Top 15 Influential Books - Personalized

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   Ken R. Abellposted 14 years ago

   Here's an exercise that was interesting because it took me down memory lane & was actually fun as I thought it through. 
   
   In order of influence and/or importance to my development as a reasonably functionally dysfunctional human being, here's my top 15:
   
   1. The Bible, inspired by God
   2. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
   3. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
   4. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
   5. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
   6. 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
   7. Bendigo Shafter by Louis L'Armour
   8. Centennial by James Michener
   9. The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck
   10. Lincoln by Gore Vidal
   11. Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
   12. Kingdoms In Conflict by Chuck Colson
   13. Celebration Of Discipline by Richard Foster
   14. Waking The Dead by John Eldredge
   15. Blood & Thunder by Hampton Sides
   
   What are your top 15 influential books?

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   christinecookposted 14 years ago

   Bible
   Koran
   The Three Battlegrounds
   Holiness, Truth and the Presence of God
   Mother Teresa of Calcutta
   Brother Lawrence Practice The Presence of God
   The World of Hildegard of Bingen: Her Life, Time, and Visions
   The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
   A History of Money and Banking in the United States
   Countdown to the Apocalypse
   Francis and Clare
   Gods fool,the life of St Francis
   The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
   Pope John Paul II: An Intimate Life: The Pope I Knew So Well
   Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
   
   Some of the most inspirational of these books,for me,were the most simple. Mother Teresa and her pure love and reliance on Jesus. Brother Lawrence and the simplicity of his faith. Thanks for reminding me!

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   mrcoopr2010posted 14 years ago

   1. The Bible
   2. 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
   3. Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye by David Ritz
   4. Do You! by Russell Simmons
   5. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
   6. Rich Dad, Poor Dad
   7. Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story by Ray Charles and David Ritz
   8. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
   9. Time Tactics of Very Successful People
   10. The Art of War by Sun-Tzu
   11. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
   12. Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur by Michael Eric Dyson
   13. Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday with Bill Dufty
   14. Revelations: There's A Light After the Lime by Pastor Mason "Mase" Betha and Karen Hunter
   15. Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones by Quincy Jones

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   Christopher Floydposted 14 years ago

   In no particular order, and without fear of having duplicated someone else's selections...
   
   1) Les Miserable
   2) Catch -22
   3) For Whom The Bell Tolls
   4) Julius Caesar (biography which I loaned to a friend and now cannot name the author.)
   5) The Bible
   6) The illustrated Man
   7) The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (I cheat.)
   8) The Godfather
   9) Animal Farm
   10) Essays and Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson
   11) The Hot Gates
   12) Pale Horse Coming
   13) Leaves of Grass
   14) Atlas Shrugged
   15) The Little Blue Handmade Book of Poems Alayne Fenasci wrote and gave me.

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   saltposted 14 years ago

   1.Grapes of Wrath re current gm food
   2. A short history of australia by manning clark - its relevance and for developing my interest in australian history and culture beyond the high school text book.
   3.The man who planted trees - in an edited selection of short stories that I used to read in the outback..
   4.Songlines - re aboriginal songlines and the first real understanding of what we call their nomadic lifestyle.
   5.Grandmothers writing about great great uncle and overland telegraph that lead me to learn more about family history
   6.Hamlet - I had a medical skull on my desk when I studied called Yorick - who kept me company through my final yr of school
   7.to kill a mockingbird
   8.the diary of anna frank
   9.Dibs in search of self
   10.the bible
   11. My place - about aboriginal life/Long walk to freedom - Mandela
   12. The outsider by Camus - My final year literature book
   13. Simone de Bourviuor and the second sex,
   14. Waltzing matilda by banjo patterson
   15. Dr Seuss and the Cat in the Hat - as a child it was loved by myself and my brother, as it described our behavior some days.. and as an adult due to the links to the environment lobby.
   
   I have to add these and I think the numbering changes depending on the life moment...
   White noise and
   Germaine Greet the female Eunech.. which really did along with Simone de Bourviour give me a sense of self as woman and man as other.
   Of Mice and Men
   1984 and Animal Farm...George Orwell.
   Peter Carey - Oscar and Lucinda
   Any shakespeare - Othello and Much a do about nothing and of course the taming of the shrew
   
   
   Youve made me look up australian literature now on wikipedia and I realize Ive still alot to learn and read.
   add Clive James and Tim Winton and elizabeth jolley and Mary Durack  australian writers..
   Berkuwski on American realism ( dark)add many other novels by mainstream US culture from Joan Collins to the Dice Man..etc
   
   Satre  on existentialism.. and on and on..
   
   I need to copy this list for later.
   
   fringedwellers - on urbanized aboriginal life

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