#7books — Public Fediverse posts

When I joined Mastodon two years ago, the #7Books #7BooksToKnowMe hashtags were a thing, and I had fun compiling my list. How do I choose only SEVEN?!? At the time I declared that my list was by no means permanent. With that said, I feel an update is past due, especially since one of the authors from my original list turned out to be... problematic. I'm posting the original list, as well as the current version (images to save characters, with #AltText of course).
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How about a picture of #7books for #7BooksToKnowMe ?

Saw the tag #7BooksToKnowMe and #7Books and couldn't resist - and me being me it won't be just 7 books but 7 series:

- The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
- Culture series, especially Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
- Sprawl trilogy by William Gibson
- The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock
- The Sandman by Neil Gaiman (yes, it's a comic, but still counts)
- Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
- Dune series by Frank Herbert (yours truly is a completionist, so including all the KJA & BH stuff).

Ok, let's do this. Geez, I love this.

#7BooksToKnowMe

My #7books list:

- The Hitchhiker Guide To The Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
- Blood Meridian (Cormack McCarthy)
- The Memory Illusion (Julia Shaw)
- Foundation (original trilogy, Isaac Asimov)
- Lord Of The Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)
- The Complete Fiction Works of H.P. Lovecraft
- Il Sistema Periodico (The Periodic Table) (Primo Levi)

New instance, new #introduction part 2 (reposted from my previous instance):

#7Books is agony, so #14books it is:

— #Imajica by Clive Barker
— #Orlando by Virginia Woolf
— #GoodOmens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
— #JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrel by Susanna Clarke
— #TheSouthernReachTrilogy by @jeffvandermeer
— #DearSenthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
— #TheGoneAwayWorld by Nick Harkaway
— #WhiteIsForWitching by Helen Oyeyemi
— #RoadsidePicnic by the Brothers Strugatsky
— #AllTheBirdsInTheSky by @charliejane
— #Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
— #TheGoldfinch by Donna Tartt
— #BloodMeridian by Cormac McCarthy
— #TheLibraryAtMountChar by Scott Hawkins

Ok, I fibbed. One last go-to comfort re-read: the #Discworld series, also by Terry Pratchett (Is listing an entire series cheating? I can't possibly pick one. Sorry not sorry.)

#NoSuchThingAsTooManyBooks #ComicsDeserveTheirOwnList #Bookstodon #BooksOfMastodon

#7books #7bookstoknowme

In no particular order...

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

All the Myriad Ways by Larry Niven

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey

Startide Rising by David Brin

Breed to Come by Andre Norton

(It was difficult to choose just seven)

@bookstodon #sff #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #scifi

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#7books #7bookstoknowme

1) Murderbot series by Martha Wells
2) Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein
3) The Voyage of the White Cloud by M. Darusha Wehm
4) Manifold Worlds duology by Foz Meadows
5) The Innsmouth Legacy by Ruthanna Emyrs
6) Sal & Gabi duology by Carlos Hernandez
7) Tales of the Polity series by Francesca Forrest

Honorable mention, most of Aliette d'Bodard's work.

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#7Books is agony, so #14books it is (novels only):

— #Imajica by Barker
— #Orlando by Woolf
— #GoodOmens by Gaiman & Prachett
— #JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrel by Clarke
— #TheSouthernReachTrilogy by @jeffvandermeer
— #DearSenthuran by Emezi
— #TheGoneAwayWorld by @Harkaway
— #WhiteIsForWitching by Oyeyemi
— #RoadsidePicnic by Brothers Strugatsky
— #AllTheBirdsInTheSky by @charliejane
— #Carmilla by Le Fanu
— #TheGoldfinch by Tartt
— #BloodMeridian by McCarthy
— #TheLibraryAtMountChar by Hawkins

#7books to get to know me:

Diamond Age--Neal Stephenson
Notorious Rake--Mary Balogh
Persuasion--Jane Austen
The Colored Fairy Books--Andrew Lang
Cockfighter--Charles Willeford
Sheltered--Charlotte Stein
Lamb--Christopher Moore

#romance #sciencefiction #mythology #unreliablenarrator #eroticromance #hilarious

#7books to know me:

1-3. The Blue Ant trilogy by #WilliamGibson

4. Re-Imagine! by #TomPeters

5. Ready for Anything by #DavidAllen

6. Thanks for Waiting by #DoreeShafrir

7. The Art of Choosing by #SheenaIyengar

#7books that made a difference to me (fiction):

1. East of Eden by #JohnSteinbeck

2. Small Gods by #TerryPratchett

3. The Brothers Karamazov by #FyodorDostoevtsky

4. The Savage Detectives by #RobertoBolano

5. White Teeth by #ZadieSmith

6. The Long Goodbye by #RaymondChandler

7. Neuromancer by #WilliamGibson