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[Sue]

Chidi wrote: "Ok, so if some great natural disaster (think War of the Worlds proportions) was destroying your continent and you saw the only book repository being sacked and trashed, which FOUR (c'mon you can on..."

I'm definitely glad on sharing, especially the Shakespeare and the Dickens.

I'd bring Don Quixote because no one as mentioned it yet .

The Federalist Papers to help with starting our new society

Haft Paykar: A Medieval Persian Romance because I had such a hard time finding a copy of it and I've yet to read it.

Holy Bible: New International Version for spiritual guidance

Basically though, their can be no apocalypse until I've read many many more books please!

[Chidi]

Ah Sue, shame on me for forgetting the KJV Bible. I have this friend who did Don Quixote a while back and keeps discouraging me. Is it any good?

[Melanti]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAxAR...

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Melanti wrote: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAxAR..."

That is so sad! Not fair at all.

[Melanti]

Chidi wrote: "Ah Sue, shame on me for forgetting the KJV Bible. I have this friend who did Don Quixote a while back and keeps discouraging me. Is it any good?"

The first half is sort of like a written version of Monty Python.
The second half is more of a straightforward novel and somewhat meta-fictional and self referential.

I liked it, but not sure I'd pick it as one of four books to save! It might get old after repeated re-reads.

[Sue]

Chidi wrote: "Ah Sue, shame on me for forgetting the KJV Bible. I have this friend who did Don Quixote a while back and keeps discouraging me. Is it any good?"

I haven't read Don Quixote yet but am about to and I think I'll love it. It's a favorite of many and it's epic.

No shame! You just weren't thinking of The Bible it in this category. I should add that I wouldn't be bringing it to try and impose anything on anyone else, but for personal spirituality and would of course be willing to share with anyone who wanted it.

[Sue]

Melanti wrote: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAxAR..."

I love this Melanti! Thanks for sharing. Now I'll know to bring a backback full of a certain lightweight item!

The clip is so Name of the Rose-ish!

[Kathleen]

Melanti wrote: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAxAR..."

My favorite Twilight Zone, Melanti!

[Renee]

Kathleen wrote: "Melanti wrote: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAxAR..."

My favorite Twilight Zone, Melanti!"

Mine too! I just want to strangle his wife though, she's so mean to him! The end is so sad.

[Pink]

I love that clip, especially the monthly piles of books!

[Melanti]

I need to watch the whole thing someday! Someone posted this clip in another group a few months back and it seemed appropriate to the conversation so I hunted up the link.

[Brina]

4 classics I would bring: House of the Spirits, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone With the Wind, and Shoeless Joe.

[Tytti]

Brina wrote: "... and Shoeless Joe."

Btw, W.P. Kinsella died on Friday.

[Bat-Cat]

For anyone looking for another book list, here is a great one along with the article explaining the project. Enjoy!!! ;-)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/200...

And here's the list of the top hundred... ummmmm, this just may be my new list to aspire to completing... ;-)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/200...

[Brina]

I just saw that this morning. He had been sick for a long time and just came out with a new novel about 15 months ago.

[Pink]

Bat-Cat wrote: "For anyone looking for another book list, here is a great one along with the article explaining the project. Enjoy!!! ;-)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/200...

And here's..."

Well that list of the top 100 is in date order, starting from Don Quixote, rather than the most highly rated, but I agree they're all great choices. He's compiling his top 100 non-fiction books at the moment, but I don't think the choices are as good.

I'm a sucker for these newspaper lists and have far to many saved to my computer that I check off every so often!

[Sue]

Bat-Cat wrote: "For anyone looking for another book list, here is a great one along with the article explaining the project. Enjoy!!! ;-)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/200...

And here's..."

Wow! Thank you Bat-Cat. This is the best list I've ever seen where I've heard of and want to read so many of them! I'm starting Don Quixote sometime between Oct-Nov

[Sue]

Pink wrote: "Bat-Cat wrote: "For anyone looking for another book list, here is a great one along with the article explaining the project. Enjoy!!! ;-)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/200......"

I've been skimming through The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had and the author recommends reading in chronological order for the biggest impact. I never thought to do it, but it definitely sounds logical.

[Melanti]

Here's the Listopia for that Guardian list, if anyone wants Goodreads links or to see at a glance how many they've read: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

[Sue]

Melanti wrote: "Here's the Listopia for that Guardian list, if anyone wants Goodreads links or to see at a glance how many they've read: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2......"

Thanks Melanti. I hope that list stays intact. I hate how Goodreads lets anyone add a book to all these lists.

[Melanti]

You can ask for a list to be locked, but then you loose the ability to vote and that counter that tells you how many of the top 100 you have read.

They need a way to make a list you can vote on but not add new books to.

This particular one has stayed mostly intact for 4 years now... I think the key is a good list title.

[Sue]

Melanti wrote: "You can ask for a list to be locked, but then you loose the ability to vote and that counter that tells you how many of the top 100 you have read.

They need a way to make a list you can vote on bu..."

Yes! But also, some should not even allow voting and you should be able to put them in a certain order. Like for example, if I wanted to make a list from the Well Educated Mind book that I mentioned, I want the order kept intact.

[Melanti]

If you post in the Librarian's group, one of the super-librarians can help with that. Just make sure you mention in your subject line that you need a static list so that they know they need to look at the thread.

Static lists are what they call the locked lists that can't be voted on or added to.

[Sue]

Melanti wrote: "If you post in the Librarian's group, one of the super-librarians can help with that. Just make sure you mention in your subject line that you need a static list so that they know they need to look..."

Oh, good to know. Thanks!

