Category Archives: Lists

100 Most Influential Books

Just for posterity; I’m sure I have read none of them in the list! Have you?

The I Ching
The Old Testament
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
The Upanishads
The Way and Its Power, Lao-tzu
The Avesta
Analects, Confucius
History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
Works, Hippocrates
Works, Aristotle
History, Herodotus
The Republic, Plato
Elements, Euclid
The Dhammapada
Aeneid, Virgil
On the Nature of Reality, Lucretius
Allegorical Expositions of the [...]

Bookish Quotes I Heartily Agree With

“Writing is the act of discovery. You want to discover your relationship with a topic, not a dictionary definition”
Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down The Bones
“Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine [...]

50 Things NOT To Do In Hogwarts

Found this from here. I’ve listed below my favourites.
3. Growing marijuana or hallucinogenic mushrooms is not “an extra credit project for Herbology”.
8. I will not use Umbridge’s quill to write “I told you I was hardcore”.
9. I will stop referring to showering as “giving Moaning Myrtle an eyeful”.
10. Polishing my wand in the [...]