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Book Riot's From Zero to Well Read in 100 Books - Page 2

Isn’t it strange that we have the term “well-read” but absolutely no one can come close to defining it? And isn’t also strange that other art forms don’t have equivalent terms for a vague sense of someone’s total experience of that form (well-seen for movies? well-heard for music? Absurd).
Thinking about this recently sucked me into a little thought-experiment: say someone had never read any literature and wanted to be well-read. What should they read? And how many books would it take them to get close?
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A Game of Thrones (George R.R. Martin)
A Game of Thrones
41
George R.R. Martin
The Golden Bowl
The Golden Bowl
42
The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)
The Golden Notebook
43
Doris Lessing
Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)
Gone Girl
44
Gillian Flynn
The Gospels
The Gospels
45
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
46
John Steinbeck
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
47
Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
48
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
49
William Shakespeare
The Hand Maidens Tale
The Hand Maidens Tale
50
Harry Potter (Jk Rowling)
Harry Potter
51
Jk Rowling
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
52
Joseph Conrad
The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
The Help
53
Kathryn Stockett
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
54
Douglas Adams
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit
55
J.R.R. Tolkien
Homer -- The Iliad
Homer -- The Iliad
56
House Made of Dawn (N. Scott Momaday)
House Made of Dawn
57
N. Scott Momaday
Howl (Allen Ginsberg)
Howl
58
Allen Ginsberg
The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
The Hunger Games
59
Suzanne Collins
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
60
Italo Calvino
Inferno (Dante)
Inferno
61
Dante
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest
62
David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
63
Ralph Ellison
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass
64
Walt Whitman
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Life of Pi
65
Yann Martel
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
66
C.S. Lewis
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince
67
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
68
Vladimir Nabokov
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
69
Gabriel García Márquez
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
70
Gustave Flaubert
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
71
Salman Rushdie
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick
72
Herman Melville
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs. Dalloway
73
Virginia Woolf
Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)
Murder on the Orient Express
74
Agatha Christie
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
75
Homer
Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
Oedipus the King
76
Sophocles
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
77
Jack Kerouac
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
A Passage to India
78
E.M. Forster
Pentateuch
Pentateuch
79
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
80
Jane Austen
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