Bluesky #BookChallenge

As I engage more on Bluesky to avoid providing X my eyeballs, a great challenge caught me. List your top 20 books that have shaped your life, regardless of order. At first, it sounds really easy, then when I had to limit it to 20 – the challenge hit me full on. See everybody’s here.

In no specific order other than posting

#1 – Birth of Tragedy – Friedrich Nietzsche

#2 – Les Fluers du Mal – Charles Baudlaire

#3 – Dune (full series) – Frank Herbert

#4 – Ancient Art and Ritual – Jane Ellen Harrison

#5 – Island – Aldous Huxley

#6 – Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle

#7 – Earthsea Cycle – Ursula K. Le Guin

#8 – Les Travailleurs de la Mer (Toilers of the Sea) – Victor Hugo

#9 – A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn

#10 – Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

#11 – Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature – Richard Rorty

#12 – Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

#13 – I Ching – ??

#14 – The Mists of Avalon – Zimmer Bradley

#15 – The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket – Edgar Allan Poe

#16 – Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World – 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso

#17 – The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant – Stephen R. Donaldson

#18 – Black Elk Speaks – John G. Neihardt and Black Elk

#19 – Second Skin – John Hawkes

#20 – Finding the Mother Tree – Suzanne Simard

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