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@deborahh

#13books that changed how I see the world:

Foundation Trilogy - Asimov (cheated!)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Angelou
Good to Great - Collins
Makes Me Wanna Holler - McCall
Heart of Darkness - Conrad
Secret Seven - Blyton
Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Haley
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Sacks
Kids are Worth It! - Coloroso
Howard's End - Forster
What Maisie Knew - James
The Bluest Eye - Morrison

#13books that changed how I see the world:

Stuart Little - White
Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein
That Hideous Strength - Lewis
A Prayer for Owen Meany - Irving
Ender's Game - Card
The Sparrow - Russell
Making Color Sing - Dobie
Holy The Firm - Dillard
Red Mars - Robinson
Homeland - Doctorow
Wool - Howey
Lagoon - Okorafor
Light from Uncommon Stars - Aoki

What are your #13books?

#books #whatToRead #sciFi #SFF #bookstodon #hopepunk #librarydon

#13books @deborahh

So hard to limit it but here goes:

Neuromancer - Gibson
A Day in the lIfe of Ivan Denisovich - Solzhenitsyn
Lord of Light - Zelazny
Slaughterhouse 5 - Vonnegut
Pygmalion - Shaw
Calvin & Hobbes - Watterson
The Hitchhikers; Guide to the Galaxy - Adams
Snow Crash - Stephenson
Catch 22 - Heller
The Illiad - Homer
Lipstick Traces - Marcus
Dhalgren - Delaney

#13books that changed how I see the world:

Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein, at 8
Crystal Cave, Mary Stewart, ~10
Huckleberry Finn, Twain, ~10
Perelandra, C.S Lewis, at ~12.
Lord of the Rings, Tolkien, ~12
Childhood's End, Arthur C Clarke, ~12
Fear and Loathing, Thompson, ~14
The Perfect Thief, Ronald Bass, ~15
USA Trilogy, dos Passos, ~15
Dispossessed, Left Hand of Darkness, Le Guin, ~16
Travis McGee series, MacDonald, ~18
Lonesome Dove, McMurtry, ~22

Cheating a bit? Maybe.

#13books that changed how I see the world:

Stuart Little - White
Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein
That Hideous Strength - Lewis
A Prayer for Owen Meany - Irving
Ender's Game - Card
The Sparrow - Russell
Making Color Sing - Dobie
Holy The Firm - Dillard
Red Mars - Robinson
Homeland - Doctorow
Wool - Howey
Lagoon - Okorafor
Light from Uncommon Stars - Aoki

What are your #13books?

#books #whatToRead #sciFi #SFF #bookstodon #hopepunk #librarydon

@franciscawrites @bookstodon
#13Books to know me

The Call of the Wild - J. London
Life of Pi - Y. Martel
Ocean Sea - A. Baricco
Timbuktu - P. Auster
Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne
Slaughterhouse Five - K. Vonnegut
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - R. Bach
Les jardins de lumière (The Gardens of Light) - A. Maalouf
Het huis van de Moskee (The House of the Mosque) - K. Abdolah
Shame - S. Rushdie
La Peste (The Plague) - A. Camus
Cutting for Stone - A. Verghese
Kafka on the Shore - H. Murakami

i don't think anyone can get to know me from #13books that i like (aside from the fact that my interests & taste levels are all over the place) but here goes:

-how the word is passed
-delusions of gender
-in the dream house
-the house in the cerulean sea
-animorphs series
-a wrinkle in time
-the daevabad trilogy
-the man who mistook his wife for a hat
-good omens
-beloved
-nine nasty words
-the sun does shine
-battle royale

Getting to know people through the books they like is a great idea so here goes: #13books I love. There are MANY MORE

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
Someone Like Me by MR Carey
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
First Test by Tamora Pierce
We Didn't Mean to Go To Sea by Arthur Ransome
Sabriel by Garth Nix
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula le Guin
The Wizard Downstairs by Diana Wynne Jones
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

#13books to know me #bookstodon

1) A Starless Sea
2) Les Miserables
3) To Kill A Mockingbird
4) Bleak House
5) Leaves of Grass
6) The Satanic Verses
7) A Wizard of Earthsea
8) Piranesi
9) Moral Politics
10) Good Omens
11) Stardust
12) Sense and Sensibility
13)The Lord of the Rings

It’s too many to list but special mention goes to Discworld for sheer savage wit

#13books (Fiction) in no particular order

The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul — Adams

Neuromancer — Gibson

Vurt — Noon

Moonshadow — DeMatteis, Muth

Sandman — Gaimen

The Wild Asses Skin — Balzac

Contact — Sagan

The Maltese Falcon — Hammet

Watchmen — Moore, Gibson

Maus — Spiegleman

The Call of Cthulhu — Lovecraft

A Scanner Darkly — Dick

Crime & Punishment — Dostoyevsky

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#13books to know me (in no particular order, and leaving out “collected works of…”)

