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Books Every American Should Read - Page 2

Unranked or ordered, and entirely biased by my own opinions and experiences. The world would be a better place if every American (and every other person, for that matter), had read each of these books.
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Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
41
Jonathan Swift
Orthodoxy
Orthodoxy
42
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
43
Jane Austen
The New Atlantis (Francis Bacon)
The New Atlantis
44
Francis Bacon
Eugenie Grandet (Honoré De Balzac)
Eugenie Grandet
45
Honoré De Balzac
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
46
Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
47
Emily Bronte
A Philosophical Enquiry Into...The Sublime and Beautiful
A Philosophical Enquiry Into...The Sublime and Beautiful
48
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
Ender's Game
49
Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead (Orson Scott Card)
Speaker for the Dead
50
Orson Scott Card
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
51
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Everlasting Man
The Everlasting Man
52
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
53
Joseph Conrad
The Deerslayer (James Fenimore Cooper)
The Deerslayer
54
James Fenimore Cooper
The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
The Red Badge of Courage
55
Stephen Crane
On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
On the Origin of Species
56
Charles Darwin
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
57
Daniel Defoe
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
Oliver Twist
58
Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
A Christmas Carol
59
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
60
Charles Dickens
Hard Times (Charles Dickens)
Hard Times
61
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
62
Charles Dickens
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
63
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sherlock Holmes
64
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Stripping of the Altars (Eamon Duffy)
The Stripping of the Altars
65
Eamon Duffy
The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
The Three Musketeers
66
Alexandre Dumas
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
67
George Eliot
The Waste Land and Other Poems (T. S. Eliot)
The Waste Land and Other Poems
68
T. S. Eliot
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
69
The Bacchae (Euripides)
The Bacchae
70
Euripides
Go Down, Moses (William Faulkner)
Go Down, Moses
71
William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
72
William Faulkner
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
73
Gustave Flaubert
American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
American Gods
74
Neil Gaiman
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
75
Caleb Williams (William Godwin)
Caleb Williams
76
William Godwin
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
77
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
78
William Golding
A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
A Brief History of Time
79
Stephen Hawking
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
80
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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