Non fiction:
Field of Blood by Joanne Freeman
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
America on Fire by Elizabeth Hinton
To Make Men Free by Heather Cox Richardson
Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi
Fiction:
The Broken Earth trilogy by N K Jemison
📚 To Kill a Mockingbird : Harper Lee
📚 The Catcher in the Rye : JD Salinger
📚 And Then There Were None : Agatha Christie
📚 Charlie & the Chocolate Factory : Roald Dahl
📚 Nervous Conditions : Tsitsi Dangarembga
📚 Gentlemen & Players : Joanne Harris
📚 The Devil & Miss Prym : Paulo Coelho
I've 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
#7books #arab #Writing #7booksilove #7bookstogettoknowme #MiddleEast #writingcommunity
Celebrating the first Friday since classes ended by impulse buying a stack of books 📚 so what better time to do #7books … in no particular order, some of my most re-readable:
Frankenstein
Ancient Light
The Hobbit
Discourse on the Method
Sherlock Holmes (all)
The Moosewood Cookbook
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #fridayfavourites #bookfedi #7booksilove
#7books #fridayfavourites #bookfedi #7booksilove
#7BooksILove this will be difficult to narrow down to just 7 & in no particular order:
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
Krampus by Brom
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adam's
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Three Body Problem by Cixen Liu
Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
Children of the Night by Dan Simmons
#7BooksILove
1. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler
2. A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
3. Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
4. American Pastoral, Philip Roth
5. Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
6. Beloved, Toni Morrison
7. Poetry of Robert Frost
#7BooksILove (not an exhaustive list)
1. Like Water for Chocolate
2. Danny Champion of the World
3. Of Mice and Men
4. Jurassic Park
5. Water for Elephants
6. 11/22/63
7. Dandelion Wine
These can be fun, I'll try another!
#TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy by #DouglasAdams
#AFarewellToArms by #ErnestHemigway
#LittleWomen by #LouisaMayAlcott
#FloatingDragon by #PeterStraub
#SkyeOMalley by #BertriceSmall
#September by #RosamundePilcher
#FiveForSorrowTenForJoy by #RumerGodden
Bonus pick: #cookbooks I read cookbooks when I'm hungry.
#7booksilove #thehitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #douglasadams #afarewelltoarms #ErnestHemigway #littlewomen #louisamayalcott #floatingdragon #PeterStraub #skyeomalley #bertricesmall #september #rosamundepilcher #fiveforsorrowtenforjoy #rumergodden #cookbooks
#7books for #7booksilove in no particular order
- The Master and Margarita
- War and Peace
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Star Fraction
- The Time of Our Singing
- Possession
- Darkness at Noon
#7books #7booksilove #bookstodon
#7books for #7booksilove in no particular order:
- The grapes of wrath, Steinbeck
- Cien años de soledad, GarcÃa Márquez
- Budapeste, Buarque
- Uno, nessuno, centomila, Pirandello
- The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, Adams
- Corazón tan blanco, Marias
- La vie mode d'emploi, Perec
Day 7 of #7BooksILove. No reviews, no explanations, no particular order. My final book: the catalogue for ‘Proportio’ curated by Axel Vervoordt & Daniela Ferretti at Palazzo Fortuny (2015). This was a fun journey through some much loved books. @sam@samim@twitter.comwould love to see yours!
Day 6 of #7BooksILove. No reviews, no explanation, no particular order. Today: Finite and Infinite Games by James P Carse.
Day 5 of #7BooksILove. No reviews, no explanation and in no particular order. Today: Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson.
Day 4 of #7BooksILove. No reviews, no explanations, no particular order. Today: The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker.
Book 3 of #7BooksILove. No explanation, no reviews, no particular order. Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon (1937).
So day 2 of #7BooksILove... No reviews, no explanations (and in no particular order). Secondly: Species of Spaces and Other Places by Georges Perec.
Alright, grazie @mariofaranda@twitter.com, with #7BooksILove... No reviews, no explanations (and in no particular order). First up: Red Pine’s translation of The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma.