Shit I Should Have Read in School

Now that I’m an adult, I am realizing that reading all those classics growing up truly does help us understand the world. So here’s my curated list of things I (personally) was never assigned but want to read now.

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created by FaberCos

last updated November, 2025

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Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

Little Women

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Great Expectations

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

Catch-22

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

Dracula

Dracula

Bram Stoker

Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Moby Dick

Moby Dick

Herman Melville

Les Misérables

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

Persuasion

Persuasion

Jane Austen

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

Brave New World

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Don Quixote

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

The Diary of a Young Girl

The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Animal Farm

Animal Farm

George Orwell

1984

1984

George Orwell

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I didn't read animal farm in school either. I picked it up in January as a very stressed american. It is very powerful but also short enough that I finished it in a day. I still think about it a lot

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Same!! I hope to pick it up soon enough.

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Book marking this list because i genuinely want to return to the “educated” reading mindset x

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