Since Reddit went, I actually have returned to books for my reading material, which had been replaced basically by massive ask reddit threads. As a result I'm trying to read some things I shouldve a long time ago.

Just finished the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and I'm on to the second book in the series. It was as good as its legacy lead me to believe!

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The Three Body Problem saga, I just finished the first book. I'm enjoying this as much as I enjoyed DUNE

I don’t consider myself a bookworm, but I recently read:

• Japan Sinks by Sakyo Komatsu
• All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka (the novel, not the manga)
• Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

And now I’m reading The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin.

Yes, I like Science Fiction XDDD

Edit: realizing that I had nothing lined up to read after “The Three-Body…”, I just got:

• War With the Newts by Karel Čapek (thanks to a suggestion in the comments)
• The Stars, My Destination, by Alfred Bester
• The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
• Gateway, by Frederik Pohl
• Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
• Childhood’s End, by Arthur C. Clarke (want to reread it in English, as I read it many years ago in Spanish)
• Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein

I think I’m now covered for the rest of the summer, lol!

Wheel of time! Currently on book seven now

Just finished a book from the 1930s by a Czech author Karel Čapek called War with the Newts.

It’s sci-fi based on earth in 1930s but what I found the most interesting is

1. seeing an author from 1930s write and think on paper (casual racism and sexism, for example),

2. the echoes of the looming WWII

3. the retro futurism - I love seeing what people from the past imagined would happen with technology. They are often right, often cutely wrong.

I only do about one or two books a month, but right now I'm hooked on Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Currently on chapter 85 of Pierce Brown's Light Bringer, the latest installment of the Red Rising series! Granted, I'm listening to the audiobook, but audiobooks are still books. And man, like the rest of the series, I can't put this shit down!

After this? Not sure yet. Still waiting on Sanderson's next book in his Stormlight Archive series. Maybe I'll re-listen to The Wheel of Time again while the final books of these two series wrap up.

Going through the Red Rising series, which some of my friends praise immensely. Lightbringer just came out, though I'm only just finished Morning Star, book 3/6 in the series. Going to be starting Iron Gold soon. But until them, I'm reading 1984, which I just acquired a nice hardcover copy of.

House of Leaves is a fuckin trip

Pretty basic but I just started reading Dune. It's been a daunting series for me with how long it is but better late than never.

Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky

Currently reading Red Rising. Awesome book, when I start reading it's very hard to stop.

The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

I picked up American Prometheus after watching Oppenheimer. It's very interesting and gives a really good idea of who he was throughout his life, and how he changed over time. One of the things that isn't depicted much in the movie was how much of his political views changed over the years. While he never officially joined the communist party, he was certainly communist-adjacent before the war, but during the war and after, his priorities seemed to shift to being pro-American first and foremost, and often took the establishment position on things. Of course it's more complicated than that, but I've found it very interesting how someone's life experiences can change them.

On my to read are some historical accounts of WWII, i've suddenly become interested in learing everything I can about this period of history that I only know the basics of.

Currently reading "The Last Watch" because I wanted some fun sci-fi, but the liberties the author is taking on physics and the universe makes it very hard to suspend my disbelief.

Looking at starting a re-read of "All Systems Red" in anticipation of the new Murderbot book coming out. I can't recommend this series enough

I've just started Musashi, a Samurai-era historical fiction novel.

"Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold" by Stephen Fry (Penguin Books).

A funny and entertaining way to learn about Greek mythology through the wit of Stephen Fry.

I highly recommend it.

I have 5-20 minutes between calls at my work, so I've had plenty of time to sneak in some books on the clock.

I've been rereading through the Cosmere, so Mistborn eras 1+2, Warbreaker, and I'm currently reading Elantris.

To-read is Tress of the Emerald sea, then I probably should go for a non-fiction book to feel more enightened

Currently getting back into the Redwall series after enjoying them as a kid (British cottage-core fantasy with woodland critter characters). Currently reading the Rogue Crew, where the hares of the Long Patrol team up with the Sea Otters of the titular crew to fend off the forces of the pirate Razzid Wearat.

