Life Enrichment
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Books Before Twenty--Suggested Reading List Page 1
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Many books are most enjoyed when read before the age of twenty.
This list consists of a number of adult books, classics, and
popular non-fiction which inform, entertain, and start you
on the way to becoming a well-read adult.
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MODERN NOVELS
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| Buck, Pearl |
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THE GOOD
EARTH (Struggles of Chinese peasant life) |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott
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THE GREAT
GATSBY (Confused values in the 1920's) |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
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A FAREWELL
TO ARMS (A story of wartime love) |
| Hilton, James |
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GOOD-BYE,
MR. CHIPS (English school master and his students) |
| Hilton, James |
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LOST HORIZON
(The discovery of "Shangri-La") |
| Lewis, Sinclair |
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ARROWSMITH
(An idealist and his medical career) |
| Lewis, Sinclair |
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MAIN STREET
(Famous novel of small town life) |
| Mitchell, Margaret |
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GONE WITH
THE WIND (The South, before, during and after Civil War) |
| Salinger, J.D. |
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CATCHER
IN THE RYE (Holden Caulfield faces the problems of life) |
| Smith, Betty |
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A TREE
GROWS IN BROOKLYN (Growing up in a Brooklyn tenement) |
| Wilder, Thornton |
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THE BRIDGE
OF SAN LUIS REY (Five travelers die in bridge disaster) |
| Wolfe, Thomas |
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LOOK HOMEWARD
ANGEL (Long autobiographical novel) |
| Wouk, Herman |
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THE CAINE
MUTINY (A young boy finds maturity aboard ship) |
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CLASSICS
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| Gather, Willa |
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DEATH COMES
FOR THE ARCHBISHOP (Two priests in New Mexico) |
| Cervantes, Miguel de |
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DON QUIXOTE
(A gentleman who imagines himself a knightly hero |
| Conrad, Joseph |
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LORD JIM
(A man's loss of honor and his final triumph) |
| Cooper, James |
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THE LAST
OF THE MOHICANS (The Massacre at Fort William Henry) |
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