Books that have influenced and inspired me, arranged by author:
Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson
The Cloud of Unknowing, by Anonymous
I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
Childhood’s End, by Arthur C. Clarke
The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
Spartacus, by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
I, Claudius & Claudius The God, by Robert Graves
Dune, by Frank Herbert
Narcissus and Goldmund, by Herman Hesse
Man and His Symbols, by Carl Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz, Joseph L. Henderson, Aniela Jaffé, and Jolande Jacobi
Pleasure Dome, by Yourself Komunyakaa
The Time Quintet, by Madeleine L’engle
The Earthsea Cycle, by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Sea Wolf, by Jack London
Dangerous Laughter, by Steven Milhauser
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
1Q84, by Haruki Murakami
Oil & Ice, by Peter Nichols
The Prestige, by Christopher Priest
His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman
Portobello, by Ruth Rendell
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
Pavane, by Keith Roberts
The Harry Potter Series, by J.K. Rowling
The Roman Britain Trilogy, by Rosemary Sutcliff
The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt