I tend to binge through books. I just finished Andy Weir's Artemis and Project Hail Mary in about one night each.
Which means the things I'm in the middle of tend to be web serials since I can't just rush through. I've got dozens of tabs of royalroad open in my phone's browser. Everything by Ravensdagger is good, and I've been enjoying Return of the Runebound Professor and Let's Not Obliterate, and awaiting the scheduled return from hiatus of Ends of Magic on Monday.
A collection of Kafka short stories
TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1, it may be a little bit outdated, but the core concepts still stand.
I'm in the middle of the Wax and Wayne series by Brandon Sanderson, just finished Shadows of Self.
Sanderson's books are a really fun read, highly recommend them to anyone interested in fantasy.
I'm reading Michael Crichton's The Sphere. It's an odd one - Crichton rarely spends a lot of time on character, but Sphere in particular is barely interested in the people at all. It's situations and implications, a sense of mystery and dread, that the author is interested in, and he whips from one dilemma to the next so quickly its a little disorienting. that can sound like praise, but I'm not sure it is. This is an early work, and it feels rough now and then. Without strong characters, the only voice you really hear is Crichton's, and his tech-terror-explainer 'tone' can be a little tough to swallow in large amounts. all the same, I'm desperate to see where it goes, even as I suspect it will all be over much faster than most of his later novels.
I've read more books in the last month than I have in 5 years. I'm really enjoying getting back into it
What If? 2 by Randall Monroe.
I'm not much of a reader, but I read to my daughter (9). We just finished The Hobbit and have now started the first chapter of The Lord Of The Rings (I also read the prolog, where all peculiarities about hobbits are mentioned. She endured it, but she didn't like it much)
Imperialism, the highest stage of Capitalism by VI Lenin
Neuromancer
"City of Dragons" by Robin Hobb. Her whole "Realm of the Elderlings" series is great, I don't know any other fantasy author who can write characters as well as she does.
I'm reading The Amber Spyglass, by Philip Pullman
Trudi Canavan - The Ambassador's Mission
Loved the first trilogy, only recently found out there's a second.
Catch-22. The classic itself
Cradle by Will Wight, I think I'm at book 8 of 11/12 (I don't usually look so I don't gauge how long til the end).
It's been a fun western take on a progression fantasy and cultivation novel.
I'm very close to finishing The Sound and the Fury. It has lived up to it's reputation of being opaque and difficult. Really more of a checklist book for me.
I am about midway through Neurotribes. It's interesting, but has been slow going.
I'm finally picking up steam on my second read of Infinite Jest. Even better than the first time around.
I am about midway through Anathem. Neal Stephenson is a gifted writer, but for some reason I really lost traction on this one after I got through the world building and into the actual narrative.
I am also nearly done with my second read of American Gods. I have it on audiobook this time. Really enjoying the ensemble cast. It's a good story and I enjoy Gaiman's narrative style.
Idk why but ever since my youth I've never been able to focus on just one book at a time.
Stephen Kings IT. Also listening to Stephen King The Outsider in preparation of Holly coming out in September.
Revan from the Star Wars Legends series.
Just started “Yumi and The Nightmare Painter”
A lot. I lost count, really. I'm a professional 'middle of the book' reader. It's a way of living.
The Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Perdito station by China Meiville(hope I spelled it right) I just started a week ago and have only been able to read a bit because of time constraints but so far I'm pretty intrigued.
"The Dawn of Everything"
It's a thick one but it's worth it because it gives you a whole different view on history
Everything is f*cked.
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle and The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić. I always go over two books at the same time where one has heavier material (philosophy/history) and the other lighter that I can read when I'm tired.
I'm just started reading Wool by Hugh Howey. I finished the first season of Silo and didn't want to wait a year to get more of the story. The book has been great so far. It seems like the show followed the book pretty well with a few changes.
Consider Phlebas
Blood Meridian by Cormac Mcarthy. Book is outright brutal but written in such a compelling way you can't help be want more. Fantastic writer.
The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros.
Seeing Like A State by James C Scott.
Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno and Postmodernism by Frederick Jameson. Just finished Lacan’s lectures on the 4 fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis and understood about 10%. I’m playing catch-up with the serious people from the last century.
The Mask of Mirrors by M.A. Carrick.
It's fantasy, but feels pretty fresh to me with the focus being on the main characters trying to con a rich family and less of the more usual (but no less fun) adventuring, combat etc. (at least so far, I'm still very early in the book).
Escape from Billings Mall, by Chuck Tingle. It's a choose your own adventure book!
The Joy of Abstraction by Eugenia Cheng
Category theory is awesome!
The Wastelands - Stephen King. It's kinda nearing the middle of the Dark Tower series and it's pretty damn good.
A couple, The Institute by Stephen King and Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson. It’s the third of his Kickstarter books and I’m enjoying it so far, but I’ve barely started it.
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgård. Only read the first couple of chapters yet but I'm enjoying it so far.
Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith (project gutenberg)
It's slow going because of the archaic style, but will be a revelation to anyone who thinks Smith doesn't care about humanity.
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata. I'm on page 30 of 160.
Also procrastinating on these:
- Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus - Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
- A Manual for Creating Atheists - Peter Boghossian
The Wheel of Time
Just finished Ten Days that Shook the World. I really enjoyed it. It's one thing to read history from a large-scale top down perspective, another to see how a revolution was actually conducted on a minute by minute street by street basis. Looking for the next thing to read now
Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka.
