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The Top Ten Most Influential Travel Books. 50 Most Influential Books of the Last 50 (or so) Years. In compiling the books on this list, the editors at SuperScholar have tried to provide a window into the culture of the last 50 years.

50 Most Influential Books of the Last 50 (or so) Years

Ideally, if you read every book on this list, you will know how we got to where we are today. Not all the books on this list are “great.” The criterion for inclusion was not greatness but INFLUENCE. All the books on this list have been enormously influential. The books we chose required some hard choices. We also tried to keep a balance between books that everyone buys and hardly anyone reads versus books that, though not widely bought and read, are deeply transformative. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 45. Darren Shan's top 10 books about outsiders for teenagers. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess: 'Sometimes outsiders are not misunderstood heroes...' "I have always found books about 'outsiders' the most fascinating.

Darren Shan's top 10 books about outsiders for teenagers

I think each of us, in our own way, is an outsider, as 'normal' is something that we all determine for ourselves. But it is undeniable that there is a general, perceived normality, and I am constantly drawn to stories about those who exist outside the boundaries of the established norms. Keeping Track of Reading Habits With a ‘Book of Books’ 12 Months of Reading. 28 Books You Should Read If You Want To. Earlier this month Amazon released a list of 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime.

28 Books You Should Read If You Want To

It joins Esquire’s 80 Books Every Man Should Read, The Telegraph’s 100 Novels Everyone Should Read, Huffington Post’s more manageable 30 Books You Should Read Before You’re 30, and The Guardian’s ambitious and inflexible 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. These lists serve a purpose if you’re Jay Gatsby furnishing a library or if you’ve, say, just arrived from Mars and have no knowledge of Earth books. Great Books of the Western World. The Great Books (second edition) Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. to present the Great Books in a single package of 54 volumes.

Great Books of the Western World

The series is now in its second edition and contains 60 volumes. Harvard Classics. Charles William Eliot, compiler and editor of the Harvard Classics anthology.

Harvard Classics

The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. 100 Best Novels ? Modern Library. ULYSSES by James Joyce Written as an homage to Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, Ulysses follows its hero, Leopold Bloom, through the streets of Dublin.

100 Best Novels ? Modern Library

Overflowing with puns, references to classical literature, and stream-of-consciousness writing, this is a complex, multilayered novel about one day in the life of an ordinary man. Initially banned in the United States but overturned by a legal challenge by Random House’s Bennett Cerf, Ulysses was called “a memorable catastrophe” (Virginia Woolf), “a book to which we are all indebted” (T. Lists of Great Book Recommendations from Flashlight Worthy. The Top 10 Banned books of all time - ShortLists.

All-Time Top Ten Lists. 623 of the Best Books Ever Written. CCLaP 100 reviews and answers Is It a Classic? The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written (book) The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today (1998) is a book of intellectual history written by Martin Seymour-Smith, a British poet, critic, and biographer.[1] The list included the books such as, Upanishads, Hebrew Bible, I Ching, Kabbalah, Candide, The World as Will and Idea, among others.

The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written (book)

See also[edit] Books That Shaped America - National Book Festival. The Library of Congress, the world’s largest repository of knowledge and information, began a multiyear “Celebration of the Book” with an exhibition on “Books That Shaped America.”

Books That Shaped America - National Book Festival

The initial books in the exhibition are displayed below. “This list is a starting point,” said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. “It is not a register of the ‘best’ American books – although many of them fit that description. Rather, the list is intended to spark a national conversation on books written by Americans that have influenced our lives, whether they appear on this initial list or not.” Full list: Library of Congress' 88 'Books That Shaped America' WASHINGTON--The Library of Congress is celebrating "Books that Shaped America" with a list of 88 titles and an exhibit in Washington.

