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Cervantes dunes, Western Australia

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How many of these "Top 100 Books to Read" have you read?

(633) 1984 - George Orwell

(616) The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

(613) The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger

(573) Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(550) Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

(549) The Adventures Of Tom And Huck - Series - Mark Twain

(538) Moby-Dick - Herman Melville

(534) One Hundred Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(527) To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

(521) The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck

(521) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

(492) Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen

(489) The Lord Of The Rings - Series - J.R.R. Tolkien

(488) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

(480) Ulysses - James Joyce

(471) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

(459) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

(398) The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(396) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

(395) To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

(382) War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy

(382) The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

(380) The Sound And The Fury - William Faulkner

(378) Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Series - Lewis Carroll

(359) Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

(353) Heart Of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

(352) Middlemarch - George Eliot

(348) Animal Farm - George Orwell

(346) Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

(334) Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

(325) Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

(320) Harry Potter - Series - J.K. Rowling

(320) The Chronicles Of Narnia - Series - C.S. Lewis

(317) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

(308) Lord Of The Flies - William Golding

(306) Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

(289) The Golden Bowl - Henry James

(276) Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov

(266) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

(260) The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

(255) The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Series - Douglas Adams

(252) The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne

(244) Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

(237) Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery

(235) The Trial - Franz Kafka

(233) Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner

(232) The Call Of The Wild - Jack London

(232) Emma - Jane Austen

(229) Beloved - Toni Morrison

(228) Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

(224) A Passage To India - E.M. Forster

(215) Dune - Frank Herbert

(215) A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man - James Joyce

(212) The Stranger - Albert Camus

(209) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

(209) The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(206) Dracula - Bram Stoker

(205) The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

(197) A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

(193) Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

(193) The Age Of Innocence - Edith Wharton

(193) The History Of Tom Jones, A Foundling - Henry Fielding

(192) Under The Volcano - Malcolm Lowry

(190) The Odyssey - Homer

(189) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

(188) In Search Of Lost Time - Marcel Proust

(186) Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

(185) An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser

(182) The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

(180) Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

(179) The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann

(178) Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

(178) Tropic Of Cancer - Henry Miller

(176) The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

(176) On The Road - Jack Kerouac

(175) The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

(173) The Giver - Lois Lowry

(172) Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

(172) A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

(171) Charlotte's Web - E.B. White

(171) The Ambassadors - Henry James

(170) Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

(167) The Complete Stories And Poems - Edgar Allen Poe

(166) Ender's Saga - Series - Orson Scott Card

(165) In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

(164) The Wings Of The Dove - Henry James

(163) The Adventures Of Augie March - Saul Bellow

(162) As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner

(161) The Hunger Games - Series - Suzanne Collins

(158) Anne Of Greene Gables - L.M. Montgomery

(157) Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

(157) Neuromancer - William Gibson

(156) The Help - Kathryn Stockett

(156) A Song Of Ice And Fire - George R.R. Martin

(155) The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford

(154) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

(153) I, Claudius - Robert Graves

(152) Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

(151) The Portrait Of A Lady - Henry James

(150) The Death Of The Heart - Elizabeth Bowen

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58 Books Reading List

Originally made for myself; decided to post it (Have already read several, and some I added many for others to look into because I read them and they were fire)

CW: Primarily depressing????

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

The Fox and the Hound by Daniel P. Mannix

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

Dune by Frank Herbert

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

The Liar's Club by Mary Karr

Felidae by Akif Pirinçci

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Aeon Legion: Labyrinth by J. P. Beaubien

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Reading Lolita In Tehran by Azar Nafisi

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

Percy Jackson & The Olympians by Rick Riordan

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Night by Elie Wiesel

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Holes by Louis Sachar

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker

Beloved by Tori Morrison

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Shadow of the Conqueror by Shad Brooks

Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Cervantes dunes, Western Australia

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2023 TB(H)R

to be (hopefully) read

I've made a list of books I hope to read in 2023, last year I made a longer list and finished about 8. My goodreads minimum was 20. This year, I've made my Goodreads 10 minimum, and hope to read more than 10. I've also added the non-reads of last year. Those with (*) I started reading and didnt finish before the end of the 2022.

