The Divine Comedy–Dante (does that count as 3 or 1?
Various dialogues by Plato (apology, meno, republic) Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ 1984–George Orwell–my world view has been much more laden with conspiracy theory after this People’s History of the US–Howard Zinn If This is a Man–Primo Levi Frames of Mind:The Theory of Multiple Intelligences–Howard Gardner • Ficciones – Borges Allegra Maude Goldman – Edith Konecky (precocious Jewish girl growing up in Brooklyn) Little Women – Alcott • -Twelfth Night because of what it says about sadness -Yeats complete poems because it’s Yeats complete poems -Frannie and Zooey because it’s comforting -Waiting for Godot because I didn’t realize that people talk different than they think -War and Peace because if it were the only book in the world that would be fine -The ecclesiastes part of the bible and some of the psalms -The Lives of the Great Composers because it shows that good artists can come out of any era of history -Reflections in a Golden Eye because it is possible to explain a certain asp