Full list: Library of Congress' 88 'Books That Shaped America'

The library released its picks of the most influential books Friday. Librarian of Congress James Billington says the titles aren't meant as "best" books. Instead, he says the library wants to spark a conversation about books that influenced the nation. The list begins with Benjamin Franklin's "Experiments and Observations on Electricity" from 1751. The mother of all reading lists: Some other suggestions for your beach reading. Top 10 Best Novels of the Last 20 Years. Books The ten novels on this list all substantiate the belief that books are the most elastic, introspective, human and entertaining form of media that exist.

Top 10 Best Novels of the Last 20 Years

Not movies, not music, not art, not the theatre. A famous author once said that novels are the best way for two human beings to connect with each other. I believe this, and I believe that people who do not find pleasure in words have never had the opportunity to read one of the great novels. Emerging Writers Network: Novella Month - Guest Post by Kyle Minor.

10 Great Fictional Books Out of Copyright. MFA Reading List from Queens College. The Official MFA Reading List One of our commitments as an MFA program in Creative Writing and Translation is to immerse ourselves in various literary traditions and to encourage students to see themselves as members of a community of writers practicing a range of different styles, techniques, and writerly strategies. In the interest of placing student work in dialogue with the work of – in particular – 20th century writers, mostly working in English, mostly in the U.S., we have compiled a list of texts which we expect our students to read in time for their Orals Examination at the end of their four semesters of course work. Literary losers - bookforum.com / syllabi. May 11 2009 Mark Sarvas Cover of Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin(Bard, 1969) Long before Amazon.com reviewers tyrannically demanded sympathetic and likable protagonists, literature was reliably populated by leading men of a less bland stripe.

It’s hard for me to understand why someone would want to spend their reading hours in the company of the virtuous, the accomplished, and the capable, when failure is so much more interesting—and, sadly, altogether more common. Today, we call them antiheroes (it’s more polite), but to me, they will always be literature’s losers—tormented, feckless, sometimes lovable, sometimes not, but almost always heartbreaking. Claude lévi-strauss - bookforum.com / syllabi. Nov 6 2009 Bret McCabe When French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away October 30, a few weeks shy of his 101st birthday, he left behind a towering body of work that dramatically impacted his field and influenced the wave of French thought that hit American universities in the 1970s, from Michel Foucault to Jacques Lacan. Lévi-Strauss, though, originally studied philosophy, and it wasn't until traveling and living in Brazil in the late 1930s that he began to focus on ethnographic and ethnological research.

Tristes Tropiques. The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit) - StumbleUpon. Recently, someone asked Reddit for a list of the best science fiction books of all time. Being a fan of sci-fi, and wanting to expand my own reading list, I thought it would be helpful to tally the results and preserve them here for future reference. I've also included selected quotes from the comments, as well as my own notes on the books I've already read. PS: All book images in this post are copyright Amazon, and were retrieved using my Big Book Search Engine. So, without further ado, here are the Greatest Sci-Fi Books of All Time, ordered by upvote count: Seven SF novels for radicals, utopians, and dreamers. So what is SF? Partially a hazy roadmap, partially a utopian dream, and very often a mirror of present conditions, the genre resists settled categorisation just as it resists elevation to the hallowed heights of literary fiction.

Where to start? 1) Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars series. The three books, Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars articulate a vision of a future well informed not only by possible technological progress but by history, sociology, and politics. Poetic and evocative, they are well worth a read by anyone wishing to give texture to their dreams of space. 2) Ken MacLeod’s Fall Revolution Series, particularly The Star Fraction, The Stone Canal and The Cassini Division. 3) Iain M. The Culture novels are best described as a cross between an anarcho-syndicalist post-scarcity utopia, and a liberal utopia and mirror of the Now. 10 Science Fiction Novels You Pretend to Have Read (And Why You Should Actually Read Them) If you die in the game, you die in REAL LIFE - books mmorpg sciencefiction. Futurology Reading List - Fiction & Non-Fiction : Futurology.

