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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#7books seems like an interesting way to find out more about people's tastes.

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Regeneration by Pat Barker

The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard (yes the whole lot counts as one)

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

Nella Last's Diaries

The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki

Doctor Syn: A Smuggler Tale of Romney Marsh by Russell Thorndike

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.

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 saw the #7Books tag and...I'm gonna distract myself from the therapy truth bomb I just had and list the most impactful books I've ever experienced. Doing post-therapy right.

1. His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman
2. Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
3. Sailor Moon (Manga counts, right?) - Naoko Takeuchi
4. Dealing with Dragons - Patricia Wrede
5. The 10th Kingdom - Kathryn Wesley
6. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
7. The Snow Queen - Joan Vinge

There's way more than just 7, but these are probably the top ones I'd point someone to.

New instance, new #introduction part 2 (reposted from my previous instance):

#7Books is agony, so #14books it is:

— #Imajica by Clive Barker
— #Orlando by Virginia Woolf
— #GoodOmens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
— #JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrel by Susanna Clarke
— #TheSouthernReachTrilogy by @jeffvandermeer
— #DearSenthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
— #TheGoneAwayWorld by Nick Harkaway
— #WhiteIsForWitching by Helen Oyeyemi
— #RoadsidePicnic by the Brothers Strugatsky
— #AllTheBirdsInTheSky by @charliejane
— #Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
— #TheGoldfinch by Donna Tartt
— #BloodMeridian by Cormac McCarthy
— #TheLibraryAtMountChar by Scott Hawkins

Ok, I fibbed. One last go-to comfort re-read: the #Discworld series, also by Terry Pratchett (Is listing an entire series cheating? I can't possibly pick one. Sorry not sorry.)

Play with me! #7Books to get to know me:

1. Rubyfruit Jungle
2. The Tomb
3. The Color Purple
4. The Well of Loneliness
5. Deceptions
6. And the Band Played On
7. Desert of the Heart

#7books to get to know me:

The Lacemaker by Laura Frantz
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Gutenberg's Apprentice by Alix Christie
Wallenberg by Kati Marton
Curtain by Agatha Christie
Second Advent by Tony Perona
The Commandant of Lubizec by Patrick Hicks

Honorable mention:
In the Shadow of Dora by Patrick Hicks
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Passions of the Mind by Irving Stone

#7Books to get to know me:

1. Rubyfruit Jungle
2. The Tomb
3. The Color Purple
4. The Well of Loneliness
5. Deceptions
6. And the Band Played On
7. Desert of the Heart

Here is my #GetToKnowMe list for #7books. These items are my favorites because they were entertaining, I connected with them emotionally, and/or they helped me to better know myself.

— The Phantom Tollbooth #NortonJuster
— The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy #DouglasAdams
— The Gods of Jade And Shadow #SylviaMorenoGarcia
— Pattern Recognition #WilliamGibson
— Neverwhere #NeilGaiman
— Some Men Are Lookers #EthanMorden
— Bloom County Babylon #BerkeBreathed

Given, I am an avid reader and people want to find out stuff about me.

#7Books

J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye

George Orwell - Animal Farm

Allen Ginsberg - Howl, Kaddish & other poems

Jack Kerouac - Dharma Bums

John Steinbeck - Of Mice & Men

Theodor Storm - Der Schimmelreiter (The Rider on the white horse)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Archipelago Gulag

#7Books (+ 1) that powerfully impacted me:

1. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
By Betty Edwards

2. The Americans
By Robert Frank

3. A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream
By Mark Gevisser

4. Bluebeard
By Kurt Vonnegut

5. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
By Stephen King

6. The Negative
By Ansel Adams

7. The Sellout
By Paul Beatty

8. A Catcher in the Rye
By JD Salinger

#books #art #photography #socialjustice #humor #ptsd

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Seven books to know me. Some titles shortened due to character limit. In no particular order.

1 'Walden' Henry David Thoreau

2 'The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement' Eliyahu M. Goldratt

3 'Tuesdays with Morrie' Mitch Albom

4 'It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken' Greg Behrendt

5. 'The Five Love Languages' Gary Chapman

6. 'A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues' André Comte-Sponville

7. 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' Zora Neale Hurston

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I saw a lot of #7books so I will recommend my own, but make all the authors #Arab. All books listed have helped to inspire me while #writing. Here are #7booksilove:

Khalil Gibran's The Prophet
The Golden Chariot by Salwa Bakr
Rama and the Dragon by Edwar al-Kharrat
The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz
+100 Iraq (short story collection)
+100: A Century After Nakhba (short story collection)
The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem

#7bookstogettoknowme @bookstodon #middleeast #writingcommunity