looking to expand my horizons. My last 2 books: the power of introverts and the subtle art of not giving a f*ck.
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Pick any of the Asimov’s books if you’re into science fiction.
Not exactly a new book, but All Quiet on the Western Front was a fantastic read. It’s a grotesquely frank depiction of the unfortunate "Have Not"s fighting a meaningless war for the "Have"s in society, set in the german trenches of WW1.
From the same author, Erich Maria Remarque, “A night in Lisbon” is also very good.
I’m currently on book 5 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, I started book one In January.
The audiobooks are amazing, super-talented narrator who does a while host of voices.
It’s all so good
Book 5 is my next read. I try and stagger them with other things to draw it out some and make sure I don’t burn out.
In the same genre: Brene Brown: Dare to lead; Connor Beaton: ManTalks, Lindsay C Gibson: Adult Children of emotionally immmature parents, Kelly McGonigal: The Willpower instinct, and Thais Gibson: Learning Love.
Fiction: James SA Corey: The expanse series, and Sofia Oksanen: The dogpark. I also just started Dimitry Glukhovsky: Metro 2033 (Don’t know if its good yet)
Liberalism: A Countrr History, by Domenico Losurdo. Mostly so far looking at how all the liberal revolutions and theorists ended up being at least lukewarm to slavery.
Hunter x Hunter manga, currently in the chimera ant arc
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Technically still reading the Dune series but I need to get back to it.
“Venomous Lumpsucker” by Ned Beauman was good. The writing style reminded me of Weir a bit.
“The Reformatory” by Tananarive Due was also pretty good.
Very different books from each other. Neither are completely without flaw, but both books were a solid B+.
Ive never read a bad Agatha Christie book.
My favorite book is “A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole, and his novella “Neon Bible” was also very good.
“The Dog Stars” by Peter Heller was good.
“Godshot” by Chelsea Bieker was very good.
Dungeon Crawler Carl. The premise is that aliens take over the world and immediately kill 99% of the population. The remaining 1% are forced to compete on an intergalactic reality TV show called Dungeon Crawler World. The series is a scathing critique of modern capitalism, dressed up like a fart joke. If you liked The Good Place, you’ll likely enjoy DCC. Book 8 just released earlier this month, with more on the horizon.
He Who Fights With Monsters is a fun fantasy isekai series. The world-building in this one is absolutely top notch, to the point that I have considered ripping entire cities out of it for my tabletop games. The main character is pretty divisive, and enjoying the series is dependent on liking him. So the people who enjoy the series really enjoy it, and the ones who dislike Jason simply can’t like it. It has 12 books currently. It would have been 13 by now, but the author was in a medically induced coma for lots of last year. That kind of put a damper on his writing schedule. But he is back to writing now, so book 13 is set to release soon.
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) was a nice sci-fi series. It’s still ongoing, but book 6’s release date is TBA. Nerdy computer programmer gets Futurama’d and frozen. But instead of waking up in a distant future like he expected, he wakes up as an AI in charge of a self-replicating space probe.
I’m on book three of the Bobiverse. I’m enjoying it. The nice thing is that they’re not super dense.
I recently read (listened to the audiobook actually) Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
It’s about the life of Thomas Cromwell. The narration style is not for everyone, but it’s the best historical fiction story I’ve read.
The show is also excellent
I’m reading The Light of all that falls by James Islington (3rd book in The Licanius trilogy)
Licanius was so good, I like Hierarchy but so far it hasn’t captivated me like that first trilogy did
I just got a kobo for Christmas so I’ve been catching up on a ton of Stephen King I hadn’t made time for, re-reading some Michael Crichton. Trying out some of Clive Barker’s horror stuff (never read it before).
Just read Back To The Island, a companion/episode guide to Lost. Which has made me want to watch the show again.
Poject Hail Mary, The Martian
Both by Andy Weir.Also M.O.N.A. and S.I.N.O.N. by Dan T. Sehlberg
The books by Andy Weir are hard sci-fi books. Very grounded in physical/realistic expectations but with a sprinkle of “the future”.
The books by Dan Sehlberg are IT thriller-like novels.
Basically something like current ‘Neuralink’.
The first books plot is about a scientist developing a brain-computer interface enabling the user to visit cyberspace in a sort of advanced VR like world but full on inside instead of just goggles you put on.
His wife trials it, visits her job sites web page during a cyber attack on the jobs IT-infrastructure, get’s in contact with the malware there and brings the digital virus inside her to the real world.
Now the digital malware/virus has become a biological one. The scientist now wants to find the cure for the illness.The blade itself is what I’m current reading (when not frantically trying to catchup on one piece)
Joe Abercrombe is great. His books only get better. I haven’t read his YA stuff but I’ve read all his other books and love, love, loved every one of them.
The Fifth Season. I’m currently on the second book The Obelisk Gate so can’t attest for the quality of the whole thing but it’s geological fantasy and I find it quite fascinating. The scale of the world and conflict keeps getting bigger and bigger. It’s very dark but also really draws you in as things ramp up. Themes of the paradox of tolerance, and the challenge of preparing for future crises. The magic system she came up with also feels very fresh to me
I actually never read Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe even though it gets recommended so much. It’s great. Halfway through
