My sister Sharon (PhD. student at Dalhousie University) tagged me with a new meme on naming the 15 most influential books that have stuck with me over the years:
Rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. List 15 books you’ve read that will always stick with you. They should be the first 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Tag a few other people.
In no particular order…
- The Birth and Death of Meaning – Ernest Becker
- The Duality of Human Existence – David Bakan
- The Pornography of Power – Kurt Danziger
- The Tacit Dimension – Michael Polanyi
- Rabbit Run – John Updike
- Being and Nothingness – Jean Paul Sartre
- Autobiography of a Thief – Jean Genet
- For Your Own Good – Alice Miller
- The World According to Garp – John Irving
- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues – Tom Robbins
- Black Skins, White Masks – Franz Fanon
- How Children Fail – John Holt
- The Whole Earth Catalog (several editions) – Stewart Brand
- To Have or To Be – Erich Fromm
- Politics of the Family – R.D. Laing
Turns out that 15 is way too short…
I’ll tag the following:
- Janet Clarey
- Tom Werner
- Richard Nantel
- Tom Crawford
- Dru Ryan
- Beverly Pasian
- Stephen Downes
- Jay Cross
- Harold Jarche
Send me a notice when you have answered the tag. Anyone else who reads this is also welcome to jump in.
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Good question! Fun one to answer. My list of 15 books that have stuck with me includes:
Finite & Infinite Games – James Carse (probably the most potent book I’ve ever read)
Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
The Diviners – Margaret Laurence
Leadership & the New Science – Margaret Wheatley
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
Hominids – Robert J. Sawyer
The Age of Unreason – Charles Handy
Future Shock – Alvin Toffler
The 500 Year Delta – James Taylor & Watts Wacker
The Brain That Changes Itself – Norman Doidge
The Field – Lynne McTaggart
In Defence of Food – Michael Pollan
Transitions – Wm. Bridges
The Icarus Girl – Helen Oyeyemi
The Tao of Physics – Fritjof Capra
And I tag …Mike DiLauro, Jane Rabb, Janice Waugh, Evelyn Hannon, Peter Ryan,
Many thanks
Gwen McCauley
Gary, I posted mine at http://brandon-hall.com/tomwerner/?p=639