A good book is one that clarifies where you are in life and allows you to take a step forward. Looking back, these books all mark important stages in my life:
• Grimm’s Fairy Tales
• My Friend Flika/Thunderhead/How Green Was my Valley
• Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
• Words For the Wind by Theodore Roethke
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
• Tales and Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Pirsig
• Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
•Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
•Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu