Ten Most Influential Books in My Life

I'll play the game, too. Here's My Ten, if I can get that high. I make no claim that these are the "ten most important" or anything like that. These are merely the ten (that I can remember) which stick in my mind as seminal in my own intellectual development, such as it is.

The Phenomenon of Man, Teilhard de Chardin

Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth, ed. William L. Thomas, Lewis Mumford, Carl O. Sauer

The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle

War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods, John Rowlands

New York Places and Pleasures, Kate Simon

Dune, Frank Herbert

My Early Life: 1874-1904,Winston Churchill

A Pattern Language, Alexander, Ishikawa, Silverstein

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert Caro

Comments

[ian]

I've read three of those but I would only put A Pattern Language in my own list - but then if every list was the same there would be no point!

[ian]

Sorry - the others were Dune and Sherlock Holmes

[John Massengale]

You forgot City Comforts.

[lindenen]

You actually read War and Peace?

[Chris Burd]

Ah, "Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" is by Robert *Caro*, isn't it? It's not an *autobiography*. :-)

Cheers,

Chris

[David Sucher]

Duh....Thank you, Chris.

[the captain]

10 books? i'll offer these, see where it leads............bhagavad gita as it is, iliad, on the road, grapes of wrath, and quiet flows the dawn, kama sutra, babyji, bleak house, generation of vipers, les miserables. for today at least.........