Here's my hopefuls:

*1. Dune by: Frank Herbert

2. Dune Messiah by: Frank Herbert

*3. Crime & Punishment by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

4. Marabou Stork Nightmares by: Irvine Welsh

5. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by: Oceon Vuong

*6. Time Is A Mother by: Ocean Vuong

7. Of Human Bondage by: W. Somerset Maugham

8. Heartstopper Vol. 5 by: Alice Oseman

9. Tender Is The Night by: F. Scott Fitzgerald

*10. The Beautiful & The Damned by: F. Scott Fitzgerald

11. This Side of Paradise by: F. Scott Fitzgerald

12. The Bell Jar by: Sylvia Plath

*13. King Leopold's Ghost by: Adam Hochschild

14. 1984 by: George Orwell

*15. Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake by: Veronica Lake

16. The Complete Maus by: Art Spiegelman

17. War & Peace by: Leo Tolstoy

18. The Count of Monte Cristo by: Alexandre Dumas

19. Anna Karenina by: Anna Karenina

20. The Brothers Karamazov by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

21. Don Quixote by: Miguel De Cervantes

22. Cocaine blues : a Phryne Fisher mystery (Book I) BY: Kerry Greenwood.

23. Flying Too High: A Phryne Fisher mystery (Book II) by: Kerry Greenwood.

24. Pride and Prejudice by: Jane Austen

25. Animal Farm by: George Orwell

26.  Gone With The Wind by: Margaret Mitchell

27.  Hamnet by Maggie O’ Farrell

28. Song of Achilles by: Madeline Miller

*29. REBECCA by: Daphne Du Maurier

30. Black Butler Vol. 6 by: Toboso Yana

31. Black Butler Vol. 7. By: Toboso Yana

32.  No Surrender: My 30 year War by: Hiroo Oonada.

*33. The Lonely Life by: Bette Davis

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ok but as per last anon what ARE your hot takes of the aesthetic judgment variety

I don't have that many, at least as far as anything "classic" goes. The test of time is real test, so if something's lasted I try to understand why, and I usually succeed. Still, I have my tastes, as anyone does, so here are some "strong opinions":

—While I buy Frye's argument in The Anatomy of Criticism that satire is literature's first line of defense against philosophical, religious, and political encroachment on its autonomy, I still think it's a low art form always tempting the writer toward arrogant cheap shots. Accordingly, I don't much care for Voltaire, for Twain, for Vonnegut; I don't like a lot of dystopian fiction for the same reason and dis-esteem Brave New World and The Handmaid's Tale in particular as the worst offenders. The exceptions prove the rule: Swift is a genius because you can tell he includes himself in his satire; Never Let Me Go is the greatest dystopian novel because it's really about our own everyday lives here and now, wherever here and now happen to be.

—Now I will violate my own rule in the last post about avoiding stageist and stadial cultural historiography (sometimes I contradict myself just to see if anyone is paying attention): novels written before people figured out how to write novels without just blathering on in episodic prose aren't very pleasurable to read as a whole, despite the brilliance of their parts, and this includes figures I otherwise allow to be writers of genius, whether Cervantes or Defoe or Fielding or Richardson or Scott.

—I'm missing whatever gene allows people to take pleasure in the whole nonsense wing of the avant-garde, your Gertrude Steins, your John Ashberys, many of your Dada and Surrealist and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, the Anne Carson books I don't enjoy (as opposed to the ones I do), and the like. Poetry should be beautiful and symbolic, novels beautiful and dramatic. "Alas a doubt in case of more go to say what it is cress. What is it. Mean. Potato. Loaves." Get out of here with this shit, lady. Literature is the eye with which the universe beholds itself and knows itself divine, not whatever that is supposed to be.

—In homage to the master of Strong Opinions himself, modern literature's veritable chessmaster, I will say that Bloom's judgment on Updike is every bit as true of Nabokov: "a minor writer with a major style."

