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Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"Uncle Tom's Cabin". So far very powerful writing. Just finished reading "Tuesday's with Morrie" which is fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm halfway through the first Witcher book. After being disappointed with the Netflix show, I had to read the original source. I'm enjoying it so far. My goal is to read them all and play the games afterwards.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Congrats on walking the path! Yeah the books are great and really hit you hard at times. No spoilers from me but enjoy the book series!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter - Brando Sando

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Catch-22. The classic itself

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Blindsight by Peter Watts. it's a really unique take on first contact, but wow is it dark

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Currently reading Coda vol. 1 right now. Liking the main character particularly his pentacorn.

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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).

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The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

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Book of Leaves and Tao Te Ching

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Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The classic, The Fellowship of the Ring

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Currently listening through Worm again. I read it the first time, now I'm listening and it's just as good as I remember it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Kazohinia by SΓ‘ndor SzathmΓ‘ri. It's a fun double dystopia, especially fun once you recognize our own world.

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Latest Miss Peregrine book. Recently found out there were three more since I last read it, so I've been catching up this week.

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Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff. It plays in a alternative medivial fantasy world where the sunlight gets blocked after a loud rumbling. It tells the story of a you man who gets recruited in a organization of hunters that kill the supernatural while the world gets conquered by the vampires, that can't be hurt by the sun anymore.

One of the best dark fantasy books, I have read in a long time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Match Game, book 14 of the series Expeditionary Force.

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The Hooligans of Kandahar by Joe Kassabian.

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Count Zero by William Gibson

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Fellowship of the Ring but also Children of Hurin

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Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

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Diary of a Drug Addict by Alister Crowley

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  • Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
  • Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
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Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

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Trunk Music by Michael Connelly

I've started a couple other books but i don't know if or when I'll finish them as I enjoy reading Connelly more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Zodiac by Neal Stephenson. I like the narrator's "voice".

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The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman

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"Necropolis" (Gaunt's Ghosts 3) by Dan Abnett. Whole lot of Warhammer 40k goodness.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

I usually don't stay engaged with non-fiction, but this book I couldn't put down.

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