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Just a list of books I’ve read over the years.

  1. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
  2. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  3. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  4. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  6. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
  7. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
  8. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  9. Emperor of the Eight Islands by Lain Hearn
  10. Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  11. Night by Elie Wiesel
  12. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
  13. Normal People by Sally Rooney
  14. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
  15. Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
  16. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  17. Dune by Frank Herbert
  18. Contact by Carl Sagan
  19. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Authur C. Clarke
  20. The Ables by Jeremy Scott
  21. Five Weeks in a Balloon, A Journey to the Center of Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
  22. The Giver by Lois Lowry
  23. Divergent by Veronica Roth
  24. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  25. The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
  26. NueroTribes by Steve Silberman
  27. All Quiet on the Western Front series by Erich Maria Remarque
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[–] fievel@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it sorted in some way (preference?)?

[–] VanHalbgott@lemmus.org 1 points 1 year ago

Not really: this is just a list I came up with.

[–] LKPU26@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Which books really stand out to you and are clear in your mind?

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems like you like Sci-Fi. I recommend Necromancer if you want to read one of the founding works of cyberpunk. Also Hyperion of you want some heavy religious themes.