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Select 100: Education & Enlightenment

This list was compiled by tabulating nominations by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee faculty, staff and students. They were asked to state which books they had "found to be so useful and important that no one could consider himself/herself an educated or enlightened person without having read them".
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
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Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
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The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
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As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
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Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
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The Bible: Authorized King James Version With Apocrypha (Various)
The Bible: Authorized King James Version With Apocrypha (Various)
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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
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The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
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Candide (Voltaire)
Candide (Voltaire)
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, Jr.)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, Jr.)
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Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
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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 City in History (Lewis Mumford)
The City in History (Lewis Mumford)
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A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
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The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
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The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels)
The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels)
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
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A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
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Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
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The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
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Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
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The Dancing Wu Li Masters
The Dancing Wu Li Masters
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The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
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Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
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Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra)
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The Double Helix (James Watson)
The Double Helix (James Watson)
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Dune (Frank Herbert)
Dune (Frank Herbert)
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The Elements of Style (William Strunk Jr., Maira Kalman and E.B. White)
The Elements of Style (William Strunk Jr., Maira Kalman and E.B. White)
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Entropy (Jeremy Rifkin)
Entropy (Jeremy Rifkin)
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Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
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Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
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Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
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Faust (Goethe)
Faust (Goethe)
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
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The Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers
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Flatland (Edwin A. Abbott)
Flatland (Edwin A. Abbott)
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Forbidden Colours (Yukio Mishima)
Forbidden Colours (Yukio Mishima)
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Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
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The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
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Free to Choose (Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman)
Free to Choose (Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman)
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