Sixteen Books That Changed My Life

Vinton, Iris. Look out for pirates! Beginner Books, 1961.

Griffith, John Howard. Black like me. Houghton Mifflin, 1961.

Rubin, Jerry. Do it: scenarios of the revolution. Simon & Schuster, 1970.

Bukowski, Charles. Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and general tales of ordinary madness. City Lights Books, 1972.

Some book featuring translations of poems by Arthur Rimbaud, among others (Verlaine, Appollinaire, Mallarme), discovered around 1975, Carnegie Stout Free Library, Dubuque, Iowa.

Celine, Loius-Ferdinand. Death on the installment plan. New Directions, 1966. (Ralph Manheim's translation of Mort a credit).

Mishima, Yukio. Spring snow. Knopf, 1972. (Translation by Michael Gallagher.)

London, Jack. Martin Eden. (First published 1908.)

Hofstadter, Douglas R. Le ton beau de Marot: In praise of the music of language. Basic Books, 1997.

Falk, Candace. Love, anarchy, and Emma Goldman; 2nd ed. Rutgers University Press, 1990.

Avrich, Paul. An American anarchist: the life of Voltairine de Cleyre. Princeton University Press, 1978.

Sears, Hal D. The sex radicals: free love in high Victorian America. Regents Press of Kansas, 1977.

Abbey, Edward. Confessions of a barbarian: selections from the journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989. Little, Brown, 1994.

Kenyon, Jane. Otherwise. Graywolf Press, 1996.

Thoreau, Henry David. The variorum Walden and the variorum Civil Disobedience. Edited by Walter Harding. Washington Square Press, 1968.

Thoreau, Henry David. Selected journals of Henry David Thoreau. Edited by Carl Bode. New American Library, 1967.

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