Posted on Facebook, for the 15 books that stick with you meme, where it will get lost too soon. Here is better...
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein (It’s sexist and not great writing, but for me it’s so compelling, I’ve read it over 20 times.)
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott (Read a dozen times. I’d read anything she wrote.)
Replay, by Ken Grimwood (I missed my train because I was so absorbed. I’ve read it about 5 times.)
The Library, by Sarah Stewart (Elizabeth Brown entered the world skinny, nearsighted and shy … read a gazillion books … and ended up ‘moving in with a friend’. So sweet I cried.)
A Door Into Ocean, by Joan Slonczewski (sci fi, non-violence)
The Word for World is Forest, by Ursula LeGuin (sci fi)
The Color Purple , by Alice Walker (read about a dozen times)
The Continuum Concept, by Jean Leidloff (about a tribe in South America and how they raise their kids.)
Raising Curious, Creative, Confident Kids: The Pestalozzi Experiment in Child-Based Education, by Rebeca Wild (about a free school in Ecuador)
The Power of Their Ideas, by Deborah Meier (about a small school in Harlem that’s doing big things)
Mathematics: A Human Endeavor, by Harold Jacobs (Funnest math textbook I know)
Sisterhood is Powerful, edited by Robin Morgan (Writing on the women’s movement, from the 70’s. Changed my life.)
Dreaming the Dark, by Starhawk (about being a witch, a non-violence activist, etc. Also changed my life.)
Rebel in Paradise, by Richard Drinnon (Biography of Emma Goldman, anarchist)
Tree: A Life Story, by David Suzuki (nature writing)
Living by Water, by Brenda Peterson (nature writing)
Fiction
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein (It’s sexist and not great writing, but for me it’s so compelling, I’ve read it over 20 times.)
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott (Read a dozen times. I’d read anything she wrote.)
Replay, by Ken Grimwood (I missed my train because I was so absorbed. I’ve read it about 5 times.)
The Library, by Sarah Stewart (Elizabeth Brown entered the world skinny, nearsighted and shy … read a gazillion books … and ended up ‘moving in with a friend’. So sweet I cried.)
A Door Into Ocean, by Joan Slonczewski (sci fi, non-violence)
The Word for World is Forest, by Ursula LeGuin (sci fi)
The Color Purple , by Alice Walker (read about a dozen times)
Education and Child-Raising
The Continuum Concept, by Jean Leidloff (about a tribe in South America and how they raise their kids.)
Raising Curious, Creative, Confident Kids: The Pestalozzi Experiment in Child-Based Education, by Rebeca Wild (about a free school in Ecuador)
The Power of Their Ideas, by Deborah Meier (about a small school in Harlem that’s doing big things)
Mathematics: A Human Endeavor, by Harold Jacobs (Funnest math textbook I know)
Non-Fiction
Sisterhood is Powerful, edited by Robin Morgan (Writing on the women’s movement, from the 70’s. Changed my life.)
Dreaming the Dark, by Starhawk (about being a witch, a non-violence activist, etc. Also changed my life.)
Rebel in Paradise, by Richard Drinnon (Biography of Emma Goldman, anarchist)
Tree: A Life Story, by David Suzuki (nature writing)
Living by Water, by Brenda Peterson (nature writing)
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