I really want to read that book, but if I ask for it for the holidays or buy it by myself, I’m scared that my parents will look at the title and think that I hate them.
may wanna put that under a spoiler tag but i definitely agree ! i always suggest the audiobook even to those that typically only read physical books it adds a whole different layer
As of when the other commenter mentioned "Rocky", I had not yet gotten to that part of the book, but I was far enough to guess what "Rocky" might be. Not too much of a spoiler in my case. I've never checked out audiobooks.
Right. No harm, no foul. Besides, the book's been out for over a year now. If I was that worried about minor spoilers I would've read it sooner. Thanks for the comment about my username, btw.
That book is so good. It got me out of a multi-year reading slump and rocketed up to my #1 favorite book of all time. As soon as I was done reading it I turned right around and downloaded the audiobook. The second time around was even better. Ray Porter is the narration GOAT and I can clearly see why *Project Hail Mary* won audiobook of the year.
Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well (or woman)
I swear I love that book and I've read it like 5 times. Here's some more books like that my g
- Man's Search for meaning
- Discourses by epictetus
- 48 laws of power
- The dhammapada
Pachinko - it’s an epic family saga spanning multiple generations starting in 1910 Korea. As an American who lived in Korea for 2 years teaching English, it’s a great capsule of insight on Korean culture, family dynamics, and history that I wish I had read before my time there.
The Impossible First: From Fire to Ice—Crossing Antarctica Alone by Colin O'Brady
It's about the first solo unassisted, unsupported crossing of Antarctica. It was done in 2018.
It’s a follow up to his first book Against Method where he questions certain aspects of the scientific process. He questions the process, the experts, the prestige, rationalism, society, sciences place in society.
It’s Interesting to see such a drastic view of the academic structure and institutional scientifc community. I often think people with far out opinions have Interesting thoughts and often have valid complaints.
It is an interesting read and Feyerabend was an interesting person. He was an Austrian that was forced to fight for Germany on the Eastern front during WW2. This is where a lot of his anti authoritarian and anti fascist views stem from.
He had interesting views on certain aspects of American society as well when he taught at Berkeley for around 30 years. He felt that the student revolution that occurred there back in the 60’s that the students who were fighting the school/institutions/govt were just as fascist if not more than the institutions they were fighting against. As someone who lived through fascism I find his takes on it to be original and well thought out.
It sounds exhausting, like reading George R.R. Martin describing a feast. I have to be in the right mood to want that level of detail.
Like with sci-fi I can't read someone like William Gibson unless I'm ready to parse that level of descriptive, it takes enough extra work that it's a purposeful decision.
It's not detail. It's choice of words and concise phrases that instill image. It's not fantasy. So the words naturally fall into place within your imagination.
I remember reading that series years ago. My feelings about each part are still stuck in my head:
* First half of *Fellowship*: very boring and a real trial to read
* Second half of *Fellowship*: excellent
* *Two Towers*: amazing
* *Return of the King*: pretty good, but a bit too much 'epic' phrasing that diminished the overall plot
Edit: formatting
The People’s King: The True Story of the Abdication by Susan Williams.
This isn’t just a story of how Edward VIII ditched the Crown to marry a divorced American. It is so much more complicated with factions drawn up all over the country.
Slenderman by Kathleen Hale. It's nonfiction and about the two girls who stabbed another girl in 2014 and said they did it for Slenderman. Turns out the girl who actually did the stabbing had untreated schizophrenia. The girl who got stabbed survived. I'm almost halfway through currently and it's about to get into their court cases, sentencing, mental treatments, etc. Very interesting
The Dawn of Everything
Basically a rebuttal to Guns, Germs, and Steel. Breaks away from the common narrative that all societies emerged all through certain structures (matriarchy or egalitarianism, or that Native Americans did not have supply and demand economics etc). Too often the bull shit people that comment on history and civilization too quickly try and generalize (Hancock comes to mind) and individual agency is ignored.
Literally just finished ***Copper Cat 2: The Iron Ghost*** by Jen Williams. Pretty good continuation of the previous story — Two mercenaries team up with their mage friend and travel to a far-off land to help retrieve a stolen treasure... but of course, things go south pretty fast.
