Earlier today I saw someone use the hashtag #7BooksToKnowMe, so I decided to write up my own list.

Notes in the image alt. text.

"Path of Daggers" -- Robert Jordan

"House of Leaves" --Mark Z. Danielewski

"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" --Stephen Chbosky

"On the Road" -- Jack Kerouac

"The Beginning" -- K.A. Applegate

"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" - Douglas Adams

"The Cat Who Saw Stars" -- Lillian Jackson Braun

When I joined Mastodon two years ago, the #7Books #7BooksToKnowMe hashtags were a thing, and I had fun compiling my list. How do I choose only SEVEN?!? At the time I declared that my list was by no means permanent. With that said, I feel an update is past due, especially since one of the authors from my original list turned out to be... problematic. I'm posting the original list, as well as the current version (images to save characters, with #AltText of course).
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How about a picture of #7books for #7BooksToKnowMe ?

Saw the tag #7BooksToKnowMe and #7Books and couldn't resist - and me being me it won't be just 7 books but 7 series:

- The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
- Culture series, especially Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
- Sprawl trilogy by William Gibson
- The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock
- The Sandman by Neil Gaiman (yes, it's a comic, but still counts)
- Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
- Dune series by Frank Herbert (yours truly is a completionist, so including all the KJA & BH stuff).

Ok, let's do this. Geez, I love this.

#7BooksToKnowMe

My #7books list:

- The Hitchhiker Guide To The Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
- Blood Meridian (Cormack McCarthy)
- The Memory Illusion (Julia Shaw)
- Foundation (original trilogy, Isaac Asimov)
- Lord Of The Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)
- The Complete Fiction Works of H.P. Lovecraft
- Il Sistema Periodico (The Periodic Table) (Primo Levi)

Just off the top of my head...

#7BooksToKnowMe

* The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Speare
* House of Leaves, Danielewski
* Lisey' Story, King
* Jerlayne, Abbey
* Fledgling, Butler
* The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Lewis
* Blackbirds, Wendig

#7BooksToKnowMe

- Wizard’s First Rule (Sword of Truth #1); Terry Goodkind

- Elvenbane (The Halfblood Chronicles, #1); Andre Norton & Mercedes Lackey

- The Hand of Chaos (The Death Gate Cycle, #4); Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

- Sojurn (The Dark Elf Trilogy, #3); R. A. Salvatore

- Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance Chronicles, #1); Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

- Rendezvous with Rama (Rama series, #1); Arthur C. Clarke

- Ender's Game (Ender’s Game series, #1); Orson Scott Card

@BruceMirken

OK, I'll play. #7bookstoknowme

• Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
• The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
• The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
• Hawaii, James Michener
• Generation of Swine, Hunter S. Thompson
• Blu's Hanging, Lois Ann Yamanaka
• The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings Trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien

Yeah, I know, I cheated on the last one. But hey, you can't read just one of those, eh?

Aloha!

#7bookstoknowme
The Lord of the Rings
The Name of the Wind
Of Mice and Men
The Path by Chet Raymo
Ivanhoe
A Game of Thrones
Heartstopper (do graphic novels count?)

Another bandwagon. Love a good bandwagon.

#7BooksToKnowMe
* House of Leaves

* Lightning

* This is not a book

* Eat that frog

* Rebecca

* Death Star Owners Technical Manual

* Oddkins

#7TVShowsToKnowMe
* Falcon Crest

* Tenko

* Schitts Creek

* Kath & Kim

* The Mole

* Buffy

* Star Trek: TNG

#7PlacesToKnowMe
* San Martine D’Ampurias

* Lichfield 

* Galway

* Barcelona

* Edinburgh

* Birmingham

* Brynamman

#7SongsToKnowMe

* Oh L’Amour

* Stop!

* Sell Me

* Down in the Depths

* Smalltown Boy

* Wicked Game
* Sweet Child O’ Mine

#7MoviesToKnowMe
* Rebecca

* Back the Future

* Star Wars (all of them)

* The Elephant Man

* Vegas in Space

* Hercules Returns

* Passport to Pimlico