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Well-Educated Mind

Description: A List of Works from the book by Susan Wise-Bauer. I Give Credit to "CAROLFOASIA"- who first compiled this list. I merely, wanted it where I could find it easily. There may be errors on both our parts.

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968 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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by Beowulf Poet

29,210 members

362 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

9,224 members

107 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

4

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

82,799 members

1,302 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

5

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

25,051 members

185 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

6

Pride and Prejudice

93,903 members

1,510 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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7,594 members

81 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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by Virginia Woolf

23,234 members

376 reviews

3.8

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

9

William Shakespeare: The Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

10,064 members

80 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Charlotte Brontë

67,890 members

1,017 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

11

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

22,309 members

203 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by William Shakespeare

37,301 members

335 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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16,691 members

129 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Thornton Wilder

5,889 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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The Birds [in translation]

by Aristophanes

662 members

13 reviews

3.2

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

16

The Portrait of a Lady

12,140 members

139 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

17

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

21,000 members

191 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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The Pilgrim's Progress

20,327 members

196 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

26,331 members

431 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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Songs of Innocence and of Experience

by William Blake

4,564 members

43 reviews

4.1

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

4,688 members

36 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

41,747 members

416 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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Ecclesiastical History of the English People

3,981 members

27 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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by Henrik Ibsen

6,181 members

112 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,345 members

584 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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The Importance of Being Earnest

12,080 members

196 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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13,675 members

135 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Christopher Marlowe

5,659 members

88 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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11,512 members

97 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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Gilgamesh - Tome 01: Les Frères ennemis

10 members

3

Member: EGBERTINA
Explanations: EGBERTINA: the original list that i have used as my template- cited this version. i wonder, however if any translation of Gilgamesh would not suffice

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The Republic of Plato

25,543 members

163 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by William Shakespeare

7,021 members

100 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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by Dante Alighieri

27,624 members

230 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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The Book of Margery Kempe

by Margery Kempe

1,598 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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The Complete English Poems (Penguin Classics)

1,063 members

4 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

by Barbara W. Tuchman

8,044 members

135 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Niccolò Machiavelli

27,840 members

304 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Herman Melville

41,676 members

618 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

39

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,816 members

534 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Albert Camus

40,765 members

580 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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14,233 members

313 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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The School for Scandal

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

1,173 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

43

Wordsworth (Laurel Poetry Series)

by William Wordsworth

74 members

3

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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47,494 members

447 reviews

4

Member: EGBERTINA

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The Complete Poems

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

534 members

4 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

46

Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

5,570 members

57 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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22,895 members

268 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

by Mary Rowlandson

537 members

13 reviews

3.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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14 members

½ 3.3

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

50

All the President's Men

by Carl Bernstein

5,255 members

80 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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The poems of Tennyson

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

1,309 members

4 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

9,259 members

112 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Charles Dickens

28,402 members

273 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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The Communist Manifesto

18,060 members

163 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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Two Treatises of Government

2,816 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Gustave Flaubert

29,775 members

427 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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The Poetry of Sylvia Plath

by Sylvia Plath

3 members

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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On the Social Contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5,142 members

42 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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by Thomas Paine

6,042 members

71 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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62,437 members

521 reviews

4

Member: EGBERTINA

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William Blake: The Complete Poems

by William Blake

1,499 members

7 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

62

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

13,438 members

138 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

14,605 members

189 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics)

by Langston Hughes

1,642 members

17 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

65

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

51,625 members

577 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

66

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

14,263 members

138 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

67

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

10,745 members

212 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

68

The Poems of Auden

1 member

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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by George Bernard Shaw

2,555 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

70

by Richmond Lattimore

539 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: EGBERTINA

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Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose [Norton Critical Edition]

by William Butler Yeats

299 members

2 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

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by Richard Wright

8,757 members

112 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Gertrude Stein

3,060 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

74

Murder in the Cathedral

3,516 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

75

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

8,826 members

103 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

76

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,891 members

43 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, EGBERTINA

77

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,154 members

1,451 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, EGBERTINA

78

Medea [in Translation]

3,419 members

66 reviews

3.8

Member: EGBERTINA

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The History of the Peloponnesian War

8,946 members

69 reviews

4

Member: EGBERTINA

80

5,889 members

58 reviews

3.8

Member: EGBERTINA

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The Odes of Horace

966 members

7 reviews

4

Member: EGBERTINA

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Plutarch’s Lives

273 members

Member: EGBERTINA

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Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)

by Saint Augustine

2,762 members

24 reviews

3.9

Member: EGBERTINA

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by Saint Augustine

7,109 members

39 reviews

3.9

Member: EGBERTINA

85

The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila

by Teresa de Ávila

2,135 members

22 reviews

3.8

Member: EGBERTINA

86

Meditations on First Philosophy

by René Descartes

4,350 members

27 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: EGBERTINA

87

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

1,751 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: EGBERTINA

88

Tartuffe or The Hypocrite [Squid Ink Classics Edition]

3,316 members

45 reviews

3.8

Member: EGBERTINA

89

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

2,907 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: EGBERTINA

90

The Way of the World

by William Congreve

723 members

12 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: EGBERTINA

91

History of England (6 volumes)

300 members

1 review

4.1

Member: EGBERTINA

92

33,518 members

511 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

93

The Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3,572 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: EGBERTINA

94

History of the Decline and Fall of Roman Empire [complete]

by Edward Gibbon

3,647 members

43 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: EGBERTINA

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

8,292 members

126 reviews

3.8

Member: EGBERTINA

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Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

652 members

5 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: EGBERTINA

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The Complete Poems

by Walt Whitman

1,623 members

6 reviews

4.2

Member: EGBERTINA

98

Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

1,258 members

8 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: EGBERTINA

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The complete poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson

6,041 members

41 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: EGBERTINA

100

Rossetti: Poems

by Christina Rossetti

292 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: EGBERTINA

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