Birthday Post

Poached from newbis:-

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ

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I personally would further recommend the following titles:-

- Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
- The Tao te Ching, by Laozi
- The Art of War, by Sunzi
- The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli
- The Will to Power, by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Contrarywise, by Zohra Greenhalgh
- Trickster's Touch, by Zohra Greenhalgh
- The Way of Wyrd, by Brian Bates
- The 48 Laws of Power, by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers
- The Principia Discordia, either the Loompanics edition or the Steve Jackson edition
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea and R A Wilson
- The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce
- Wild Talents, by Charles Hoy Fort
- Stranger in A Strange Land, by Robert A Heinlein
- Starship Troopers, by Robert A Heinlein
- Time Enough for Love, by Robert A Heinlein
- Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
- Mythago Wood, by Robert Holdstock
- The Naked Sun, by Isaac Asimov
- The Caves of Steel, by Isaac Asimov
- The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov
- Childhood's End, by Arthur C Clarke
- Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C Clarke
- The Midwich Cuckoos, by John Wyndham
- The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham
- Chocky, by John Wyndham
- Ringworld, by Larry Niven
- The Tar-Aiym Krang, by Alan Dean Foster
- A World of Ptavvs, by Larry Niven
- Protector, by Larry Niven
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M Pirsig
- Neuromancer, by William Gibson
- Count Zero, by William Gibson
- Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson
- Virtual Light, by William Gibson
- Idoru, by William Gibson
- All Tomorrow's Parties, by William Gibson
- Cities in Flight, by James Blish
- A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K LeGuin
- Chocolat, by Joanne Harris
- Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
- The Qur'an
- The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
- Excession, by Iain M. Banks
- Casting the Runes and Other Short Stories, by M R James
- The Colour out of Time, by Michael Shea
- Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury
- The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K Dick
- Lies, Inc., by Philip K Dick
- Ubik, by Philip K Dick
- VALIS, by Philip K Dick
- The Doors of Perception, by Aldous Huxley
- Sunglasses After Dark, by Nancy A Collins

... and many, many more - all of which books I have, at some point in my life, not only read, but loved, and which have each shaped my persona in a thousand different ways.