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beckerkorn / BlueHeron's "Most Influential Books I Have Read"

This is an ever-growing list of books that I feel have had the most influence on me as a person.

1. The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
 
2. Ishmael
by Daniel Quinn
 
3. Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
 
4. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
 
5.
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Profit over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
by Noam Chomsky
 
6. Tao Te Ching
by Lao-Tzu
 
7. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
by David Hume
 
8. Nicomachean Ethics, 2nd Ed. (Hackett Publishing Co.)
by Aristotle
 
9. The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
 
10. Transforming A Rape Culture  
11. Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell
 
12. Kavik the Wolf Dog
by Walt Morey
 
13. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
by David Hume
 
14. In Our Time
by Ernest Hemingway
 
15. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs
 
16. Barns of Wisconsin
by Jerold W. Apps
 
17. Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
by Robert Venturi
 
18. The Hotel New Hampshire (Black Swan)
by John Irving
 
19. A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
 
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Created by beckerkorn / BlueHeron on Sep 19, 2007.