—This kind of game always revolves around negative contrarian judgments, but on the positive side, and in defiance of what I'm sure some see as my elitism: popular, middlebrow, and/or genre novels that have stood the aforementioned test of time are almost always actually good, whether we're talking about Uncle Tom's Cabin or Dracula or The Grapes of Wrath or Dune or The Godfather or The World According to Garp or The Secret History. (One exception for me: Tolkien. The three movies—perhaps the three longest movies ever made—and a couple of pages of that put me off for life.) The gay aesthete wing of the new right over on Twitter has been making an apologia for Ayn Rand recently, to much controversy across the political spectrum, but I can believe it. I never read Rand for two reasons: one, I heard she was bad, and two, given my own libertarian streak, I was worried I would decide she wasn't.

I'll avoid comment on my contemporaries. I have plenty of hot takes there, limited only by my tendency not to finish reading what I don't like and my belief that you can't really judge a book you haven't finished, but I can't be trusted to evaluate direct rivals can I?

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So, not that anyone asked but these are the novels I read this year. If any of these books catch your eye let’s be friends!

(Note: these are not in any order, I kinda just put em into a wanton list without any prior organization)

Violet’s wee reading list of 2022

1. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - Quentin Tarantino

2. Butter Honey Pig Bread - Francesca Ekwuyasi

3. Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda

4. Seize the Day - Saul Bellow

5. Storm of Steel - Ernst Junger

6. Tacky - Rax King

7. Slow Days, Fast Company - Eve Babitz

8. Stoner - John Williams

9. Hard Rain Falling - Don Carpenter

10. Anniversaries - Uwe Johnson

11. Don Quixote de La Mancha - Miguel de Cervantes

12. Killing Commendatore - Haruki Murakami

13. Burning Questions - Margaret Atwood

14. The Counterfieters - André Gide

15. Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsun

16. The Poems of John Keats - John Keats

17. Ulysses - James Joyce

18. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster

19. The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector - Clarice Lispector

20. Quo Vadis - Henry’s Sienkiewicz

20. The Dwelling Place of Light - Winston Churchill (not the former PM)

21. Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

22. Dune - Frank Herbert

23. Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert

24. Children of Dune - Frank Herbert

25. God Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert

26. Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert

27. Chapter House Dune - Frank Herbert

28. Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky

29. The Double - Fyodor Dostoevsky

30. Moby Dick - Herman Melville

31. Middlemarch - George Eliot

32. The Complete Stories of Jorge Luis Borges - Jorge Luis Borges

33. The Collins Complete Shakespeare - William Shakespeare

34. The Banjo: A History - Laurent DuBois

35. House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski

36. Sérotonin - Michel Houellebecq

37. Pamela - Samuel Richardson

38. The Confusions of Young Törless - Robert Musil

39. The Little Friend - Donna Tartt

40. My Struggle I: A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard

42. My Struggle II: A Man in Love - Karl Ove Knausgaard

43. My Struggle III: Boyhood Island - Karl Ove Knausgaard

44. My Struggle IV: Dancing in the Dark - Karl Ove Knausgaard

45. My Struggle V: Some Rain Must Fall - Karl Ove Knausgaard

46. My Struggle VI: The End - Karl Ove Knausgaard

47. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky

48. The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens

49. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

50. Bleak House - Charles Dickens

51. The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens

52. Nicholas Nickelby - Charles Dickens

53. Roots - Alex Haley

54. Silas Marner - George Eliot

55. Scenes of Clerical Life - George Eliot

56. Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion

57. Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao

58. Babel - R. F. Kuang

59. The Complete Father Brown Stories - G. K. Chesterton

60. Death Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases - Nissoisin

61. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood

62. The Song of Roland - Anon.

63. The Nibelungenlied - Anon.

64. Le Morte D’Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory

65. The Lais of Marie de France - Marie de France

66a. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (penguin tran.) - Anon. (The Pearl Poet)

66b. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Tolkien tran.) - Anon. (The Pearl Poet)

67. The Pearl (Tolkien tran.) - Anon. (The Pearl Poet)

68. Les Fleurs de Mal - Charles Baudelaire

69. Faust - Goethe

70. Forrest Gump - Winston Groom

71. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini - Benvenuto Cellini

72. Here There Be Dragons - James A. Owen

73. The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio

74. The Island - Alastair MacLeod

75. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett

76. White Teeth - Zadie Smith

77. Beautiful Losers - Leonard Cohen

78. Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles - Harold Bloom

79. A Song for Arbonne - Guy Gavriel Kay

80. Harlem Shuffle - Colson Whitehead

81. The Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice

82. The Vampire LeStat - Anne Rice

83. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler

84. Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh

85. Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh

86. Thus Were Their Faces - Silvina Ocampo

87. The Hellbound Heart - Clive Barker

88. The Collected Works of Breece D’J Pancake - Breece Pancake

89. Ben-Hur: The Story of a Christ - Lew Wallace

90. Open City - Teju Cole

91. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood

92. The Aeneid - Virgil

93. Emma - Jane Austen

94. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

95. Persuasion - Jane Austen

96. The Portable Sixties Reader - Various, compiled by Ann Charters

97. The Innocents - Michael Crummey

98. Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen

99. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling - Henry Fielding

100. The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan

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Books I have read throughout 2022

Valiant by Holly Black

The Fallen by Charlie Higson

Trapped at the bottom of the ocean by Frank E Peretti

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

Reaper man by Terry Pratchett

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

Harry Potter and the Philippines

Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan

The Maze Runner

Rats by Paul Zindel

Crescent City: House if Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

Holes by Louis Sachar

Demon Stalker:Torment by Douglas Hill

The Scorth Trials by James Dashner

The Vagrant by Peter Newman

The Death Cure By James Dashner

King Lear by Willy Shakes

Legends of Dune: Battle of Corrin by Brian Herbert and KJ Anderson

Twelfth Night by Bill Shakey

The Richest man who ever lived, by Steven K Scott

Song of Achiles by Madaline Miller

The Iliad by Homer

Thief of Corinth by Tessa Afshar

The Odyssey by Homer

The Talisman of Troy by Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Sons of Encouragement by Francine Rivers

Spartan by VM Manfredi

Corydon and the fall of Atlantis by Tobias Druitt

The Painted Man by Peter V Brett

Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

Maskerade by Terry Pratchett

The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien

The Wind Singer by William Nicholson

Rashomon and Sevnteen Other Stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke

An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah

The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien

Slaves of the Master by William Nicholson

Firesong by William Nicholson

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Sea Stories by Joseph Conrad

Zorro: The Novel by Isabel Allende

The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peak

Slated by Teri Terry

The Orphanage of the gods by Helena Coggan

Elke dag saam met God by Henk Gous

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I love flea markets. Used furniture, used book stores. Places where people have things that they really just want to get rid of. I went in looking for a decent replacement for an old leather jacket, and left with: a Deluxe Edition Harvard Classic version of Volume One of Cervantes' Don Quixote in phenomenal shape, a hardback copy of C. S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters (one of the few non-Narnia books he wrote that I actually want to read) and, a thirteen book set of Frank Herbert's Dune (and follow-ups), in hardback, in excellent condition.

I guess I need to find Volume Two of Don Quixote, to complete the set, but that's later me's problem. It was pretty and in good shape (though, I suppose, technically, every modern publication of Don Q. simply combines the two, as is reasonable, and I could just buy it for cheap, I'm now on a quest!)

I'm legitimately in a very good mood right now.

