Lists of Bests: hotmama40's "Recommended Reading List for the Well Educated Adult" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/17709 When I was in high school 9th and 12th Grade English Teacher had a "Recommended Reading List for the Well Educated Adult". I had the list for several years after and liked that I had a list of classics and quality books, both fiction and non-fiction. Sometime in the last 5 years I lost the list. This list is an attempt to re-create it and have a major lists of books folks should read. This list has been compiled from various lists which can be found online and also from my own personal input. Hopefully it will not be easy to tell which is which. Accept no substitute. :) -jsherry Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:56:42 GMT en-us 0 50 304 50 0 Go Ask Alice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19856 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19856"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0689817851.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> Beowulf: A New Verse Translation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10942 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10942"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393320979.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Things Fall Apart: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10250 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10250"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385474547.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chinua Achebe</div> Watership Down http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9493 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9493"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0380002930.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Adams</div> Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307501 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307501"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192840509.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aesop</div> A Death in the Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9020 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9020"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701230.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Agee</div> The House of the Spirits http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15719 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15719"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553273914.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isabel Allende</div> Winesburg, Ohio (Bantam Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15615 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15615"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/055321439X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by SHERWOOD ANDERSON</div> And Still I Rise http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/303952 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/303952"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394502523.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056440061_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maya Angelou</div> I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/85338 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/85338"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/055338001X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122549029_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maya Angelou</div> Days of Grace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65848 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65848"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345386817.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056436991_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Ashe</div> The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/499486 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Attenborough</div> Emma (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4214 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4214"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192802372.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Northanger Abbey (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9390 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9390"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375759174.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3511 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3511"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439513.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676361_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3520 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3520"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439661.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46018830_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Go Tell It on the Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741066 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741066"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385334575.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113633744_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> Pere Goriot (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/42356 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/42356"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529596.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Honore de Balzac</div> Growing Up (Plume) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741086 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741086"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0452255503.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Russell Baker</div> Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24042 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24042"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802130348.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122574751_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887 (Broadview Literary Texts) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741123 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741123"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1551114062.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Bellamy</div> Seize the Day (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63444 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63444"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140189378.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2810 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2810"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140189416.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741153 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741153"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/080188358X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Berenbaum</div> A Man for All Seasons http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66854 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66854"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679728228.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464891_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Bolt</div> Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook, 186) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25082 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25082"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811200124.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056494802_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge Luis Borges</div> Fahrenheit 451 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7581 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7581"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345342968.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122534399_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ray Bradbury</div> Mother Courage and Her Children http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60788 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60788"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0802130828.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bertolt Brecht</div> The Ascent of Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56275 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jacob Bronowski</div> Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3704 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3704"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437204.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Brontë</div> Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3513 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3513"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439556.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422183_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div> Selected Poems (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1321 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1321"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060931744.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122531681_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gwendolyn Brooks</div> Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24589 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24589"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805066691.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dee Brown</div> Robert Browning: Poems (Highbridge Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741210 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741210"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1565113179.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Browning</div> The Good Earth (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21232 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21232"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743272935.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V66746511_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pearl S. Buck</div> The Way of All Flesh (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64941 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64941"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679417184.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Butler</div> The Power of Myth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10206 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10206"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385418868.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43057146_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Campbell</div> The Plague http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18615 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18615"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679720219.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44869057_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> The Stranger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18614 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18614"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679720200.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46690014_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> Alice's Adventures in Wonderland http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/709443 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/709443"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1582341745.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis Carroll</div> Silent Spring http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17212 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17212"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618249060.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rachel Carson</div> Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18715 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18715"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679728899.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1076004030_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> My Antonia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11361 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11361"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/039575514X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3707"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437239.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra</div> The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140424385.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoffrey Chaucer</div> The Cherry Orchard (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14656 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14656"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0486266826.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anton Chekhov</div> The Awakening http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9491 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9491"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380002450.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Chopin</div> The Ox-Bow Incident (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89393 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89393"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375757023.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Van Tilburg Clark</div> The Moonstone (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4250 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4250"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0192833383.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wilkie Collins</div> Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14650 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14650"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486264645.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div>