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PGYS LIST OF LIFELONG IMPACTFUL BOOKS - Page 2

There are a variety of books here, some of them classics, some of them not so well written, but all of them made some impact on my life. They are a reflection of my life time reading, and if there is a bias towards the mid twentieth century,it is a reflection of when I grew up.The one feature they have in common is they all significantly impacted on me when I first read them, and quite a few of them have unexpectedly resonated across most of my life and my career, in ways I did not anticipate on first reading.It bothers me that there are not many books of recent years on this list, but maybe that is because it has taken half a life time for some of these books to register their strongest impact on me.
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
41
James Joyce
Oh! What a Lovely War (Joan Littlewood)
Oh! What a Lovely War
42
Joan Littlewood
Wilfred Owen (Wilfred Owen)
Wilfred Owen
43
Wilfred Owen
The Fifty Worst Movies of All Time (And How They Got That Way) (Harry Medved, Randy Dreyfuss)
The Fifty Worst Movies of All Time (And How They Got That Way)
44
Harry Medved, Randy Dreyfuss
Catch 22 (Τζόζεφ Χέλερ)
Catch 22
45
Τζόζεφ Χέλερ
The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett)
The Maltese Falcon
46
Dashiell Hammett
Red Harvest (Dashiell Hammett)
Red Harvest
47
Dashiell Hammett
The First Saint Omnibus (Leslie Charteris)
The First Saint Omnibus
48
Leslie Charteris
The Greek Coffin Mystery (Ellery Queen)
The Greek Coffin Mystery
49
Ellery Queen
Calamity Town (Ellery Queen)
Calamity Town
50
Ellery Queen
Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot (T.S. Eliot)
Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot
51
T.S. Eliot
The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
The Big Sleep
52
Raymond Chandler
Farewell My Lovely (Raymond Chandler)
Farewell My Lovely
53
Raymond Chandler
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
54
Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
And Then There Were None
55
Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)
Murder on the Orient Express
56
Agatha Christie
The Rainbow (D.H. Lawrence)
The Rainbow
57
D.H. Lawrence
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Waiting for Godot
58
Samuel Beckett
Beyond the Fringe (Alan Bennett)
Beyond the Fringe
59
Alan Bennett
Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers
60
I Lost It at the Movies (Kael)
I Lost It at the Movies
61
Kael
The Magus (John Fowles)
The Magus
62
John Fowles
The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles)
The French Lieutenant's Woman
63
John Fowles
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William Shirer)
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
64
William Shirer
Red Alert (Peter George)
Red Alert
65
Peter George
W. B. Yeats Selected Poems (W. B. Yeats)
W. B. Yeats Selected Poems
66
W. B. Yeats
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (Henry Handel Richardson)
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
67
Henry Handel Richardson
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
68
George Orwell
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
69
Aldous Huxley
Time Machine, the (George Orwell)
Time Machine, The
70
George Orwell
The War of the Worlds & the War in the Air (H. G. Wells)
The War of the Worlds & the War in the Air
71
H. G. Wells
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
72
Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
73
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
The Importance of Being Earnest
74
Oscar Wilde
Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham)
Day of the Triffids
75
John Wyndham
The Chrysalids (John Wyndham)
The Chrysalids
76
John Wyndham
The Bald Soprano and the Lesson (Ionesco)
The Bald Soprano and the Lesson
77
Ionesco
Goodbye to Berlin (Christopher Isherwood)
Goodbye to Berlin
78
Christopher Isherwood
The Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
The Lord of the Flies
79
William Golding
Saint Joan
Saint Joan
80
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