Here is my book list in all its absurdity and in no particular order.

Silas Marner George Eliot
Forced to read this as a kid. Not a bad book to have been written by a girl.

The History of Art H.W. Janson
One of my big expensive college textbooks that turned me on to art.

The Illiad, The Odyssey Homer
Made me so appreciate the Greeks. Unfortunately I later read “Zorba”.

Sears and Roebuck Catalog
Hey! I live in the country. A guy has to have some stuff.

Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
Always have been somewhat reclusive. Read this as a child hiding under the stairs. Too bad Friday showed up and ruined the mood of solitude.

Fox In Socks Dr. Seuss/Theador Geisel
This just barely edged out Lyle Lyle Crocodile

A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations Charles Dickens I learned that Christmas sucks and the guy doesn’t always get the girl.

The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury
Trickly little devils, those Martians.

Moby Dick Herman Melville
Even today, if a megalomaniac promised blubber, I’d blindly follow.

Tao Te Ching Lao-tzu (Translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English)
Keeps me calm when I run out of Prozac.

The Dictionary of Ancient Egypt Ian Shaw and Paul Nicholson I believe I was Egyptian once...Old Kingdom, Second Dynasty, third house on the right.

The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus I’m always letting my rock roll back down the hill.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Vern
Remember as a kid looking up “league.” Those suckers were way down there.