I’ve been tagged to give my top ten most personally influential book list. I have this habit of reading every book by a particular author as I like to see how their style develops. Sort of like binge-watching a TV show. Due to that habit I thought I’d share my influential list of authors instead.
These are people I read in my early teens who made a big impression and they were not works required for school.
In putting together this list off the top of my head I note that it is a pretty good indication of my current interests, secular humanist politics, and sense of humor. I guess we don’t change that much from our teen years. Although, I should add that I kind of hated Mailer’s writing, which was instructive in its own way. Also, Asimov took me forever because he wrote a lot of books and you can skip his book on humor–oy vey ist mir, that was a slog.
1. Stephen J. Gould
2. Isaac Asimov
3. Pearl. S. Buck
4. Toni Morrison
5. Norman Mailer
6. Flannery O’Connor
7. Keri Hulme
8. Kurt Vonnegut / Joseph Heller – read at the same time
9. Truman Capote
10. E. M. Forster
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