#7bookstoknowme — 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)

Just off the top of my head...

#7BooksToKnowMe

* The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Speare
* House of Leaves, Danielewski
* Lisey' Story, King
* Jerlayne, Abbey
* Fledgling, Butler
* The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Lewis
* Blackbirds, Wendig

@BruceMirken

OK, I'll play. #7bookstoknowme

• Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
• The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
• The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
• Hawaii, James Michener
• Generation of Swine, Hunter S. Thompson
• Blu's Hanging, Lois Ann Yamanaka
• The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings Trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien

Yeah, I know, I cheated on the last one. But hey, you can't read just one of those, eh?

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#7BooksToKnowMe 

* House of Leaves

* Lightning

* This is not a book

* Eat that frog

* Rebecca

* Death Star Owners Technical Manual

* Oddkins

#7TVShowsToKnowMe 

* Falcon Crest

* Tenko

* Schitts Creek

* Kath & Kim

* The Mole

* Buffy

* Star Trek: TNG

#7PlacesToKnowMe 

* San Martine D’Ampurias

* Lichfield 

* Galway

* Barcelona

* Edinburgh

* Birmingham

* Brynamman

#7SongsToKnowMe

* Oh L’Amour

* Stop!

* Sell Me

* Down in the Depths

* Smalltown Boy

* Wicked Game
* Sweet Child O’ Mine

#7MoviesToKnowMe 

* Rebecca

* Back the Future

* Star Wars (all of them)

* The Elephant Man

* Vegas in Space

* Hercules Returns

* Passport to Pimlico

#7BooksToKnowMe

• The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
• Roadside Picnic - Boris & Arkady Strugatsky
• All Creatures Great and Small - James Herriott
• Kim - Rudyard Kipling
• Sirius - Olaf Stapledon
• As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
• The Machine Stops - E. M. Forster

(Maybe it goes without saying but, I didn't overthink this, just threw out 7 that affected me deeply and/or felt personal. LOTS of other books I want to mention...)

#7bookstoknowme

In no particular order --

01. Homer, _Iliad_
02. Michael Moorcock, _The Fortress Of The Pearl_
03. Anne McCaffrey, _All The Weyrs Of Pern_
04. Sei Shonagon, _Makura no Soshi (The Pillow Book)_
05. Dominic Montserrat, _Akhenaten: history, fantasy and ancient Egypt_
06. Monica Hughes, _The Isis Pedlar_
07. Clare Bell, _Tomorrow's Sphinx_

#7bookstoknowme

1 - The Borribles, Michael de Larrabeiti
2 - The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper
3 - The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
4 - Strandloper, Alan Garner
5 - The Curious Room, Angela Carter
6 - Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban
7 - Lud-in-the-Mist, Hope Mirrlees

This isn't a list of my favorites - it's a map of how I became who I am. These are landmark books that left indelible marks on me.

#7BooksToKnowMe
(includes non-fiction and graphic novels)

Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Masters of Doom - David Kushner
The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller
Hitman - Bret Hart
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Ghost World - Daniel Clowes

#7BooksToKnowMe

Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court - Bob Woodward & Scott Armstrong
Europe and the People Without History - Eric Wolf
The Hite Report on Male Sexuality - Shere Hite
Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Satin Island - Tom McCarthy
Ulysses - James Joyce

#Introduction Switching this page from my pet page to my own. These are the books that influenced me from early childhood to the present day both positively or negatively, in no particular order;
#7BooksToKnowMe
•Old Yeller- Fred Gipson

•Frankenstein -Mary Shelley

•The Godfather - Mario Putzo

•The Hobbit /LOTR- JRR Tolkien

•Diary Of Anne Frank

•Elizabeth The Great- Elizabeth Jenkins

•Go Dog Go- P.D Eastman

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#Introduction
📚#7BooksToKnowMe: These reads are 7 books that positively & negatively influenced me from early childhood to the present. The list is in no particular order/ import of influence;
•Go Dog Go-
P.D. Eastman
•Old Yeller- Fred Gipson
•Frankenstein -Mary Shelley
•The Godfather - Mario Putzo
•The Hobbit /LOTR- JRR Tolkien
•Diary Of Anne Frank
•Elizabeth The Great- Elizabeth Jenkins
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#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)

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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.

