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

#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

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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!

#7bookstoknowme
The Lord of the Rings
The Name of the Wind
Of Mice and Men
The Path by Chet Raymo
Ivanhoe
A Game of Thrones
Heartstopper (do graphic novels count?)

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

A little late to the game on this, but as a Lit Studies major, I feel compelled to post my #7BooksToKnowMe 📚

Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
The Pink Institution - Selah Saterstrom
Born on a Train - John McManus
The Odyssey - Homer

#introduction :100_gay:

4-in-1

#7BandsToKnowMe
Arrogant Worms
Bette Midler
Hollywood Undead
Lizzo
Mika
The Rankin Family
Sixx:A.M.

#7BooksToKnowMe
D&D books
The Dark Tower series
The Maradaine Saga
Marvel comics
Murder on the Orient Express
Needful Things
They Thirst

#7MoviesToKnowMe
The Birds
Blazing Saddles
Chicago
Clue
Dawn of the Dead
Shock Treatment
Sordid Lives

#7TVShowsToKnowMe
Battlestar Galactica
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Infinity Train
Star Trek: Voyager
Steven Universe
The Traitors
WandaVision

#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
1-Hero with 1000 Faces, Joseph Campbell
2-Interview with a Vampire, Anne Rice
3-Hogfather, Terry Pratchet
4-Stardust, Neil Gaiman
5-Elric of Melnibone, Michael Moorcock
6-October Man, Ben Aaronovitch
7-Fool Moon, Jim Butcher

#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

I’ll bite. #7BooksToKnowMe in no particular order:
But No Elephants! By Jerry Smath
The Silver Brumby by Elyne Mitchell
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy M Montgomery
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Tigana by Guy Kavriel Kay
The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
Harry Potter series by She Who Shall Not Be Named

No, naming series isn’t cheating. Well, probably is.

#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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