Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
― Charles William Eliot

It is no wonder how some classic books that I decided to read on my own during childhood and youth enriches my adult life. Here is a quick list of some of these books that created a foundation of entertainment, passion, compassion, inspiration, and enlightenment. I wonder what books you read that influenced your life.

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
• Alice In Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
• The Gift of the Magi – O. Henry
• The Trial – Franz Kafka
• Animal Farm – George Orwell
• The Call of the Wild – Jack London
• Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
• Pit and Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
• Tell Tale Heart – Edgar Allan Poe
• Poems – Rudyard Kipling
• Scandal in Bohemia – Arthur Conan Doyle
• Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
• Moby Dick – Herman Melville
• Othello – William Shakespeare
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Odyssey – Homer
• The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
• A Passage to India – EM Forster
• Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
• To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• Catch-22 – Joseph Heller