New Isabella's "Most Influential Books I Have Read"

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This is an ever-growing list of books that I feel have had the most influence on me as a person. It is arranged in approximate chronological order from childhood through today.

_"He revealed a need that she supposed was common to customers in the bookstore, a need to distinguish himself, appear knowledgeable." _ From the short story "Dulse" by Alice Monroe.

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  2. 2.
  4. 4.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott
  5. 5.
    The Story of Helen Keller (Signature Books series)
    by Lorena A Hickok
  6. 6.
    Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Puffin Classics)
    by Kate Douglas Wiggin
  7. 7.
    Encyclopedia Britannica

  8. 8.
    Tistou of the Green Thumbs
    by Maurice Druon
  9. 9.
    Old Yeller (Perennial Classics)
    by Fred Gipson
  10. 10.
    Shackleton's Valiant Voyage
    by Alfred Lansing
  11. 11.
    The Call Of The Wild
    by Jack London
  12. 12.
    Gone With The Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell
  13. 13.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne du Maurier
  14. 14.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  15. 15.
    The Tin Drum
    by Gunter grass
  16. 16.
    Diet for a Small Planet
    by Frances Moore Lappe
  17. 17.
    New Aerobics
    by Kenneth H. Cooper
  18. 18.
  19. 19.
  21. 21.
    The Feminine Mystique
    by Betty Friedan
  23. 23.
    Sexual Politics
    by Kate Millett
  24. 24.
    What Color Is Your Parachute
    by Richard Bolles
  25. 25.
    Cinderella Complex
    by Colette Dowling
  26. 26.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert
  27. 27.
    Walden and Civil Disobedience (150th Anniversary) (Signet Classics)
    by Henry David Thoreau
  29. 29.
    How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life (Signet)
    by Alan Lakein
  30. 30.
    A Guide for the Perplexed
    by E. F. Schumacher
  31. 31.
    Vegetarian Epicure
    by Anna Thomas
  33. 33.
    Why I Am Not a Christian (Routledge Classics S.)
    by Bertrand Russell
  35. 35.
    Blue Highways: A Journey into America
    by William Least Heat Moon
  36. 36.
    The Prime of Life: The Autobiography of Simone De Beauvoir
    by Simone de Beauvoir
  37. 37.
    An Unknown Woman

  38. 38.
    Villette (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charlotte Bronte
  41. 41.
    Pressed Flower Collages, and Other Ideas
    by Pamela McDowell
  42. 42.
    Goodbye Hangovers, Hello Life: Self Help for Women
    by Jean Kirkpatrick
  44. 44.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath
  45. 45.
    Ariel: The Restored Edition
    by Sylvia Plath
  47. 47.
    Of Woman Born: Motherhood As Experience and Institution
    by Adrienne Cecile Rich
  48. 48.
    Listening to Prozac

  49. 49.
    Nothing Special: Living Zen
    by Charlotte Joko Beck
  50. 50.
    Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home
    by Sue Bender

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Created by New Isabella on Nov 25, 2007.
 

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