The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Harold & Maude, Colin Higgins
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
The Neverending Story, Michael Ende
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
The Lover, Marguerite Duras
Henry & June, Anais Nin
Books of Blood, Clive Barker
House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
IT, Stephen King
The Master & The Margarita, Mikhail Bulkagov @bookstodon@horrorbooks
Jennifer Egan - A Visit from the Goon Squad
Marquez - Hundred years of Solitude
Kate Atkinson - Case Histories
T.C. Boyle - World's End
Ann Tyler - The Accidental Tourist
Pat Barker - Regeneration trilogy
Paul Auster - New York trilogy
Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
Jonathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn
David Mitchell - Utopia Avenue
Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook
Annie Proulx - The Shipping News
Jonathan Coe - What a carve up!
Lord of the Rings
Slaughterhouse 5
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Good Omens
Great Expectations
Wuthering Heights
Let the Great World Spin
A Brief History of Seven Killings
The Tombs of Atuan
Dune
The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Non fiction
Field of Blood - Freeman
Thunder at the Gates - Egerton
America on Fire - Hinton
Silencing the Past - Trouillot
How the South Won the Civil War - Cox Richardson
Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Freire
The Second Founding - Foner
Barrio America - Sandoval-Strausz
The Broken Heart of America - Johnson
Fiction
Rama Revealed - Clarke and Lee
The Fifth Season - Jemisin
Thrawn - Zahn
Ahsoka - Johnston
Here are my #13books . This was much more challenging than I thought it would be and I continue to think I'm missing books I should be including.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle -Murakami
Dune -Herbert
Hyperion -Simmons
Man's Search for Meaning -Frankl
Under the Dome -King
What is the What -Eggers
Nation -Pratchett
Maus -Spiegelman
American Gods -Gaiman
Annihilation -VanderMeer
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell -Clarke
The Once and Future King -White
What If -Munroe
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The Tombs of Atuan - Le Guin
Frankenstein - Shelley
Hunger Games - Collins
Last Unicorn - Beagle
The House of Spirits - Allende
The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood
The Left Hand of Darkness - Le Guin
Annihilation - VanderMeer
Three Times Lucky - Turnage
Good Omens - Pratchett Gaiman
Jane Eyre - Brontë
Pet Sematary - King
Howl's Moving Castle - Wynne Jones
"Dune" - Frank Herbert
"Heart of Darkness" - Joseph Conrad
"Solaris" - Stanisław Lem
"Das Parfum" - Patrick Süskind
"Hyperion" - Dan Simmons
"Der Magier von Erdsee" - Ursula K. Le Guin
"Der Prozess" - Franz Kafka
"Neuromancer" - William Gibson
"Der Herr der Ringe" - J.R.R Tolkien
"Das Foucaultsche Pendel" - Umberto Eco
"Malpertuis" - Jean Ray
"The Shadow over Innsmouth" - H.P. Lovecraft
"Eine Woche voller Samstage" - Paul Maar
Choosing #13books was much easier than trying pick favourites, because most of it was just looking at the books on my shelf that have survived multiple culls because of the impact they had me when I first read them, and the rest was looking at the books I consistently turn to for comfort re-reads. Though I could have used a couple more slots :)
Watership Down. Richard Adams
Howl’s Moving Castle. Diana Wynne Jones
Guards, Guards. Terry Pratchett
Bridge of Birds. Barry Hughart
Gaudy Night. Dorothy L Sayers
Doomsday Book. Connie Willis
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Susanna Clarke
The Goneaway World. Nick Harkaway
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Michael Chabon
The Kingdoms. Natasha Pulley
Boy Swallows Universe. Trent Dalton
Sword Dance. AJ Demas
Slippery Creatures. KJ Charles