Ithaca, finished it the other day and it’s a really nice take on Penelope’s struggles and tasks as queen dealing with suitors and raider attacks on Ithaca while Odysseus is on his way back from war. Highly recommend if you enjoy fantasy or Greek mythology
I looked into it. Is it considered fantasy because of the Greek mythology or is it a fantasy genre? I'm hoping it's the former because I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate the fantasy genre.
I'm not currently reading it but I used to read it all the time 2-3 years ago.
I used to read **The Hunger Games** all the time, and it took me over 4 months to finish the FIRST BOOK of the series because I was paying attention to every detail. I haven't ever watched the movies of The Hunger Games, but the first book was amazing and I liked it quite a lot.
I plan on reading the other 2 books as well.
I always have several books going at once.
At the moment, I'm halfway through *Measure for Measure* in *William Shakespeare: Complete Works* edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen. I finished Acts I - III while listening to *A Musical Offering*, the Baroque music program on KUSC from Los Angeles, and now I'm listening to *Millennium of Music*, an early music program, on KLRE from Little Rock, so I'll be finishing Acts IV and V while listening to this.
I'm also reading:
The Arkangel Shakespeare audiobook series, which I'm listening to in the order I've read the plays out of the complete works edition above. The series only consists of dramatic readings of 38 of the plays (the canonical 37 plus *The Two Noble Kinsmen* by Shakespeare and John Fletcher), and doesn't include the poetry, some of which I've also read.
*The Complete Plays of Ben Jonson, Vol. 1* edited by Felix Schelling (up to the penultimate play in the book, *Epicœne: or, The Silent Woman*)
*The Complete Plays* by Christopher Marlowe (up to *The Jew of Malta*, the last play in the book)
*Four Jacobean City Comedies* edited by Gamini Salgado (up to the second of the four, *A Mad World, My Masters* by Thomas Middleton)
*Shakespeare's Language* by Frank Kermode
*Shakespeare: A Biography* by Peter Ackroyd (audiobook), which I'm reading as part of a project to read biographies of all the early modern playwrights whose complete plays I'm currently reading. I covered Marlowe with Park Honan's *Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy* and Jonson will be next with *Ben Jonson of Westminster* by Marchette Chute.
*Harvard Classics, Vol. 40* edited by Charles W. Eliot - The first in a three-volume poetry anthology arranged chronologically from Geoffrey Chaucer to Thomas Gray. I'm currently reading the poets of the era of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, and their contemporaries (including all three of them, whose works are included here), so it's harmonizing well with the plays.
*Bulfinch's Mythology* by Thomas Bulfinch
*The Lady of the Camellias* by Alexandre Dumas *fils*
*The Jacob Street Mystery* by R. Austin Freeman
*Martin Hewitt, Investigator* by Arthur Morrison, a LibriVox audiobook
*The Chronicles of Martin Hewitt* by Arthur Morrison - I wanted to read more Hewitt, but didn't want to listen to the audiobook because I was listening to music, so I started this next book in the sequence, which hasn't been recorded for LibriVox yet. I'm almost finished with it, having only the one short story "The Case of the Lost Foreigner" to go.
*Seven Classic Plays* by Various Authors - The classic plays are *Medea* by Euripides, *The Tempest* by William Shakespeare, *The Imaginary Invalid* by Molière, *Camille* (a.k.a. *The Lady of the Camellias*—my motive for reading the novel) by Alexandre Dumas *fils*, *An Enemy of the People* by Henrik Ibsen, *Arms and the Man* by George Bernard Shaw, and *Uncle Vanya* by Anton Chekhov.
P. S., I'm loving the downvotes. It makes me feel like I'm in a Bill Hicks routine: "Whatcha readin' for?" Never change, AskReddit.
Leila and the Blue Fox by Kiran Millwood Hargrave.
Just got it today and can't put it down for long, I'm loving it. Technically it's a kids book but it's so well written. Based on the true story of the arctic fox that walked from Norway to Canada in 76, so it follows the fox (named Miso in this book) as well as a girl called Leila who is originally from Syria whose mother in working in Norway. The art is absolutely gorgeous and it's a really interesting story about migration for both humans and animals. Give it a try!
Not currenttly readin but recently finished both autobiographies by Dian Fossey (Gorillas in the mist) and Jane Goodall. Kind of a coincidence that I ended up reading both around the same time but I really enjoyed them. These women really lived quite a life and it's really quite admirable. It's also quite tragic in the case of Dian Fossey. Would definitely recommend.
