[MtnClimber]

Only a few I would have selected. Atlas Shrugged made it onto the list.

[G Larry]

80% waste of time.

[Resolute Conservative]

There is about 20 on that list I agree with the other, eh...

#1 is the Bible which is strangely not on the list.

[Resettozero]

100 books to change your life

In bound hardback, even 90 of these falling on you at once could end your life or cripple ya.

[pabianice]

The Caine Mutiny.

[Cecily]

I don’t remember the name or author of a book that changed my life. When I was 15 or 16, I read a book written by a former KGB agent who became a born again Christian and who managed to emigrate out of Russia. When he was in the KGB he used to harass Baptists and Pentecostals meeting at house churches, and a young Christian woman impressed him so much and the memory of her faith stuck with him such that he eventually became a Christian (he lost touch with the woman). There was more to his story, but reading about his faith journey planted a seed that influenced me in mine.

I wish I had gotten my own copy of his book because I read it at someone else’s house while babysitting.

[taxcontrol]

I have read about half a dozen of this list. I would have recommended Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. That is what helped me come out of my parents shadow of being a southern democrat and into being a full throated conservative Republican. Well, that an Reagan’s speeches.

“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.” President Reagan

[Fiji Hill]

A few books that I read as a teenager which influenced my thinking:

• Total Terror; An Exposé of Genocide in the Baltics by Albert Kalme (New York: Appleton, 1951) made me aware of the savage barbarism and ferocity of Communism.

• None Dare Call It Treason by John Stormer (Florissant, Mo.: Liberty Bell, 1964), a "campaign" book for the 1964 presidential campaign, helped to make me aware of the conservative world view.

• America: Listen! by Frank Kluckhohn (Derby, Conn.: Monarch, 1963). Anyone who lived through the 1960's will recall how President John F. Kennedy was lionized, especially after he was assassinated. The 1963 version of Kluckhohn's opus, which was about twice the size of the 1961 first edition, showed that Kennedy had feet of clay.

[Pollster1]

Atlas Shrugged and the Bible both belong on the list but in different ways. When my views disagree with AS, I ignore Ayn Rand. When my views disagree with the Bible, I do my best to defer to God’s infinite wisdom and accept His guidance - especially when that is hard for me.

[IronJack]

If some of these books actually changed someone's life, that person must have had a pretty pathetic life to begin with.

There are few I would rate as "potentially life-changing," but Shel Silverstein? Dr. Seuss?

[IronJack]

If some of these books actually changed someone's life, that person must have had a pretty pathetic life to begin with.

There are few I would rate as "potentially life-changing," but Shel Silverstein? Dr. Seuss?

[Fiji Hill]

It's interesting that The Emerging Republican Majority (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1969) made the list at #25. This demographic study, which came out shortly after Richard Nixon was elected president most likely inspired books such as The Conscience of a Majority by Barry Goldwater (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970) and The Real Majority by Richard M. Scammon and Ben J. Wattenberg (New York: Coward-McCann, 1970).

[neocon1984]

“The Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand.

[bigbob]

A better list than I expected, but note the absence of Asimov, Heinlein, and Tolkein...

[PATRIOT1876]

Animal Farm should be on that list

[Dirt for sale]

A couple of my picks:

Autobiography of Cellini

Life and times of Rembrandt by Van Loon

Moral doctrines by Epictetus

I chose freedom by Kravchenko

Chesterfield’s letters

The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang

Books, fine old hardbacks, are incalculably valuable. The library is more important than the garden and comes before it. Books are kryptonite to the criminal-minded, this only adds to their value.

[urtax$@work]

My "greatest" book was a childrens book. Gordon Shirreffs --- Mystery of the haunted mine

Caused spine chills and i realized that reading could be fun.

[central_va]

You mean Basic Plumbing Techniques by Robert Wehrman didn't make the list?