Happy National Book Lovers Day! Here are some of my all-time favorite books. What are yours?
IMAGE 1:- The Art of Noise: Destruction of Music By Futurist Machines (Collected Futurist Manifestoes)
- NinjaTune: 20 Years of Beats & Pieces by Stevie Chick (ltd. ed.)
- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
- Principia Discordia - or - How I Found the Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her by Malaclypse the Younger
- Genesis of a Music by Harry Partch
- For the Birds by John Cage
- (R)evolution: A Journal of 21st Century Thought by The Anarchists of Chicago (private pub.)
- The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell (collected)
- The KLF: Chaos, Magic, and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs
- Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds
- Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (collected)
- Silence: 50th Anniversary Ed. by John Cage
IMAGE 2:- Propaganda by Edward Bernays
- Annotations to Finnegans Wake by Roland McHugh (John Hopkins University Press) 3rd ed.
- Empty Words by John Cage
- The Ambient Century by Mark Pendergast
- The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century by Alex Ross
- Ulysses by James Joyce (Franklin Library ed.)
- The Illustrated HHG2G by Douglas Adams (ltd. ed.)
- A Skeletons Key to Finnegans Wake by Joseph Campbell
IMAGE 3:- A Clockwork Orange
- Flatland
- 1984
- We
- Frankenstein
- Fahrenheit 451
- A Medicine for Melancholy
- The Golden Apples of the Sun
- Dandelion Wine
- The Martian Chronicles
- The Halloween Tree
- The Illustrated Man
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- A Scanner Darkly
- The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
- Stranger in a Strange Land
- Childhood’s End
- Brave New World
- Animal Farm
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
...and oh bugger - I left out Lord of the Flies and my facsimile first clothbound edition of Alice in Wonderland!
IMAGE 4:- The Annotated Sherlock Holmes (1967 first single-volume ed.)
I would LOVE to see your favorite books in celebration of Book Lovers Day! I've no doubt this community has some fascinating titles to share.