So which books do I have to read in order to be “intelligent” or “knowledgeable” ?
Im in action for my future’s sake.
I want to be prepared in knowledge so that Im ready to face my future with profession.
🙂 … Which books that are MUST READ?
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http://als.lib.wi.us/Collegebound.html
http://www.ouhsd.k12.ca.us/lmc/ohs/read/Engl3.htm
My suggestion for the number one must read? The Prince by Machiavelli. You need to know how the world really works.
http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince00.htm
In general, the books most quoted or referenced are by Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, C. S. Lewis, and the Bible. If you aren’t familiar with these, you’re going to look like a dunce.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Bible
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
All Quite on the Western Front by E M Remarque
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Tess of the D’urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzenhitsyn
