Asklemmy

I just got into Brandon Sandersons books and they are amazing fantasy books. Mistborn: The Final Empire is the best starting place

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. Truly magnificent, just like the movie by Tarkovsky.

In parallel to that I went also down the rabbit hole about what cybernetics was and what happened to it.

The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

I'm reading The Light of all that falls by James Islington (3rd book in The Licanius trilogy)

Bhagvad Geeta

I recently started The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

Finished Dungeon Crawler Carl book 8. Reading Witcher: Crossroads of Ravens

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.

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.

I mean I’m a communist so YMMV, but I’m re-reading the Vietnamese textbook on Dialectical Materialism that Luna Oi translated. I’m re-reading it because I also have the second textbook she translated (on Historical Materialism) and I wanted to brush up before diving in to that one.

I just got through ask for Andrea and it was decent af.

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.

We are legion we are Bob

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.

Apathy And Other Small Victories.

Malazan

Recently my favourite genre have been "2019 lesbian sci-fi debut novels about an empire, starting a series".

A Memory Called Empire is absolutely amazing. A very close second is Gideon the Ninth and its sequels.

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

Been absolutely crawling through Black Reconstruction, but it's extremely well written and informative.

Non-fiction:

• The Demon-Haunted World
• The Fourth Turning is Here

Fiction:

• There is No Antimemetics Division

If you are into fantasy, then I need to recommend you the books of Brandon Sanderson, especially the Stormlight Archive series. It's so epic, nothing else comes close

New Scientist magazine, the paper version so that I can put it down, think about it, and come back a week later. I’m not a scientist, and not highly educated, but I’m curious about the world, and many of their articles are easy to read at my level.

The Philosophy of Pinball by Godwin

I'm currently on book 5 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, I started book one In January.

ES6 by Dr. Axel

I'm reading Hatemonger, the book on Stephen Miller. And just re-started Pandora's Star by Peter Hamilton.

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 blade itself is what I’m current reading (when not frantically trying to catchup on one piece)

The only thing I am reading rn is Capital but I don't think you came here for political theory so I will recommend The Hot Zone. It's the last book I read and it's about the discovery of Ebola, its investigations, and how it got to the US.