Unwilling to pass around a question on Facebook, I decided to answer the question privately, "What are the ten most important books I've read?". As a teen... To Kill a Mockingbird Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings A Clockwork Orange Beyond Freedom and Dignity Siddhartha I'm OK - You're OK / Games People Play The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge Anthem / The Fountainhead Johnny Got His Gun Fahrenheit 451 As an adult... The Story of English Ender's Game Collected Fictions (Borges) The Economics of Innocent Fraud Mercier and Camier Debt: The First 5,000 Years Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust How to Read and Why Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison The Affluent Society The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better Literary Occasions: Essays As I Lay Dying
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