This will probably change by tomorrow, but, off the top of my head, 7books to get to know me

Thomas Pynchon : Mason & Dixon
Muriel Spark : The Hothouse on the East River
Dorothy Dunnett : Scales of Gold
Walter M Miller jr : A Canticle for Leibowitz
Hermann Hesse : Siddhartha
Robert M Persig : Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Doris Lessing : The Marriages Between Zones 3, 4 and 5

#7Books

This will probably change by tomorrow, but, off the top of my head, 7books to get to know me

Thomas Pynchon : Mason & Dixon
Muriel Spark : The Hothouse on the East River
Dorothy Dunnett : Scales of Gold
Walter M Miller jr : A Canticle for Leibowitz
Hermann Hesse : Siddhartha
Robert M Persig : Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Doris Lessing : The Marriages Between Zones 3, 4 and 5

#7Books

It seems this is a thing #sevenbooks to get to know me, in no particular order:

1. The Secret of Moon Castle by Enid Blyton
2. Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesinger
3. The Crossway by Guy Stag
4. The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
5. (A slight cheat) The Lymond Series by Dorothy Dunnett
6. The City and The City by China Mieville
7. Ottolenghi by Yottam Ottolenghi & Sami Tamimi.

#bookstodan #sevenbooks #7books

@tobiasgray It seems this is a thing #sevenbooks to get to know me, in no particular order:

1. The Secret of Moon Castle by Enid Blyton
2. Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesinger
3. The Crossway by Guy Stag
4. The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
5. (A slight cheat) The Lymond Series by Dorothy Dunnett
6. The City and The City by China Mieville
7. Ottolenghi by Yottam Ottolenghi & Sami Tamimi.

#bookstodan #sevenbooks #7books

#7books, you say? Okay (maybe cheating a bit as some of these are book series I can’t separate out)

Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury

Neuromancer - William Gibson

Replay - Ken Grimwood

Rebecca’s World - Terry Nation

The Dark Tower (series) - Stephen King

The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson

The Laundry Files (series) - Charlie Stross

These are #7Books that were massively influential for me. Not sure what they tell you about me (except maybe that I was a pretentious goth as a teenager?!)

Rubaiyat of Omar Kayam
Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Dispossessed by Ursula le Guin

Sorry, #9Books.

#7Books #bookstodon

1. The Heart of Rock and Soul - a list of 1001 singles which argues that singles are a better, more diverse and more joyful way of consuming music than LPs

2. #Asterix in Britain - I got all of these out of #Salisbury library at some stage

3. #Lenin for Beginners. I did a 3-year degree course and read 6 books. Three of them were these comic book style 'for beginners' books

4. #Dickens' Christmas Carol. It's nostalgic and sentimental, but so am I

...to be continued

Let me jump on this bandwagon!

#7Books

Agnes Grey (my all time favourite)

David Copperfield

The Canterville Ghost - short story, but does it count? Including it because it is the most literally laugh-out-loud story I've ever read.

The Great Gatsby

The Day of the Triffids

The Bell Jar

The Passenger

#7books I note most influential were those i read as a child
The Professor charlotte bronte
Germinal emile zola
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Fatal Shore robert hughes
The Color Purple alice walker
Alice in Wonderland lewis carroll
the Snow Queen hans christian anderson

don't read much now

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7 series to know me. Old to new.

1. Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time.
2. Georges Simenon. Commissaire Maigret.
3. Roger Zelazny. The first Amber series.
4. Patrick O'Brian. Aubrey and Maturin.
5. Ursula K Le Guin. Earthsea.
6. Iain Banks. The Culture.
7. Martha Wells. Murderbot.

If I was choosing 7 books, I think 3 might be from these series, with perhaps 4 more standalone novels.

#7Books
#Reading
#Writing
#Bookstodon

May as well do this one too. Get all the 2006 Facebook and 2009 Twitter stuff out of the way: #7Books, top of my head --

Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Orlando, Virginia Woolf
Ice, Anna Kavan
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter

@bookstodon #7books

The books that changed my thinking and perspectives:

1. The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett (I couldn't possibly narrow it down)
2. Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott
3. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
4. The Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire (ditto)
5. Basically any book by Gerald Durrell
6. How To Be Sick by Toni Bernhard
7. Trout Fishing In America by Richard Brautigan

#7Books To Get To Know Me

Travels with Epicurus Daniel Klein
So Many Roads The Life And Times Of The Grateful Dead
Basque Joe Pizarro
Mani Patrick Leigh Fermour
Lord Of The Rings Tolkein
On The Road Jack Kerouac
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas Hunter S Thompson

@ottocrat #7books to get to know me:

Lamb, Christopher Moore
Skinny Legs and All, Tom Robbins
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
The Brothers K, David James Duncan
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
The World According to Garp, John Irving
The Once and Future King, T.H. White

(I had no idea how difficult this would be--and I guess I can't count!)

My #7Books that say something about me (not in any particular order), so not necessarily my favourite, most influential or most re-read etc.:

Bleak House (Charles Dickens, 1852/3)
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
I, Robot (Isaac Asimov, 1950)
Vatican II Sunday Missal (Pauline Books, 1974)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee, 1960)
1984 (George Orwell, 1949)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller, 1961)

#7books as everyone else is doing it..

Clive James, Cultural Amnesia

William Boyd, Any Human Heart

Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul

Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

Joseph Heller, Catch 22

Alan Coren, The Lady From Stalingrad Mansions

George Orwell, Collected Essays

...and a whole lot more....

#7books to get to know me:
1) A Very Short Introduction to Information - Luciano Floridi
2) Ananthem - Neal Stephenson
3) Norwegian Wood - Hakuri Murakami
4) The Information - James Gleik
5) The Art of Learning - Josh Waitzkin
6) A Pslam for the Wild Built - Becky Chambers
7) The Dragon Bone Chair - Tad Williams

7 books to know me better:

The Cider House Rules - John Irving
Starter For Ten - David Nicholls
Moab Is My Washpot - Stephen Fry @stephenfry
Harry Potter (pick any) - JK Rowling
Do No Harm - Henry Marsh
Empireland - Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam
Captive State - George Monbiot

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#7books
Ubik - Philip K Dick
Broken Harbour - Tana French
Running Wild - J G Ballard
Watchmen - Alan Moore
Rabbits - Terry Miles
Molvania (A Land Unknown to Modern Dentistry)
Scarfolk - Richard Littler
Kurt Vonnegut - Galapagos

#7books

1. A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr - comfort read.

2. The Cranks Recipe Book - most used cook book on the shelf.

3. Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne - happy memories reading aloud.

4. How to Stay Sane by Philippa Perry - my intro to the wisdom of PP.

5. The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins - beautiful, spiritually sustaining poetry.

6. Urban Watercolor Sketching by Felix Scheinberger - I can dream …

7. Guards! Guards! (or anything) by Terry Pratchett - brings smiles