#book #books #bookstodon @bookstodon @bookstodon.com #sff #speculativefiction

#7bookstoknowme

The Left Hand of Darkness
The Waves
Ulysses
Dawn (Book 1, Xenogenesis)
1984
Jurassic Park
The Chrysalids

#books #bookstodon

#7BooksToKnowMe

#MobyDick
#DayOfTheTriffids
#LonesomeDove
#MasterAndCommander
#PetSematary
#CallOfCthulu
#WatershipDown

#7BooksToKnowMe

- Encyclopedia Britannica 13th Edition Volumes 23-24 Refec to Shutt
- Encyclopedia Britannica 14th Edition Volume 3 Balt to Brai
- Encyclopedia Britannica 11th Edition Volume 25 Shu to Sub
- Encyclopedia Britannica 9th Edition Volume 19 Phy to Pro
- Encyclopedia Britannica 4th Edition Volume 3 Ass to Boo [tee-hee -Ed.]
- Encyclopedia Britannica 16th Edition Volume 17 Deco to Edis
- Encyclopedia Britannica 9th Edition Volume 15 Loo to Mem

@pikestaff

I can attest to those, as well as:
#Mosstodon
#Nature
#quotes
#Bonsai
#rescuedog
#7BooksToKnowMe
#sevenfilmstoknowmeby

#7BooksToKnowMe not just top/fav but about aspects of who you are somehow, yes?

White Flight - Kevin Kruse (lived this growing up and great #history)
Fifth Season - NK Jemisin ( #scifi imagination)
Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord (#Marxist Philo)
Mythical Man Month - Fred Brooks (software/ppl eng)
Moon Called - Patricia Briggs (#urbanfantasy guilty pleasure)
Quantum Computing since Democritus - Scott Aaronson (#popularscience and life trying to understand QM)
Complete Works of Shakespeare

#7Books - #novels - to know me:
#Ulysses - #JamesJoyce
#MansFate / #LaConditionHumaine - #AndréMalraux
#AnotherCountry - #JamesBaldwin
#MrsDalloway - #VirginiaWoolf
#TheMasterAndMargarita - #MikhailBulgakov
#GravitysRainbow - #ThomasPynchon
#TheDispossessed - #UrsulaKLeGuin
If you asked me tomorrow, this would change. #7bookstoknowme #novels #literature #LitStudies @litstudies

#7BooksToKnowMe :
#Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
"Written in Red" by #AnneBishop
"Moon Called" by #PatriciaBriggs
"Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
"Crocodile on the Sandbank" by Elizabeth Peters
"Memory" by #LoisMcMasterBujold
"Hench" by #NatalieZinaWalschots

#7BooksToKnowMe :
#Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
"Written in Red" by #AnneBishop
"Moon Called" by #PatriciaBriggs
"Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
"Crocodile on the Sandbank" by Elizabeth Peters
"Memory" by #LoisMcMasterBujold
"Hench" by #NatalieZinaWalschots

#7BooksToKnowMe :
#Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
"Written in Red" by #AnneBishop
"Moon Called" by #PatriciaBriggs
"Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
"Crocodile on the Sandbank" by Elizabeth Peters
"Memory" by #LoisMcMasterBujold
"Hench" by #NatalieZinaWalschots

#7BooksToKnowMe :
#Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
"Written in Red" by #AnneBishop
"Moon Called" by #PatriciaBriggs
"Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
"Crocodile on the Sandbank" by Elizabeth Peters
"Memory" by #LoisMcMasterBujold
"Hench" by #NatalieZinaWalschots

#7BooksToKnowMe :
#Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
"Written in Red" by #AnneBishop
"Moon Called" by #PatriciaBriggs
"Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
"Crocodile on the Sandbank" by Elizabeth Peters
"Memory" by #LoisMcMasterBujold
"Hench" by #NatalieZinaWalschots

#7FilmsToKnowMe - #7BooksToKnowMe #mastodonnewbie , has anyone done #7BandsToKnowMe yet?

