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Books You Must Read - Fiction
Books You Must Read - NON Fiction
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A Recommended Reading-List - Fiction
By Jean Marré
This is a list of books educated people should have read. There are some lists out there, I found none satisfying, so I compiled this list. Over time I will add some suggestions, and links to freely available texts, and (maybe) brief summeries, and notes (like references to movies).
A–C
Allende, Isabel - The House of the Spirits
Andersen, Hans Christian - Andersen's Fairy Tales
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Bach, Richard - Bridge Across Forever
Bach, Richard - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Balzac, Honore de - Eugenie Grandet
Balzac, Honore de - Father Goriot
Beecher Stowe, Harriet - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Bradbury, Ray - Farenheit 451
Buck, Pearl S. - The Good Earth
Burgess, Anthony - A Clockwork Orange
Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Clavell, James - Shogun
Cooper, James Fenimore -The Last of the Mohicans
D–F
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - Oliver Twist
Dickens, Charles - David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles - Great Expectations
Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Brothers Karamazov
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Dumas, Alexandre - The Count of Monte Cristo
Faulkner, William - The Sound And The Fury
Fitzgerald, Scott F. - The Great Gatsby
G–J
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
Hemingway, Ernest - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hemingway, Ernest - The Old Man and the Sea
Hesse, Hermann- Siddhartha
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Joyce, James - A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
K–M
Kafka, Franz - The Trial
Kerouac, Jack - On The Road
Kesey, Ken - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
London, Jack - John Barleycorn
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
London, Jack - The Sea Wolf
Mann, Heinrich - The Loyal Subject or Man of Straw
Mann, Thomas - Death in Venice
Mann, Thomas - The Buddenbrooks
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García - Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Marquez, Gabriel García - Love in the Time of Cholera
Maupassant, Guy de - Bel Ami
Maupassant, Guy de - The Necklace
Maupassant, Guy de - The Entire Original
Maupassant Short Stories
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - Death of A Salesman
Miller, Henry - Nexus
Miller, Henry - Plexus
Miller, Henry - Sexus
N–P
Orwell, George - 1984
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Pergaud, Louis - War of the Buttons
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Q–S
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - The Gulag Archipelago
Steinbeck, John - Tortilla Flat
Steinbeck, John - Of Mice and Men
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Sueskind, Patrick - The Perfume
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
T–Z
The Brothers Grimm - Grimm's Fairy Tales
Tolstoy, Leo - Death of Ivan Ilych
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Uris, Leon - Exodus
Verne, Jules - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Verne, Jules - Michael Strogoff (The Courier Of The Czar)
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wolfe, Tom - The Bonfire of the Vanities
A Recommended Reading-List - Non-Fiction
By Jean Marré
This is a list of 37 books educated people should have read. There are some lists out there, I found none satisfying, so I compiled this list. Over time I will add some suggestions, and links to freely available texts.
A–C
Augstein, Rudolf - Jesus, Son Of Man
Bawer, Bruce - While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying The West From Within
Carnegie, Dale - How To Win Friends And Influence People
D–F
Darwin, Charles - The Origin Of Species
Dawkins, Richard - The God Delusion
Finkelstein, Norman G. - The Holocaust Industry
Friedman, Milton - Freedom To Choose
Friedman, Milton - Capitalism And Freedom
Feyerabend, Paul - Science In A Free Society
Fussell, Paul - Class: A Guide Through The American Status System
G–J
Gibbon, Edward - The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire
Hayakawa, Samuel Ichiye - Language In Thought And Action
Higgs, Robert - Against Leviathan: Government Power And A Free Society
Hill, Napoleon - Think & Grow Rich
Horvath, Anton - Disputing Global Warming
Huff, Darrell - How To Lie With Statistics
Huntington, Samuel P. - The Clash Of Civilizations
Iacocca, Lee; Novak, William - Iacocca: An Autobiography
K–M
Keynes, John Maynard - The General Theory Of Employment, Interest, And Money
Kuhn, Thomas - The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions
Laughlin, Robert B. - A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics From The Bottom Down
Lewis, Michael - Liar's Poker: Rising Through The Wreckage On Wall Street
Lomborg, Bjorn - Cool It - The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide To Global Warming
Machiavelli, Niccolo - The Prince
Mccaffree, Mary Jane; Innis, Pauline - Protocol: The Complete Handbook Of Diplomatic, Official And Social Usage
N–P
Plato - Apology
Popper, Karl - The Logic Of Scientific Discovery
Popper, Karl - The Open Society And Its Enemies
Q–S
Rawls, John Bordley - A Theory Of Justice
Russell, Bertrand - The Conquest Of Happiness
Smith, Adam - The Wealth Of Nations
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - Archipelago Gulag
Sowell, Thomas - Basic Economics
T–Z
Thoreau, Henry David - Civil Disobedience
Toulmin Stephen, - The Uses Of Argument
United Nations General Assembly - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Watzlawick, Paul - How Real Is Real? Confusion, Disinformation, Communication
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