to red my review, go here http://greatewhitenorth.blogspot.com/2007/01/btrbid-4-beowulf.html


Amissio
Reston

Untitled — 3 years ago

What the hell is Georges Bizet: Carmen? Do you mean the short story upon which Bizet’s opera was based – Carmen by Prospere Merimee? Or do you mean the opera?


The Dark Frigate — 3 years ago

FYI,you’ve got The Dark Frigate on there twice: #146 & #147.