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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  1. 1.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

  2. 2.
    Something Wicked This Way Comes
    by Ray Bradbury

  3. 3.
    House of Stairs
    by William Sleator

  4. 4.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood

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

  6. 6.
    The Giver
    by Lois Lowry

  7. 7.
    Cat's Eye
    by Margaret Atwood

  8. 8.
    Demian (Perennial Classics)
    by Hermann Hesse

  9. 9.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

  10. 10.
    On a Pale Horse (Incarnations of Immortality, Bk. 1)
    by Piers Anthony

  11. 12.
    V for Vendetta
    by Alan Moore

  12. 13.
    The Lord of the Rings (Collector's Edition)
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  13. 14.
    A Study in Scarlet
    by Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle

  14. 15.
    Empire of the Sun
    by J. G. Ballard

  15. 16.
    Franny and Zooey
    by J.D. Salinger

  16. 17.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

  17. 18.
    The Wisdom of Insecurity
    by Alan W. Watts

  18. 19.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

  19. 20.
    Northanger Abbey (Modern Library Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  20. 21.
    Looking For Alaska (Printz Award Winner)
    by John Green

  21. 22.
    The Music of Chance
    by Paul Auster

  22. 23.
    The Little Prince
    by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  23. 25.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

  24. 26.

  25. 27.
    Camp Concentration: A Novel
    by Thomas M. Disch

  26. 28.
    Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
    by Paul M. Johnson

  27. 29.
    The Baron In The Trees
    by Italo Calvino

  28. 30.
    The Compleat Moonshadow
    by John Marc DeMatteis

  29. 32.
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    The Crazy Ape:
    by Albert, Szent-GyOrgyi

  30. 33.
    The Rachel Papers
    by Martin Amis

  31. 34.
    The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  32. 35.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles

  33. 36.
    Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  34. 37.
    The Sound of Waves
    by Yukio Mishima

  35. 38.
    The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
    by Yukio Mishima

  36. 40.

  37. 41.
    Mockingbird (Del Rey Impact)
    by Walter Tevis

  38. 42.
    The Man Who Fell to Earth
    by Walter Tevis

  39. 43.
    High Fidelity
    by Nick Hornby

  40. 44.
    A Case of Curiosities
    by Allen Kurzweil

  41. 45.
    The Grand Complication: A Novel
    by Allen Kurzweil

  42. 46.
    Behind the Door (Quartet Encounters)
    by Giorgio Bassani

  43. 47.
    Walk Two Moons
    by Sharon Creech

  44. 48.
    The Trokeville Way
    by Russell Hoban

  45. 49.
    The Goats (A Sunburst book)
    by Brock Cole

  46. 50.
    Burger Wuss
    by M. T. Anderson

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Created by inkdrinker on Mar 26, 2006.
 

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