#13books that changed how I see the world:
Foundation Trilogy - Asimov (cheated!)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Angelou
Good to Great - Collins
Makes Me Wanna Holler - McCall
Heart of Darkness - Conrad
Secret Seven - Blyton
Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Haley
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Sacks
Kids are Worth It! - Coloroso
Howard's End - Forster
What Maisie Knew - James
The Bluest Eye - Morrison
#13books that changed how I see the world:
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
What are your #13books?
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So hard to limit it but here goes:
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
#13books that changed how I see the world:
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
Cheating a bit? Maybe.
#13books that changed how I see the world:
Watership Down - Adams
1984 - Orwell
Long Distance Flying - Garrison
The Mythical Man-Month - Brooks
Lord of the Rings trilogy - Tolkien
Foundation's Edge - Asimov
Lammas Night - Kurtz
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Heinlein
Schlock Mercenary (series) - Tayler
Nothing In Reserve - Lewis
Bridge of Birds - Hughart
Ravens in the Library - Brucato and Swan, eds (*) (**)
Faerie Blood - Korra'ti (*)
#13books that changed how I see the world:
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
What are your #13books?
#books #whatToRead #sciFi #SFF #bookstodon #hopepunk #librarydon
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#13Books to know me
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
😍 Lovely idea from @franciscawrites - getting to know people through the books they like. I had real trouble staying in the 500 character limit.
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
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