#13Books
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Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine
The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood
Working Effectively with Legacy Code - Michael C. Feathers
Safe Area Goražde - Joe Sacco
Homo Faber - Max Frisch
Looking For Alaska - John Green
A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving
The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Voices From Chernobyl - Svetlana Alexievich
Snø vil falle over snø som har falt - Levi Henriksen
Relish - Lucy Knisley
Giant Days - John Allison
Lent - Jo Walton

#13books close to my heart
The House with the Clock in its Walls - John Bellairs
Books of Blood - Clive Barker
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
Naked Lunch - Wililam S. Burroughs
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Mask of the Sorcerer - Darrell Schweitzer
Recursion - Blake Crouch
Eon - Greg Bear
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' - William Hope Hodgson
Bolo'bolo - P.M.
In Defence of Anarchism - Robert Paul Wolff
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

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

Lovely idea from @franciscawrites - getting to know people through the books they like.

#13Books
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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

Would love to see yours!

#13books to get to know me

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 & The Margarita, Mikhail Bulkagov
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#13Books to get to know me (via @franciscawrites )

- Maurice, E. M. Forster
- Pride and Prejudice, Austen
- Lyonesse, J. Vance
- The Secret of Chimneys, Agatha Christie
- The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky
- Siddhartha, H. Hesse
- The Blind Assassin, Atwood
- Devassos no paraíso, João S. Trevisan
- My Brilliant Friend, Ferrante
- A tarde da sua ausência, Carlos Heitor Cony
- The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
- Steering the Craft, Le Guin
- Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg

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#13books to know me (in no particular order, and leaving out “collected works of…”)

7. The Songs of Maldoror, the Comte de Lautréamont
8. The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula Le Guin
9. The Salt Roads, Nalo Hopkinson
10. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
11. Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Edgar Allan Poe
12. Odyssey, Homer
13. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

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#13books to know me (in no particular order, and leaving out “collected works of…”)

1. My Heart is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones
2. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
3. The Marriage of Heaven & Hell, William Blake
4. Macbeth, William Shakespeare
5. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
6. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe, Thomas Ligotti

@Vidyala Hello! I'm also here for reading and writing and art and parenting and all the fun stuff. You do #13books today?

Only #13books to get to know me? Well, if you insist..

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Calvino)
The Road (C. McCarthy)
Satin Island (T. McCarthy)
The House on Mango Street (Cisneros)
Nightfall (Asimov & Silverberg)
Zone One (Whitehead)
The Book of Strange New Things (Faber)
Alias Grace (Atwood)
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Murakami)
Severance (Ma)
The Chain of Chance (Lem)
Everything is Illuminated (Foer)

#13books that I think about often:

#OliverSacks Musicophilia

#WillAitken Antigone Undone: #JulietteBinoche, #AnneCarson, #IvoVanHove, and the Art of Resistance

#NickCave, And the Ass Saw the Angel

#MarkZDanielewski House of Leaves

#UmbertoEco The Island of the Day Before

#HermannHesse Glass Bead Game

#PatrickMcCabe Poguemahone

#NealStephenson Anathem

#HalldorLaxness Under the Glacier

#CanXue Frontier

#JohnDarnielle x2: Universal Harvester, Master of Reality

#MaggieRowe Sin Bravely

#13books I found compelling:

Essays - Montaigne
The Time of Man - Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Stoner - John Williams
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Waiting for the Barbarians - JM Coetzee
The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
Plainsong - Kent Haruf
Black Boy - Richard Wright
Maus - Art Spiegelman

I could easily add another 13...

#13books
1. BRAVE NEW WORLD-Huxley
2. 1984-Orwell
3. FAHRENHEIT 451-Bradbury
4. Possession-Byatt
5. SONG OF SOLOMON-Morrison
6. ALL THE LIGHT WE CAN NOT SEE-Doerr
7. ANGLE OF REPOSE-Stegner
8. JANE ERYE-Brontë
9. HARRY POTTER, BOOK 4-Rowling
10. THE 1619 PROJECT-Hannah-Jones
11. WATERSHIP DOWN-Adams
12. THE NIGHTINGALE-Hannah
13. ANNA KARENINA-Tolstoy

If I thought too long I would be able to narrow the list...so many great books.

#13books

Jennifer Egan - A Visit from the Goon Squad
Marquez - Hundred years of Solitude
Kate Atkinson - Case Histories
T.C. Boyle - World's End
Ann Tyler - The Accidental Tourist
Pat Barker - Regeneration trilogy
Paul Auster - New York trilogy
Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
Jonathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn
David Mitchell - Utopia Avenue
Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook
Annie Proulx - The Shipping News
Jonathan Coe - What a carve up!

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#13books #bookstodon
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Okakura Kakuzo - The Book of Tea

Klaus Theweleit - Male Fantasies

Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

Woolf - Three Guineas

Fielding - Tom Jones

Bolaño - 2666

Ernest Becker - Denial of Death

PG Wodehouse - his works in general

Waugh - A Handful of Dust

David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest

David Lipsky - Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Myriam Gurba (@lesbrains) - Creep

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#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

#13books that matter to me:

The Dispossessed - Le Guin
Gaudy Night - Sayers
The Divine Comedy - Alighieri
The Arrival - Tan
Einstein's Dreams - Lightman
A Premonition of Death - Walsh
Codex Seraphinianus - Serafini
Secret Lives - VanderMeer
Islandia - Wright
Tao Te Ching - Le Guin translation
R is for Rocket - Bradbury
Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson

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#13books

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

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#13books

Whipping Girl - Julia Serano
Ubik - Philip K Dick
Psychopolitics - Byung-Chul Han
The Left Hand of Darkness - Le Guin
What Tech Calls Thinking - Adrian Daub
Y The Last Man - Vaughan and Guerra
Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea - Beatrice Hohenegger
The Severed Head - Julia Kristeva
Difference and Repetition - Deleuze
What is Philosophy? - Deleuze and Guatarri
Diagrammatic Immanence - Rocco Gangle
Food Lab - J Kenji Lopez-Alt
The Bread Baker's Apprentice - Peter Reinhart