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New Isabella'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. 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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1. The Golden Book of Fairy Tales (Golden Classics)  
2.
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 A Children's Treasury of Mythology  
3.
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 Arabian Nights Pa (Illustrated Junior Library)  
4. Little Women (Signet Classics)
by Louisa May Alcott
  
5. The Story of Helen Keller (Signature Books series)
by Lorena A Hickok
  
6. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Puffin Classics)
by Kate Douglas Wiggin
  
7.
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 Encyclopedia Britannica  
8.
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 Tistou of the Green Thumbs
by Maurice Druon
  
9. Old Yeller (Perennial Classics)
by Fred Gipson
  
10.
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 Shackleton's Valiant Voyage
by Alfred Lansing
  
11. The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics)
by Jack London
  
12. Gone With The Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
  
13.
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 Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
  
14. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
  
15. The Tin Drum
by Gunter grass
  
16. Diet for a Small Planet
by Frances Moore Lappe
  
17.
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 New Aerobics
by Kenneth H. Cooper
  
18.
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 A Harsh and Dreadful Love - Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement
by William D. Miller
  
19. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig
  
20. The Inner Game of Tennis
by W. Timothy Gallwey
  
21. The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan
  
22. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Penguin Classics)
by Lewis Carroll
  
23. Sexual Politics
by Kate Millett
  
24. What Color Is Your Parachute
by Richard Bolles
  
25.
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 Cinderella Complex
by Colette Dowling
  
26. Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
  
27. Walden and Civil Disobedience (150th Anniversary)
by Henry David Thoreau
  
28. At a Journal Workshop (Inner Workbook)
by Ira Progoff
  
29. How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life (Signet)
by Alan Lakein
  
30. Guide for the Perplexed
by E. F. Schumacher
  
31.
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 Vegetarian Epicure
by Anna Thomas
  
32. The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
by Peter F. Drucker
  
33. Why I Am Not a Christian (Routledge Classics S.)
by Bertrand Russell
  
34. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Anne Tyler
  
35. Blue Highways: A Journey into America
by William Least Heat-Moon
  
36.
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 The Prime of Life: The Autobiography of Simone De Beauvoir
by Simone De Beauvoir
  
37.
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 An Unknown Woman  
38. Villette (Modern Library Classics)
by Charlotte Bronte
  
39. Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea  
40. When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search for a Life That Matters
by Harold Kushner
  
41. Pressed Flower Collages P
by Pamela McDowell
  
42.
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 Goodbye Hangovers, Hello Life: Self Help for Women
by Jean Kirkpatrick
  
43. Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Toward Self-Realization
by Karen Horney
  
44. The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
  
45. Ariel
by Sylvia Plath
  
46.
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 TIME- LIFE LIBRARY OF ART THE WORLD OF VAN GOGH 1853-1890 IN SLIPCASE  
47. Of Woman Born: Motherhood As Experience and Institution
by Adrienne Cecile Rich
  
48. Listening to Prozac  
49.
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 Nothing Special: Living Zen
by Charlotte Joko Beck
  
50. Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home
by Sue Bender
  
This is New Isabella's list. Only New Isabella can edit it. You can make your own version of this list.
Created by New Isabella on Nov 25, 2007.