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Influential Books

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George Bilgere's books:
Kidnapped. Robert Louis Stevenson.
Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain.
Winesburg, Ohio. Sherwood Anderson.
Catch-22. Joseph Heller
A Coney Island of the Mind. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Donkey Gospel. Tony Hoagland.

Massoud Saidpour's books:
1. The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mullah Nasrudin
2. Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3. Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl Gustav Jung
4. Book of Odes by Hafiz (Persian Poet, 14th Century)
5. Stanislavski in Rehearsal, Vasily Toporkov
6. Endgame, Samuel Beckett

Rhonda Williams' books:

Childhood: Mysteries, Ngao Marsh and Agatha Christie ... !

Next wave: Lord of the Flies, Malcolm X, The Bluest Eye

Next, next wave: Just Above My Head by James Baldwin, and my own book, The Politics of Public Housing

Dee Perry's books:
The Kittens Who Hid From Their Mother - author unknown

Alice in Wonderland—Lewis Carroll

Moby Dick—Herman Melville

Autobiography of Malcolm X—Alex Haley/ Malcolm X

Song of Solomon—Toni Morrison

Walden—Henry David Thoreau

On-Air suggestions:

“The Good German” by Joseph Kanon

“The People of Paper” by Salvador Plascencia

Picture books by Cynthia Rylant and Jane Yolen

“Journeys Through Bookland” by Charles Sylvester

“The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams

“Max and Ruby” books by Rosemary Wells

“The Little Engine That Could”

“Sunshine” and “Moonlight” Jan Ormerod

“The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash” by Trinka Hakes Noble and Steven Kellogg

“Could Be Worse” by James Stevenson

“A Child’s Garden of Verses” by Robert Louis Stevenson

“Wayward Puritans: A study in sociology of deviance” by Kai Erikson

“The Left Hand of Darkness” by Ursula K. Le Guin

“The Phantom Toll Booth” by Norton Juster
Rhonda Williams, CWRU

Massoud Saidpour, CMA

George Bilgere, JCU

Dave DeOreo is coordinating producer for Ideastream Public Media’s arts and culture team.