Parable of the Talents – Butler
Semiosis – Sue Burke
Artificial Condition – Martha Wells
Assassin’s Apprentice – Robin Hobb
Ishmael - Quinn
Tomorrow x3 – Zevin
All the Birds in the Sky – CJA
The Genius Plague – Walton
To Be Taught If Fortunate – Chambers
Uprooted – Novik
Parasite Rex – Zimmer
Mr Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder – Weschler
Radicalized – Doctorow
Ulysses, Joyce
The Crying of Lot 49, Pynchon
Good Omens, Gaiman/Pratchett
Peter Cabot Gets Lost, Sebastian
The Gun Seller, Laurie
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Yu
The Affair of the Mysterious Letter, Hall
Priestdaddy, Lockwood
All Systems Red, Wells
As I Lay Dying, Faulkner
All the Times We Passed McDonald's..., Daly
Sherlock Holmes, Doyle
House of Leaves, Danielewski
Broken Earth Trilogy, NK Jemisin
Monk & Robot series, Becky Chambers
The Overstory, Richard Powers
The Meadow, James Galvin
Perdido Street Station, China Miéville
Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
Joy of Man’s Desiring, Jean Giono
Blindness, José Saramago
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Emily Alone, Stewart O’Nan
Shriek, Jeff Vandermeer
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
Whipping Girl - Julia Serano
Ubik - Philip K Dick
Psychopolitics - Byung-Chul Han
The Left Hand of Darkness - Le Guin
What Tech Calls Thinking - Adrian Daub
Y The Last Man - Vaughan and Guerra
Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea - Beatrice Hohenegger
The Severed Head - Julia Kristeva
Difference and Repetition - Deleuze
What is Philosophy? - Deleuze and Guatarri
Diagrammatic Immanence - Rocco Gangle
Food Lab - J Kenji Lopez-Alt
The Bread Baker's Apprentice - Peter Reinhart
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This is tough, but here goes #13Books.
100 Years of Solitude, or anything by Garcia Marquez
The Death of Speedy, or any Love & Rockets by the Hernandez Bros
The Futurological Congress, by Lem
Hurricane Season, Melchor
The Twilight Zone, Fernandez
Life and Times of Michael K, Coetzee
The Fan Man, Kotzwinkle
The Land of Hearts Desire, Yeats
Omeros, Walcott
El Polizon del Ulises, Matute
Miguel Street, Naipaul
The Savage Detectives, Bolaño
The Overstory, Powers
@franciscawrites@bookstodon #13books
The Walls Around Us - David Owen
The Dispossessed - Ursula LeGuin
Evenings With The Orchestra - Hector Berlioz
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking - T. Kingfisher
Bimbos of the Death Sun - Sharyn McCrumb
Sci-Fi - William Marshall
Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Bring the Jubilee - Ward Moore
The Wizard's Butler - Nathan Lowell
Ridiculous - DL Carter
Why Fish Don't Exist - Lulu Miller
Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki
Perfection Salad - Laura Shapiro
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
The bone clocks - David Mitchell
Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
Wolf hall - Hillary Mantel
The windup bird chronicle - Haruki Murakami
The peripheral - William Gibson
Darkmans - Nicola Barker
The city and the city - China Mieville
Accelerando - Charles Stross
An instance of the Fingerpost - Iain Pears
Gideon the ninth - Tamsin Muir
The sad tale of the brothers grossbart - Jesse Bullington
Between two fires - Christopher Buehlman
All of these were Wow! books when I finished reading them.
This is torturous, but... #13Books (not necessarily novels)
Frankenstein - Shelly
Poetry/Tales - Poe
Ghost Stories/Antiquary - James
The Martian Chronicles - Bradbury
More Than Human - Sturgeon
We Have Always Lived In the Castle - Jackson
Two-Handed Engine - Kuttner & Moore
Dangerous Visions - Ellison
Earthsea (series) - Le Guin
The Norton Book of SF - Le Guin/Attebery
The Dark Descent - Hartwell
Tales of the Flat Earth (series) - Tanith Lee
The Weird - VanderMeer
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