The Books That Influenced Your Life

I was tagged by my friend Xan in the “10 books that have influenced you” thing on Facebook, but I was a slacker and didn’t do it there.  Soooooooooooooooo… here’s the covers of the 10 books (or in two cases, groups of books) that had the biggest influence on my life.  I cheated slightly; there’s twelve here, but I couldn’t narrow it down further.

Please note that there’s a plethora of white guys here; it’s only been recently that I made the effort to broaden my reading horizons, and so the books that fundamentally influenced my life predate that period.