The Discoverers by Daniel Boorstin
“The Discoverers changed my life in the period it took to read it, about a week. I had left college and was content to plod along, merrily ill-informed. That book sent me back to the university, where I completed two degrees and became a lecturer at SFSU.
It helped me learn that the search is never over. The journey to discovery is what is important, just as Boorstin lets you discover. Since then I have discovered many, many “favorite” books and authors but I most likely would never have done so without the power of Boorstin’s collection and presentation.”
- Dennis Bianchi,
SFSU, Criminal Justice Program
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The Stand and Thinner
by Stephen King
- Carla Hotherman
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Sandel by Angus Stewart
- T. Mathews, Australia
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Out On a Limb by Shirley MacLaine
“As cliched as this may be, yes, this book changed my life. It was an insight to a dimension of life that we tend to dismiss. The book literally glued itself to my hand at a time when I needed what it offered.”
- Jeanette Clement, Musician
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A Scattered People
by Gerald McFarland…AND…
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons.
“The book that really changed my life was my own written with Mary Morrison: Roxana’s Children: The Bio of a 19th Century Vermont Family, which is half about early California when Vermonters immigrated to San Francisco. Writing that book definitely changed my life.”
- Lynn Bonfield
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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
“Suddenly I felt myself not alone in the world, not the only child who had even been raped, but also that I felt seen and loved and understood in a way no book had made me feel before.”
- Dorothy Allison, Author