List time: books that influenced me. Influence is defined as either life-changing or transformative in reading patterns (which equates to the same thing). These are roughly in time order. Later I may explain what changed as a consequence. Here’s the list:

• Wyss’s Swiss Family Robinson
• Dicken’s Great Expectations
• Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
• Kem Nunn’s Tapping the Source
• Winston Graham’s Angell, Pearl and Little God
• Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London
• Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment
• Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums
• J. P. Donleavy’s The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman
• Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land
• Bruce Sterling’s Artificial Kid
• Sartre’s Nausea and Being and Nothingness
• Kierkegaard’s Either/Or
• Proust’s Rememberance of Things Past
• Roger Deakin’s Wildwood
• Alberto Manguel’s The Library at Night
• Mann’s The Magic Mountain
• Woolf’s The Lighthouse
• Joyce’s Ulysses
• Josipovici’s Whatever Happened to Modernism?