Books
September 19, 1996
Sometime yesterday afternoon I decided to make a list of 100 books
that have influenced me. Not necessarily my 100 favorites or the 100
best, but the ones that have changed something inside me, caused me
to take action, made me think in a new way.
- Narrow Road to the Deep North, Matsuo Basho
- A Coney Island of the Mind, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- The Joy of Lesbian Sex, Bertha Harris
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- 1984, George Orwell
- Brave New World, Aldos Huxley
- Steam, author?
- Plant Dreaming Deep, May Sarton
- The Education of Harriet Hatfield, May Sarton
- Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, May
Sarton
- Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
- The Man Who Walked Through Time, Colin Fletcher
- Project Man High, author?
- Economics, Paul Samuelson
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane
Jacobs
- The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon
- Sal Si Puedes, Peter Matthiessen
- Why We Can't Wait, Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The Education of a WASP, Lois Mark Stalvey
- A Choice of Weapons, Gordon Parks
- The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
- Native Son, Richard Wright
- Deschooling Society, Ivan Illich
- The Miracle of Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh
- The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
- Field Guide to the Birds, Roger Tory Peterson
- Quality is Free, Philip Crosby
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert
Pirsig
- The Greening of America, Charles Reich
- Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvior
- Fat is a Feminist Issue, ???
- Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Religions of Man, Huston Smith
- The Gospel According to Saint Matthew
- The Winter Beach, Charlton Ogburn
- The Family of Man, Edward Steichen
- A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
- Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn, Isaac Asimov
- Small is Beautiful, EF Schumacher
- Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil
Disorders, The Kerner Commission
- Walden, Henry David Thoreau
- Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch, Henry
Miller
- Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg
- AMC White Mountain Trail Guide
- The Long Loneliness, Dorothy Day
- Are You Running With Me, Jesus?, Malcolm Boyd
- Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
- PDP-8 Handbook, Digital Equipment Corporation
- Writing for the Reader, John O'Rourke, Digital
Equipment Corporation
- An Artist's Letters from Japan, John LaFarge
- Stranger in a a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
- Dune, Frank Herbert
- Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH
- My Side of the Mountain
- Island of the Blue Dolphins
- Cry the Beloved Country, Paton
- On the Road, Jack Kerouac
- Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut
- The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith
- A Nation of Strangers, Vance Packard
- Candide, Voltaire
- Tao te Ching, Lao Tzu
- The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin
- The Phenomenon of Man, Teilhard de Chardin
- The Divine Milieu, Teilhard de Chardin
- I and Thou, Martin Buber M
- Time on the Cross, Robert Fogel
- Mexico City Blues, Jack Kerouac
- Working Ourselves to Death, Diane Fassel
- Decline and Fall of the American Programmer, Ed
Yourdon
- Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball, Donald Hall
- The Museum of Clear Ideas, Donald Hall
- An Unknown Woman, Alice Koller
- Flatland, Edwin Abbott
- The Art of Computer Programming, Donald Knuth
- The Joy of Sumo, David Benjamin
- The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula LeGuin
- The Disposessed, Ursula LeGuin
- Lesbians at Midlife: The Creative Transition, Sang,
Warshow, and Smith, eds.
- An Actor Prepares, Stanislavsky
- Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg
- Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- The Color Purple, Alice Walker
- The Wisdom of No Escape, Pema Chodron
- The Three Pillars of Zen, Philip Kapleau
- Being Peace, Thich Nhat Hanh
- Howl, Allen Ginsberg
- The Dragon Doesn't Live Hre Anymore, Alan Cohen
- Man for Himself, Erich Fromm
- Escape from Freedom, Erich Fromm
- Though Shalt Not Be Aware, Alice Miller
- Lives of a Cell, Lewis Thomas
- All the Strange Hours, Loren Eisley
- The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson
- Thomas' Calculus
- Fowler's English Usage
- How Does a Poem Mean?, John Ciardi
- VT100 User's Guide, Digital Equipment Corp.
- Systems Programming, Donovan
- The Blue Estuaries, Louise Bogan
- The Anarchist's Convention & Other Stories, John
Sayles
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