#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).
#Bookstodon #Books @bookstodon

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

#7BooksToKnowMe

- Wizard’s First Rule (Sword of Truth #1); Terry Goodkind

- Elvenbane (The Halfblood Chronicles, #1); Andre Norton & Mercedes Lackey

- The Hand of Chaos (The Death Gate Cycle, #4); Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

- Sojurn (The Dark Elf Trilogy, #3); R. A. Salvatore

- Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance Chronicles, #1); Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

- Rendezvous with Rama (Rama series, #1); Arthur C. Clarke

- Ender's Game (Ender’s Game series, #1); Orson Scott Card

@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?

Aloha!

Another bandwagon. Love a good bandwagon.

#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

#7bookstoknowme

Bret Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero
Tara Westover - Educated
David Epstein - Range
Donald Miller - A Million Miles In A Thousand Years
René Daumal - Mount Analoque
Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Bret Easton Ellis - Lunar Park

#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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#7BooksToKnowMe #7books

1. Normal People by Sally Rooney
2. Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
3. The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
4. Recursion by Blake Crouch
5. The Homework Myth by Alfie Kohn
6. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
7. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

#books #reading #bookstodon #bookworm @bookstodon

#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
Boosting will help me find my #books people ❤️
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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)

@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.

#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

1. Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weiss and Tracey Hickman
2. The Metabarons by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Artists Juan Giménez and Das Pastoras
3. Dune by Frank Herbert
4. Homeland by R.A. Salvatore
5. The Way of The Samurai by Inazō Nitobe
6. Low by Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini
7. The Dark Tower by Stephen King

#Books #Read #GoodReads

#7BooksToKnowMe

1. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Kindred by Octavia Butler
3. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
4. Dracula by Bram Stoker
5. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
6. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
7. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

#bookstodon #books

#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

#7FilmsToKnowMe got a fair amount of traction lately, but I think #7BooksToKnowMe deserves equal time. Here's my #7BooksToKnowMe:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Kindred – Octavia Butler
American Genocide – Benjamin Madley
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
Stalking the Nightmare -- Harlan Ellison
The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
Silent Spring – Rachel Carson

#7BooksToKnowMe

1️⃣ “The Gunslinger,” Stephen King
2️⃣ “Where the Red Fern Grows,” Wilson Rawls
3️⃣ “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom,” Cory Doctorrow
4️⃣ “Where the Sidewalk Ends” Shel Silverstein
5️⃣ “Stiff,” Mary Roach
6️⃣ “Wool,” Hugh Howey
7️⃣ “Invisible Monsters,” Chuck Palahniuk

#7bookstoknowme

The Rook & Stiletto - O'Malley
Nexus trilogy - Ramez Naam
Binti trilogy - Nnedi Okorafor
Ignition! - John Clark
The Centenal Cycle - Malka Older
Anathem - Neal Stephenson
The library book- Susan Orlean

#7BooksToKnowMe

1. The Three Body Problem (series of books) - Cixin Liu
2. Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovski
3. Ringworld - Larry Niven
4. Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
5. Fairy Tale - Stephen King
6. The Hellbound Heart - Clive Barker
7. Wherever Seeds May Fall - Peter Cawdron

These are just the books that come to mind, not a best of (but because they come to mind above everything else - maybe they are).

People are doing #7bookstoknowme now, and this one is tougher for me. I'm surrounded by 100s of books, have read many thousands. But I'm not sure they say a lot about me other than that I like word play, smart and playful dialogue, and watching people puzzle things out. It's something to ponder on a day off, though, and #7songstoknowme is certainly on the table of thought, as well. That could be easier, though keeping to 7 wouldn't be. I have composed several soundtracks of me over the years.

#7BooksToKnowMe
In no particular order (mostly)
Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
The Rook - Daniel O'Malley
Dragonsinger - Anne McCaffrey
Black Out - Connie Willis
The Oathbound - Mercedes Lackey
What If? - Randall Monroe
Vacationland - John Hodgman
#BooksOfMastodon #bookstodon #books

#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

Difficile elencarne solo sette:

Ascolta il mio cuore, Bianca Pitzorno

Fontamara, Ignazio Silone

Narciso e Boccadoro, Hermann
Hesse

Un segno invisibile e mio, Aimee Bender

Le intermittenze della morte, Josè Saramago

Il sistema periodico, Primo Levi

Niente di nuovo sul fronte occidentale, Erich Maria Remarque

#7bookstoknowme #mastolibri

Solaris by S. Lem
Star Maker by O. Stapledon
At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft
The Invention of Morel or Morel's Invention by A. B. Casares
Invisible Cities by I. Calvino
The Man Who Fell to Earth by W. Tevis
The Man in the High Castle by P. K. Dick

@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.

#7BooksToKnowMe in no particular order:

1. Dietland
2. instant karma
3. The Reluctant Swordsman
4. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F***
5. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
6. On a Pale Horse

and the 7th, I haven't read yet. 😉

#introduction

#7BooksToKnowMe

The Lord of the Rings
Charlotte's Web
The Stand
The World According to Garp
Kitchen Confidential
Watership Down
The Things They Carried

#7BooksToKnowMe

Feet of Clay
Wyrd Sisters
The Science of Discworld
Carpe Jugulum
by Terry Pratchett

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

The Last Unicorn
by Peter S. Beagle

#7Books #7BooksToKnowMe

1) A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
2) The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
3) American Gods by Neil Gaiman
4) Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
5) The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
6) The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
7) The Books of Blood by Clive Barker

#books
#bookstodon
#BookToot
#horror
#crimefiction

ok, here goes nothing
#7BooksToKnowMe
1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
2. Kindred - Octavia Butler
3. The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
4. I, Robot - Asimov
5. The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
6. An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon
7. The Time Quintet - Madeleine L'Engle

@bookstodon

#7BooksToKnowMe

The Eighth Day - #ThorntonWilder
Dune - #FrankHerbert
The Lathe of Heaven - #UrsulaLeGuin
Childhood's End - #ArthurCClarke
The Crystal Cave - #MaryStewart
The Gates of Ivory - #MargaretDrabble
Earth Abides - #GeorgeRStewart