A List of the most Influential Books of My Life In no particular order

• Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer
• Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
• The Prydain Cycle by Lloyd Alexander
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein
• How to Become a Perfect Person in Three Days by Stephen Manes
• There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom by Louis Sachar
• A Little Princess by Mary Hodgeson Burnett
• The Celery Stalks at Midnight by James Howe
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• Anything by E. Nesbitt
• Half Magic by Edward Eager
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• Virtual Mode by Piers Anthony
• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
• A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag by Gordon Korman
• Starring Sally J. Friedman as herself by Judy Blume
• Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry
• Bridge to Terebithia by Katherine Patterson
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Brave New World by Alduous Huxley
• The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleishman
• Memoir of a Face by Lucy Grealy
• Singularity by William Sleator
• The Girl With the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts
• Another Fine Myth by Robert Lynn Aspirin
• The Infinite Worlds of Maybe by Lester del Rey
• Angel of the Revolution by George Griffith
• Weirdos of the Universe, Unite! by Pamela F. Service
• The Twinkie Squad by Gordon Korman

These are just a few of the books that have influenced my life. There are probably many, many, more but these are the ones that I can think of. I know they are overwhelmingly children’s and fantasy books, but that has always been the genre that I have related to.

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