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There are certain books that have been considered “classic reading”, and have thus been on many reading lists for schools and groups through out the years. Here’s how Siena[sic] survey (as listed @ Timesunion.com) presents them, along with about when I read them and/or what I thought of them.
List of 30 classics:
1. The Works of Shakespeare
- Read throughout high school/college, including “Romeo & Juliet” “Julius Caesar” (Fave), “MacBeth” (Fave), “Othello”, rereading “King Lear”, “MidSummer Night’s Dream” (Big Fave!)
2. The Declaration of Independence
- Read in almost every history class LOL
3. Twain, Mark, Huckleberry Finn
- Read in jr. high/high school
4. The poems of Emily Dickinson
- Fave has got to be “Nobody” *S*
5. The poems of Robert Frost
- read throughout school days
6. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Scarlet Letter
- read in high school (found it so sad)
7. Fitzgerald, Scott F., The Great Gatsby
- rereading again (read in high school)
8. Orwell, George, 1984
- never read all the way through…we chose to read “Brave New World” (a fave!)
9. Homer, Odyssey and Iliad
- read in high school and college 
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10. Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities
- read latter in high school (don’t remember when for the 1st)
11. Chaucer, Geoffrey, The Canterbury Tales
- loved rereading these tales in college
12. Salinger, J.D., Catcher in the Rye
- read in middle school (a fave @ the time)
13. The Bible
- started reading in elementary school (reread since)
14. Thoreau, Henry David, Walden
- read in high school
15. Sophocles, Oedipus
- ?!? don’t remember
16. Steinbeck, John, the Grapes of Wrath
- a fave read through the years
17. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essays and poems
- read in high school
18. Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice
- on my rereading list thanks to seeing the movie (again)
19. Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass
- read in hs
20. The novels of William Faulkner
- ?!?
21. Melville, Herman, Moby Dick
- on my rereading list
22. Milton, John, Paradise Lost
- hs/college
23. Vergil, Aeneid
- ?!? hs sometime
24. Plato, The Republic
- read in college (I was big into Plato @ the time LOL)
25. Marx, Karl, Communist Manifesto
- read in college
26. Machiavelli, Niccolo, the Prince
- ?!? don’t remember when read, elementary
27. Tocqueville, Alexis de, Democracy in America
- ?!? (sleepy time for me on this one)
28. Dostoevski, Feodor, Crime and Punishment
- ?!? don’t remember again
29. Aristotle, Politics
- ?!? I don’t remember when I read it, but I doubt I finished it all
30. Tolstoy, Leo, War and Peace
- read in college(Plato and Tolstoy were majors for me)
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by Mark Haddon by Kim Edwards by Gary Kinnaman by Junot Diaz by Deepak Chopra
The Thief Maker: A Novel*
Bonus: This author also blogs on WP! Check out Dave’s blog
He sent a copy to me (one of my three surprises for April), and so far, I’m glad he did. Thumb’s up!
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
Beauty Queen (Lear Family Trilogy, Book 2): Julia London: Books
Most excellent work of fiction about woman finding out whom she is inside vs. just being a ‘beauty queen’…a quick read.
Loves Me, Loves Me Not: Libby Malin: Books
I picked this book up on a whim. I didn’t quite make it through it (ran out of reading time)…perhaps I’ll try again one day
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
If you want to get a sense of “Barry”, check out this book about his childhood (up to the Democratic National Convention where he made a famous speech). Then, Barack the vote! 
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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**I’ve forgotten where I put the rest of this list, which is why it’s sorely lacking books.
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