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
Knowing so many of you share my love of #books, maybe you can help me find a new one to get lost in. I just finished “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr which was beautiful.
We haven’t compiled a good reading list together in months…
What stories have you discovered or rediscovered lately? 📚
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
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
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
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
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
Lord of the Rings
Slaughterhouse 5
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Good Omens
Great Expectations
Wuthering Heights
Let the Great World Spin
A Brief History of Seven Killings
The Tombs of Atuan
Dune
The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Non fiction
Field of Blood - Freeman
Thunder at the Gates - Egerton
America on Fire - Hinton
Silencing the Past - Trouillot
How the South Won the Civil War - Cox Richardson
Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Freire
The Second Founding - Foner
Barrio America - Sandoval-Strausz
The Broken Heart of America - Johnson
Fiction
Rama Revealed - Clarke and Lee
The Fifth Season - Jemisin
Thrawn - Zahn
Ahsoka - Johnston
"Dune" - Frank Herbert
"Heart of Darkness" - Joseph Conrad
"Solaris" - Stanisław Lem
"Das Parfum" - Patrick Süskind
"Hyperion" - Dan Simmons
"Der Magier von Erdsee" - Ursula K. Le Guin
"Der Prozess" - Franz Kafka
"Neuromancer" - William Gibson
"Der Herr der Ringe" - J.R.R. Tolkien
"Das Foucaultsche Pendel" - Umberto Eco
"Malpertuis" - Jean Ray
"The Shadow over Innsmouth" - H.P. Lovecraft
"Eine Woche voller Samstage" - Paul Maar
Choosing #13books was much easier than trying pick favourites, because most of it was just looking at the books on my shelf that have survived multiple culls because of the impact they had me when I first read them, and the rest was looking at the books I consistently turn to for comfort re-reads. Though I could have used a couple more slots :)
Watership Down. Richard Adams
Howl’s Moving Castle. Diana Wynne Jones
Guards, Guards. Terry Pratchett
Bridge of Birds. Barry Hughart
Gaudy Night. Dorothy L Sayers
Doomsday Book. Connie Willis
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Susanna Clarke
The Goneaway World. Nick Harkaway
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Michael Chabon
The Kingdoms. Natasha Pulley
Boy Swallows Universe. Trent Dalton
Sword Dance. AJ Demas
Slippery Creatures. KJ Charles
Parable of the Talents – Butler
Semiosis – Sue Burke
Artificial Condition – Martha Wells
Assassin’s Apprentice – Robin Hobb
Ishmael - Quinn
Tomorrow x3 – Zevin
All the Birds in the Sky – CJA
The Genius Plague – Walton
To Be Taught If Fortunate – Chambers
Uprooted – Novik
Parasite Rex – Zimmer
Mr Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder – Weschler
Radicalized – Doctorow
Ulysses, Joyce
The Crying of Lot 49, Pynchon
Good Omens, Gaiman/Pratchett
Peter Cabot Gets Lost, Sebastian
The Gun Seller, Laurie
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Yu
The Affair of the Mysterious Letter, Hall
Priestdaddy, Lockwood
All Systems Red, Wells
As I Lay Dying, Faulkner
All the Times We Passed McDonald's..., Daly
Sherlock Holmes, Doyle
House of Leaves, Danielewski
Broken Earth Trilogy, NK Jemisin
Monk & Robot series, Becky Chambers
The Overstory, Richard Powers
The Meadow, James Galvin
Perdido Street Station, China Miéville
Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
Joy of Man’s Desiring, Jean Giono
Blindness, José Saramago
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Emily Alone, Stewart O’Nan
Shriek, Jeff Vandermeer
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
@franciscawrites@bookstodon
This is tough, but here goes #13Books.
100 Years of Solitude, or anything by Garcia Marquez
The Death of Speedy, or any Love & Rockets by the Hernandez Bros
The Futurological Congress, Lem
Hurricane Season, Melchor
The Twilight Zone, Fernandez
Life and Times of Michael K, Coetzee
The Fan Man, Kotzwinkle
The Land of Hearts Desire, Yeats
Omeros, Walcott
El Polizon del Ulises, Matute
Miguel Street, Naipaul
The Savage Detectives, Bolaño
The Overstory, Powers
@franciscawrites@bookstodon #13books
The Walls Around Us - David Owen
The Dispossessed - Ursula LeGuin
Evenings With The Orchestra - Hector Berlioz
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking - T. Kingfisher
Bimbos of the Death Sun - Sharyn McCrumb
Sci-Fi - William Marshall
Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Bring the Jubilee - Ward Moore
The Wizard's Butler - Nathan Lowell
Ridiculous - DL Carter
Why Fish Don't Exist - Lulu Miller
Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki
Perfection Salad - Laura Shapiro
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.
This is torturous, but.. #13Books (not necessarily novels)
Frankenstein - Shelley
Poetry/Tales - Poe
Ghost Stories/Antiquary - James
The Martian Chronicles - Bradbury
More Than Human - Sturgeon
We Have Always Lived In the Castle - Jackson
Two-Handed Engine - Kuttner & Moore
Dangerous Visions - Ellison
Earthsea (series) - Le Guin
The Norton Book of SF - Le Guin/Attebery
The Dark Descent - Hartwell
Tales of the Flat Earth (series) - Tanith Lee
The Weird - VanderMeer
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