Ten Books

Blogs have caught a virus. Everyone is publishing a list of the ten books that most influenced them. It's a tough list to make but here is mine, in roughly chronological order:

1. Number, the Language of Science by Tobias Dantzig

2. Marriage and Morals by Bertrand Russell

3. Love in the Western World by Denise de Rougemont

4. Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger

5. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee

6. Love's Body by Norman O. Brown

7. Mrs. Bridge by Even Connell

8. A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee

9. The Physicists by Friedrich Durrenmatt

10. The Quiet American by Graham Greene