To be well-read, you must read well. Let’s look at some great books. This is hardly an exhaustive list and there may be better editions, but find a few you like and start your own “to be read” list. Tell me your favorite and maybe I’ll add it.
Great Books
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by George Orwell
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by Ernest Hemingway
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by Tennessee Williams
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by Betty Smith
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by George Orwell
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by William Faulkner
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by Toni Morrison
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by Truman Capote
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by John Steinbeck
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by Joseph Heller
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by Arthur Miller
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by Edgar Allan Poe
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by John Steinbeck
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by Edith Wharton
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by Ray Bradbury
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by Ernest Hemingway
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by Margaret Mitchell
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by Truman Capote
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by Louisa May Alcott
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by Herman Melville
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by Willa Cather
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by John Steinbeck
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by Jack Kerouac
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by Ken Kesey
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by Kurt Vonnegut
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by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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by Mark Twain
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by Mark Twain
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by Edith Wharton
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by Kate Chopin
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by Sylvia Plath
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by Jack London
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by J.D. Salinger
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by Alice Walker
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by Arthur Miller
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by John Steinbeck
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by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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by Carson McCullers
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by Edith Wharton
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by Upton Sinclair
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by James Fenimore Cooper
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by Ernest Hemingway
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by John Steinbeck
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by Stephen Crane
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by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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by William Faulkner
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by Ernest Hemingway
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by Zora Neale Hurston
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by Harper Lee
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by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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by Henry David Thoreau