"Uncle Tom's Cabin". So far very powerful writing. Just finished reading "Tuesday's with Morrie" which is fantastic.
Blindsight by Peter Watts. it's a really unique take on first contact, but wow is it dark
Currently reading Coda vol. 1 right now. Liking the main character particularly his pentacorn.
Currently reading A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark on and off. It's a sequel to a story called A Dead Djinn in Cairo (and others in the same universe) by the same author. The worldbuilding is pretty good. It transports you to this fantasy steampunk version of the world where Egyptian and Arabian culture is dominant (vs just Victorian, as is usually the case with steampunk).
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Book of Leaves and Tao Te Ching
Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
Kazohinia by Sándor Szathmári. It's a fun double dystopia, especially fun once you recognize our own world.
The Bayern Agenda by Dan Moren. It’s decent. Wouldn’t say it’s my favorite yet and I’m halfway through. There’s a lot of talking in rooms for a political action sci-fi series. Pace is a bit slow for my taste.
Match Game, book 14 of the series Expeditionary Force.
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
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Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky and for non fiction, The Friendly Orange Glow, a history of the Plato system. It's an old online community from like the 80s.
Actual reading: Dune. listening to: [The Wanderers by Chuck Wendig](Listen to Wanderers by Chuck Wendig on Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/198489174X?source_code=ASSORAP0511160007)
I need to pick Cracker! Back up, i started reading it in 8th grade by borrowing it from my English teacher, found it years later on amazon. I just have an issue with not wanting to read books anymore after havign the fun sucked out of them due to public school book tests.
Diary of a Drug Addict by Alister Crowley
The Fight Club, I can't get myself to finish it, knowing how it ends because of the movie does not help either.
Dark Age by Pierce Brown, part of the Red Rising series
- Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence
Sins of Empire by Brian McClellan
Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik.
Zodiac by Neal Stephenson. I like the narrator's "voice".
My notes for the next exam... Before that I was reading the Amaranthe series by G. S. Jennsen. I just finished the first three books which make up a trilogy of their own and don't want to start the sequel trilogy until exams are over because I have no self control
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
I usually don't stay engaged with non-fiction, but this book I couldn't put down.
I am reading the first book of the series Empire of the Moghul right now.
Classified as historical fiction, it is very interesting to see how the kingdoms evolved and spread in Central Asia.
The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
Segans " The Demon Haunted World"
Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
"Necropolis" (Gaunt's Ghosts 3) by Dan Abnett. Whole lot of Warhammer 40k goodness.
Douglas Adams Starship Titanic: A Novel by Terry Jones
I think that is the official title. It's set inside the wider Hitchhikers universe, but so far hasn't touched on the events of that series.
Did take my a fair bit of time to get Into it, but as I approach the halfway point it's definitely got me.
The latest Thrawn book
Latest Miss Peregrine book. Recently found out there were three more since I last read it, so I've been catching up this week.
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. Actually I'm at 52%. The reason I stopped because of exams
Star By Star. Reading through the old EU New Jedi Order books again. The old EU is the best part of Star Wars.
Ministry for the Future. So good, so painful.
Advanced Marathoning
I haven’t started it yet but my next book is The Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds.
Within the last month or two I’ve read Song of Achilles, The Women Could Fly, The Book Eaters, and Babel. I’d recommend all of them, especially Babel.
I don't know if it counts as "in the middle", but I left off reading a book about heaven 8 had borrowed from my mom before I lost religion, and completely lost interest in it.
Don't think I'll ever go back, but that's the book I left unfinished. Haven't read anything in years. I was big on audiobooks for a while before I couldn't afford audible anymore.
Used to have a job that I could listen while I worked on my own and because of that I was able to go through a bunch of them.
One I get through my current medical condition (probably a few years off) and I go back to work, I hope I get another job like that.
Pride and Prejudice, it's fine so far
The enterprise of death, it's a fun read
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson. Recommend if you like historical fiction & the 20s.
Currently listening through Worm again. I read it the first time, now I'm listening and it's just as good as I remember it.
Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff. It plays in a alternative medivial fantasy world where the sunlight gets blocked after a loud rumbling. It tells the story of a you man who gets recruited in a organization of hunters that kill the supernatural while the world gets conquered by the vampires, that can't be hurt by the sun anymore.
One of the best dark fantasy books, I have read in a long time.
The Hooligans of Kandahar by Joe Kassabian.
I'm reading a few actually: Capital volume 2 by Marx, The Tondrakian Movement by Vrej Nersessian, and Primavera con una esquina rota by Mario Benedetti
Count Zero by William Gibson
Trunk Music by Michael Connelly
I've started a couple other books but i don't know if or when I'll finish them as I enjoy reading Connelly more.
The classic, The Fellowship of the Ring
Reading: Everything is Under Control by Robert Anton Wilson Listening: Galaxy Outlaws: The Complete Black Ocean Mobius Missions by J.S. Morin, Mikael Naramore (Narrator)
The Time Hunters by Carl Ashmore, It's target audience is young but I enjoy books for any age so it's an easy read!
Not a book, but a series. 2nd book specifically of the manga series Black Bird.
My brother and sister-in-law got me a box set of it not knowing it's a shoujo series (less action and more romance focused) and so far it's interesting enough to keep me interested.
Engine Summer by John Crowley. I'm only about 100 pages in, but liking it so far.
Fellowship of the Ring but also Children of Hurin
I am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes & Cell - Stephen King
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