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Classics to Read/Reread as an Adult

Why do we act like some of these should only be read by kids or students just starting out in life? Many of these will mean something different or mean more later in life. Consider reading or re-reading these in your 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s....
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1984 (George Orwell)
1984 (George Orwell)
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
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Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
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As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
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The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
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Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
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Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
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Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
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The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
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The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
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Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
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Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
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The Giver (Lois Lowry)
The Giver (Lois Lowry)
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Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
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Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
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Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
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Le Petit Prince D'Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Le Petit Prince D'Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
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Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
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MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
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Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
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Odyssey (Homer)
Odyssey (Homer)
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Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
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The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster)
The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster)
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
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Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
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The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
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Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
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To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
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The Waste Land and Other Poems (T.S. Eliot)
The Waste Land and Other Poems (T.S. Eliot)
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Watership Down (Richard Adams)
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
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Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
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