#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
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:
Watership Down - Adams
1984 - Orwell
Long Distance Flying - Garrison
The Mythical Man-Month - Brooks
Lord of the Rings trilogy - Tolkien
Foundation's Edge - Asimov
Lammas Night - Kurtz
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Heinlein
Schlock Mercenary (series) - Tayler
Nothing In Reserve - Lewis
Bridge of Birds - Hughart
Ravens in the Library - Brucato and Swan, eds (*) (**)
Faerie Blood - Korra'ti (*)
#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
@buffyleigh , #13books, my list:
#UmbertoEco The Name Of The Rose
#WiesławMyśliwski Widnokrąk
#MichelFoucault Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
#MarkTwain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
#ThomasPynchon Inherent Vice
#PhilipKDick A Scanner Darkly
#OrhanPamuk Snow
#RichardDawkins The Selfish Gene
#AlexandreDumas The Count of Monte Cristo
#Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary
#JosephConrad Heart of Darkness
#StanisławLem Solaris
#FyodorDostoevsky Crime and Punishmen
😍 Lovely idea from @franciscawrites - getting to know people through the books they like. I had real trouble staying in the 500 character limit.
Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine
The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood
Working Effectively with Legacy Code - Michael C. Feathers
Safe Area Goražde - Joe Sacco
Homo Faber - Max Frisch
Looking For Alaska - John Green
A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving
The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Voices From Chernobyl - Svetlana Alexievich
Snø vil falle over snø som har falt - Levi Henriksen
Relish - Lucy Knisley
Giant Days - John Allison
Lent - Jo Walton
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
Lovely idea from @franciscawrites - getting to know people through the books they like.
Papillon - Henri Charrière
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - Dennis E Taylor
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Empyrion - Stephen Lawhead
The Martian - Andy Weir
Old Man's War - John Scalzi
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
An Evil Cradling - Brian Keenan
Would love to see yours!
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
The bone clocks - David Mitchell
Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
Wolf hall - Hillary Mantel
The windup bird chronicle - Haruki Murakami
The peripheral - William Gibson
Darkmans - Nicola Barker
The city and the city - China Mieville
Accelerando - Charles Stross
An instance of the Fingerpost - Iain Pears
Gideon the ninth - Tamsin Muir
The sad tale of the brothers grossbart - Jesse Bullington
Between two fires - Christopher Buehlman
All of these were *Wow!* books when I finished reading them.
#13books to get to know me
The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Harold & Maude, Colin Higgins
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
The Neverending Story, Michael Ende
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
The Lover, Marguerite Duras
Henry & June, Anais Nin
Books of Blood, Clive Barker
House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
IT, Stephen King
The Master & Margarita, Mikhail Bulkagov
@bookstodon @horrorbooks
#13Books to get to know me (via @franciscawrites )
- Maurice, E. M. Forster
- Pride and Prejudice, Austen
- Lyonesse, J. Vance
- The Secret of Chimneys, Agatha Christie
- The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky
- Siddhartha, H. Hesse
- The Blind Assassin, Atwood
- Devassos no paraíso, João S. Trevisan
- My Brilliant Friend, Ferrante
- A tarde da sua ausência, Carlos Heitor Cony
- The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
- Steering the Craft, Le Guin
- Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg
#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
