looking to expand my horizons. My last 2 books: the power of introverts and the subtle art of not giving a f*ck.
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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.
Currently reading about all the horrors of the CIA - finished The Jakarta Method and Washington Bullets, currently reading through Killing Hope, and next on my list is Operation Gladio.
Non fiction I’d recommend atomic habits (self help), nuclear war: a scenario (existential horror), and Outliers (thought provoking).
Fiction I’d recommend There is no Antimemetics division (regular horror), Exhalation (thought provoking short stories), and A Memory Called Empire (very good commentary on cultural assimilation).
Depending on what you’re looking to get from reading i have other recs
Take anything written by Gladwell with a large helping of salt.
Malcolm “who is this Epstein guy and how did I get on his plane? 🤪” Gladwell (not paraphrasing)
I’m reading a famous superhero web novel called “Worm” part of the Parahumans universe.
It’s pretty good. I heard it’s got 30 or so arcs with 1.4 million total words.
I am at arc 10 currently, and I got here super fast because the story is pretty good.
Such a fun series. The fights especially are so captivating.
I actually never read Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe even though it gets recommended so much. It’s great. Halfway through
Hunter x Hunter manga, currently in the chimera ant arc
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Technically still reading the Dune series but I need to get back to it.
I read the first trilogy of the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown recently and couldn’t put it down. I didn’t expect to like it that much but, that story really got me.
The original series is easily digestible. I tried picking up Iron Gold a few years afterward and couldn’t get into it, though.
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.
Recently read Piranesi. Wonderful book in a unique setting. A page turner which can be finished in a day.
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
The only thing I am reading rn is Capital but I don’t think you came her 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.
“Venomous Lumpsucker” by Ned Beauman was good. The writing style reminded me of Weir a bit.
“The Reformatory” by Tananarive Due was also pretty good.
Very different books from each other. Neither are completely without flaw, but both books were a solid B+.
Ive never read a bad Agatha Christie book.
My favorite book is “A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole, and his novella “Neon Bible” was also very good.
“The Dog Stars” by Peter Heller was good.
“Godshot” by Chelsea Bieker was very good.
Thinking fast and slow - Daniel Kahneman
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.
From the same author, Erich Maria Remarque, “A night in Lisbon” is also very good.
Kaiju battlefield surgeon
I like Dungeon Crawler Carl but Kaiju felt like torture porn to me. I did not enjoy it.
Yeah I’m almost done with Dungeon Crawler, I thought I would check out other things by that author, and yeah it very much is torture porn. But it’s also pretty damn good. It’s a struggle to get through some of the gore though
