My Most Important Books, rev.
BOOKS THAT SIGNIFICANTLY INFLUENCED MY LIFE (whether they should have or not) TOM JOHNSON – September 2010 FICTION Berry Wendell, the novels, esp. Jayber Crow Bunyan, John, Pilgrim’s Progress Camus, Albert, The Stranger Carroll, Lewis, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Endo, Shusako, Silence The Golden Books (children’s books) Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey Howatch, Susan (the Starbridge Novels) Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World Irving, John (the novels) Lewis, C.S., The Narnia Chronicles, The Space Trilogy, et al. MacDonald, George, Lilith Maugham, W. Somerset, Of Human Bondage Mother Goose Stories Orwell, George, 1984 and Animal Farm Pirsig, Robert, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Potok, Chaim (all the novels) Russell, Mary Doria, The Sparrow Shakespeare, William (all the plays, esp. the tragedies) Tolkien, J.R.R., The Hobbitt, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer Updike, John (all the novels)