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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

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).

#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

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

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

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
📚#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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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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Inspired by @ElizabethLeeCo , and the fact that I love making lists

#7BooksToKnowMe

- To Reign in Hell by Steven Brust
- The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse by Keith Hartman
- The Contortionist’s Handbook by Craig Clevenger
- Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
- Sass and Sorcery (Rat Queens) by Kurtis Wiebe
- Chew by John Layman and Rob Guillory
- Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey