Tuesday, July 21, 2009
15 Influential Books I Have Read
Okay so several people have done this already and I've been using those lists as my go to the library and find a new to me book to read.
Here is my list. I am not quite sure what it says about me but these are the books that stood out, made me think and ultimately I refer to in discussion. They are not in order of influence just in order of my remembering them.
1. She's Come Undone--Wally Lamb
2. Jane Eyre
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God--Nora Zeale Hurston
4. My Side of the Mountain
5. Atlas Shrugged
6. The Jungle--Upton Sinclair
7. Nickel and Dimed in America-Barbara Erinreich
8. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter-
9. Silent Spring
10. Night-Elie Wiesel
11. Utopia-Sir Thomas Moore
12. New Harmony and Robert Owen
13. The Koran
14. Cookbooks published prior to 1950s
15. The Florentine Histories--Machievelli
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