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Larkken
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15 books? And the world is ending? You might as well just tell me that some much-needed reading glasses are broken 😜 @RaeLovesToRead (actual pic of me avoiding this dire thought) #ihavequestions #belovedbooks

Here‘s my list (with commentary!):
1. The Hobbit (⬆️THIS copy and yes I‘ll be mad if it gets scuffed or dinged)
2. The Complete Ivory - Egan (hey, series is contained into one book!)
3. Magic Strikes (the BEST Kate Daniels. Fight me.)
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Larkken 4. Starless Sea (good thing for the apocalypse that my MIL just gave me this)
5. Beauty - Robin McKinley (though maybe Blue Sword instead for the sheer nostalgia? gah)
6. The Wood Wife - Windling
7. Pride and Prejudice
8. Stardust - Gaiman
9. The Princess Bride - Goldman
10. Kushiel‘s Dart. No, wait, Avatar. Gah!
11. Complete Borges short stories (so I can dream of infinite libraries or something 👀)
12. Good Omens
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Larkken 13. Family‘s illustrated Alice and Wonderland
14. Finishing School trilogy by Carriger on audio (when breaking the rules, go big)
15. Moon Called - Briggs (I don‘t have a fav from this series, so this might end up being Whatever One I Grab from series)
Holy nuts I‘d give both my ovaries to have a compilation of the initial Murderbot stories to put on here. Sorry, Pride and Prejudice. Or maybe Good Omens?

I am still working on the #booklet list…
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RaeLovesToRead Love it! Starless sea has come up a few times... I shall purchase it next time I'm in Waterstones! 😁 (Although I still need to read The Night Circus!) I found the booket list easier because there are several books that I ABSOLUTELY NEED TO READ and they just pushed their way to the top.. 😊 2y
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Larkken @RaeLovesToRead This was curtailed severely by needing to be physical books present on my shelves! That made it easier lol 2y
IndoorDame Ooh, yes! I should definitely take Alice 2y
5feet.of.fury So far for best Kate Daniels (I‘m on book 7) I‘m going with 2y
5feet.of.fury Also Kate Daniels series has made me want to read the Princess Bride, but I have not yet. Love your Gaiman choices! Great list! 2y
Larkken @5feet.of.fury oooh is this the one where they FINALLY got together? Agreed, that IS nice 2y
Larkken @IndoorDame looking at my shelves made me realize I‘d have to bring at least a/some books based on nostalgia and unwillingness to lose a family copy ❤️! …and not just on what I‘d want to reread…and reread…lol (edited) 2y
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5feet.of.fury
Seasonal Fears | Seanan McGuire
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#ihavequestions #belovedbooks
Here‘s my cargo.
This was tough,I possibly cheated bc Ultimate Hitchhiker‘s guide is 5 books, but is physically in 1 book.
A lot of these books have an apocalypse? I don‘t know if the prompt put that into my mind, but this is more sci-fi/fantasy than my shelf would suggest, but once you know whodunnit mysteries are pretty much done. So 8 fantasy/sci-fi books, a travel book & whatever Song of Achilles is considered 🤣

RaeLovesToRead Ooh, I'm looking forward to The Girl with all the Gifts & also Song of Achilles! I love post apocalyptic and dystopian fiction too... this is giving me inspiration for next time #ihavequestions 🤔 2y
IndoorDame Jemisin would be good to read as the apocalypse rolls in! 2y
Larkken oooh, interesting choices from some of my go-to authors! Hope we get to hunker down in the same cave 😂 2y
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5feet.of.fury @RaeLovesToRead I honestly didn‘t expect Song of Achilles to be as good as it was. Just phenomenal. Girl with All the Gifts is really a unique perspective for a zombie apocalypse novel at a time when the zombie media was still rampant but had really seemed to be out of ideas. 2y
5feet.of.fury @IndoorDame yes! world building & emotion in this series is stunning! The resilience of the character is a good fit for facing the end times. I haven‘t read much else of hers, I have read book 1 of the Dreamblood & City We Became has been on my list forever. I‘m going to try to work my way through more from her this year. What have you liked from Jemisin? 2y
5feet.of.fury @Larkken haha awesome! 📚📚📚what are you bringing? 2y
IndoorDame @5feet.of.fury I really loved The Inheritance Trilogy! It‘s more fantasy than sci fi, which isn‘t usually my thing, but as you say her work building is just stunning! 2y
5feet.of.fury @IndoorDame Nice! I stuck that one on my #serieslove2023 list, hoping to get to it soon! 2y
DaveGreen7777 Oooh, great book choices! 🤩 2y
dylanisreading The Talisman is that good, huh? I'll have to give it another shot! 2y
5feet.of.fury @dylanisreading it‘s allegedly being made into a series from the Duffer Brothers (Stranger Things) so it‘s a good time to get into it! I absolutely loved it. 2y
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DaveGreen7777
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@RaeLovesToRead has questions!!!

In this scenario, the world is ending, and one of my biggest regrets is… oh, no, I can only save 10 books! Sounds about right! 😂 I‘m sharing this for anyone who wants to play. My 10 books are about to be revealed in photographic fashion! 😁

#IHaveQuestions #BelovedBooks

RaeLovesToRead Ooh, can't wait 🍿🍿🍿 2y
Branwen This prompt is giving me so much anxiety! 😂 2y
RaeLovesToRead @Branwen I'm sorry!!! I'm a terrible Litten 🙈🙈 We can all hang out in the same shelter and do swapsies? 😁 While we work on our learning-how-to-use-nunchaku-for-the-apocalypse montage!!!! 2y
Branwen @RaeLovesToRead Sounds like a good plan to me! 😀👍🏻 2y
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Deblovestoread
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#ihavequestions #belovedbooks

My friend will carry:

War and Peace
The Night Circus
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Sunne in Splendor
Watership Down
Lonesome Dove
Pillars of the Earth
Dune
Joy in the Morning
Centennial

And my plus 5: Jane Eyre, Pride & Prejudice, Persuasion, The Heart‘s Invisible Furies and The Time Traveler‘s Wife.

We won‘t talk about the duffle bag strapped to my back…😂

Texreader Love your list! So. Many. Good. Books. 2y
RaeLovesToRead Ooh! I really need to read The Night Circus... Great list! 😊🥰 2y
dabbe We have quite a few in common! 🤗 2y
Larkken Ooh Watership Down. How could I leave Hazel! I really need to try Amor Towles 2y
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Here we go! My Kindle Fire is coming along! Why? Because apocalyptic miracles can happen and my friend is a genius who can figure things out 😆 @RaeLovesToRead #ihavequestions #belovedbooks

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Owl Service - Alan Garner
Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
Villette - Charlotte Bronte
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

batsy The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Tam Lin - Pamela Dean
Complete Poems - Emily Dickinson
The Lost Garden - Helen Humphreys
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
Selected Poems - Walt Whitman
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Ruthiella Nice choices! Classics hold up, don‘t they. 👍 2y
batsy @Ruthiella Yes, they do 💜 And it occurred to me that I'm likely to buy physical copies of classics while I access a lot of contemporary fiction via Libby and ebooks. 2y
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BarbaraBB I‘d take classics too! 2y
batsy @BarbaraBB They do stand up to the rereads 💜 2y
RaeLovesToRead So many classics that I need to read... 🥰🥰🥰 Great list!! 😄 2y
batsy @RaeLovesToRead Thanks! So many books to discover ❤️ 2y
Tamra Oh, such a tough decision! 2y
dabbe We have a few in common! 🤗 2y
batsy @Tamra Too hard! Already mad at the apocalypse for the books I left behind 😆 2y
batsy @dabbe Nice! 🙌🏾 2y
Tamra @batsy 😆 2y
LeahBergen I like your choices! 👏 2y
batsy @LeahBergen Thanks, Leah 🙂 2y
Centique I approve these choices! 🙌 2y
Rissreads Damn that apocalypse! 🤣 2y
batsy @Rissreads Right? Totally getting in the way of my reading 😆 2y
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dabbe
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@RaeLovesToRead
#ihavequestions
#belovedbooks
Here goes:
1. The Complete Sherlock Holmes (all 56 shorts stories + 4 novels in 1 volume!)
2. The Complete Edgar Allan Poe (poems, essays, and short stories)
3. The Once and Future King
4. Jane Eyre
5. Gone with the Wind
6. The Trumpet of the Swan
7. The Secret Garden
8. The Complete Short Stories of Agatha Christie
9 and 10. The two books I created of my greyhounds, Babs & Pete, after they died.
#whew

Bookwormjillk No option to kick the friend out and bring more books? 2y
dabbe @Bookwormjillk Now, THERE'S an idea! 🤣🤣🤣 2y
RaeLovesToRead ❤❤❤ 2y
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RaeLovesToRead @Bookwormjillk The friend who is kindly carrying your beloved books to safety??! 🤣🤣🤣 2y
Bookwormjillk @RaeLovesToRead I was just asking 🤣 2y
TheBookHippie Poe!!!!! 2y
Larkken I see you went for sheer page count? jk I love it😻 2y
dabbe @Larkken More pages = more stories! 🤣🤣🤣 2y
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RaeLovesToRead
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Did I just scrabble around my bedroom looking for books to load into a rucksack in a pretend apocalypse? (Perhaps)

Is that a Final Fantasy viii strategy guide? (Maybe)

Does anyone know where my Complete Poems of John Donne has gone? 🤨 (No?)

Why didn't I purchase the last two Fitz books BEFORE the apocalypse??? (Rae! 🧐)

Will I change my mind on these selections in 5 mins? (Almost definitely)

#ihavequestions #belovedbooks

IndoorDame Clever of you to take ALL the Agatha you can fit in that rucksack! Maybe she‘ll help keep this apocalypse from being totally depressing 😆 2y
RaeLovesToRead @IndoorDame Pragmatic choices have been made... 🤣🤣 2y
squirrelbrain 🤣🤣🤣 2y
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Branwen Nice choices! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 2y
RaeLovesToRead @Branwen Why thank you! 😊😁 2y
Larkken well I, for one, and assuming there will be tradesies in this apocalypse, and happy you‘re bringing the entire fitz series. just doing bks 2 and 3 would be depressing to the uninitiated lol 2y
RaeLovesToRead @Larkken When I finished Assassin's Quest, I was like... whut?! 😐 But then I heard there were 5 more and I was 💃💃💃 2y
Lizpixie I approve of your apocalypse packing and think we should meet up & compare notes👏👏👏 2y
RaeLovesToRead @Lizpixie You are welcome in my apocalypse shelter!! 😊😁 2y
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#Ihavequestions #belovedbooks @RaeLovesToRead

1. Slaughterhouse Five- Vonnegut
2. Cat's Cradle- Vonnegut
3. True Grit- Charles Portis
4. Masters of Atlantis- Portis
5. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams
6. A Prayer for Owen Meany- John Irving
7. Remains of the Day- Ishiguro
8. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold- John le Carre
9. Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit- Wodehouse
10. The Man Without Qualities- Robert Musil

The_Penniless_Author #9 could really be any Wooster and Jeeves novel, but this one and Joy in the Morning were the first two I owned and my favorites. 2y
RaeLovesToRead Love!!! 🥰 2y
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