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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.
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)
Metro 2033 is so good, you're gonna love it. He wrote such a fever dream of a novel.
I'll second Susanna Clarke's Piranesi.
RF Kuang's Babel
Adam Levin's The Instructions
and my favorite novel, PKD's Galactic Pot-Healer
I actually never read Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe even though it gets recommended so much. It's great. Halfway through
Finished Dungeon Crawler Carl book 8. Reading Witcher: Crossroads of Ravens
Just hopped on the dcc train! Definitely recommend. It will never go down in history as a sublime piece of literature, but it sure is good. I would also recommend giving the audio book a try, the narration is hilarious.
I'll do you one better. The narrator, Jeff Hayes, he founded Soundbooth Theater. DCC in an immersion tunnel, with full cast and sound effects.
I recently started The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Malazan
The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
I'm reading Hatemonger, the book on Stephen Miller. And just re-started Pandora's Star by Peter Hamilton.
The Illiad, unfortunately the translation i got is the worse it could be
ES6 by Dr. Axel
I just got into Brandon Sandersons books and they are amazing fantasy books. Mistborn: The Final Empire is the best starting place
Bhagvad Geeta
I just got through ask for Andrea and it was decent af.
The Priory of the Orange Tree and Seven Recipes for Revolution were both pretty good.
The Philosophy of Pinball by Godwin
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte was fun
Been absolutely crawling through Black Reconstruction, but it's extremely well written and informative.
The Rich Man's House by Andrews McGahan
Currently reading Here Where We Live Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple. Just finished Great Sky River by Gregory Benford
I'm currently reading The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs by Marc David Baer. It traces the history of Ottoman Türkiye through the sultans, with a particular focus on the European character of pre-WWI Türkiye and how much European history and culture was shaped and influenced by the Turkish. Indeed, Baer states in the introduction that he wrote the book to push back on the idea that Türkiye isn't "Western" and that their history was peripheral to overall European history.
In particular, the centralisation of power in kings which is emblematic of Early Modern European history was driven to a large extent by non-Turkish kingdoms copying what was clearly working for Türkiye. Türkiye did take part in the Age of Discovery, establishing trading ports and colonies all along southwest Asia and as far as India, long before Portugal got there. Turkish nobles and artists were as much a part of the 15th-century Renaissance as those of France and England. And a big part of why Protestantism was able to establish itself in Germany was that the Holy Roman Emperor had to grant heretics considerable concessions in exchange for them joining the war against the Sultan.
Baer doesn't say Suleiman the Magnificent was bisexual, but he also very specifically doesn't nor say it.
Pet by Awaeke Emezi is really good. Partly childish innocence, partly heavy topic about child abuse
Apathy And Other Small Victories.