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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.

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

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

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

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  5. 7.
    Encyclopedia Britannica

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

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

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

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

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  10. 12.
    Gone With The Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  11. 13.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne du Maurier

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  12. 14.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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  13. 15.
    The Tin Drum
    by Gunter grass

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

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  15. 17.
    New Aerobics
    by Kenneth H. Cooper

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  17. 20.
    The Inner Game of Tennis
    by W. Timothy Gallwey

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  18. 21.
    The Feminine Mystique
    by Betty Friedan

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  19. 23.
    Sexual Politics
    by Kate Millett

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

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  21. 25.
    Cinderella Complex
    by Colette Dowling

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

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

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  24. 28.
    At a Journal Workshop (Inner Workbook)
    by Ira Progoff

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  25. 29.
    How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life (Signet)
    by Alan Lakein

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  26. 30.
    Guide for the Perplexed
    by E. F. Schumacher

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  27. 31.
    Vegetarian Epicure
    by Anna Thomas

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  28. 33.
    Why I Am Not a Christian (Routledge Classics S.)
    by Bertrand Russell

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  29. 35.
    Blue Highways: A Journey into America
    by William Least Heat-Moon

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  30. 36.
    The Prime of Life: The Autobiography of Simone De Beauvoir
    by Simone De Beauvoir

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  31. 37.
    An Unknown Woman

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  32. 38.
    Villette (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charlotte Bronte

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  33. 39.
    Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea

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  34. 41.
    Pressed Flower Collages P
    by Pamela McDowell

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  35. 42.
    Goodbye Hangovers, Hello Life: Self Help for Women
    by Jean Kirkpatrick

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  37. 44.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

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  38. 45.
    Ariel
    by Sylvia Plath

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  39. 47.
    Of Woman Born: Motherhood As Experience and Institution
    by Adrienne Cecile Rich

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  40. 48.
    Listening to Prozac

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  41. 49.
    Nothing Special: Living Zen
    by Charlotte Joko Beck

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  42. 50.
    Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home
    by Sue Bender

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  43. 51.
    Thirsty, Swimming in the Lake: Essentials of Constructive Living
    by David K. Reynolds

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  44. 53.
    The Artist's Way
    by Julia Cameron

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  45. 55.
    Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect Life
    by Philip Simmons

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  46. 56.
    The Illustrated Gospels

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  47. 57.
    Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
    by Hope Edelman

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  48. 58.
    Amazing Grace
    by Kathleen Norris

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  49. 61.
    Soul Survivor: Searching for Meaningful Faith
    by Philip Yancey

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  50. 62.
    Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
    by Henri J Nouwen

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  51. 63.
    Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus)
    by Charlotte J. Beck

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  52. 64.
    The Bible

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  53. 65.
    The Zen Path Through Depression
    by Philip Martin

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Created by New Isabella on Nov 25, 2007.