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Posted On: February 15th 2026, 12:51 am
Books Ursula K. Le Guin Loved
• The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Tale of Genji — Murasaki Shikibu
• Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu
• The Odyssey — Homer
• Metamorphoses — Ovid
• Middlemarch — George Eliot
• The Wind in the Willows — Kenneth Grahame
• The Golden Bough — James Frazer
• The Pillow Book — Sei Shōnagon
• The Mahabharata — Anonymous (ancient Sanskrit epic)
Source: From Le Guin’s essays, interviews, and her Tao Te Ching translation.
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• The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Tale of Genji — Murasaki Shikibu
• Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu
• The Odyssey — Homer
• Metamorphoses — Ovid
• Middlemarch — George Eliot
• The Wind in the Willows — Kenneth Grahame
• The Golden Bough — James Frazer
• The Pillow Book — Sei Shōnagon
• The Mahabharata — Anonymous (ancient Sanskrit epic)
Source: From Le Guin’s essays, interviews, and her Tao Te Ching translation.
#bookstagram #books #reading
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9 months agosam_reads_books9
You should do more of these kinds of lists. It would be very interesting to see books that influenced authors and see if there are any similar books on the lists
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