The Last Ringbearer by Kirill Eskov

finished "do androids dream of electric sheep?", started "a scanner darkly"

Just finished 'The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet' by Becky Chambers - quite fun space opera (if you like Firefly etc.), I'll definitely pick up the rest of the series at one point.

Started reading 'They Never Learn' by Layne Fargo - Starts interesting, I feel I'll finish this one.

After that I will definitely start reading 'All Systems Red' by Martha Wells - I've been hearing about 'Murderbot Diaries' and how good they are for years now...

I like reading scifi most, but always try to squeeze some other genre in between.

Currently Reading "The stormlight archive" series by Brandon Sanderson (still on the first book "the way of kings" though). I already read most other books of the cosmere (Sanderson's Universe where most of his books take place). Highly recommend it!

Infinite Jest.

Or rather, trying to read it. It's more like an eternal cycle of starting, stopping, and then restarting again.

DFW's writing is great though.

I started reading the Wool series after recently watching the Silo TV show. Pretty good so far, the world building is surprisingly fun.

Just finished the first three books of the Locked Tomb trilogy by Tamsin Muir (4th book out soon lol). Great storyline, interesting concept of Necromancers in space.

Also just finished Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson. Fun book kinda short.

Currently reading Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan.

Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". After that, I plan to read "The Dark Edge of Night" by Mark Pryor, a mystery novel that follows a French detective's investigations in Nazi-occupied Paris during the Second World War.

Yumi & The Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson, and I'm also re-reading The Stand by Stephen King.

Do CompTIA study guides count too?

One of the Wheel of Time books.

After a long time of no reading, I started reading on the beach The Handbook of Epictetus. I bought it thanks to the recommendation of PewDiePie of all people in the video he did after losing the first spot in YouTube rankings

Currently reading Drunk by Edward Slingerland. https://www.alcademics.com/2021/09/review-of-drunk-by-edward-slingerland.html

Pro difficulty: I am only reading it in bars.

• Finnegans Wake - my 'big read' which I am doing over the year along with a group over on reddit: one of the only things that still has me dipping into reddit now. Fascinatingly incomprehensible.
• Tchaikovsky's Children of Time - some good thoughtful worldbuilding and a solid story.
• Robert Brightwell's Flashman's Waterloo - one of his series of Flashman prequels featuring the uncle of George MacDonald Fraser's protagonist. Very well researched and entertaining
• A collection of Neil Munro's Para Handy tales - gentle humour and a glimpse of a very different world - albeit rather stereotypical and patronising in some ways.

"The Peacock And The Sparrow," by I.S. Berry. It's a spy novel the same way 'Catch-22' is a war story. The narrator is a burnt out CIA agent trying to convince himself and the world he isn't a loser.

"The Crook Manifesto" by Colson Whitehead. Stand alone follow up to 'The Harlem Shuffle.' It's like going into a local bar on Malcolm X Blvd. and listening to the oldtimers talk about back in the day. A semi-retired fence goes to a crooked White cop to get tickets to a Jackson 5 concert for his teenage daughter. High jinks and hilarity ensue.

• 4 Noble Truths.

So far, I get the impression that it's a phiosophical treatise discussing the suffering in life and the inevitability of it. I'm not sure when I'm going to end, because I don't approach philosophical texts sober and my stash of beer has ended abruptly.

• The Way it went down volume 2

An anthology of stories relevanat to Delta Green role-playing game. It's one of those rare cases when a RPG-inspired material doesn't suck. The stories are usually very short, horror, borderline Lovecraftian. Some are quite disturbing to read.

recently finished:

• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
• last night in Montreal by Emily St John Mandel

Currently reading the haunting of Hill house by Shirley Jackson

Lost Metal by Sanderson.

I'm trying to read the other Sanderson books. Got through Way of Kings, but it was a slog. I don't love really long books.

So I'll probably read Tress next and then give Storm Light Archive stuff another shot.