Formal Education II: Books You Should Read to Become an Awesome Adult

1.
Brave New World
Brave New World 3.99 avg rating — 2,015,426 ratings
2.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,688,128 ratings
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Hamlet
Hamlet 4.03 avg rating — 1,020,049 ratings
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O Pioneers!
O Pioneers! 3.90 avg rating — 57,270 ratings
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The Jungle
The Jungle 3.78 avg rating — 152,226 ratings
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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,070 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,747 ratings
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Cat’s Cradle
Cat’s Cradle 4.15 avg rating — 428,340 ratings
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The Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses 3.71 avg rating — 70,295 ratings
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,040 ratings
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An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy 3.97 avg rating — 38,264 ratings
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All the King's Men
All the King's Men 4.09 avg rating — 65,738 ratings
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As You Like It
As You Like It 3.81 avg rating — 87,359 ratings
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The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo 4.32 avg rating — 991,918 ratings
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Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War
Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War 4.07 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,334 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray 4.13 avg rating — 1,782,424 ratings
18.
The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House
The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House 4.43 avg rating — 109,434 ratings
19.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,493 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything 4.22 avg rating — 412,795 ratings
21.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 786,974 ratings
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The Complete Empire Trilogy: Daughter of the Empire, Mistress of the Empire, Servant of the Empire (The Empire Trilogy, #1-3)
The Complete Empire Trilogy: Daughter of the Empire, Mistress of the Empire, Servant of the Empire (The Empire Trilogy, #1-3) 4.67 avg rating — 2,087 ratings
23.
Discourse on Colonialism
Discourse on Colonialism 4.44 avg rating — 7,435 ratings
24.
Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade
Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade 4.10 avg rating — 168 ratings
25.
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 4.21 avg rating — 4,678 ratings
26.
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World 4.20 avg rating — 2,035 ratings
27.
Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
by: Mark Doty
4.38 avg rating — 1,092 ratings
28.
Source
Source
by: Mark Doty
3.83 avg rating — 358 ratings
29.
The Paris Wife
The Paris Wife 3.82 avg rating — 302,767 ratings
30.
Arguably: Selected Essays
Arguably: Selected Essays 4.20 avg rating — 9,834 ratings
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Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,270 ratings
32.
As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying 3.72 avg rating — 182,448 ratings
33.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,451,156 ratings
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A Passage to India
A Passage to India 3.68 avg rating — 84,377 ratings
35.
Schindler’s List
Schindler’s List 4.34 avg rating — 164,321 ratings
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Howards End
Howards End 3.96 avg rating — 93,446 ratings
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In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,284 ratings
38.
Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers 3.64 avg rating — 55,116 ratings
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Rebecca
Rebecca 4.25 avg rating — 697,676 ratings
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman
The French Lieutenant’s Woman 3.88 avg rating — 54,862 ratings
41.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
by: Jean Rhys
3.59 avg rating — 103,255 ratings
42.
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 4.27 avg rating — 3,391 ratings
43.
City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860
City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 3.89 avg rating — 556 ratings
44.
Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past
Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past 4.01 avg rating — 85 ratings
45.
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63 4.36 avg rating — 9,962 ratings
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Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth Century America
Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth Century America 3.93 avg rating — 42 ratings
47.
The Mask of Command
The Mask of Command 4.12 avg rating — 2,810 ratings
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Renunciation
Renunciation 4.50 avg rating — 26 ratings
49.
Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Gender and American Culture)
Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Gender and American Culture) 4.08 avg rating — 823 ratings
50.
Gender and the Politics of History
Gender and the Politics of History 3.85 avg rating — 519 ratings
51.
Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture
Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture 3.87 avg rating — 101 ratings
52.
The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South 1861-1865
The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South 1861-1865 3.98 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism
Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism 3.85 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Six Women's Slave Narratives
Six Women's Slave Narratives 4.18 avg rating — 66 ratings
55.
The Wild Iris
The Wild Iris 4.18 avg rating — 14,602 ratings
56.
Woe to the Women: The Bible, Female Sexuality and the Law: The Bible Tells Me so
Woe to the Women: The Bible, Female Sexuality and the Law: The Bible Tells Me so 4.16 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,002 ratings
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Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England 3.68 avg rating — 239 ratings
59.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: The Early Years, 1884-1933
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: The Early Years, 1884-1933 4.01 avg rating — 6,678 ratings
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Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands 3.79 avg rating — 217 ratings
61.
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2) 3.90 avg rating — 36,222 ratings
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His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass
His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass 4.29 avg rating — 166,684 ratings
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The Complete Wheel of Time
The Complete Wheel of Time 4.64 avg rating — 4,239 ratings
64.
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Me Talk Pretty One Day 4.01 avg rating — 714,069 ratings
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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. 3.85 avg rating — 149,424 ratings
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Fraud
Fraud 3.86 avg rating — 9,426 ratings
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Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems 3.72 avg rating — 10,536 ratings
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Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish 3.93 avg rating — 6,988 ratings
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Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation 3.74 avg rating — 381 ratings
70.
How to Be Richer, Smarter, and Better-Looking Than Your Parents
How to Be Richer, Smarter, and Better-Looking Than Your Parents 3.65 avg rating — 537 ratings
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Infidel
Infidel 4.20 avg rating — 91,942 ratings
72.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution 4.07 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Little Women (Little Women, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,392,793 ratings
74.
The Making of the English Working Class
The Making of the English Working Class 4.21 avg rating — 3,643 ratings
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism 4.11 avg rating — 15,872 ratings
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A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America 3.86 avg rating — 937 ratings
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Stories of Scottsboro
Stories of Scottsboro 4.18 avg rating — 217 ratings
78.
Born Losers: A History of Failure in America
Born Losers: A History of Failure in America 3.74 avg rating — 167 ratings
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A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory
A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory 3.76 avg rating — 74 ratings
80.
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market 4.11 avg rating — 2,011 ratings
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Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era 3.90 avg rating — 1,562 ratings
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Relative Intimacy
Relative Intimacy 3.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems 4.19 avg rating — 1,799 ratings
84.
Talking Dirty to the Gods
Talking Dirty to the Gods 3.90 avg rating — 373 ratings
85.
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II 3.73 avg rating — 31,440 ratings
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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids 3.75 avg rating — 7,323 ratings
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Counting by 7s
Counting by 7s 4.14 avg rating — 85,889 ratings
88.
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 4.24 avg rating — 35,771 ratings
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The History of White People
The History of White People 4.07 avg rating — 3,174 ratings
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Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492–1640
Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492–1640 3.76 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Light in August
Light in August 3.94 avg rating — 65,238 ratings
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The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,262 ratings
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The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.39 avg rating — 40,384 ratings