“Fifteen books that will always stick with you”

Rational Jenn has asked, “Which fifteen books that you have read will always stick with you?” The rules specify that you think about the issue for no more than 15 minutes and that, for good or ill, you list the first 15 that come to mind.

Like Jim Woods, I’ve added a condition that I would not repeat authors, or subjects.  Otherwise it would just be a list of fifteen Ayn Rand books.  :-)

And just because I can’t cut my list down (and don’t want to) I’ve made it a coming-of-age twenty-one instead of just an adolescent fifteen.  Just call me Mr Greedy.

• Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
• How to Lie With Statistics – Darrell Huff
• Economic Sophisms – Frederic Bastiat
• Up the Organisation: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People & Strangling Profits – Robert Townsend
• Frank Lloyd Wright: On Architecture – Selected writings, edited by Frederick Gutheim
• The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
• The Book of Tofu – Willian Shurtleff & Akiko Aoyagi
• Willard & His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
• All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty – PJ O’Rourke
• The Landscape of Man: Shaping the Environment from Prehistory to the Present Day – Geoffrey & Susan Jellicoe
• The Noblest Triumph: Property Rights Through the Ages – Tom Bethell
• The Roosevelt Myth – John Flynn
• Putting Humans First: Why We Are Nature’s Favorite – Tibor Machan
• Aristotle – John Herman Randall
• Time Enough For Love – Robert Heinlein
• Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
• We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
• The Four Million – O. Henry
• Ninety-Three – Victor Hugo
• Martini: A Memoir – Frank Moorhouse
• No Highway – Nevil Shute

Over to you now. What are the fifteen or so that stick with you?