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

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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1984 (George Orwell)
1984 (George Orwell)
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon)
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American Pastoral
American Pastoral
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Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables
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Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
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The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
12
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
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Beowulf
Beowulf
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The Book Thief
The Book Thief
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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
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The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
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Candide
Candide
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The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
20
Casino Royale
Casino Royale
21
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
22
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23
Charlotte's Web
Charlotte's Web
24
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
25
Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson
Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson
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The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
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The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
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The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
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Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
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Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman
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Don Quixote
Don Quixote
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Dream of the Red Chamber
Dream of the Red Chamber
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Dune
Dune
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The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
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Everything Is Illuminated
Everything Is Illuminated
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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
37
The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars
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Faust
Faust
39
Fifty Shades of Grey
Fifty Shades of Grey
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Frankenstein
Frankenstein
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