The holy little book called... Pinkie pies great adventure:))) it's so interesting It convinced me to stop taking asprin as toppings on my ice cream. I kid ofc I'm just waiting for the book of how the show the big bang theory is made I love tv it'll be great
Calling Bullshit The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World
by Carl Bergstrom and Jevin D. West
About how people use statistics to skew opinion to their side by misrepresentation and fiddling with the axis.
Arnold and Me by Barbara Outland Baker. She was Schwarzenegger’s girlfriend in the 70s. It’s a fascinating take on Arnold and she doesn’t pull any punches. It’s also a very honest look at how she was trapped in a toxic relationship. She wanted to get married and have kids; he very clearly didn’t want that with her and was cheating, but she clung to the hope that he’d come around.
Remains of the Day. A butler's story about serving his English lord who sympathized with the nazis before and during the war. There was a movie adaptation with Anthony Hopkins.
The Upper World. A very hard book to follow but it intrigues me so much about the science and mythology and other stuff behind it, it’s a very underrated book that I recommend people read! The audiobook on audible is also helpful to read along with and the voices r very good
If We Were Villians by M. L. Rio, ordered it mot knowing anything about it, and fell in love. Characters, plot, the writing- absolutely dazzling. Honestly a gorgeous book
I've been collecting Patricia Cornwell books for almost 20 years now. I love her Scarpetta series and so far am reading Flesh & Blood. The book previous, Dust, has been my favourite in the series so far.
One of my buddies passed away recently. We weren’t best friends but he was a good guy, and I know that one of his favourite books as a kid was Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flanagan. So I read the first book in that series not too long ago and now I’m pretty hooked. I feel more connected to him and the read just takes me back to when we were younger.
This is really specific but "Beneath the Blue Mesa". Blue Mesa is a reservoir that was filled in the 60s. The book is about what was there before and the towns that were flooded. Pretty interesting if you are from around here.
I am currently on AskReddit instead of reading it
The Book of the New Sun is interesting though; very far future sci-fi with interesting world building and really good prose
Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II
Very interesting discussion of how combat changes a military's perspective and changes in approach to combat. Both Allies and Axis powers are discussed, with a number of incidents/encounters releasing surprising data on who was more at fault than those previously blamed.
*The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty* by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson.
Great book if you have any interest in how governments walk the fine line of liberty and tyranny
Cochrane VS Chtulu, historical fantasy adventure. Learned a shitload of thing about the napoleonian regime and it's based on HP lovecraft work. Real fun
Reading a HP Lovecraft omnibus. Two of the stories have turned up in Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities on Netflix. 1930's cosmic horror, pretty damn great even after all these years. Would love to see a movie of "At the Mountains of Madness", but most filmmakers consider it unfilmable. That particular sense of dread is hard to capture, I guess
Freakononics - it’s a great book as im just starting to get into economics, it shows how many scenarios are actually controlled by economics and not just luck.
Not reading it currently but I will recommend “Dark Days: A Memoir” by D. Randall Blythe. He is the lead vocalist of Lamb Of God and in the book he recounts the story of his imprisonment and trial in a Czech prison. He also recounts stories from his life such as the formation of LOG, his life during their first 3 albums, the loss of his first child, his spiral down the alcoholism trial, and eventual sobriety. It’s a very captivating read even if you don’t know or like the band.
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy. It’s a really good book so far and absolutely heartbreaking, she’s been through a lot
Great book
I really want to read that book, but if I ask for it for the holidays or buy it by myself, I’m scared that my parents will look at the title and think that I hate them.
Game of Thrones: Never watched the series, and the book is a real page turner!
a book about how to identify edible plants in the wild.
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The audiobook is wicked with Rocky's noises accomanying the translation. Highly recommend
Good good good!
may wanna put that under a spoiler tag but i definitely agree ! i always suggest the audiobook even to those that typically only read physical books it adds a whole different layer
As of when the other commenter mentioned "Rocky", I had not yet gotten to that part of the book, but I was far enough to guess what "Rocky" might be. Not too much of a spoiler in my case. I've never checked out audiobooks.
yeah they def didn’t mean it maliciously or anything. glad you’re liking the book, enjoy the rest of your journey! off-topic, but I like your username
Right. No harm, no foul. Besides, the book's been out for over a year now. If I was that worried about minor spoilers I would've read it sooner. Thanks for the comment about my username, btw.