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Arrakhis: the tiny satellite aiming to reveal what dark matter is made of

Arrakhis: the tiny satellite aiming to reveal what dark matter is made of

Milky Way over sand dunes in Cervantes, Australia. Nik Coli/Shutterstock The European Space Agency (Esa) recently announced a new mission of its science programme: a small telescope orbiting the Earth dubbed Arrakhis. But although its name is inspired by the sci-fi novel Dune, it will not be looking for sandworms or “spice” on a desert planet. Instead, this nimble satellite will punch hugely…

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TOP 10 BOOKS THAT I READ IN 2022

Hey everyone I’ve been reading a lot of books in 2022 not as many as I have in previous years for a few reasons we can get into that but enough to recommend some excellent books so today I want to share with you the best 10 books that I read in 2022 they weren’t published in 2022 but the best ones that I read this year I’m going to split my recommendations evenly between fiction and non-fiction.

So there should be something for everyone and they’re in no real particular order its kind of hard to weigh books against one another but I do know an excellent book when I see one and I hope that you’re going to be able to find one in this article that you will love, so without further ado here is my top five fiction books that I read in 2022.

FICTION

I’ve read more fiction in 2022 than I think in any previous year of my life and that might be a little bit surprising to you if you’ve been following the channel for a while and you had seen my 2022 book list of the books that I was planning to read in 2022 were heavy and when coronavirus hit and the world kind of became very chaotic as a result and pretty dark I didn’t.

I wasn’t in the headspace to be reading those books frankly and I think it’s important that you’re reading the Books that you are in the headspace for and not just kind of forcing yourself to read for the sake of reading right reading is supposed to be enjoying it’s supposed to be fun and it is when you’re reading the right books and so a lot of the books that I read this year were fiction and some of them were amazing.

1. DON QUIXOTE BY MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

All right so the first book that I’m going to recommend and it’s a classic, it’s Don Quixote now this book is a bit of a commitment it was a thousand pages the copy that I had but it’s so worth it is such a fantastic escape into a world of fantasy but it’s not your traditional fantasy book it’s a tongue-in-cheek hilarious fantasy book it’s the type of book that makes you laugh while reading which is not something that I’ve personally experienced with many books this is a book that I think everyone should have on their shelf. It’s so re-readable it is such a fantastic work that you get more out of as you slow down and as you read it more, in fact, I do plan on rereading it because I kind of rushed through it the first time but even in rushing through it I had such a fun time reading this book it’s such a fun read.

2. THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS

So the second book I’ll recommend was from the same article the article where I was reading all of the books that joe from the Netflix series you recommended and it’s The Count of Monte Cristo now I read an abridged version of this which I think was a good move I’ve heard that the unabridged version has a lot of dialogue and a lot of slow paces I didn’t notice because I read the abridged version so I can’t comment on that but this is just such an interesting arc.

I think it probably has one of the most interesting character arcs in any fiction book that I’ve ever read if I had to pick a modern book to Compare this to it’d be the great Gatsby it has this same kind of redemption-esque quality to it which I just find so enthralling I just think it’s such an easy book to put yourself in the character’s shoes and to imagine these wrongs being done to you and then overcoming it I think it’s a classic story I recommend it.

3. DUNE BY FRANK HERBERT

Okay so this next one is probably my favorite sci-fi book of all time and I’ve read a lot of sci-fi I’m a big sci-fi buff and the book that I’m talking about is Dune now I’ve now read and listened to the whole Dune series um or at least the six-book series I know there’s a lot more I’ve read the core six and I might be reading more in the universe but the original Dune is just unparalleled in its mastery of every sci-fi element that I appreciate so you have this interesting mystical element you have this beautiful kind of alien world and this setting of humanity in the interstellar era and it mixes old and new.

So well you have these fantasy elements like swordplay and sword fighting in a world where you have laser guns and Interstellar travel and if you’re going to be picking up a sci-fi book in 2021 this might be a good one because there’s a feature film of Dune coming out in the latter part of 2021 with some pretty heavy hitters on the production and in the cast and from what I’ve seen at least the preview the trailer looks pretty good so I recommend reading before you watch that movie Because it’s just such a fantastic piece of sci-fi.

