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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.

  1. 2.

  2. 4.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

  3. 5.
    The Story of Helen Keller (Signature Books series)
    by Lorena A Hickok

  4. 6.
    Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Puffin Classics)
    by Kate Douglas Wiggin

  5. 7.
    Encyclopedia Britannica

  6. 8.
    Tistou of the Green Thumbs
    by Maurice Druon

  7. 9.
    Old Yeller (Perennial Classics)
    by Fred Gipson

  8. 10.
    Shackleton's Valiant Voyage
    by Alfred Lansing

  9. 11.
    The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics)
    by Jack London

  10. 12.
    Gone With The Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

  11. 13.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne du Maurier

  12. 14.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  13. 15.
    The Tin Drum
    by Gunter grass

  14. 16.
    Diet for a Small Planet
    by Frances Moore Lappe

  15. 17.
    New Aerobics
    by Kenneth H. Cooper

  16. 18.

  17. 19.

  18. 21.
    The Feminine Mystique
    by Betty Friedan

  19. 23.
    Sexual Politics
    by Kate Millett

  20. 24.
    What Color Is Your Parachute
    by Richard Bolles

  21. 25.
    Cinderella Complex
    by Colette Dowling

  22. 26.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  23. 27.
    Walden and Civil Disobedience (150th Anniversary) (Signet Classics)
    by Henry David Thoreau

  24. 29.
    How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life (Signet)
    by Alan Lakein

  25. 30.
    A Guide for the Perplexed
    by E. F. Schumacher

  26. 31.
    Vegetarian Epicure
    by Anna Thomas

  27. 33.
    Why I Am Not a Christian (Routledge Classics S.)
    by Bertrand Russell

  28. 35.
    Blue Highways: A Journey into America
    by William Least Heat-Moon

  29. 36.
    The Prime of Life: The Autobiography of Simone De Beauvoir
    by Simone de Beauvoir

  30. 37.
    An Unknown Woman

  31. 38.
    Villette (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charlotte Bronte

  32. 41.
    Pressed Flower Collages, and Other Ideas
    by Pamela McDowell

  33. 42.
    Goodbye Hangovers, Hello Life: Self Help for Women
    by Jean Kirkpatrick

  34. 44.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

  35. 45.
    Ariel: The Restored Edition
    by Sylvia Plath

  36. 47.
    Of Woman Born: Motherhood As Experience and Institution
    by Adrienne Cecile Rich

  37. 48.
    Listening to Prozac

  38. 49.
    Nothing Special: Living Zen
    by Charlotte Joko Beck

  39. 50.
    Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home
    by Sue Bender

  40. 51.
    Thirsty, Swimming in the Lake: Essentials of Constructive Living
    by David K. Reynolds

  41. 52.
    Wherever You Go, There You Are (ROUGH CUT)
    by Jon Kabat-Zinn

  42. 53.
    The Artist's Way
    by Julia Cameron

  43. 55.
    Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect Life
    by Philip Simmons

  44. 56.
    The Illustrated Gospels

  45. 57.
    Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
    by Hope Edelman

  46. 58.
    Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith
    by Kathleen Norris

  47. 61.
    Soul Survivor: Searching for Meaningful Faith
    by Philip Yancey

  48. 62.
    Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
    by Henri J. M. Nouwen

  49. 63.
    Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus)
    by Charlotte J. Beck

  50. 64.
    The Bible

  51. 65.
    The Zen Path Through Depression
    by Philip Martin

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Created by New Isabella on Nov 25, 2007.
 

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