O.K., fine. Got this from Kevin Vallier. My list knows neither rhyme nor reason. I put down 12 because 10 is more restrictive than I am prepared to deal with. I am not tagging 10 friends. (Or 12.) If you want to do this, consider yourself tagged.
~ Books That Made You Who You Are ~
Instructions: In your status line, list 10 books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take more than a few minutes and don’t think too hard – they don’t have to be ‘right’ or ‘great’ works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag 10 friends,
including me, so I’ll see your list. (in no particular order)
1. NICOMACHEAN ETHICS, Aristotle.
2. THE POLITICS OF REALITY, Marilyn Frye.
3. A WRINKLE IN TIME, Madeleine L’Engle. Got me on the whole sci-fi thing, and the whole dystopian literature thing, and in retrospect it is just astonishingly beautiful
4. PRINCIPIA ETHICA, G. E. Moore.
5. Dialectics & Liberty series (AYN RAND: THE RUSSIAN RADICAL, MARX, HAYEK AND UTOPIA, and TOTAL FREEDOM) by Chris Sciabarra. Throw in FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS OF AYN RAND, which is mostly by other people but which Sciabarra co-edited, while you’re at it. Convinced me that left-wing market libertarianism is possibly a thing.
6. “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr.
7. THE SILMARILLION, J.R.R. Tolkien.
8. FOUNDATION, Isaac Asimov. (Or the first three FOUNDATION collections collectively, if you like. I don’t care for most of the later novels, and was affected by them mostly in gaining a distaste for forced continuity mergers.)
9. LETTERS FROM A WAR ZONE, Andrea Dworkin.
10. LETTER TO THOMAS BAYARD, Lysander Spooner.
11. WITTGENSTEIN, AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS AND THE LOGIC OF ACTION, Roderick Long. (MS.). Introduced me to Roderick Long, anti-psychologism and praxeological methods.
12. ALL ON FIRE: WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON AND THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. By Henry Mayer.
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