@JustSunny Of course! I don't own the #. There are several variations:

#7Books
#7BooksToKnowMe
#7SongsToKnowMe
#7MoviesToKnowMe
Plus others.

The # is used to identify topics of interest. For example: #jazz or #woodworking.

#7Books #7BooksToKnowMe #SchoolProcrastination

Oh boy. The only way I could think to narrow this down was to list books I’ve read more than once ( so, lots are missing).

In no meaningful order:
1. The Little Prince
2. Cryptonomican
3. Neuromancer
4. The Once & Future King
5. White Noise
6. Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future
7. Tie- LOTR, Dune, and Wheel of Time series

#SaintExupéry #Stephenson #Gibson #White #DeLillo #Resnick #Tolkien #Herbert #Jordan

#7books #7BooksToKnowMe

- Ubik by #PhilipKDick
- The Dispossessed by #UrsulaKLeGuin
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by H. Abelson, G.J. Sussman, J. Sussman
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by #DouglasHofstadter
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by #GeorgeOrwell
- Deschooling Society by #IvanIllich
- V for Vendetta by #AlanMoore

Ok #7bookstoknowme is tough right, only picking 7 I mean! I don't read as much as I should, but here are the first 7 which came to mind:

#AmericanGods - @neilhimself
#Weaveworld - #CliveBarker
#GuardsGuards - #TerryPratchett
#HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy - #DouglasAdams
All the Light We Cannot See - #AnthonyDoerr
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - #SusannaClarke
#TheRoad - #CormacMcCarthy

Honestly I could have filled all 7 choices with #discworld books though 🙂

Joining the challenge! Tried to pick seven that had a big effect on my life, not necessarily my favorites.

1. Foundation by Isaac Asimov - the first "grown-up" novel I ever read, it always stays with me for its themes of trying to understand history at a grand scale and use that understanding to make a difference.

2. Personal History by Katharine Graham - even more than books by journalists, the memoir by The Washington Post publisher made me believe in the power of the press and transparency. I did not know it at the time, but it helped me understand that life goes on after a loved one's suicide.

3. War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges - deepened my instinctual attraction to pacifism and showed me how powerful a cultural critique can be

4. The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton - at the time it was one one of the books that made me want to be a Catholic. I no longer possess that desire but Merton's story is still a model of spiritual seeking.

5. The Expressiveness of the Body by Shigehisa Kuriyama - one of the first books I read in graduate school and still an untouchable ideal of scholarship. A book I recommend to everyone to understand how history of science and medicine can change your perspective.

6. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - For me, this book represents all the ways my wife has shaped my life. Like Woolf and all my other favorite novels, she sees people completely and has the type of sadness and compassion that engenders.

7. Parenting Outside the Lines by Meghan Leahy - I felt like this book gave me permission to be a dad and still be myself with all my flaws. And it made me take Buddhism, Taoism, and Zen more seriously as ideas I could actually apply in my life, not just esoteric traditions.

#7Books #7booksToKnowMe #reading #literature #bookadon #literature #philosophy #fiction

#7Books to get to know me (after seeing all those wonderful and thoughtfully curated lists of other people, I somehow feel that I fall short 🙈):

1. Diana Wynne Jones - Howl’s Moving Castle
2. Joseph Heller - Catch 22
3. Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
4. Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
5. Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
6. Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
7. Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion

#Bookstodon #books #reading #7bookstoknowme #7bookschallenge

#7books to get to know me (20th century fiction only):
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Porterhouse Blue - Tom Sharp
Perfum: The Story of a Murder - Patrick Süskind
All the King’s Men - Robert Penn Warren

#7BooksToKnowMe #bookstodon
#DouglasAdams #Bulgakov #JosephHeller #Kundera #TomSharp #RobertPennWarren #PatrickSuskind

#7books to get to know me (20th century fiction only):
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Porterhouse Blue - Tom Sharp
Perfum: The Story of a Murder - Patrick Süskind
All the King’s Men - Robert Penn Warren

#7BooksToKnowMe #bookstodon
#DouglasAdams #Bulgakov #JosephHeller #Kundera #TomSharp #RobertPennWarren #PatrickSuskind