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Highly Recommended Books for Life and Understanding - Page 3

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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Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Maus: A Survivor's Tale
81
The War Poems (Siegfried Sassoon)
The War Poems
82
Siegfried Sassoon
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
83
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
84
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (Rainer Maria Rilke)
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
85
Rainer Maria Rilke
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson)
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
86
Emily Dickinson
The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
The Yellow Wallpaper
87
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Song of Myself
Song of Myself
88
William Wordsworth: Collected Poems (William Wordsworth)
William Wordsworth: Collected Poems
89
William Wordsworth
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
90
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Their Eyes Were Watching God
91
Zora Neale Hurston
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
92
Hunter S. Thompson
Empire of the Sun (J.G. Ballard)
Empire of the Sun
93
J.G. Ballard
The Sandman (Neil Gaiman)
The Sandman
94
Neil Gaiman
The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (Katherine Mansfield)
The Journal of Katherine Mansfield
95
Katherine Mansfield
Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf (Hermione Lee)
Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf
96
Hermione Lee
The Diary of Anais Nin
The Diary of Anais Nin
97
Howl (Allen Ginsberg)
Howl
98
Allen Ginsberg
Big Sur (Kerouac)
Big Sur
99
Kerouac
Wild (Cheryl Strayed)
Wild
100
Cheryl Strayed
Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris)
Me Talk Pretty One Day
101
David Sedaris
Junky (William S Burroughs)
Junky
102
William S Burroughs
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
103
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
104
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Taming of the Queen (Philippa Gregory)
The Taming of the Queen
105
Philippa Gregory
The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Raven
106
Edgar Allan Poe
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula
107
Bram Stoker
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
108
Mary Shelley
Apache
Apache
109
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
A Passage to India
110
E.M. Forster
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
111
Jack Kerouac
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited
112
Evelyn Waugh
Dune Saga: God Emperor of Dune (Frank Herbert)
Dune Saga: God Emperor of Dune
113
Frank Herbert
Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
Red Mars
114
Kim Stanley Robinson
Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)
Austerlitz
115
W.G. Sebald
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
116
George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fahrenheit 451
117
Ray Bradbury
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
118
Aldous Huxley
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café (Fannie Flagg)
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
119
Fannie Flagg
Joan Didion Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion Year of Magical Thinking
120
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