During one of our forum talks, we started talking about the books that we thought a well-read person should read. This is a result of that talk.
I have listed them in alphabetical order, (I and thanks to MaryZee, there are no duplicates.
This is not a complete list, nor is it an official list. It is simply a fun list from some of the most avid readers in the universe
A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
A New Path to the Waterfall by Raymond Carver
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Accidental Tourist, The by Anne Tyler
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Angle of Repose by Wallace Earle Stegner
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Another Country by James A. Baldwin
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Be Here Now by Baba Ram Dass
Bell Jar, The by Sylvia Plath
Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, The
Big Sleep, The by Raymond Chandler
Birthday Party, The by Harold Pinter
Bluest Eye, The by Toni Morrison
Book of Guys, The by Dave Barry
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Candide by Voltaire
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Chrysalids, The by John Wyndham
Cider House Rules, The by John Irving
Clan of the Cave Bearl, The by Jean Auel
Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
Complete Sherlock Holmes, The by Arthur Conan Doyle
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Earle Stegner
Cry To Heaven by Anne Rice
Deerskin by Robin McKinley
Deliverence by James Dickey
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Dune Trilogy by Frank Herbert
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Eyes of the Dragon, The by Stephen King
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Fountainhead, The by Ayn Rand
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
From The Teeth Of Angels by Jonathan Carroll
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Grapes of Wrath, The by John Steinbeck
Gulliver's Travels -- Jonathan Swift
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Harlot's Ghost by Norman Mailer
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The by Douglas Adams
Holy Bible
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Huckleberry Finn by Tom Sawyer
Illiad, The by Homer
Illustrated Man, The by Ray Bradbury
Immense Journey, The by Loren Eiseley
Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice
Joshua Then and Now by Mordecai Richler
Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) by Charles
Baudelaire
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Maltese Falcon, The by Dashiell Hammett
Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown
Mists Of Avalon, The by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L Sayers
Narnia Chronicles, The by C. S. Lewis
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On The Beach by Nevil Shute
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Once and Future Kingl, The by T.H. White
Origin of Species, The by Charles Darwin
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Red Pony, The by John Steinbeck
Religion and Science by Bertrand Russell
Remains of the Day, The by Kazuo Ishguro
Scarlet Letter, The by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Secret History, The by Donna Tartt
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Summer of Black Widows, The by Sherman Alexie and
Rudolf Steiner
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Things They Carried, The by Tim O'Brien
This Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Velveteen Rabbit, The by Margery Williams
Waiting for Nothing by Tom Kromer
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Water is Wide, The by Pat Conroy
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Wolf's Hour, The by Robert McCammon
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontė