Thanks to @theothermaidoftarth for tagging me!
This list is sort of all over the place and in no way exhaustive but they are all favorites
Tagging (no pressure whatsoever) @lairn @whatevsbla @spectrum-color @kingsroad @motleywolf-et-al @hogs-in-your-house @uniqueobjectcollective and whoever else wants to share books
Are these the best books ever? No. Are these my favourites? For now, yes. This was pretty hard to pick tbh because they aren't all at the same level and I have at least 2 more I would mention and some I haven't reread recently so I can't say if they are still favourites. In the end, I was satisfied with this list at least.
Fool's Errand stands for the complete Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies. I just didn't want the entire thing to be Hobb books.
Btw @lairn I just bought Holes because it was cheap and I saw it on my dash and it looked interesting.
Tagging (if you want to do it): @monpetitrenard @xserpx @beeblackburn @random-jot @alloysius-g @electropeach @song-of-amethyst @garnetrena @vydumaj
I've been tagged by @smalltownfae and by @tragediegh , almost at the same time, thank you so much my Skill coterie fellows 💙💙💙
Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb (stands for the whole Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies + other Robin Hobb/Megan Lindholm books in general)
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Le Temps Retrouvé (Finding Time Again) by Marcel Proust (stands for the whole A La Recherche du Temps Perdu saga - In Search of Lost Time)
Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) by Antoine Saint-Exupéry
His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Métaphysique des Tubes by Amélie Nothomb
The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
The Odyssey by Homer
The Neverending Story by Michel Ende
I wanted to add a lot more: The Lord of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, A Song of Ice and Fire by G.R.R. Martin, Jonathan Norrell and Mr Strange by Susanna Clarke, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Peter Pan by James Barrie, The Great Gatsby by F.S. Fitzgerald, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, Ewilan's Quest by Pierre Bottero...
I just chose the most impactful ones, the ones I think about the most, the ones which meant something very deep and very personal to me. The ones I reread again and again, even now. Some childhood books, some books I read as an adult, but they all stayed with me and I read them many times.
And I tag 10 mutuals: @andreas-hangout , @blatterpussbunnyfromhell , @calimera62 @chonaku-things , @jellyfitzjelly , @kabbal , @kaantt , @lilaiyuy, @rapha-reads , and @sweettsubaki !!
(no pressure, only do it if you find it fun! and if you want to do it without being tagged, let's go!)
I started thinking "oh no how will i pick 10 books only"
In no particular order, but i tried picking the cover of the edition i read, including in french. Cheeky 11th pick with Paradise Kiss, because it's a manga but it was the first one i wanted to include.
Pleased to see i have mostly women written books on there, but not that surprised. Took away non-fiction to narrow the list. Bias of when i last read them is strong but not that overwhelming actually.
Let me see who to tag... @kesslersymbolic @hyperjiggles @inthecompanyofabengaltiger @chwiggy @rocketsaurus @tacofrend @yetanotherboringadult @quietlycanadian @illusemywords@miyamorana only if you wanna share
I wouldn't normally do this but the twink reading over my shoulder said "you should do that and tag me", so I guess I gotta do it now.
I haven't been an avid reader since the age of eleven so I'm gonna just put in some good books I remember reading, and if I make it to ten even fucking better.
I bet no one has put these books in a list before.
In No Particular Order
The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers | has anyone not read one of these books by this point? I gotta get on with reading some more of them. Excellent.
What If? - Randall Munroe | delightfully nerdy romp exploring the answers to questions submitted by readers of xkcd.
Strong Female Character - Fern Brady | the last book I read. I need to get back on the whole reading thing. It's about being an autistic woman, and when I tell you I felt so seen by this fucking book. I read it cover to cover in a single day. Want to read again.
Axiom's End - Lindsay Ellis | not my usual fodder, but very enjoyable, and relevant to my misplaced 00s nostalgia.
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - Hank Green | I'm definitely guilty of reading authors rather than just books, but I'm so glad Hank Green is Hank Green because I don't think I'd have bothered reading this if it wasn't written by someone I already was invested in. Also contains the following, beautiful phrase: You'd think that if space aliens built me from scratch to help them conquer a planet I would be coordinated enough to not close my boob in a door. And yet…
Fuck Yeah, Video Games - Daniel Hardcastle | I spent the second half of my high school career absolutely obsessed with the work of this man and his team, how could I not. Gotta say, I don't remember the book itself all that well, but it deserves to be here.
Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard - Alex Bertie | my go-to book to give to cis people who want to know what a trans is, and just a lovely way to enlighten myself to the other sides of the transgender experience. In that same vein:
Gender Euphoria - Laura Kate Dale | the only one on here I have yet to finish, but it does what it says on the tin. Lovely read when things aren't all going great.
Memoirs of a Fruitcake - Chris Evans (the British radio chap, not the jacked American actor) | I'll be honest, this is padding the list, but I have read it more times than probably anything else on here? Is it good? Idk. It's one of several Evans autobiographies, and I read it in year seven or eight at school several times over, imagining myself in the shoes of this rich white dude. Part of me would like to buy Ferrari and fill it with flowers to woo Billie Piper.
Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People - Dan Pilkey | need I say more?
Thank FUCK that's over. I tag @hopefilled, @cisgirlfemboy, @sickboysummer, @deancoreworldwide and @iamascaryhuman.
- refugee heritage: world heritage nomination dossier by s hilal & a petti
- the house of bernada alba by federico garcia lorca
- orientalism by edward said
[tried to do these by the impact they had on me - ones i remember clearly the visceral way they floored me when i read them, or that have changed how i think]
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