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Highly Recommended Books for Life and Understanding

A list of 125 books that are a sure to impart widsom, life lessons, empathy, compassion, and conceptual knowledge to the reader. A mixture of fiction, poetry, science fiction, dystopia, non fiction, memoirs, biography, fantasy - as well as themes of war, love, death, tyranny, evil, and religion.
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Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
1
Charlotte Bronte
Dune (Frank Herbert)
Dune
2
Frank Herbert
Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)
Mansfield Park
3
Jane Austen
All Quiet on the Western Front (German Title: Im Westen Nichts Neues) (Enrich Maria Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front (German Title: Im Westen Nichts Neues)
4
Enrich Maria Remarque
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave (Frederick Douglas)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave
5
Frederick Douglas
The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
The Diary of a Young Girl
6
Anne Frank
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
7
J.D. Salinger
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
8
Ken Kesey
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
9
Emily Bronte
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple
10
Alice Walker
Dubliners (James Joyce)
Dubliners
11
James Joyce
A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula K. Le Guin)
A Wizard of Earthsea
12
Ursula K. Le Guin
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
13
Chinua Achebe
The Outsider (Albert Camus)
The Outsider
14
Albert Camus
The Invisible Man (HG Wells)
The Invisible Man
15
HG Wells
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men
16
John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
17
Harper Lee
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Oedipus Rex
18
Sophocles
Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)
Oedipus at Colonus
19
Sophocles
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone
20
Sophocles
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
21
Charles Dickens
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
22
Vladimir Nabokov
Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham)
Day of the Triffids
23
John Wyndham
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
24
George Orwell
Orlando (Virginia Woolf)
Orlando
25
Virginia Woolf
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Jordan B Peterson)
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
26
Jordan B Peterson
What I Know for Sure (Oprah Winfrey)
What I Know for Sure
27
Oprah Winfrey
Kindred (Octavia Butler)
Kindred
28
Octavia Butler
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit
29
J.R.R. Tolkien
Harry Potter #1: Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (J. K. Rowling)
Harry Potter #1: Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
30
J. K. Rowling
The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Fellowship of the Ring
31
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Two Towers
32
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Return of the King
33
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale
34
Margaret Atwood
The Female Man (Joanna Russ)
The Female Man
35
Joanna Russ
We
We
36
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
37
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
38
Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
39
Leo Tolstoy
The Waste Land and Other Poems (T. S. Eliot)
The Waste Land and Other Poems
40
T. S. Eliot
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