Books Of Importance

I have tried to figure out what books have been crucial to the development of who I am today. These are they, in no particular order, and subject to revision:

The Plague - Albert Camus
A Distant Mirror - Barbara Tuchman
Shambhala - Chogyam Trungpa
The Aubrey-Maturin series - Patrick O'Brian
Germs, Guns, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
Introduction to Zen Buddhism - D.T. Suzuki
The Calvin and Hobbes collections - Bill Watterson
Selected Letters - Madame de Sevigne
God is NOT Great - Christopher Hitchens