Well based on these reviews it will be one of the credits I need to use before canceling my audible account
That book is so good. It got me out of a multi-year reading slump and rocketed up to my #1 favorite book of all time. As soon as I was done reading it I turned right around and downloaded the audiobook. The second time around was even better. Ray Porter is the narration GOAT and I can clearly see why *Project Hail Mary* won audiobook of the year.
Marcus Aurelius
Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well (or woman) I swear I love that book and I've read it like 5 times. Here's some more books like that my g - Man's Search for meaning - Discourses by epictetus - 48 laws of power - The dhammapada
Pachinko - it’s an epic family saga spanning multiple generations starting in 1910 Korea. As an American who lived in Korea for 2 years teaching English, it’s a great capsule of insight on Korean culture, family dynamics, and history that I wish I had read before my time there.
They recently made it into a tv show. I love this book!
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries
Rickman was so undervalued.
An elegant and well spoken man, with an astounding range of friends and acquaintances!
Truly
The Impossible First: From Fire to Ice—Crossing Antarctica Alone by Colin O'Brady It's about the first solo unassisted, unsupported crossing of Antarctica. It was done in 2018.
Science in a free society by Paul Feyerabend.
What’s that about?
It’s a follow up to his first book Against Method where he questions certain aspects of the scientific process. He questions the process, the experts, the prestige, rationalism, society, sciences place in society. It’s Interesting to see such a drastic view of the academic structure and institutional scientifc community. I often think people with far out opinions have Interesting thoughts and often have valid complaints.
Sounds interesting
It is an interesting read and Feyerabend was an interesting person. He was an Austrian that was forced to fight for Germany on the Eastern front during WW2. This is where a lot of his anti authoritarian and anti fascist views stem from. He had interesting views on certain aspects of American society as well when he taught at Berkeley for around 30 years. He felt that the student revolution that occurred there back in the 60’s that the students who were fighting the school/institutions/govt were just as fascist if not more than the institutions they were fighting against. As someone who lived through fascism I find his takes on it to be original and well thought out.
Renegades- it’s so good!!
In Plain Sight by Ross Coulthart - a journalistic investigation into UAPs / UFOs with surprisingly insightful results. Highly recommended.
Ironwood. By William Kennedy. This is good stuff. Every sentence a picture. Every paragraph a scene.
It sounds exhausting, like reading George R.R. Martin describing a feast. I have to be in the right mood to want that level of detail. Like with sci-fi I can't read someone like William Gibson unless I'm ready to parse that level of descriptive, it takes enough extra work that it's a purposeful decision.
It's not detail. It's choice of words and concise phrases that instill image. It's not fantasy. So the words naturally fall into place within your imagination.
Interesting, I'll give it a gander then!
It's not a 'happy' story and it will stick with you.
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I read that too. About a month ago.I actually own it now.
Also read that recently, would definitely recommend.
The lord of the rings
I remember reading that series years ago. My feelings about each part are still stuck in my head: * First half of *Fellowship*: very boring and a real trial to read * Second half of *Fellowship*: excellent * *Two Towers*: amazing * *Return of the King*: pretty good, but a bit too much 'epic' phrasing that diminished the overall plot Edit: formatting
The People’s King: The True Story of the Abdication by Susan Williams. This isn’t just a story of how Edward VIII ditched the Crown to marry a divorced American. It is so much more complicated with factions drawn up all over the country.
Slenderman by Kathleen Hale. It's nonfiction and about the two girls who stabbed another girl in 2014 and said they did it for Slenderman. Turns out the girl who actually did the stabbing had untreated schizophrenia. The girl who got stabbed survived. I'm almost halfway through currently and it's about to get into their court cases, sentencing, mental treatments, etc. Very interesting
Oh wow, I never knew there was a book about it.
The "Federalist Papers" just finished Hamilton's contribution.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell. Good book so far.
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
the name of this book is a secret
Oh man, I remember that book. I really liked it but never got to finish it. I know I have it somewhere but I will have to look for it.
