Lists of Bests: Developing_Intellect's "Books that influenced me most"

Send to Printer Developing_Intellect's "Books that influenced me most" People often wonder how others can have political or other convictions that are so different from their own. Here is a record of the development of my convictions. It may be surprising which authors have led me in the direction I have followed.
	1.		Cosmos by Carl Sagan
	2.		The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 25th Anniversary Edition by Douglas Adams
	3.		The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins
	4.		A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle
	5.		Have Space Suit, Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein
	6.		Nspace by Larry Niven
	7.		Parallel Universes by Fred Alan Wolf
	8.		The Edgar Cayce Companion: A Comprehensive Treatise of the Edgar Cayce Readings
	9.		The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
	10.	?	Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States by Bill Bryson
	11.		The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author by Richard Dawkins
	12.	?	Stranger in a Strange Land (Original Uncut) by Robert A Heinlein
	13.		Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
	14.		An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume) by David Hume
	15.		Sophies World by Jostein Gaarder
	16.		The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) by Neal Stephenson
	17.		Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
	18.		The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America by Philip K Howard
	19.		Anthem by Ayn Rand
	20.		The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
	21.		That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen: The Unintended Consequences of Government Spending by M. Frederic Bastiat
	22.		The Law by Frederic Bastiat
	23.	?	101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution: Ideas and Resources for Self-Liberation, Monkey Wrenching and Preparedness by Claire Wolfe
	24.		Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure by Daniel Quinn
	25.	?	Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing by Erich Fromm
	26.		The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress by Virginia Postrel
	27.		The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek) by F. A. Hayek
	28.		A Way to Be Free, the Autobiography of Robert LeFevre; Volume 1; The Making of A Modern American Revolutionary by Robert Lefevre
	29.		The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
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