4. FOUNDATION

Okay so the next book that I’m going to recommend is the Foundation and it has a lot of similarities to Dune it’s sci-fi it’s the beginning of an amazing series and you also see some kind of elements of old mixed with new here although this is more kind of futurist I would say than doom again you have In this kind of interstellar travel, you have these highly technologized societies which I just find compelling when done well and I would say that both Dune and Foundation do these very well and the series are also fantastic so it’s not just kind of a one-off if you enjoy it you can pick up the next one and the next one and the next one recommend both of these books.

5. INTO THE WILD BY JON KRAKAUER

 So the fifth fiction book that I’m going to recommend is probably best characterized as nonfiction, in fact, I just looked it up it is technically non-fiction but it reads like fiction it reads like narrative and that’s why I’ve included it here and it’s Into The Wilds which a lot of people might have read already but I hadn’t read until this year and it’s this Interesting fascinating story about a young man named Chris McCandless who goes into the wild.

He leaves behind school leaves behind his family and he goes and he makes it eventually to Alaska where he, unfortunately, meets his death it’s the story though of a young person trying to find their place in the world in many ways it’s a very relatable story I think for a lot of young adults so technically maybe this should be under non-fiction but I wanted to include it under fiction because I read it like it was a fiction book I wasn’t reading to learn I was reading because of the story.

NON-FICTION

All right so now on to non-fiction which is what I generally read more of compared to fiction although 2022 was pretty even.

6. JUST MERCY BY BRIAN STEVENSON

Now the first book that I’m going to recommend is one that I read in 2019 though I reread it this year it’s Just Mercy by Brian Stevenson. Brian Stevenson for those of you who don’t know is a lawyer who went down after going to Harvard law school in Montgomery Alabama where he worked to get prisoners off of death row. Nessus and his organization’s equal justice initiative have done all sorts of other things including getting children off of life sentences and very extreme sentences and so on his story in just mercy is incredibly powerful and there was a movie that was made about it In 2020 which was released at the beginning of the year has Michael B Jordan playing Brian Stevenson which is also great so it’s another book that you can read and then watch the movie and I highly recommend it as a dive into the history of racism in the American justice system

7. CAPITAL IN THE 21ST CENTURY BY THOMAS PIKETTY

okay, so the second non-fiction book that I read this year that I’m going to recommend is Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty. Capital in the 21st century is fundamentally a book about inequality wealth and income inequality in Europe and the united states and it is such an interesting read because it takes a very unique approach when compared to what a lot of people talk about with inequality and its roots And its effects and so Piketty has an interesting way of analyzing inequality I think and its roots and where it’s going and I think it’s worthy of a read I think if you’re interested in economics and in particular if you’re interested in inequality and where wealth and equality will take us this is a book that’s worth a read.

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Classic Literature Based on your MBTI! Part Two

These are my own suggestions based on what I know about each type. Feel free to add more suggestions! Click here for Part One. 

ESTP - The Persuader

Lord of the Flies - William Golding Carmilla - Sheridan Le Fanu One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez Emma - Jane Austen

ESTJ - The Director

This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald David Copperfield - Charles Dickens All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque Dracula - Bram Stoker ESFP - The Performer

Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson Don Quixote - Cervantes Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen Shirley - Charlotte Brontë

ESFJ - The Caregiver

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Lorna Doone - R.D. Blackmore Maurice - E.M. Forster Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe

ENFP - The Champion

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde Don Juan - Lord Byron Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

ENFJ - The Giver

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

ENTP - The Debater

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë Mansfield Park - Jane Austen The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

ENTJ - The Commander

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas Dune - Frank Herbert For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway The Crucible - Arthur Miller

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100 Temel Eserden Oluşan bir Öneri Listesi...

