The twenty most formative books I've read with regard to my own writing, and why. In order:

20. A History of Civilization, by Fernand Braudel

19. Why I Write, by George Orwell

18. Horace's Odes and Epodes

17. Beowulf, Seamus Heaney's Translation

16. Conquistador, by Buddy Levy

15. Bulfinch's Mythology

14. The Communist Manifesto

13. True Believer, by Eric Hoffer

12. Discourses on Livy, Machiavelli

11. La Rochefoucauld's Maxims and Self Reflections

10. A Treasury of Irish Literature, Barnes and Noble Leather Bound Edition

9. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

8. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy the Constance Garnet Translation

7. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

6. The Abolition of Man, by C. S. Lewis

5. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury 

Top 5 Influences

4. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. Plato's Symposium

*. Freud's Psychology of Psychoanalysis

2. William Wordsworth

1. The Bible

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