All right, I’ll do the #sevenbooks thing:

Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
J R, William Gaddis
Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
Ulysses, James Joyce
PopCo, Scarlett Thomas
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, Jan Potocki
Pattern Recognition, William Gibson

Boy am I FASCINATING or what

#sevenbooks (fiction)

1. The Logogryph, Thomas Wharton
2. The Forgetting Room, Nick Bantock
3. Organization Argus, Daniel Sernine
4. Life After Man : A Zoology of the Future, Dougal Dixon
5. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin
6. The Khazar Dictionary, Milorad Pavic
7. Joan Davenport Carris, The Revolt of 10-X

4 men, 3 women, but 7 is not enough. Where do I put Élisabeth Vonarburg, Paul Auster, Jean Cocteau, Gabrielle Roy, Candice Jane Dorsey?

Instead of #sevenbooks to get to know me, what about #sevenpoems? Do we do that here?

1. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
2. Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Millay
3. Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
4. Ozymandias by P.B. Shelley
5. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
6. Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson
7. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

Quite a predictable list, but these are the ones that made me fall in love with poetry. I have most of these memorized (i.e., not the Waste Land)

Instead of #sevenbooks to get to know me, what about #sevenpoems? Do we do that here?

1. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
2. Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Millay
3. Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
4. Ozymandias by P.B. Shelley
5. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
6. Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson
7. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

Quite a predictable list, but these are the ones that made me fall in love with poetry. I have most of these memorized (i.e., not the Waste Land)

Seven books (novels) to get to know me:

1. Little, Big by John Crowley
2. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
3. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
4. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
5. The Lord of the Rings
6. The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
7. The Stone of the Flute by Hans Bemmann

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Seven books (novels) to get to know me:

1. Little, Big by John Crowley
2. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
3. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
4. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
5. The Lord of the Rings
6. The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
7. The Stone and the Flute by Hans Bemmann

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It’s #InMyKitchen Thursday. (Whaddya mean you didn’t know?). Any #moomin #moomintroll #tove fans out there? Still thinking about the #sevenbooks thing (yeah, another hashtag) but Moomintroll Midwinter will be included. What’s in yours right now?

#SevenBooks that made me who i am today:

#TheKingInYellow
#Hagakure
#TheInferno
#ThroughTheLookingGlass
#TheEthicalSlut
#TheArtOfPeace
#HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy

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.

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@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.

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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World #HarukiMurakami
Never let me go #KazuoIshiguro
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy #DouglasAdams
Comet in Moominland #ToveJansson
Foucault's pendulum #UmbertoEco
The ocean at the end of the lane #NeilGaiman
As I walked out one midsummer morning #LaurieLee

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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World #HarukiMurakami
Never let me go #KazuoIshiguro
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy #DouglasAdams
Comet in Moominland #ToveJansson
Foucault's pendulum #UmbertoEco
The ocean at the end of the lane #NeilGaiman
As I walked out one midsummer morning #LaurieLee

Seven books to get to know me:

Le Petit Prince by Antoine St Exupery
The Triggering Town by Richard Hugo
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Leguin
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Why We Run by Bernd Heinrich
A History of God by Karen Armstrong
Watership Down by Richard Adams

All of those books have been fairly influential upon where I am now in my thoughts and life. I very much feel that Le Petit Prince is an allegory of #neurodivergence in an nt world.

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Seven books to get to know me: #fiction
Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K le Guin
The Algebraist by Iain M Banks
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Malafrena by Ursula K le Guin
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
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I don't think there is a seven book list that would allow one to get to know me? I feel like it would change by the day? That being said, here's the list for today.
The Unseen World by Liz Moore
How to Be Both by Ali Smith
The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery
The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman
#SevenBooks #Bookstodon #Books

I don't think there is a seven book list that would allow one to get to know me? I feel like it would change by the day? That being said, here's the list for today.
The Unseen World by Liz Moore
How to Be Both by Ali Smith
The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery
The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman
#SevenBooks #Bookstodon #Books

#sevenbooks
1) The Little Broomstick by Mary Stewart. It totally colonised my imagination when I read it as a child.
2) The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
3) Villette by Charlotte Brontë. Hallucinatory depiction of mental health issues. Weird and beautiful, painful and funny.
4) Jane Austen's novels. Mansfield Park is my current favourite, but it varies.
5) Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban. So fucking good that I've never reread it in case I ruin it, and I'm an inveterate rereader.

And #SevenBooks - nonfiction:

Patricia A. McAnany and Norman Yoffee. Questioning collapse: human resilience, ecological vulnerability, and the aftermath of empire.
Edward Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto
David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything
Ed Lam, Damselflies of the Northeast
Seth Reice, The Silver lining: the benefits of natural disasters
Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Made in Hell

So, finally, #SevenBooks - fiction. I decided to make them all fairly recent because I had to constrain it all somehow:

César Aira: Ghosts
Ned Beauman: Venomous Lumpsucker
Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladwell: This is How You Lose the Time War
Lucy Ellman: Ducks, Newburyport
Ada Palmer: Terra Ignota series
Leanne Shapton: Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry
Jeff Vandermeer, Area X series

Of course while working and doing laundry I have my current obsession running in the back of my mind: what to I put for my #SevenBooks? I'm enjoying the nonfiction part - I obviously am very interested in the idea of civilizational collapse (and whether that's actually a thing at all). For the fiction I'm struggling with the idea that right now it's all sci-fi. I read things other than sci-fi, cmon