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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
Perhaps we should all pick out own list of 37 books, rather than someone else's. It's funny not to get "credit" for classics that aren't on this list. No points for Don Quixote! No points for Triant Lo Blanc! :-) At worst, I'm not reading the same books that are being assigned to 10th graders. That doesn't mean I'm less well-read.
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I like that idea. Name 37 books you've read that you think others should read:
In no particular order, I bolded ones that I actually took in grade school (up to grade 12):
If On a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
Jack London - The Call of the Wild
Zusak, Markus - The Book Thief
H.G. Wells - The War of the Worlds
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
John Updike - Rabbit, Run
Natsume Soseki - Kokoro
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
William Shakespeare - Hamlet or Macbeth
Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy
Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance
Tom Robbins - Another Roadside Attraction
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
Annie Proulx - The Shipping News
Robert Priest - The Man who Broke out of the Letter X
Yann Martel - Life of Pi
Franz Kafka - The Trial
Ha Jin - The Crazed
Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Jane Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Kevin Lynch - Image of the City
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee - Inherit the Wind
Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time
S. E. Hinton - The Outsiders
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
Steven Galloway - The Cellist of Sarajevo
Roddy Doyle - The Snapper (or the Barrytown Trilogy)
Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
Douglas Coupland - Generation X
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
David Weinberger - Everything is Miscellaneous
Ted Hughes - Birthday Letters
These are books that shaped my life.