I dunno about "crucial", but "formative"? Hmmm. I lived in a most unusual house with an unusual selection of books. Here are the ones I remember. We'll see if there are ten:

Golding
de Sade
Austen
Heyer
Shakespeare
RL Stevenson
Steinbeck
Schiller
Bronte
Maclean

and many more.


The idiot also known as Capfka ...