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
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Call to Arms, by Lu Xun
It's a short story collection. I'm actually at the beginning, I've only read two stories so far. Kong Yiji is really good!!
"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
The Hooligans of Kandahar by Joe Kassabian.
The classic, The Fellowship of the Ring
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
Count Zero by William Gibson
Sins of Empire by Brian McClellan
Engine Summer by John Crowley. I'm only about 100 pages in, but liking it so far.
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.
Rereading Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné, so I can read the new book, The Citadel of Forgotten Myths. Been a few moments since I did a full reread.
I have Greg Egan's Scale and John Shirley's Stormland next on the tsundoku.
I tried to like it, but I couldn't concentrate on it, I gave up in the middle of the 2nd book.
Fellowship of the Ring but also Children of Hurin
The latest Thrawn book
Kazohinia by Sándor Szathmári. It's a fun double dystopia, especially fun once you recognize our own world.
Latest Miss Peregrine book. Recently found out there were three more since I last read it, so I've been catching up this week.
Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka.
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
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.
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.
Dark Age by Pierce Brown, part of the Red Rising series
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)
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.
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