Charles R. Johnson's Book Choices from "The Writer's Library"
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The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives (Book), 11 Books
These are Charles R. Johnson's book choices from the interview with him in the book "The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives" by Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager
This list was originally published in 2020 and was added to this site 2 days ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7126 | Babel-17 | Samuel R. Delany | 1966 | American | English | |
| 14697 | Mushotoku Mind | Taisen Deshimaru | 2012 | Japanese | English | |
| 2132 | The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick | 1962 | American | English | |
| 15678 | The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Buddhist Wisdom | Gill Farrer-Halls | British | English | ||
| 12010 | On Moral Fiction | John Gardner | 1978 | American | English | |
| 163 | Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | 1922 | German | German | |
| 13359 | Kingsblood Royal | Sinclair Lewis | 1947 | American | English | |
| 1958 | Let the Great World Spin | Colum McCann | 2009 | Irish | English | |
| 15678 | Literature And Existentialism | Jean Paul Sartre | French | French | ||
| 184 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1852 | American | English | |
| 640 | Black Boy | Richard Wright | 1945 | American | English |