Let's get to know each other through books.
Quote or reply to this and tell me the four or five books that define you.
I'll start: David Copperfield, Pickwick Papers, Through the Looking Glass, In Search of Lost Time, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. #booksky
Quote or reply to this and tell me the four or five books that define you.
I'll start: David Copperfield, Pickwick Papers, Through the Looking Glass, In Search of Lost Time, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. #booksky
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It's a morality tale about a blue rectangular man who didn't comply with capitalism's standards by spending his money frivolously and maintaining his house in the way society expects.
He ends up being remorselessly bullied and shamed by a wizard into changing his ways
Emillia Hart’s Weyward, Jeanette Winterson’s Why Be Happy When You Could Just Be Normal?, Joanne Harris’ Broken Light, Maya Angelou’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
The Bet, Chekhov
The Master & Margarita, Bulgakov
Narcissus and Goldmund, Hesse
Snow Country, Kawabata
Foucault's Pendulum, Eco
2666, Bolaño
The Horse and His Boy
To Kill a Mockingbird
Peace Like a River
Count of Monte Cristo
East of Eden
The Changeling (YA book by Zylpha Keatly Snyder)
Jane Eyre
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Women’s Room
Sense and Sensability
To the Lighthouse
Swallows and Amazons
Penric's Demon
Master and Commander
yes this last is very suburban-dadly, still it's the best way to get both Austen and Buchan in one read.. ha
The child in time
True Hallucinations
The long earth
The Mabinogion
A Confederacy of Dunces.
A Tale of Two Cities.
Under the Rainbow.
The Martian Chronicles.
Tale of Two Cities
The Magic Mountain
Jane Eyre
Demons
Brothers Karamazov
Comedie Humaine [it is hard to choose one work, maybe Pere Goriot]
Notre Dame de Paris
The Cowperwood Trilogy [also called Trilogy of Desire: The Financier; The Titan; The Stoic]
The Human Stain
The Berlin Stories
1. C. S. Lewis (Christian apologetics, literary criticism, novels, poetry)
2. P. G. Wodehouse
3. Anthony Trollope
4. Mark Twain
and
5. The Mad Scientists’ Club by Bertrand R. Brinley
A Court of Thorns and Roses
A Discovery of Witches
Pride and Prejudice
Dracula 🩸
Pattern Recognition (William Gibson)
Faithful Place (Tana French)
The Book Thief (Markus Zsusak)
Endurance (Alfred Lansing)
A Wrinkle in Time
The Poisonwood Bible
Survival in Auschwitz
Nineteen Eighty four
The Miracle of Mindfulness
Shibumi
The Dark Tower (series)
Starship Troopers
So long and thanks for all the fish 😁
Wuthering Heights
To Kill a Mockingbird
As a child:
Half Magic by Edward Eager
Horton Hatches the Egg by Suess
“I meant what I said and I said what I meant and an elephant’s faithful 100%”
The long, dark tea time of the soul
Wyrd Sisters
Oryx and Crake
The Princess Bride
Calvin and Hobbes
Someplace to be Flying
A Night in the Lonesome October
The Wood Wife
Greenglass House
Everybody Needs a Rock
100 years of Solitude
Cat's Cradle
Stranger in a strange land
And many more.
‘The Emperor of All Maladies’ by Siddhartha Mukherjee
‘Rage Becomes Her’ by Soraya Chemaly
‘They Knew’ by Sarah Kendzior
‘Why Does He Do That’ by Lundy Bancroft
• The Secret History
• The Song of Achilles
• Pride and Prejudice
• Lamb, or the Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
• She’s Come Undone
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Beach Music
ACOTAR series
Catch22
1984
Snow Crash
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Parable of the Sower
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Book Thief
Consider Phlebas
The Sailor on the Sea of Fate
The Lord of the Rings
Catch 22
The Little House on the Prairie series
Little Women
Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret (or any Judy Blume novel that helped define my generation)
Moby Dick (Melville)
David Copperfield (Dickens)
The Way We Live Now (Trollope)
Walden (Thoreau)
Plus any book by Alan Watts or Joseph Campbell
Beatrix Potter series
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
As a kid ( & still reread)
Being a English major at UF, Dickens, Trollope, Hardy, et al. were all heroes to me.
Yeah kinda all over the place.
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr
Middlemarch
Our Mutual Friend
A Perfect Spy
Elizabeth Taylor's short stories
Pride and Prejudice
(Runners-up: The complete works of C. S. Lewis and L. M. Montgomery.)
Jayber Crow
The Brothers Karamazov
Life Together (D. Bonhoeffer)
The Seven Storey Mountain (T. Merton)
#booksky
The Little Prince
The Stand
Moonwreck Tango
Obey: Supply and Demand: the art of Shepard Fairy
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography - Norris
Suffering: A Test of Theological Method - McGill
All You Can Ever Know - Chung
Decline & Fall - Evelyn Waugh
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Paris Was Yesterday - Janet Flanner
Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen
Gaudy Night - Dorothy L. Sayers
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
Wuthering Heights
Wyrd Sisters
La divina commedia
Hotel du lac
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Fahrenheit 451
84, Charing Cross Road
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Any and all Agatha Christie
As a reader, Jane Eyre, Much Ado About Nothing, Oliver Twist, The Hound of the Baskervilles, All Creatures Great and Small
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Time Enough for Love
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Stories and Novels
The Count of Monte Cristo
Speaker for the Dead
If on a winter’s night a traveler
The Appeal
Dandelion Wine
Drood, Simmons
IT, King
Death on the Nile, Christie
The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas
The Haunting of Hill House, Jackson
(...sorry I couldn't stick to 5)
The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood
The Good Terrorist - Doris Lessing
The Gates of Ivory - Margaret Drabble
The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
I was on the phone at work just trying to end the call so I could get back to reading it
To Say Nothing of the Dog is a comedy of manners set in the Victorian Era, and Blackout/All Clear see historians stuck in WWII when the net breaks down. So good.
I toggle around on which of hers is my favorite. Currently it's To Say Nothing of the Dog
Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden
Sara Schulman - The Cosmopolitans
The Diaries of Etty Hillesum
Margaret Laurence - The Diviners
Jane Eyre
Middlemarch
The Secret History
Our Mutual Friend
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury,
The Giver by Lois Lowry, and
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Sneetches by Dr Seuss
Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri
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Catch 22
Lord of the Rings
of Mice and Men
What's Bred in the Bone, Robertson Davies
Hay Fever, Noël Coward
Bad, or the Dumbing of America, Paul Fussell
Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste, Luke Barr
Brass Man
Invisible Man
Matter
Endless Perfect Circles
2. Father of the Rain by Lily King
3. Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh
4. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco
5. Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
Authors for fun-- Archer, Sheldon, Ludlum, Follet, Sandford, Baldacci, French, Reichs