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elisarenouard's "top ten most influential books"

these are the books that have most dramatically altered my way of looking at things and have in some way influenced choices i’ve made and philosophies i’ve adopted and places i’ve gone.
1. Invisible Cities (A Harvest/Hbj Book)
by Italo Calvino
  
2. Inferno (Modern Library Classics)
by Dante
  
3. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
4. Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
5. James Joyce's Ulysses
by Stuart Gilbert
  
6. The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
  
7. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
8. There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America
by Alex Kotlowitz
  
9. Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer
  
10. 100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor (Texas Pan American Series)
by Pablo Neruda
  
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Created by elisarenouard on Sep 30, 2006.