The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction. 17 of the Most Literary Science Fiction Novels. By now we all acknowledge that science fiction isn’t pulpy wish-fulfillment for nerds and literary novels aren’t pretentious bore-fests for academics. John Cartan - 20 Strange and Wonderful Books. 20. 20 Even Stranger and More Wonderful Books. The Classic, Beautiful and Controversial Books That Changed Science Forever. 24 Books You’ve Probably Never Heard Of But Will Change Your Life. Best Short Novels. Springtime can make even the most devoted of readers a little bit antsy. 15 Short Story Collections for the Novels-Only Reader. Not a fan of the short story? Smart People Are Reading These Books. Nine Books Bill Gates Is Reading This Summer. The Books Project. Top 5 Books Every Intel Professional Should Read (But Have Probably Never Heard Of) The 2012 Warlord Loop Reading List. The U.S. national security community contains a slew of superlative political, military, economic, sociological, technological, and other specialists, but comparably qualified generalists prepared to cherry pick their products, then produce integrated policies, plans, programs, and conduct operations that best suit this great Nation’s needs, are exceedingly scarce.

The Warlord Loop’s 2012 reading list, which features interdisciplinary topics that cover the conflict spectrum from normal peacetime competition to what Herman Kahn’s classic On Thermonuclear War called a “wargasm,” is explicitly designed to help correct that imbalance. The 25 best reads on the web this year. Podcast: Daniel Mendelsohn on the Books That Changed His Life. Brian Eno’s Reading List: 20 Essential Books for Sustaining Civilization. 15 Books by Women to Read Now (or Very Soon): A Reading List. Stephen King's 10 favorite books - ‘The Golden Argosy,’ edited by Van H. Cartmell and Charles Grayson. The Greatest Books of All Time, As Voted by 125 Famous Authors.

Reading List: Artists’ Selections from the MoMA Library Collection. Summer Reading: Books by teachers about teaching. Raerth comments on Reddit's Favourite Books. Does r/trees like to read? : trees. What Terry Pratchett book should I read first? - terrypratchett books fiction. 18 (Free) Books Ernest Hemingway Wished He Could Read Again for the First Time.

What books can help me read a landscape? - landscape cityscape urbangeography. Lone Star Statements. Beyond Poe: canonical short stories - shortstories literature writing. Innovative Book Designs - books innovation content. The best food books of the decade. Sheila Heti's top 10 books that began as speech. Microhistories of the Mundane: 10 Books About Everyday Stuff. Books I read in 2012 — next big thing syndrome. A Year in Reading: Matt Dojny. 2012: A Year in Books. Online "Best of 2012" Book Lists. Best of the Decade (2000-2009) Online Book Lists. 100 Best Novels as listed in 1898. The 50 Books Everyone Needs to Read, 1963-2013. The AskHistorians Master Book List : AskHistorians. AskHistorians Master Book List II : AskHistorians. History of Earth: (The 10 Books You Absolutely Must Read to Understand the )

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Syllabi. Bedford/St. Martin's - The Bedford Bibliography. Usage. Bartleby.com. Nine Shel Silverstein Stories Animated. Kate Clanchy's top 10 coming-of-age novels. The 50 greatest graphic novels of all time. More Two-Sitting Reads: The Books You Just Couldn't Put Down. Rebels and recluses: 10 essential graphic-novel biographies.

15 best children's books of all time. RalphEllison's books. SylviaPlathLibrary's books. Marilynmonroelibrary's books. Print - The 75 Books Every Man Should Read. The Ultimate Self-Education Reading List. Surprisingly undervalued books - Nabeel Qureshi. 30 Essential Reads for Philosophy Majors. Visual bookshelf recs bookpickings.tumblr. Books and papers every graduate student should read. Catalyzing Creativity: 7 Playful Activity Books for Grown-Ups. Reading Lists. 7+ Sites To Help You Decide Which Book To Read Next. What should I read next. BOOKLIST CENTER. Book recommendations from readers like you.

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