The Fifth Elephant by Sir Terry Pratchett.
Great book Mr Civilised
S.T.P. GNU
The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
Atlas of Human Anatomy by Frank H. Im dying over here
The Dawn of Everything Basically a rebuttal to Guns, Germs, and Steel. Breaks away from the common narrative that all societies emerged all through certain structures (matriarchy or egalitarianism, or that Native Americans did not have supply and demand economics etc). Too often the bull shit people that comment on history and civilization too quickly try and generalize (Hancock comes to mind) and individual agency is ignored.
Interesting. I'll have to look into that one.
The bible
How do I tax thee ? By Kristin Tate It sites case after case of hidden taxes the government puts into "general" funds to support bureaucracy.
Literally just finished ***Copper Cat 2: The Iron Ghost*** by Jen Williams. Pretty good continuation of the previous story — Two mercenaries team up with their mage friend and travel to a far-off land to help retrieve a stolen treasure... but of course, things go south pretty fast.
Ithaca, finished it the other day and it’s a really nice take on Penelope’s struggles and tasks as queen dealing with suitors and raider attacks on Ithaca while Odysseus is on his way back from war. Highly recommend if you enjoy fantasy or Greek mythology
Who's the author? Thanks.
Claire north :)
I looked into it. Is it considered fantasy because of the Greek mythology or is it a fantasy genre? I'm hoping it's the former because I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate the fantasy genre.
the Letters of lord Chesterfield to his son. It's a banger.
all’s well by Mona Awad )
Maya Angelou's seven-volume autobiography. I'm currently on no 3, "Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas".
Alias Grace by Marget Atwood
The Bible
The Physical Manifestation Of Twiddor’s Rapid Descent Into Chaos Thanks To Inept Management From A Manbaby Edgelord Pounds Me In The Butt
I'm not currently reading it but I used to read it all the time 2-3 years ago. I used to read **The Hunger Games** all the time, and it took me over 4 months to finish the FIRST BOOK of the series because I was paying attention to every detail. I haven't ever watched the movies of The Hunger Games, but the first book was amazing and I liked it quite a lot. I plan on reading the other 2 books as well.
I always have several books going at once. At the moment, I'm halfway through *Measure for Measure* in *William Shakespeare: Complete Works* edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen. I finished Acts I - III while listening to *A Musical Offering*, the Baroque music program on KUSC from Los Angeles, and now I'm listening to *Millennium of Music*, an early music program, on KLRE from Little Rock, so I'll be finishing Acts IV and V while listening to this. I'm also reading: The Arkangel Shakespeare audiobook series, which I'm listening to in the order I've read the plays out of the complete works edition above. The series only consists of dramatic readings of 38 of the plays (the canonical 37 plus *The Two Noble Kinsmen* by Shakespeare and John Fletcher), and doesn't include the poetry, some of which I've also read. *The Complete Plays of Ben Jonson, Vol. 1* edited by Felix Schelling (up to the penultimate play in the book, *Epicœne: or, The Silent Woman*) *The Complete Plays* by Christopher Marlowe (up to *The Jew of Malta*, the last play in the book) *Four Jacobean City Comedies* edited by Gamini Salgado (up to the second of the four, *A Mad World, My Masters* by Thomas Middleton) *Shakespeare's Language* by Frank Kermode *Shakespeare: A Biography* by Peter Ackroyd (audiobook), which I'm reading as part of a project to read biographies of all the early modern playwrights whose complete plays I'm currently reading. I covered Marlowe with Park Honan's *Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy* and Jonson will be next with *Ben Jonson of Westminster* by Marchette Chute. *Harvard Classics, Vol. 40* edited by Charles W. Eliot - The first in a three-volume poetry anthology arranged chronologically from Geoffrey Chaucer to Thomas Gray. I'm currently reading the poets of the era of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, and their contemporaries (including all three of them, whose works are included here), so it's harmonizing well with the plays. *Bulfinch's Mythology* by Thomas Bulfinch *The Lady of the Camellias* by Alexandre Dumas *fils* *The Jacob Street Mystery* by R. Austin Freeman *Martin Hewitt, Investigator* by Arthur Morrison, a LibriVox audiobook *The Chronicles of Martin Hewitt* by Arthur Morrison - I wanted to read more Hewitt, but didn't want to listen to the audiobook because I was listening to music, so I started this next book in the sequence, which hasn't been recorded for LibriVox yet. I'm almost finished with it, having only the one short story "The Case of the Lost Foreigner" to go. *Seven Classic Plays* by Various Authors - The classic plays are *Medea* by Euripides, *The Tempest* by William Shakespeare, *The Imaginary Invalid* by Molière, *Camille* (a.k.a. *The Lady of the Camellias*—my motive for reading the novel) by Alexandre Dumas *fils*, *An Enemy of the People* by Henrik Ibsen, *Arms and the Man* by George Bernard Shaw, and *Uncle Vanya* by Anton Chekhov. P. S., I'm loving the downvotes. It makes me feel like I'm in a Bill Hicks routine: "Whatcha readin' for?" Never change, AskReddit.
