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Jim's Lit. Class Blues: Stuff They Made You Read Whether You Wanted to or Not

Here are 72 books from my high school and undergraduate days(I.e., the dark ages before YA literature and alternative reading lists) that were the constant required reading in English and Lit. Courses. In several instances, I was assigned the same book in high school AND college, which was particularly irritating because they were always rhe books I avoided the first time in secondary school. Some of these books I liked when I first read them, some I developed an appreciation for later on, and some I couldn't stand then and I can't stand now. A couple, notably the ones by Joyce, caused me to redefine "higher education " as that which I received by reading obscure books while firing up the biggest doobie I could get my hands on.
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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 Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
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As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
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As You Like It (Shakespeare -Signet)
As You Like It (Shakespeare -Signet)
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
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Beowulf (Wright -Trans)
Beowulf (Wright -Trans)
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Canterbury Tales (Coghill Trans.)
Canterbury Tales (Coghill Trans.)
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The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
9
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
10
The Crisis (Thomas Paine)
The Crisis (Thomas Paine)
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The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
12
Death in Venice (Thomas Mann)
Death in Venice (Thomas Mann)
13
The Diary of a Madman (Nikolai Gogol)
The Diary of a Madman (Nikolai Gogol)
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Dubliners (Joyce)
Dubliners (Joyce)
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The First Circle (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
The First Circle (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
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The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
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Grendel (John Gardner)
Grendel (John Gardner)
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels
20
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
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Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
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Henry V (Shakespeare -Signet)
Henry V (Shakespeare -Signet)
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The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables
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The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad (Homer)
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Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
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Johnny Tremain
Johnny Tremain
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Julius Caesar (Shakespeare - Signet)
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare - Signet)
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King Lear (Shakespeare (Signet))
King Lear (Shakespeare (Signet))
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Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
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MacBeth (Shakespeare)
MacBeth (Shakespeare)
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The Man Who Died (D.H. Lawrence)
The Man Who Died (D.H. Lawrence)
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Man's Fate (André Malraux)
Man's Fate (André Malraux)
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The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare - Signet)
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare - Signet)
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare-Signet)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare-Signet)
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Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust (Nathanael West)
Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust (Nathanael West)
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A Modest Proposal (Jonathan Swift)
A Modest Proposal (Jonathan Swift)
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My Antonia
My Antonia
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A Night to Remember (Lord)
A Night to Remember (Lord)
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Nostromo (Conrad - Penguin Classics))
Nostromo (Conrad - Penguin Classics))
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Notes From the Underground
Notes From the Underground
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