1. My Heart is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones
2. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
3. The Marriage of Heaven & Hell, William Blake
4. Macbeth, William Shakespeare
5. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
6. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe, Thomas Ligotti

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#13books to know me (in no particular order, and leaving out “collected works of…”)

7. The Songs of Maldoror, the Comte de Lautréamont
8. The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula Le Guin
9. The Salt Roads, Nalo Hopkinson
10. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
11. Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Edgar Allan Poe
12. Odyssey, Homer
13. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

#13books that I think about often:

#OliverSacks Musicophilia

#WillAitken Antigone Undone: #JulietteBinoche, #AnneCarson, #IvoVanHove, and the Art of Resistance

#NickCave, And the Ass Saw the Angel

#MarkZDanielewski House of Leaves

#UmbertoEco The Island of the Day Before

#HermannHesse Glass Bead Game

#PatrickMcCabe Poguemahone

#NealStephenson Anathem

#HalldorLaxness Under the Glacier

#CanXue Frontier

#JohnDarnielle x2: Universal Harvester, Master of Reality

#MaggieRowe Sin Bravely

#13books
1. BRAVE NEW WORLD-Huxley
2. 1984-Orwell
3. FAHRENHEIT 451-Bradbury
4. Possession-Byatt
5. SONG OF SOLOMON-Morrison
6. ALL THE LIGHT WE CAN NOT SEE-Doerr
7. ANGLE OF REPOSE-Stegner
8. JANE ERYE-Brontë
9. HARRY POTTER, BOOK 4-Rowling
10. THE 1619 PROJECT-Hannah-Jones
11. WATERSHIP DOWN-Adams
12. THE NIGHTINGALE-Hannah
13. ANNA KARENINA-Tolstoy

If I thought too long I would be able to narrow the list...so many great books.

#13books #bookstodon
(fav #Mastodon custom)

Okakura Kakuzo - The Book of Tea

Klaus Theweleit - Male Fantasies

Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

Woolf - Three Guineas

Fielding - Tom Jones

Bolaño - 2666

Ernest Becker - Denial of Death

PG Wodehouse - his works in general

Waugh - A Handful of Dust

David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest

David Lipsky - Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Myriam Gurba (@lesbrains) - Creep

@franciscawrites @bookstodon
#13books
The Walls Around Us - David Owen
The Dispossessed - Ursula LeGuin
Evenings With The Orchestra - Hector Berlioz
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking - T. Kingfisher
Bimbos of the Death Sun - Sharyn McCrumb
Sci-Fi - William Marshall
Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Bring the Jubilee - Ward Moore
The Wizard's Butler - Nathan Lowell
Ridiculous - DL Carter
Why Fish Don't Exist - Lulu Miller
Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki
Perfection Salad - Laura Shapiro

@franciscawrites @bookstodon
This is tough, but here goes #13Books.
100 Years of Solitude, or anything by Garcia Marquez
The Death of Speedy, or any Love & Rockets by the Hernandez Bros
The Futurological Congress, by Lem
Hurricane Season, Melchor
The Twilight Zone, Fernandez
Life and Times of Michael K, Coetzee
The Fan Man, Kotzwinkle
The Land of Hearts Desire, Yeats
Omeros, Walcott
El Polizon del Ulises, Matute
Miguel Street, Naipaul
The Savage Detectives, Bolaño
The Overstory, Powers

#13books

Lord of the Rings
Slaughterhouse 5
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Good Omens
Great Expectations
Wuthering Heights
Let the Great World Spin
A Brief History of Seven Killings
The Tombs of Atuan
Dune
The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

@bookstadon

Hmm. Just discovered #13books hashtag.
I've followed it and added it to my lists.
❤📚✨

Now I'm compiling my list 🤔

#13books
Here goes.

A book - P.G. Wodehouse (perm one from any 90 odd).
Catch 22 - Heller
Tiger, Tiger - Alfred Bester
The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers
Feersum Endjinn - Ian M Banks (but again, could be any)
Watt - Samuel Beckett
Life - George Perec
Anathem - Neal Stephenson
Fermat's Last Theorem - Simon Singh
Slough House - Mick Herron
More Than Human -Theodore Sturgeon
Leaving Home - Garrison Keillor
Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep

Too pseudy to mention Ulysses? Probably 😁

#reading

So #13books …
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
The Woman in White
The Two Towers, LOTR
The Light Princess
Pride and Prejudice
I Capture the Castle
Fair and Tender Ladies
The Nine Tailors
Brideshead Revisited
Doomsday Book
The Code of the Woosters
The Blithedale Romance