Ten Most Important Books

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My ten most important books... Gakked from oyceter - not favorite, but important.

Unlike most of the list's I've seen here, very few on my list are fiction. But that shouldn't entirely surprise. I don't write a lot of fiction (though the GAO may well dispute that) and excepting FanFic, over the past three or far years, I've read far more non-fiction. And I'm not even counting the course books that shaped me, which I've forgotten the title of. I would list Theodore Lowi's The End of Liberalism, but that book is so damn unreadable that I'll never touch it again, no matter how important or significant the ideas contained within really are.

Organized in no order whatsover:

1. The New Rhetoric, CH Perelman


2. The Federalist Papers - Hamilton, Jay, and Madison


3. The Tolkien Reader - JRR Tolkien


4. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky


5. Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler


6. Republican Paradoxes, Liberal Anxieties - Ronald Terchek


7. All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren


8. America's Longest War - George Herring


9. The Boys of Summer - Roger Kahn


10. Pumping Irony, Tony Kornheiser

( Commentary on the above... )

Ten Most Important Books

Thanks to ralkana for the icon! And to others who sent me others...

My ten most important books... Gakked from oyceter - not favorite, but important.

Unlike most of the list's I've seen here, very few on my list are fiction. But that shouldn't entirely surprise. I don't write a lot of fiction (though the GAO may well dispute that) and excepting FanFic, over the past three or far years, I've read far more non-fiction. And I'm not even counting the course books that shaped me, which I've forgotten the title of. I would list Theodore Lowi's The End of Liberalism, but that book is so damn unreadable that I'll never touch it again, no matter how important or significant the ideas contained within really are.

Organized in no order whatsover:

1. The New Rhetoric, CH Perelman


2. The Federalist Papers - Hamilton, Jay, and Madison


3. The Tolkien Reader - JRR Tolkien


4. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky


5. Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler


6. Republican Paradoxes, Liberal Anxieties - Ronald Terchek


7. All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren


8. America's Longest War - George Herring


9. The Boys of Summer - Roger Kahn


10. Pumping Irony, Tony Kornheiser

( Commentary on the above... )