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Portrait of the Reader as a Young Man: Books With a Lasting Impact: Fiction & Poetry

Our maverick English Teacher and immanent septuagenarian finds himself in a reflective mood and looks back at how he became the book nerd he now is. He has come up with books that had a marked influence on him some where between the ages of 5 and 21. He could have kept going, but he wanted to keep the list manageable so that people would actually finish it. As an added bonus, he has endeavored to picture the edition he actually read way back when, so that even if one has never heard of the books, one still has some wonderful vintage covers to look at.
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12 O'Clock High (Bartlett)
12 O'Clock High (Bartlett)
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1984 (Orwell)
1984 (Orwell)
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Alas Babylon (Frank)
Alas Babylon (Frank)
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Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass (Carroll)
Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass (Carroll)
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm
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April Morning (Fast)
April Morning (Fast)
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Beat to Quarters (Forester)
Beat to Quarters (Forester)
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Behold a Pale Horse (Pressburger)
Behold a Pale Horse (Pressburger)
10
Beowulf (Trans. - Wright)
Beowulf (Trans. - Wright)
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The Blue Max (Hunter)
The Blue Max (Hunter)
12
The Bridge Over the River Kwai (Boulle)
The Bridge Over the River Kwai (Boulle)
13
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevski)
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevski)
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A Burnt Out Case (Greene)
A Burnt Out Case (Greene)
15
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller)
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Cause for Alarm (Ambler)
Cause for Alarm (Ambler)
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Childhood's End (Clarke)
Childhood's End (Clarke)
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Citizen Tom Paine (Fast)
Citizen Tom Paine (Fast)
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A Coffin for Dimitrios (Ambler)
A Coffin for Dimitrios (Ambler)
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Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
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The Comedians (Greene)
The Comedians (Greene)
22
Commodore Hornblower (Forester)
Commodore Hornblower (Forester)
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The Complete Poems & Plays of T.S. Eliot
The Complete Poems & Plays of T.S. Eliot
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A Coney Island of the Mind
A Coney Island of the Mind
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Dangling Man (Bellow)
Dangling Man (Bellow)
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Darkness at Noon (Koestler)
Darkness at Noon (Koestler)
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The Daughter of Time (Tey)
The Daughter of Time (Tey)
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The Day of the Triffids (Wyndham)
The Day of the Triffids (Wyndham)
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Dracula (Stoker)
Dracula (Stoker)
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Dune (Herbert)
Dune (Herbert)
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The Egyptian Necklace (Palmer)
The Egyptian Necklace (Palmer)
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The Expendable Spy (Hunter)
The Expendable Spy (Hunter)
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The Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
The Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
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The First Circle (Solzhenitsyn)
The First Circle (Solzhenitsyn)
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The Flight of the Phoenix (Trevor)
The Flight of the Phoenix (Trevor)
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Flying Colours (Forester)
Flying Colours (Forester)
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Freedom or Death (Kazantzakis)
Freedom or Death (Kazantzakis)
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From Russia With Love (Fleming)
From Russia With Love (Fleming)
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Funeral in Berlin (Deighton)
Funeral in Berlin (Deighton)
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The Gladiators (Koestler)
The Gladiators (Koestler)
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