Question: If You Had ‘Book Stairs’, What Titles Would You Include?

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Josh: I would want each step to be in the following order and about the thickness of the books that I have put forward:

• First Step – The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Second Step – The Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Third Step – Forever War by Joe Haldeman
• Fourth Step – Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
• Fifth Step – No Country for Old Men by Cormac Mccarthy
• Sixth Step – Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
• Seventh Step – The Phenomenology of the Spirit by Friedrich Hegel
• Eighth Step – War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Ninth Step – In Search of Lost Time (all seven books) by Marcel Proust
• Tenth Step – Frank Herbert’s Dune (entire series)
• Eleventh Step – From Here to Eternity by James Jones
• Twelveth Step – The Collected Works of Shakespeare
• Thirteenth Step – Pynchon’s ouevre
• Fourteenth Step – Bloch’s The Principle of Hole vol. 1-3
• Fifteenth Step – Frederic Jameson’s lifespan of work
• Sixteenth Step – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Seventeenth Step – everything Goethe wrote
• Eighteenth Step – everything Brecht wrote
• Nineteenth Step – everything Beckett wrote
• Twentieth Step – Deleuze’s ouevre
• Twenty First Step – Sartre’s On Being and Nothingness
• Twenty Second Step – Catch 22

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Carmel: I don’t think that I can possibly compete with Josh’s comprehensive list broken down not only by step but also by book thickness but… my list would include:

• The original version of Alice in Wonderland by Carroll Lewis because it’s one of my all time favourite fairy tales.
• Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater: The art work is absolutely gorgeous and I think seeing it every day would remind me of her captivating lyrical writing style.
• Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice: This book is partially responsible for my long running addiction to vamp fiction.
• Bitten by Kelley Armstrong because this is my all-time favourite werewolf book so how could I not have a book staircase without this title!?
• At least one Harry Potter book because well… it’s a must in my opinion.
• The Silver Wolf by Alice Borchardt: This was one of the very first werewolf books I ever read and quite possibly one of the primary reasons why I remain addicted to these furry beasts to this very day.
• And probably some kind of children’s book like Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss because it reminds me of my mom who passed away 3 years ago today.

What about you?

If You Had ‘Book Stairs’, What Titles Would You Include?

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