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Favorite Books

2020-01-26

The other day, Robby Feldman came to my school and held a workshop for my tenth graders. One of the slides in his presentation was a montage of books that impacted him in his life, and it was cool to look at and think about, so here's mine.

Books/Desert_Solitaire.jpg Books/Neuromancer.jpg Books/Fear_and_Loathing_72.jpg Books/Better_Than_Sex.jpg Books/1984.jpg Books/Politics_and_the_English_Language.jpg Books/Parkinson's_Law.jpg Books/Letter_from_Birmingham_Jail.jpg Books/How_to_Solve_It.jpg Books/Gaijin_Smash.jpg Books/Sand_and_Foam.png Books/The_Culture_Map.jpg Books/The_Diversity_of_Life.jpg Books/A_Wizard_of_Earthsea.jpg Books/The_Lord_of_the_Rings.jpg Books/The_Short_Stories.jpg Books/Old_Man_at_the_Bridge.jpg Books/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas.jpg Books/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance.jpg Books/The_Great_Gatsby.png Books/The_Dharma_Bums.jpg Books/My_Losing_Season.jpg Books/Mineralogy.jpg Books/Where_the_Red_Fern_Grows.jpg Books/The_Anatomy_of_Stretching.jpg Books/A_Guide_to_Japanese_Grammar.jpg

My main criteria for these books is whether I feel they impacted my life. Great books are usually ones you re-read, because you keep learning more from them. There are several short stories and philosophy papers that could be included but aren't shown above partly because I couldn't find a cover image, and also because they aren't exactly books.

One interesting thing is that although I'm an English teacher, few of the above books are specifically about teaching or education. A lot of my knowledge about teaching is from websites, other teachers, and my dad.