The Well-Educated Mind
In the Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer she intends to provide the "Classical Education you never had". She recommends keeping a journal and outlining the story as you read and in each chapters she teaches you how to read her book, and other 30 books she suggests.
Here is the list of books she recommends:
Fiction:
Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
The Pilgrim's Progress -John Bunyan
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Autobiography
Augustine - The Confessions
Margery Kempe - The Book of Margery Kempe
Michele De Montaigne - Essays
Teresa Of Avila - The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself
Rene Descartes - Meditations
John Bunyan - Grace Abounding in the Chief of Sinners
Mary Rowlandson - The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration
Jean Jacques Rousseau - Confessions
Benjamin Franklin - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Henry David Thoreau - Walden
Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
Frederick Douglass - Life and Times of Frederick Douglas
Booker T. Washington - Up from Slavery
Friedrich Nietzsche - Ecce Homo
Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf
History or Politics
Herodotus - The Histories
Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War
Plato - The Republic
Plutarch - Lives
Augustine - The City of God
Bede - The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
Sir Thomas More - Utopia
John Locke - The True End of Civil Government
David Hume - The History of England, Volume V
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Edward Gibbon - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Alexis De Tocqueville - Democracy in America
Drama
Aeschylus - Agamemnon
Sophocles - Oedipus the King
Euripides - Medea
Aristophanes - The Birds
Aristotle - Poetics
Everyman (14th Century)
Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare - Richard III
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare - Hamlet
Moliere - Tartuffe
William Congreve - The Way of the World
Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer
Richard Brinsley Sheridan - The School for Scandal
Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House
Poetry
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Homer - The Iliad and the Odyssey
Greek Lyricists
Horace - The Odes
Beowolf
Dante Alighieri - Inferno
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
William Shakespeare - Sonnets
John Donne
King James Bible - Psalms
John Milton - Paradise Lost
William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Williams Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Here is the list of books she recommends:
Fiction:
Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
The Pilgrim's Progress -John Bunyan
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Autobiography
Augustine - The Confessions
Margery Kempe - The Book of Margery Kempe
Michele De Montaigne - Essays
Teresa Of Avila - The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself
Rene Descartes - Meditations
John Bunyan - Grace Abounding in the Chief of Sinners
Mary Rowlandson - The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration
Jean Jacques Rousseau - Confessions
Benjamin Franklin - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Henry David Thoreau - Walden
Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
Frederick Douglass - Life and Times of Frederick Douglas
Booker T. Washington - Up from Slavery
Friedrich Nietzsche - Ecce Homo
Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf
History or Politics
Herodotus - The Histories
Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War
Plato - The Republic
Plutarch - Lives
Augustine - The City of God
Bede - The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
Sir Thomas More - Utopia
John Locke - The True End of Civil Government
David Hume - The History of England, Volume V
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Edward Gibbon - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Alexis De Tocqueville - Democracy in America
Drama
Aeschylus - Agamemnon
Sophocles - Oedipus the King
Euripides - Medea
Aristophanes - The Birds
Aristotle - Poetics
Everyman (14th Century)
Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare - Richard III
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare - Hamlet
Moliere - Tartuffe
William Congreve - The Way of the World
Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer
Richard Brinsley Sheridan - The School for Scandal
Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House
Poetry
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Homer - The Iliad and the Odyssey
Greek Lyricists
Horace - The Odes
Beowolf
Dante Alighieri - Inferno
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
William Shakespeare - Sonnets
John Donne
King James Bible - Psalms
John Milton - Paradise Lost
William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Williams Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge