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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 (James Joyce)
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Oh! What a Lovely War (Joan Littlewood)
Oh! What a Lovely War (Joan Littlewood)
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Wilfred Owen (Wilfred Owen)
Wilfred Owen (Wilfred Owen)
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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) (Harry Medved, Randy Dreyfuss)
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Catch 22 (Τζόζεφ Χέλερ)
Catch 22 (Τζόζεφ Χέλερ)
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The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon
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Red Harvest (Dashiell Hammett)
Red Harvest (Dashiell Hammett)
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The First Saint Omnibus (Leslie Charteris)
The First Saint Omnibus (Leslie Charteris)
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The Greek Coffin Mystery (Ellery Queen)
The Greek Coffin Mystery (Ellery Queen)
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Calamity Town (Ellery Queen)
Calamity Town (Ellery Queen)
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Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot
Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot
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The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
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Farewell My Lovely (Raymond Chandler)
Farewell My Lovely (Raymond Chandler)
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
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And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
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Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)
Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)
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The Rainbow
The Rainbow
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Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
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Beyond the Fringe (Alan Bennett)
Beyond the Fringe (Alan Bennett)
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Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers
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I Lost It at the Movies (Kael)
I Lost It at the Movies (Kael)
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The Magus (John Fowles)
The Magus (John Fowles)
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The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles)
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William Shirer)
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William Shirer)
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Red Alert (Peter George)
Red Alert (Peter George)
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W. B. Yeats Selected Poems (W. B. Yeats)
W. B. Yeats Selected Poems (W. B. Yeats)
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The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (Henry Handel Richardson)
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (Henry Handel Richardson)
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1984 (George Orwell)
1984 (George Orwell)
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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
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Time Machine, the (George Orwell)
Time Machine, the (George Orwell)
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The War of the Worlds & the War in the Air (H. G. Wells)
The War of the Worlds & the War in the Air (H. G. Wells)
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War and Peace
War and Peace
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment
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The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
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Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham)
Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham)
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The Chrysalids
The Chrysalids
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The Bald Soprano and the Lesson (Ionesco)
The Bald Soprano and the Lesson (Ionesco)
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Goodbye to Berlin (Christopher Isherwood)
Goodbye to Berlin (Christopher Isherwood)
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The Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
The Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
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Saint Joan
Saint Joan
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