1-Yeraltından Notlar - Dostoyevski

2-Cinler - Dostoyevski

3-Karamazof Kardeşler - Dostoyevski

4- Suç ve Ceza - Dostoyevski

5-Siddartha - Hesse

6- Bozkırkurdu - Hesse

7- Klingsor’un Son Yazı - Hesse

8- Minima Moralia - Adorno

9- Sokrates Savunuyor - Platon

10- Faust - Goethe

11- Genç Werther’in Acıları - Goethe

12- İlahi Komedi - Dante

13- Böyle Buyurdu Zerdüşt - Nietzsche

14- Binbirgece Masalları

15- Büyülü Dağ - Thomas Mann

16- Niteliksiz Adam - Musil

17- Özgürlüğün Yolları - Sartre

18- Bulantı - Sartre

19-Yabancı - Camus

20-Madama Bovary - Flaubert

21- Sefiller - Hugo

22- 1984 - Orwell

23- İnce Memed - Yaşar Kemal

24- Uluma - A.Ginsberg

25- Dava - Kafka

26- Şato - Kafka

27-Değişim - Kafka

28- Lolita - Nabokov

29- Ulysses - Joyce

30- Drakula - Bram Stoker

31- Silmarillion - Tolkien

32- Yüzüklerin Efendisi -Tolkien

33- Otomatik Portakal - Burgess

34- Çavdar Tarlasında Çocuklar - Salinger

35- Toza Sor - Fante

36- Fareler ve İnsanlar - Stainbeck

37-Aylak Adam - Atılgan

38- Tatar Çölü - Dino Buzatti

39- Şiirler - Ömer Hayyam

40- Anarşist Etik - Kropotkin

41- İlyada - Homeros

42- Odysseus - Homeros

43- Türlerin Kökeni - Darwin

44- Hamlet - Shakespeare

45- Macbeth - Shakespeare

46- Totem ve Tabu - Freud

47- Cinsiyet ve Psikanaliz - Freud

48- Arthur’un Ölümü - Sir Thomas Malory

49- Mesnevi - Mevlana

50- Oz Büyücüsü - L.F.Baum

51- Çıplak Şölen - Burroughs

52- Amerikada Alabalık Avı - Brautigan

53-Yolda - Kerouac

54- Denizin Çağırışı - Bilbaşar

55- Açlık - Knut Hamsun

56- Seçme Konuşmalar - Konfüçyus

57- Ağır Roman - Kaçan

58- İstanbul Dörtlüsü (Rock’n Roman) - Hikmet Temel Akarsu

59- Tutunamayanlar - Oğuz Atay

60- Ses ve Öfke - Faulkner

61- Antigone - Sophokles

62-Karanlığı Taramak - Philip K. Dick

63-Alis Harikalar Diyarında - L.Caroll

64- Yüzyıllık Yalnızlık - Marquez

65- Savaş ve Barış - Tolstoy

66- Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Daefo

67- Sönmüş Hayaller - Balzac

68- Lady Chatterley’in Aşığı - D.H.Lawrence

69- Tanrı ve Devlet - Bakunin

70- Ailenin, Özel Mülkiyetin ve Devletin Kökeni - Engels

71- Oblomov - Gonçarov

72- Azab-ı Mukaddes - Neyzen Tevfik

73- Kırmızı ve Siyah - Stendhal

74- Juliette - Marquis de Sade

75- Martin Eden - Jack London

76- Buzul Çağının Virüsü - Bener

77- Malina - Bachmann

78- Zaman ve Varlık Üzerine - Heidegger

79- Don Kişot - Cervantes

80- Babalar ve Oğullar - Turgenyev

81-Frankestein - Shelley

82- Kayıp Zamanın İzinde - Proust

83- Oliver Twist - Dickens

84 Arzın Merkezine Seyahat - Jules Verne

85-2001 Uzay Macerası – Clarke

86- Zaman Makinası - Wells

87- Dune - Herbert

88- Tractatus - Wittgenstein

89-Yengeç Dönencesi - Miller

90- Kapital - Marx

91- Dövüş Kulübü - Palahniuk

92-İphinegeia Auliste - Euripides

93- Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury

94- Reading Zindanı Balladı - Wilde

95- Muhteşem Gatsby - Fitzgerald

96- Cesur Yeni Dünya - Huxley

97-Kötülük Çiçekleri - Baudelaire

98- Kırmızı Ot - Boris Vian

99- Maldororun Şarkıları - Lautreamont

100- Gecenin Sonuna Yolculuk - Celine

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