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I'm pretty sure these are the books that shaped me. There might be a few more.

 
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Rank   Name Author First Published Genre Subjects
  1. 1

    King Lear

    William Shakespeare
  2. 2
    Mary Shelley
    Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Science fiction, Horror, Speculative fiction, Suspense, Gothic fiction, Epistolary novel More
    Science, Love
  3. 3
    Hannah Arendt
    Germany, History, World War II, 20th century, Europe, Jerusalem, Holocaust, Modern history More
  4. 4
    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
    1955
    Novel, Fiction, Romance novel, Tragicomedy
    Drama, Literary, Classics, Literature, Film, Erotica, Performing arts, Video More
  5. 5
    Henry Miller
    1934
    Novel, Erotica
    France, History, Bohemianism
  6. 6
    Roland Barthes
    1957
    Anthology
    Mythology, Structuralism, Semiotics
  7. 7
    Gustave Flaubert
    1856
    Novel, Fiction, Modernism, Romance novel, Literary realism
    France, Drama, Literary, Classics, Literature, 19th century, Popular literature, Adultery, Boredom, Language More
  8. 8
    Gertrude Stein
    1933
    Biography, Autobiography
    France, Paris, History, Literary, 20th century, Classics, Literature, Women More
  9. 9
    Guy Debord
    1967
    Reference
    History, Social sciences, Film, International relations, Sociology, Politics, Government, Political Science, Current events, Social psychology, Performing arts, Video, World, Social history, Popular culture, Cinema, Mass Media, Capitalism, Consumerism More
  10. 10
    Michel Foucault
    1975
    History, Psychology
    Social sciences, Criminal justice
  11. 11
    Jean Genet
    1948
    Novel, Fiction
    Gay
  12. 12
    Voltaire, Charles-Claude-Florent de Thorel de Campigneulles
    1759-01
    Satire, Bildungsroman, Picaresque novel
    Great Britain, French literature
  13. 13
    Kurt Vonnegut
    1969
    Fiction, Philosophy, Science fiction, Time travel, Speculative fiction, Black comedy, War novel More
    World War II, Literary, Classics, American science fiction
  14. 14
    Jack Kerouac
    1957
    Novel, Fiction, Roman à clef
    Literary, Classics, Literature, English Literature, 1950s, Road trip
  15. 15
    Maurice Sendak
    1970
    Fantasy, Fiction, Children's literature, Speculative fiction
    Classics, Adventure, Men
  16. 16
    William S. Burroughs
    1985-11
    Novel, Novella
  17. 17
    Ralph Ellison
    Novel, Fiction, Children's literature, Science fiction, Bildungsroman, Social commentary More
    United States of America, Literary, Classics, Literature, Places
  18. 18
    Colette
  19. 19
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    1983-01
    Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative fiction
    History, Morgause, Feminism, Great Britain
  20. 20
    Lewis Carroll
    1865-11-26
    Fantasy, Fiction, Children's literature, Speculative fiction, Absurdist fiction More
  21. 21
    L. Frank Baum
    1907
    Fantasy, Children's literature, Speculative fiction
  22. 22
    Madeleine L'Engle
    1962
    Fantasy, Children's literature, Science fiction, Speculative fiction, Young adult literature More
    Classics
  23. 23
    Francesca Lia Block
    Fiction, Children's literature, Speculative fiction
    Family, Death, Fathers and Daughters, Incest

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  1. Anonymous
    Madame Bovary at 10/16/2009 2:52 AM
    I happened to read that when doing my M.A.
  2. Anonymous
    Books That Changed My Life (Aka: You Should Read These) at 10/16/2009 2:56 AM
    good list!
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