Yesterday in the UK 🇬🇧 was #WorldBookDay2026
The UK and IRE moved their celebration from the UNESCO date (Apr 23rd) to the first Thursday in March to avoid Easter holidays and ensure more schools and children could participate.
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@kimlockhartga @GayDeceiver east to say: fiction:
Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson and then 2-9 anything by Sir Terry Pratchett. Non fiction- I don’t read.
Poetry:
Emily Dickinson: *anything*, cannot choose
Ingeborg Bachmann: again, *anything*, if pressured, Alle Tage - Every day (can be found on YT)
Paul Celan: Todesfuge - Death Fugue (also on YT)
Philip Larkin: Aubade (also on YT)
Friederike Mayröcker: *any*effing*thing*
Ernst Jandl: *yes*
Rilke: yes please
John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale
W.H. Auden: Funeral Blues
Georg Trakl: do I need to repeat it?
there is English CC:
@kimlockhartga Non Fiction:
Jonathan Franzen: What If We Stopped Predending?
Germaine Greer: The Female Eunuch
Annelie Rufus: Party of One - The Loners' Manifesto
Phyllis Chesler: Women and Madness
Ekta Kaul: Kantha
??: Simple Sabotage Field Manual
Jean Améry: Hand an sich legen (On Suicide)
Jean Améry:Jenseits von Schuld und Sühne (At the Mind's Limits)
Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny
Primo Levi: Ist das ein Mensch? (If This Is a Man)
etc. etc. etc.
@kimlockhartga i'm going to be worried about these all day but 🤷♂️ probably this will do
fiction list https://mastodon.nz/@ptoothfish/116177912680115377
non fiction https://mastodon.nz/@ptoothfish/116177998704370886
top 10 fiction #Top10Fiction i don't know about the order... i would never settle, so... 0. Geek Love - Katherine Dunn 1. Dark Forest Trilogy - Cixin Liu 2. Hitchhikers Guide series- Douglas Adams 3. Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie 4. Oryx & Crake trilogy - Margaret Atwood 5. Stranger Things Happen (and anything else by)- Kelly Link 6. Pump 6 and other stories - Paolo Bacigalupi 7. The forever war - Joe Haldeman 8. Woman on the edge of time- Marge Piercy 9. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut #WorldBookDay #worldbookday2026
top 10 non-fiction #Top10NonFiction #WorldBookDay #worldbookday2026
bertrand russell - problems of philosophy and history of western philosophy
nietzsche- the antichrist
dossie easton & janet hardie - the ethical slut
elizabeth stanley - the road to hell, state violence against children in postwar new zealand
christopher macdougall - born to run
john rawls - a theory of justice
marc ian barasch - the little black book of atomic war
randall munroe - thing explainer
Fiction:
Virginia Woolf: Orlando
Ingeborg Bachmann: Malina
Joyce Carol Oates: Blonde
Toni Morrison: Beloved
Marlen Haushofer: Wir töten Stella
Lily Brett: Too Many Men
Joseph Roth: Radetzkymarsch
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
and about 587 more
top 10 fiction #Top10Fiction
i don't know about the order... i would never settle, so...
0. Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
1. Dark Forest Trilogy - Cixin Liu
2. Hitchhikers Guide series- Douglas Adams
3. Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
4. Oryx & Crake trilogy - Margaret Atwood
5. Stranger Things Happen (and anything else by)- Kelly Link
6. Pump 6 and other stories - Paolo Bacigalupi
7. The forever war - Joe Haldeman
8. Woman on the edge of time- Marge Piercy
9. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Happy #worldbookday2026
If you were going to recommend your top ten fiction and top ten nonfiction reads of all time, what would they be? Yes, it's hard to narrow it down.
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