This is the npub for people who can name 10 books.
Discussion
Let‘s see what comes to mind first:
- LotR
- Clean Code, Clean Coder
- Das Kapital im 21. Jahrhundert
- Harry Potter
- Thinking slow and fast
- Name of the Rose
- Lustiges Taschenbuch (does this count?)
- Führen, leisten, leben
- Durch die Wüste
- Die Säulen der Erde
- Black Swan
My favorite books? Books that I have read? Or just books?
Just books. Most people read so few or so seldom that they can't think of 10, off the bat.
It's a truthy meme. 😂
Name 10 books is still one of the funniest memes of the last five years.
i can try. . .
all the kings men
how to win over worry
pursuit of purpose
maximizing your potential
astrophysics for people in a hurry
mutation
7 habits of highly effective people
... wow. .
im forgettiing the rest . lol
i can try. . .
all the kings men
how to win over worry
pursuit of purpose
maximizing your potential
astrophysics for people in a hurry
mutation
7 habits of highly effective people
the autobiography of malcom x
man's search for meaning ,
... wow. .
im forgettiing the rest . lol
Here are ten books I love:
- The Silmarillion
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Adventures of Captain Alatriste
- The Three Musketeers
- Masters of Rome series
- The Iliad
- The Odyssey
- Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days
- Julius Caesar’s De Bello Gallico
- Xenophon’s Anabasis
The Iliad and the Odyssey are essentially super-books. They're the plot for a gazillion other books, including LOTR.
Definitely one of the pillars of Western storytelling, and therefore Western culture. Everything human seems to be contained in them, failing, fighting, revenge, love, compassion, pride, shame. Absolute must read.
Let me see, what I can come up with, on the fly. 🤔
1) 1215: The Year of the Magna Carta
2) Beowulf
3) Guns, Germs and Steel
4) Wohlstand für Alle
5) The Stand
6) Atlas Shrugged
7) Jane Eyre
8) Tale of Two Cities
9) The Villeins Trilogy
10) Outlander
Aufzeichnungs eines Krokodils
Aus guter Familie
Lust
Nach Mitternacht
Von den fünf Schwestern ,die auszogen,ihren Vater zu ermorden
Les Miserbles
Biographie eines zufälligen Wunders
Malus
Der kleine Prinz
Sarahs Töchter
1. Stiller
2. Leonardo da Vinci
3. Der Ekel
4. Tintenherz
5. Born to run
6. Die Physik des Bewusstseins
7. Die Praxis der Achtsamkeit
8. The Price of Tomorrow
9. The Blocksize War
10. Der Mythos des Sisyphos
They say you can learn a lot about a person from the books they read.
1. The Hobbit
2. Lord of the Rings
3. Unfinished Business (Roger Douglas)
4. The Da Vinci Code
5. The Second World War (Winston Churchill)
6. The Road to Serfdom
7. The Fountainhead
8. Atlas Shrugged
9. We the living
10. 1776
I wonder how many of these books are common across the respondents? Guess Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged would be up there.
Just finishing up a Top 100 for our home ed kids to read. Seems to me that 100 is a rookie number. Will rebrand as Top 100 Bronze, Top 100 Silver, Top 100 Gold. Or something like that.
100 sounds like a lot, at first, and then you start reading and realize you can get through a book every couple of days, if you stick to your own reading level.
You'd have to keep moving up reading levels, to slow the pace, and then you face the problem of age-inappropriate content.
Aww, I loved reading time together with my kids. One of the best hours of the day. I think at one point I read to them so I would have an excuse to read children's books 🥹
I make lists like this for myself too. I love to read and I adore books 📚
1. Dune
2. The Gulag Archipeligo
3. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
4. The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
5. How to Solve It
6. The Stranger
7. Starship Troopers
8 . The Way of Kings
9. The Anarchist Handbook
10. On Doing the Right Thing
I still need to read starship troopers! Thanks for the reminder.
1. Los Detectives Salvajes (Roberto Bolaño)
2. Rendezvous with Rama (Arthur C. Clarke)
3. Dictionary of the Khazars (Milorad Pavić)
4. Dubliners (James Joyce)
5. The Infinite Jest (David F. Wallace)
6. Plateforme (Michel Houellebecq)
7. Los Enamoramientos (Javier Marías)
8. Como Me Hice Monja (César Aira)
9. Antes Que Anochezca (Reinaldo Arenas)
10. Concierto de Jerusalén (Alí Ahmad Said Ésber)
Easier to mention non-fiction, currently attached to Adorno (Aesthetics), Merleau-Ponty (Phenomenology of Perception), George Kubler (C. XVI Mexican Architecture) John Ashurt (Conservation of Building and Decorative Stone) and several writings of Hans Rainer Sepp
Funny that I recognize more of the authors than the books, other than Dubliners. 🤔
1. The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
2. The Tiger by John Vaillant
3. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
4. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
5. Martin the Warrior by Brian Jacques
6. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
7. The Toothpaste Millionaire by Jean Merrill
8. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
9. The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
10. That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
The Random 10
Music of the Primes
Thinking fast and slow
Consider Phlebas
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Wasp Factory
Thinking in bets
Reminiscences of a stock operator
Algebraist
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Adventure and Sci-fi
1) The Hobbit & Ring Trilogy
2) Harry Potter Series
3) Ready Player One & Two
4) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
5) Neuromancer
6) Snow Crash
7) We Can Remember it for you Wholesale
8) Make room! Make room!
9) Welcome to the monkey house
10) Running Man
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Other top ten lists...
Bitcoin (finance), Asian, Nature, History
1)C.S Lewis Mere Christianity
2)C.S Lewis Abolition of Man
3)G.k Chesterton Orthodoxy
4)Saifedean Ammous Bitcoin Standard
5)Carl Jung Man and His Symbols
6)Viktor Frankl Man's Search for Meaning
7)Beyond Order - Jordan Peterson
8)12 Rules for Live - Jordan Peterson
9)Art of Loving - Erich Fromm
10)The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
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This is not a top 10 list, but a list of books I've read recently.