[Pink]

Sue/ Bat-Cat, if you don't mind having a list outside of Goodreads they have it on the List challenges site as well! Sorry if I've just introduced you to more book lists!

http://www.listchallenges.com/the-gua...

[Hailee]

Bat-Cat wrote: "For anyone looking for another book list, here is a great one along with the article explaining the project. Enjoy!!! ;-)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/200...

And here's..."

OMG I can't believe Emma is on the list instead of Pride and Prejudice! The world just doesn't make sense anymore lol ;-)

[Renee]

What a great list! I love list like that. Does anyone have any other links to good lists?

[Melanti]

I like 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die , which is based off of a book.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

When you read the book, there's a few paragraphs on each entry as to why it was considered worthy of inclusion. Sometime, it's because the book was historically relevant (started a genre, or portrays a particular era well), other because they're fantastic books, others because they were relevant to pop culture.

(Don't be a competitionist on this list though! There's some awful books on the list and some that are all but impossible to find.)

[Blueberry]

I would take Fahrenheit 451 to share with as any people as I could before they destroyed all the other books.

[Chidi]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what...

[Chidi]

I just felt this was deeper than The Guradian's.

[Kathleen]

Blueberry wrote: "I would take Fahrenheit 451 to share with as any people as I could before they destroyed all the other books."

Blueberry, this is the best answer yet!

[Loretta]

Melanti wrote: "I like 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die , which is based off of a book.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

When you read the book, there's a few paragraphs on each entr..."
I actually have that book Melanti! It's really quite good with a synopsis of each book. :)

[Lena]

Joy oh joy, just came back from B&N with a lovely LOTRs book for our long read! Also, I tied cupping for the first time today and it worked! Lower back pain gone! Already scheduled another session next week.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Lena wrote: "Joy oh joy, just came back from B&N with a lovely LOTRs book for our long read! Also, I tied cupping for the first time today and it worked! Lower back pain gone! Already scheduled another session ..."

Hooray!

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

I've noticed several challenges being completed. We are just about ready to start the third quarter of the year, finishing challenges is going to become contagious.

A brief Hoorah, and the sudden realization that you have to start preparing for next year.

[Pink]

Haha, what do you mean start planning for next year? Surely you've got everything mapped out already, like the rest of us Bob? ;)

[Darren]

I've been planning next year for months already!
in fact it's probably the time I've spent on that which means I might fail my 2016 challenge ;o)

[Brina]

I mapped out the next six months. Of course it's subject to change ;)

[Pink]

Darren, I know what you mean. It's my time spent here on GR that cuts into my reading time!

[Hailee]

Pink wrote: "Darren, I know what you mean. It's my time spent here on GR that cuts into my reading time!"

Snap. I'll sit down to read for an hour and think I'll just check goodreads for a second before I start... an hour and a half later there's been no reading and I'm late for my next task!

[Bat-Cat]

Glad I'm not alone with this particular form of neurosis - pre-2017 book reading plans. We can all help in enabling each other in our madness. How fun!!! ;-)

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Pink wrote: "Haha, what do you mean start planning for next year? Surely you've got everything mapped out already, like the rest of us Bob? ;)"

Ouch, I’ve done no pre-planning for next year’s challenges. For this year I only have the two A-Z Challenges left to finish. The only planning I’ve done for next year happens when I pick up a book I want to read and it doesn’t fit the challenge and I think, ‘maybe I’ll read it next year.’ Defiantly not an organized plan.

[Brina]

I'd like to read 1 longer book each month and form my schedule around it. So far so good.

[MKay]

BOB, that sounds like my plan! LOL

[Pink]

Bob, I've actually done little pre-planning for next year myself. I know that I want to read The Count of Monte Cristo and I'll try to fit it into as many challenges as possible.

I have a loose list of options for female authors from the 1660s through to the 1990s, but I don't know which time period to choose yet.

That's as far as I've got. I'll do the A-Z and bingo challenges as I go, with no pre-planning.

[Melanti]

I've done a tiny bit of planning for next year - there's a couple of books on my TBR and wish list that I've made a mental note about - but right now I'm planning Halloween reads! (It doesn't feel like October to me until I read a couple spooky books.)

[Newly]

Melanti wrote: "I've done a tiny bit of planning for next year - there's a couple of books on my TBR and wish list that I've made a mental note about - but right now I'm planning Halloween reads! (It doesn't feel ..."

I am so thinking about reading some scary stuff this October. I'm thinking about reading 4 scare the pants off a duck tales. (I have no idea why a duck would be wearing pants.)

But I'm thinking
1. Ghost story by Peter Straub
2. The Trial by Kakfa
3. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
4. House of Leaves
5. Lolita

[Sarah]

All of you already talking plans for 2017 are making me feel like a total slacker.
I'm still worrying about getting all of this year's done!

[Melanti]

Oh! House of Leaves is really neat! A little pretentious, but neat. I promise all that crazy looking typography makes perfect sense when you're reading it.

I wasn't crazy about Ghost Story though.
Loved Lolita, but it wasn't really scary in the traditional sense, if that's what you're going for. You should still give it a try though!

The ones I really, really want to read are:
From the Dust Returned
The Ash-Tree
The Willows
The Great God Pan

I've got a few other short story collections I've been eyeing - MR James, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Gaskell, etc - but the ones listed above are from the acknowledgements of a horror novel I read and liked last year, so I've been trying to read a lot of the stuff she listed as an inspiration.

Sarah wrote: "All of you already talking plans for 2017 are making me feel like a total slacker.
I'm still worrying about getting all of this year's done!"

Oh, I assure you, my 2016 challenges aren't going to get done... Most of my thoughts right now are about how to pick a better list of books for next time.