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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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).

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

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

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
#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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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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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

#7bookstoknowme

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

#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, about 85% of Aliette d'Bodard's work. I couldn't pin it down to one.

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#7BooksToKnowMe​
(although there are many more I could have listed)

-The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
-Experimental Film by Gemma Files
-The Haunted Looking Glass: Ghost Stories Chosen by Edward Gorey
-The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
-Henry & June by Anais Nin
-Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
-Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement by Whitney Chadwick

#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

#7BooksToKnowMe

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