inkdrinker's "Books which have had a real impact on me"

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These aren’t always the most well written or even the best books (although they often are both). These are the books which have really left me thinking or feeling something about or because of them for days.

By it’s very nature this list will grow as I read new things which have this kind of impact.

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    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

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    Something Wicked This Way Comes
    by Ray Bradbury

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    House of Stairs
    by William Sleator

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    The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

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  5. 5.
    Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
    by Daniel Quinn

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    The Giver
    by Lois Lowry

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    Cat's Eye
    by Margaret Atwood

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    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

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    On a Pale Horse (Incarnations of Immortality, Bk. 1)
    by Piers Anthony

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    V for Vendetta
    by Alan Moore

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  13. 13.
    The Lord of the Rings (Collector's Edition)
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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    A Study in Scarlet
    by Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle

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  15. 15.
    Empire of the Sun
    by J. G. Ballard

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    Franny and Zooey
    by J.D. Salinger

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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

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    The Wisdom of Insecurity
    by Alan W. Watts

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    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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  20. 20.
    Northanger Abbey (Modern Library Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  21. 21.
    Looking For Alaska (Printz Award Winner)
    by John Green

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  22. 22.
    The Music of Chance
    by Paul Auster

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  23. 23.
    The Little Prince

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  24. 25.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

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    Camp Concentration: A Novel
    by Thomas M. Disch

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    Intellectuals
    by Paul M. Johnson

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    The Baron in the Trees
    by Italo Calvino

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    Compleat Moonshadow
    by J.M. DeMatteis

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    The Crazy Ape:
    by Albert, Szent-GyOrgyi

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  31. 33.
    The Rachel Papers
    by Martin Amis

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  32. 34.
    The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  33. 35.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles

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  34. 36.
    Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics)
    by GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

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  35. 37.
    The Sound of Waves
    by Yukio Mishima

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  36. 38.
    The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
    by Yukio Mishima

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    Mockingbird (Del Rey Impact)
    by Walter Tevis

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    The Man Who Fell to Earth (Del Rey Impact)
    by Walter Tevis

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  40. 43.
    High Fidelity
    by Nick Hornby

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  41. 44.
    A Case of Curiosities
    by Allen Kurzweil

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  42. 45.
    The Grand Complication: A Novel
    by Allen Kurzweil

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  43. 46.
    Behind the Door (Quartet Encounters)
    by Giorgio Bassani

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  44. 47.
    Walk Two Moons
    by Sharon Creech

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  45. 48.
    The Trokeville Way
    by Russell Hoban

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  46. 49.
    The Goats

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  47. 50.
    Burger Wuss
    by M. T. Anderson

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