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).
#Bookstodon #Books @bookstodon

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

4-in-1

#7BandsToKnowMe
Arrogant Worms
Bette Midler
Hollywood Undead
Lizzo
Mika
The Rankin Family
Sixx:A.M.

#7BooksToKnowMe
D&D books
The Dark Tower series
The Maradaine Saga
Marvel comics
Murder on the Orient Express
Needful Things
They Thirst

#7MoviesToKnowMe
The Birds
Blazing Saddles
Chicago
Clue
Dawn of the Dead
Shock Treatment
Sordid Lives

#7TVShowsToKnowMe
Battlestar Galactica
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Infinity Train
Star Trek: Voyager
Steven Universe
The Traitors
WandaVision

#7bookstoknowme

1 - The Borribles, Michael de Larrabeiti
2 - The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper
3 - The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
4 - Strandloper, Alan Garner
5 - The Curious Room, Angela Carter
6 - Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban
7 - Lud-in-the-Mist, Hope Mirrlees

This isn't a list of my favorites - it's a map of how I became who I am. These are landmark books that left indelible marks on me.

#7BooksToKnowMe
(includes non-fiction and graphic novels)

Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Masters of Doom - David Kushner
The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller
Hitman - Bret Hart
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Ghost World - Daniel Clowes

I’ll bite. #7BooksToKnowMe in no particular order:
But No Elephants! By Jerry Smath
The Silver Brumby by Elyne Mitchell
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy M Montgomery
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Tigana by Guy Kavriel Kay
The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
Harry Potter series by She Who Shall Not Be Named

No, naming series isn’t cheating. Well, probably is.

#7BooksToKnowMe

Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court - Bob Woodward & Scott Armstrong
Europe and the People Without History - Eric Wolf
The Hite Report on Male Sexuality - Shere Hite
Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Satin Island - Tom McCarthy
Ulysses - James Joyce

#Introduction Switching this page from my pet page to my own. These are the books that influenced me from early childhood to the present day both positively or negatively, in no particular order;
#7BooksToKnowMe
•Old Yeller- Fred Gipson

•Frankenstein -Mary Shelley

•The Godfather - Mario Putzo

•The Hobbit /LOTR- JRR Tolkien

•Diary Of Anne Frank

•Elizabeth The Great- Elizabeth Jenkins

•Go Dog Go- P.D Eastman

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#Introduction
#7BooksToKnowMe: These reads are 7 books that positively & negatively influenced me from early childhood to the present. The list is in no particular order/ import of influence;
•Go Dog Go-
P.D. Eastman
•Old Yeller- Fred Gipson
•Frankenstein -Mary Shelley
•The Godfather - Mario Putzo
•The Hobbit /LOTR- JRR Tolkien
•Diary Of Anne Frank
•Elizabeth The Great- Elizabeth Jenkins
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1) Murderbot series by Martha Wells
2) Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein
3) The Voyage of the White Cloud by M. Darusha Wehm
4) Manifold Worlds duology by Foz Meadows
5) The Innsmouth Legacy by Ruthanna Emyrs
6) Sal & Gabi duology by Carlos Hernandez
7) Tales of the Polity series by Francesca Forrest

Honorable mention, most of Aliette d'Bodard's work.

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#7BooksToKnowMe just as hard to choose as shows and music, as my preferences change with my phases and mood-swings... But these are the general idea:
- "Of Drag Kings and the Wheel of Fate"- Susan Smith
- "Stone Butch Blues" - Leslie Feinberg
- "Silk" - Caitlín R. Kiernan
- "Woodswoman" - Anne LaBastille
-"My Side of the Mountain" - Jean Craighead George
- "The Book of the Damned" - Charles Fort
- "The Road" - Cormac McCarthy

#7bookstoknowme

1) Murderbot series by Martha Wells
2) Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein
3) The Voyage of the White Cloud by M. Darusha Wehm
4) Manifold Worlds duology by Foz Meadows
5) The Innsmouth Legacy by Ruthanna Emyrs
6) Sal & Gabi duology by Carlos Hernandez
7) Tales of the Polity series by Francesca Forrest

Honorable mention, about 85% of Aliette d'Bodard's work. I couldn't pin it down to one.

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#7BooksToKnowMe​
(although there are many more I could have listed)

-The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
-Experimental Film by Gemma Files
-The Haunted Looking Glass: Ghost Stories Chosen by Edward Gorey
-The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
-Henry & June by Anais Nin
-Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
-Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement by Whitney Chadwick

#7BooksToKnowMe

#MobyDick
#DayOfTheTriffids
#LonesomeDove
#MasterAndCommander
#PetSematary
#CallOfCthulu
#WatershipDown

#7BooksToKnowMe

- Encyclopedia Britannica 13th Edition Volumes 23-24 Refec to Shutt
- Encyclopedia Britannica 14th Edition Volume 3 Balt to Brai
- Encyclopedia Britannica 11th Edition Volume 25 Shu to Sub
- Encyclopedia Britannica 9th Edition Volume 19 Phy to Pro
- Encyclopedia Britannica 4th Edition Volume 3 Ass to Boo [tee-hee -Ed.]
- Encyclopedia Britannica 16th Edition Volume 17 Deco to Edis
- Encyclopedia Britannica 9th Edition Volume 15 Loo to Mem