Stacks of books by a window

They say books are windows to the soul. These volumes shaped the view from mine.

1984
1984
Dystopian classic by George Orwell
Sapiens
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
The Little Prince
The Little Prince
By Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle
A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
All about Love
All about Love
New Visions
Escape from Freedom
Escape from Freedom
By Erich Fromm
Big Panda and Tiny Dragon
Big Panda and Tiny Dragon
The beautifully illustrated novel about friendship and hope
Back to Methuselah
Back to Methuselah
A Metabiological Pentateuch
What If?
What If?
Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
By Mark A. Noll
Gender Trouble
Gender Trouble
Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
By Mark A. Noll
Orientalism
Orientalism
Western Conceptions of the Orient
Behave
Behave
The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Battle for the Future of Iraq
Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Battle for the Future of Iraq
By Patrick Cockburn
The Iraq Study Group Report
The Iraq Study Group Report
By Iraq Study Group (U.S.), Iraq study group (Etats-Unis).
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
A Novel
Born a Crime
Born a Crime
Stories from a South African Childhood
It Can't Happen Here
It Can't Happen Here
By Sinclair Lewis
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Where the Sidewalk Ends
By Shel Silverstein
Walden
Walden
By Henry David Thoreau
Notes from the Underground
Notes from the Underground
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Animal Farm
Animal Farm
By George Orwell
The Giver
The Giver
By Lois Lowry
The Complete Chronicles of Narnia
The Complete Chronicles of Narnia
By C. S. Lewis
Hatchet
Hatchet
By Gary Paulsen
Solitude
Solitude
Seeking Wisdom in Extremes : a Year Alone in the Patagonia Wilderness
The God Delusion
The God Delusion
By Richard Dawkins
The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie
By Tennessee Williams
Godel, Escher, Bach
Godel, Escher, Bach
By Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Metaphysics of Star Trek
The Metaphysics of Star Trek
Its Customs, Cultures and Technologies
The Republic
The Republic
By Plato
I Thought People Like that Killed Themselves
I Thought People Like that Killed Themselves
Lesbians, Gay Men, and Suicide
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies
By William Golding
A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time
By Stephen Hawking
Broca's Brain
Broca's Brain
Reflections on the Romance of Science
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind
By Margaret Mitchell
The Pelican Brief
The Pelican Brief
By John Grisham
Love & Misadventure
Love & Misadventure
By Lang Leav
Dirty Pretty Things
Dirty Pretty Things
By Michael Faudet
Why Marriage Matters
Why Marriage Matters
America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry
Crisis
Crisis
40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America
Atlas of the Heart
Atlas of the Heart
Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Boy Erased
Boy Erased
A Memoir
The Evangelicals
The Evangelicals
The Struggle to Shape America
Gender Queer
Gender Queer
A Memoir
Healing the Adult Children of Narcissists
Healing the Adult Children of Narcissists
Essays on the Invisible War Zone and Exercises for Recovery
The Evangelicals
The Evangelicals
The Struggle to Shape America
Unlocking the Emotional Brain
Unlocking the Emotional Brain
Memory Reconsolidation and the Psychotherapy of Transformational Change
Out of Focus
Out of Focus
My Story of Sexuality, Shame, and Toxic Evangelicalism
Wool
Wool
Book One of the Silo Series
I'm Glad My Mom Died
I'm Glad My Mom Died
By Jennette McCurdy
The Erratics
The Erratics
A Memoir
Unspeakable
Unspeakable
Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice
On the Ledge
On the Ledge
A Memoir
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
By Emily M. Danforth
The Red Book: A Reader's Edition
The Red Book: A Reader's Edition
By C. G. Jung
When Religion Hurts You
When Religion Hurts You
Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
Pure
Pure
Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
Feminist Theory
Feminist Theory
From Margin to Center
Gender Trouble
Gender Trouble
Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
A Queer History of the United States
A Queer History of the United States
By Michael Bronski
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
By Mark A. Noll
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
By Mark A. Noll