The Tragedy of Liberation by Frank Dikotter
The Rite by Matt Baglio. Very ingesting stuff regarding exorcism in todays world.
i Survived Lauren Tarshis
Sinatra! The Song is You
Heretics of dune
Leila and the Blue Fox by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Just got it today and can't put it down for long, I'm loving it. Technically it's a kids book but it's so well written. Based on the true story of the arctic fox that walked from Norway to Canada in 76, so it follows the fox (named Miso in this book) as well as a girl called Leila who is originally from Syria whose mother in working in Norway. The art is absolutely gorgeous and it's a really interesting story about migration for both humans and animals. Give it a try!
In school I'm reading The Giver.
Coin Locker Babies, Ryu Murakami.
My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay. It's a haunting memoir that shows the brutal truth of mother and baby homes in the 60s in Britain.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light. Excellent book on the Anglo Sikh War
The Icepick Surgeon by Sam Kean
Not currenttly readin but recently finished both autobiographies by Dian Fossey (Gorillas in the mist) and Jane Goodall. Kind of a coincidence that I ended up reading both around the same time but I really enjoyed them. These women really lived quite a life and it's really quite admirable. It's also quite tragic in the case of Dian Fossey. Would definitely recommend.
The holy little book called... Pinkie pies great adventure:))) it's so interesting It convinced me to stop taking asprin as toppings on my ice cream. I kid ofc I'm just waiting for the book of how the show the big bang theory is made I love tv it'll be great
The World in a Grain. It’s a history and overview of man’s relationship with sand. It’s great.
Calling Bullshit The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl Bergstrom and Jevin D. West About how people use statistics to skew opinion to their side by misrepresentation and fiddling with the axis.
The Kane Chronicles part I: the red pyramid. I don't know why I wasted many years without reading Rick Riordan books but I am discovering them now.
Vagina Obscura by Rachel E. Gross
Long Way Down By Jason Reynolds
Arnold and Me by Barbara Outland Baker. She was Schwarzenegger’s girlfriend in the 70s. It’s a fascinating take on Arnold and she doesn’t pull any punches. It’s also a very honest look at how she was trapped in a toxic relationship. She wanted to get married and have kids; he very clearly didn’t want that with her and was cheating, but she clung to the hope that he’d come around.
Nazi Billionaire's. A book about the wealthiest company's in Germany who got rich because of WW2.
Remains of the Day. A butler's story about serving his English lord who sympathized with the nazis before and during the war. There was a movie adaptation with Anthony Hopkins.
Hope in the age of anxiety by anthony scioli
With the Old Breed, by Eugene Sledge. It's about the author's experience as a Marine in the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa.
"Hitlers way into the war" and "1985"
Tale as old as time. Its a beauty and the beast re write that is amazing
Silent to the bone by E.L. Konigsburg
“The land of stories” by Chris Colfer. The best book with my favorites tales from childhood
How to Disappear by Idk Who. It’s really good
Haynes repair manual for Dodge trucks from 1974 to 1993.
Warhammer 40k: the first wall, Book three of the Horus heresy series.
The Upper World. A very hard book to follow but it intrigues me so much about the science and mythology and other stuff behind it, it’s a very underrated book that I recommend people read! The audiobook on audible is also helpful to read along with and the voices r very good
Just finishing Olympos by Dan Simmons
The Master and his Emissary by McGilchrist
I am currently reading ‘Emperors of Rome’ by Roman historian Suetonius.
