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Happy National Book Lovers Day! Here are some of my all-time favorite books. What are yours?


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• 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

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• 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

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• 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!

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• 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.

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