My ten most influential books; YMMV

Dec 23, 2014 11:29

A while back people were posting on FaceBook the ten books that had the most lasting effect on them. I never got tagged and I couldn't come up with a good list anyway. But now I have! So here it is, in roughly the order that I encountered the books ( Read more... )

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supergee December 23 2014, 19:14:31 UTC
Here's 12:

Stranger in a Strange Land-Robert A. Heinlein
Illuminatus!-Shea & Wilson
Catch-22-Joseph Heller
Time out of Joint-Philip K. Dick
Godel, Escher, Bach-Douglas Hofstadter
The Grasshopper-Bernard Suits
It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand-Jerome Tuccille
Boys and Girls Together-William Goldman
De-Managing America-Richard Cornuelle
The Book-Alan Watts
The Recognitions-William Gaddis
Invisible Man-Ralph Ellison

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