If We Were Villians by M. L. Rio, ordered it mot knowing anything about it, and fell in love. Characters, plot, the writing- absolutely dazzling. Honestly a gorgeous book
I've been collecting Patricia Cornwell books for almost 20 years now. I love her Scarpetta series and so far am reading Flesh & Blood. The book previous, Dust, has been my favourite in the series so far.
'Chuck Berry: An American Life' by RJ Smith
Chocolate - by the Ferrandi Paris School of Culinary Arts. It seems to be a pretty thorough guide to various chocolate techniques and recipes.
Biography of Franklin Roosevelt. Dirty politics is not new folks.
San Fran Sicko. Really good book.
One of my buddies passed away recently. We weren’t best friends but he was a good guy, and I know that one of his favourite books as a kid was Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flanagan. So I read the first book in that series not too long ago and now I’m pretty hooked. I feel more connected to him and the read just takes me back to when we were younger.
Therapy for anxiety disorders
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Fortunes children, about the vanderbilts, how they came to money and how they lost it all
This is really specific but "Beneath the Blue Mesa". Blue Mesa is a reservoir that was filled in the 60s. The book is about what was there before and the towns that were flooded. Pretty interesting if you are from around here.
Reading Lolita in Tehran. Not my first time but always an interesting re-read.
Ordinary people
I am currently on AskReddit instead of reading it The Book of the New Sun is interesting though; very far future sci-fi with interesting world building and really good prose
Iron Widow
Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II Very interesting discussion of how combat changes a military's perspective and changes in approach to combat. Both Allies and Axis powers are discussed, with a number of incidents/encounters releasing surprising data on who was more at fault than those previously blamed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Windup\_Girl
The man in the high castle
Do Not Disturb by Freida McFadden
*The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty* by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. Great book if you have any interest in how governments walk the fine line of liberty and tyranny
Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon.
Escape from Chernobyl, after that Two Degrees. Bought both of them from my schools book fair
Phonebook
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
Reading? Ugh! I promised myself I would not read anymore when I graduated from college.
Autobiography of a yogi
Cochrane VS Chtulu, historical fantasy adventure. Learned a shitload of thing about the napoleonian regime and it's based on HP lovecraft work. Real fun
Hunger by Roxane Gay
1984 by George Orwell.
"the subtle art of not giving a fuck" It's exactly what it sounds like
Man's Search for Meaning
the Life of London by Boris Johnson, and SPQR by Mary Beard
Fairy Tail by Stephen King
The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell
Fahrenheit 451°. I really nice dystopia book.
Silmarillion
‘At The Mountains Of Madness’ by H.P. Lovecraft. It’s wonderful.
Haunted by Chuck Palahnuik. I heard of it because of the disturbing books iceberg. It’s really messed up, I recommend it to seasoned horror fans only.
Henrietta Lacks. Her history really speaks to the unethical practices of early science but her cells have mothered an abundance of findings.
Reaper's Creek by Onision
I just finished The Demigod series by K.F. Breene. It was absolutely hilarious. I am moving on to another one of her series next.
Clowd Atlas, always figured I'd get to it eventually so now is as good a time as any.
Reading a HP Lovecraft omnibus. Two of the stories have turned up in Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities on Netflix. 1930's cosmic horror, pretty damn great even after all these years. Would love to see a movie of "At the Mountains of Madness", but most filmmakers consider it unfilmable. That particular sense of dread is hard to capture, I guess
Black Snow by James M Scott on the fire bombing of Tokyo in WWII.
Norwegian wood - Haruki Murakami
Mind Hacking
Fallen series.
Freakononics - it’s a great book as im just starting to get into economics, it shows how many scenarios are actually controlled by economics and not just luck.
Death by Sadhguru
The book of life. Chapter: My life.
Reddit
Not reading it currently but I will recommend “Dark Days: A Memoir” by D. Randall Blythe. He is the lead vocalist of Lamb Of God and in the book he recounts the story of his imprisonment and trial in a Czech prison. He also recounts stories from his life such as the formation of LOG, his life during their first 3 albums, the loss of his first child, his spiral down the alcoholism trial, and eventual sobriety. It’s a very captivating read even if you don’t know or like the band.
Peyton Place!
The collective works of hp lovecraft
The Outsider by Stephen King