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1984 (nineteen-eightyfour) from George Orwell. Currently reading nothing but news.

Raft by Stephen Baxter. Part of the Xeelee sequence series.

Currently on book 2: Timelike Infinity and I'm liking it quite a bit.

“Toll The Hounds” by Steven Erikson, it’s book 8 in The Malazan Book of the Fallen series.

Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis.

Reading some of the history that gets left out elsewhere. Did you know that before the end of the Civil War lynching was primarily used to terrorize white abolitionists? After the Civil War during reconstruction, during Jim Crow, white supremacists needed to find a reason to terrorize and control the black community so the myth of the black man as rapist was woven into public discourse. It was the most convenient excuse to find a reason to violently punish and control black people who in whatever way challenged or violated the status quo. Accusations of even inappropriate forwardness were enough to justifying hanging. But the real reason would be that some black person or family started a business, sought education or became empowered in some way, challenging the white supremacist social hierarchy - and were lynched for it.

Dune

5th book of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, currently reading. Before that I read the 4th book.

I'm currently binging the Cradle series, just finished volume 4. I can't recommend it enough if you're into power progression fantasies

Currently reading war and peace by Tolstoi

Herb Mertz, The Selection Effect.

Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything (Viktor E. Frankl)

"GOD: An Anatomy" by Francesca Stavrakapoulou.

"An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancient worshippers—with a distinctly male body, and with superhuman powers, earthly passions, and a penchant for the fantastic and monstrous."

Death's End by Liu Cixin

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

The Poet by Michael Connelly

Tokyo Ghoul and Tokyo Ghoul:Re. A decade late but I loved it.

Oryx & Crake - solid start to a Margaret Atwater series. Lots of world building and exposition. Looking forward to continuing the series. Currently reading Fairy Tale by Stephen King

I finished Machine Learning (short story anthology) by Hugh Howey about an hour ago, so pretty fresh.

Just finished re-reading all of the pre-Disney Star Wars novels. I'm into Patrick O'Brian's standalone novels now, starting with "The Unknown Shore".

Just finished reading Waybound, the 12th and final book in the Cradle series by Will Wight.

I just finished The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. I've kind of half-followed Welcome to Night Vale for years and enjoyed all the books so far.

I'm currently reading House of Leaves. This is my second attempt, after making it about halfway a few years ago. It's a great book, but a challenging read because it's dense and shifts context frequently. I find that the context-switching adds to the unsettling feel that the book is going for, but it's definitely not for everyone.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. I enjoyed it very much!

The last new book I read was Ready Player One.

The last book I've read in general was At The Mountains of Madness for the umpteenth time.

I'm chewing my way through the stormlight archives by Bryan Sanderson. Just finished book 2.5, on book 3 now.

I’ve been on a memoir kick. Specifically women celebrities. I just finished Mean Baby by Selma Blair and it was good. I’m about to start Hello Molly by Molly Shannon.

Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis

somewhat interesting and in the same vein as the Barsoom/Mars books by Burroughs but more preachy and less action.

It was on the "free" pile at the library.

fiasco by stanislav lem.

Overlord. I've need to finish volumes 14-17, but it demotivates me that author abandoned his work.

The Gate of the Feral Gods; Book 4 of recently 6 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl LITRPG series by Matt Dinniman. It's been an absolute blast so far, and I highly recommend the series if you like some combination of tabletop RPGs, cats, death games, or explosions.

I just finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. It was okay, though I don't think it lived up to the hype for me. I actually preferred Klara and the Sun to this one, though still worth a read.