Lists of Bests: cozycoleman's "Recommended Reading List for the Well Educated Adult" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/24473 Note: books marked "not worth consuming" simply mean that I read them, but didn't particularly enjoy them. Many will disagree, but that is why I made this my list! Thanks to -jsherry for posting the original list. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:00:27 GMT en-us 0 50 311 50 0 Outlander http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76189 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76189"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440242940.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Diana Gabaldon</div> Go Ask Alice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19856 <div id="position">2</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">3</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">4</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">5</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">6</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">7</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">8</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">9</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">10</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">11</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">12</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">13</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">14</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">15</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">16</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">17</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">18</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">19</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">20</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">21</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">22</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">23</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">24</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">25</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">26</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">27</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">28</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">29</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">30</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">31</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">32</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">33</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">34</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">35</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">36</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">37</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">38</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">39</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">40</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">41</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">42</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">43</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">44</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">45</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">46</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">47</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">48</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">49</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">50</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>