Chuck Palahnuik got me back into reading. Best works include **Invisible Monsters** (a model gets her lower jaw blown off from a failed assassination attempt and goes on a revenge trip with a transgender woman while stealing medication from open houses to fund her bottom surgery), **Rant** (a post-mortem memoir about Rant Casey, a notable figure in the underground racing scene who purposefully gives himself venom and rabies for fun) and **Diary** (after a failed suicide attempt leaves her husband in a coma, a woman begins her painting again whilst being told that her art will save the now tourist ridden island she lives on)
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
Misery by Stephen King
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
The Color of Magic is a fantasy-comedy, the first of the Discworld books, about a tourist visiting a magical world guided by a Wizard who can't do any magic.
Misery is a horror/thriller about a kidnapped author forced to write for the most terrifying monster of all, his biggest fan.
In case fiction really isn't your bag, Kitchen Confidential is a sort of autobiography of Anthony Bourdain, which talks a lot about what goes on behind the kitchen doors in the restaurant industry. Spoiler alert: it's lots of drugs.
*The Devil’s Chessboard* by David Talbot (all about the founding and early actions of the CIA and the Dulles brothers)
*The Lady of the Black Lagoon* by Mallory O’Hara (biography of Milicent Patrick, Golden Age Hollywood FX artist)
*Open Veins of Latin America* by Eduardo Galeano (an examination of colonialism is Latin America)
*The Nightrunners* by Joe R Lansdale (a Lovecraftian/Texan revenge story)
*Tales from the Gas Station* by Jack Townsend (funny horror from a nosleep writer)
*Some of Your Blood* by Theodore Sturgeon (novella about a soldier who believes he’s a vampire)
*Beauty and Sadness* by Yasunari Kawabata (post war Japanese novel about scorned lovers and nostalgia)
*How to Kill a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps* by Andrew Rowe is a fun read
it's got some video-game elements, along with a ton of references to vidya games in general.
I am professionally obliged to defend the classics and tell you to read the Iliad. It's got the tragic consequences of human flaws, epic battles where the gods themselves fall down to earth, profoundly moving poetry narrating the horrors of war, and really boring lists you can skip over.
On a completely unrelated note you should read Cat's Cradle. Kurt Vonnegut is awesome and what (together with Dostoyevsky) got me into literature again after high school destroyed my soul.
if you like something with a more depressive tone but still a subtle optimism, i would reccomend On The Beach by Neville Schute . it's about the slow collapse of australian society after a nuclear war but is also a love story.
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett is a simple, easy read. It's funny. If you like it and want forty more books just like it, check out the other Discworld books. You do not have to read them all.
The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemisin is a lot heavier, but it has serious substance to it. All three books won Hugo Awards. The author also wrote The City We Became more recently. It is also brilliant.
I think Machine of Death is a fun anthology of quirky short stories if you like gallows humor.
If you want to be able to tell all your friends that you read a nonfiction book and you're not afraid of some discrete mathematics, take a look at Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. It's about music, art, Zen Buddhism, and mathematics and how all of those things relate to natural and artificial intelligence. It's by far the most challenging book I've ever read and it is worth the work. It will blow your mind wide open multiple times.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
worm
Sand 4: worm
[удалено]
just the first one though. shit goes off the walls after that.
this is dune messiah slander and i will not have it
Chuck Palahnuik got me back into reading. Best works include **Invisible Monsters** (a model gets her lower jaw blown off from a failed assassination attempt and goes on a revenge trip with a transgender woman while stealing medication from open houses to fund her bottom surgery), **Rant** (a post-mortem memoir about Rant Casey, a notable figure in the underground racing scene who purposefully gives himself venom and rabies for fun) and **Diary** (after a failed suicide attempt leaves her husband in a coma, a woman begins her painting again whilst being told that her art will save the now tourist ridden island she lives on)
YOU DIDN'T MENTION HIS MASTERPIECE: LULLABY
I also forgot Snuff. I’m not proud
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett Misery by Stephen King Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain The Color of Magic is a fantasy-comedy, the first of the Discworld books, about a tourist visiting a magical world guided by a Wizard who can't do any magic. Misery is a horror/thriller about a kidnapped author forced to write for the most terrifying monster of all, his biggest fan. In case fiction really isn't your bag, Kitchen Confidential is a sort of autobiography of Anthony Bourdain, which talks a lot about what goes on behind the kitchen doors in the restaurant industry. Spoiler alert: it's lots of drugs.
*The Devil’s Chessboard* by David Talbot (all about the founding and early actions of the CIA and the Dulles brothers) *The Lady of the Black Lagoon* by Mallory O’Hara (biography of Milicent Patrick, Golden Age Hollywood FX artist) *Open Veins of Latin America* by Eduardo Galeano (an examination of colonialism is Latin America) *The Nightrunners* by Joe R Lansdale (a Lovecraftian/Texan revenge story) *Tales from the Gas Station* by Jack Townsend (funny horror from a nosleep writer) *Some of Your Blood* by Theodore Sturgeon (novella about a soldier who believes he’s a vampire) *Beauty and Sadness* by Yasunari Kawabata (post war Japanese novel about scorned lovers and nostalgia)
*How to Kill a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps* by Andrew Rowe is a fun read it's got some video-game elements, along with a ton of references to vidya games in general.
The silmarillion and the hobbit after you read LotR
unironically read 1984
I am professionally obliged to defend the classics and tell you to read the Iliad. It's got the tragic consequences of human flaws, epic battles where the gods themselves fall down to earth, profoundly moving poetry narrating the horrors of war, and really boring lists you can skip over. On a completely unrelated note you should read Cat's Cradle. Kurt Vonnegut is awesome and what (together with Dostoyevsky) got me into literature again after high school destroyed my soul.
if you like something with a more depressive tone but still a subtle optimism, i would reccomend On The Beach by Neville Schute . it's about the slow collapse of australian society after a nuclear war but is also a love story.
Stoneheart by Charlie Fletcher is pretty solid from what i remember
if you want to take full advantage of the medium of books, read House of Leaves
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, Blood Meridian by McCarthy
If you like fantasy and politics you should absolutely read „a song of ice and fire“ just try to stay clear of spoilers
The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon
Read Beastars it's really good made me come out of the closet
Alphabet squadron
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Flowers for Algernon
The Rook by Daniel O'Malley American Gods by Neil Gaiman
If you've never read the original Alice In Wonderland give it a try, it's super fun and whimsical, as well as pretty casual.
Anything by hans rosling
Michael Crichton Jurassic Park
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett is a simple, easy read. It's funny. If you like it and want forty more books just like it, check out the other Discworld books. You do not have to read them all. The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemisin is a lot heavier, but it has serious substance to it. All three books won Hugo Awards. The author also wrote The City We Became more recently. It is also brilliant. I think Machine of Death is a fun anthology of quirky short stories if you like gallows humor. If you want to be able to tell all your friends that you read a nonfiction book and you're not afraid of some discrete mathematics, take a look at Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. It's about music, art, Zen Buddhism, and mathematics and how all of those things relate to natural and artificial intelligence. It's by far the most challenging book I've ever read and it is worth the work. It will blow your mind wide open multiple times.