A Facebook Friend recently posted a link to David Bowie's list of his 100 favorite books. I am amazed that anyone can have 100 favorite anything. I thought I would go through my library and see if I could find 100 favorite books but I could only come up with 50, and that was a bit of a stretch. Not all of them are favorites because they are good - in fact some are favorites because they are so very bad, crazy or bizarre - but all of them have been or continue to be a significant influence on me in some way. Many of them are novels which stand out in my mind as superior or unique, to which my mind often returns. There are other books which have also been great influences but are not now in my library - this is just what I have on hand. They are presented in the order in which I found them, with no annotation or description, the downy cheek of the best next to the scaly jowl of the worst.
The Avadhuta Gita of Dattatreya
An Autobiography - Mahatma Gandhi
The Androgynous Christ - Edward L. Kessel
Systemantics - John Gall
Optimism One - F. M. Esfandiary
How to Think Straight - Robert H. Thouless
The Greatest Adventure - John Taine
Beast In View - Margaret Millar
The Devil is Dead - R. A. Lafferty
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa - Jan Potocki
est: Playing the Game the New Way - Carl Frederick
The Greatest Power in the Universe - U. S. Anderson
A Small Classical Dictionary - E. H. Blakeney
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
The Enchiridion - Epictetus
Etidorhpa - John Uri Lloyd
Galaxy 666 - Pel Torro
The Clones - P. T. Olemy
Werner Erhard - W. W. Bartley III
Oahspe: A New Bible
Hawkers and Walkers in Early America - Richardson Wright
The Mound Builders - Robert Silverberg
Dictionary of Symbols - Liungman
The Real Rain Man ... Kim Peek - Frank Peek
Neo-Tech Power - Frank R. Wallace
The Omega Seed - Paolo Soleri
The Bathroom - Alexander Kira
Alice in Wonderland etc. - Lewis Carroll
Star Maker - Olaf Stapledon
Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters - Jean Shepherd
Sunset Magazine's New Western Garden Book
Joe Gould's Secret - Joseph Mitchell
The Split Atom: The Last Human Pair on Earth: A Whirling of Ideas - Dr. B. Belove
America Betrayed - Albert D. Nelson
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti - Milton Rokeach
The Plungers and the Peacocks - Dana L. Thomas
The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andric
Mucusless Diet Healing System - Prof. Arnold Ehret
Enzyme Intelligence: Whence and Whither - Nels Quevli
Kitsch - Gillo Dorfles
Mayhew's London
Cut It Down To One Page, I'm In a Hurry - John Believer
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Mackay
Hard Cash - Charles Reade
Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock
The Book of the SubGenius
Kooks - Donna Kossy
Ritual in the Dark - Colin Wilson
Marjoe - Steven M. Gaines
Dare To Be Great - Rudy Maxa
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Found this and went to the trouble of digging up a link to your blog: https://archive.org/details/scientific-american-1891-04-11
Now I can do something else.
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