My favorite series is Dungeon Crawler Carl . Its so good. I have ALL of the physical books, the audio books (Jeff Hays is hilarious with his takes on the different characters).

My favorite book soap is The Wandering Inn . Its a free web serial and I find it VERY good. But it can have some lulls. I call it a "book soap" because if its size . I am a prolific reader and it took me YEARS to get though around 50% of the series. I have the ebooks, audio-books, and have enjoyed my forever book. The payoff is SO good. Tears of Liscor broke me. I had to take time off of reading for a while due to what felt like a bit of trauma.

When I was a kid, I loved the ring of fire series ( 1632 and such). I dont enjoy it as much, but the older books in the series I still enjoy re-reading from time to time.

I don't think I have a favourite. I have some that I liked enough as to read them more than once: The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarilion, some of the Culture novels.

Then there are long series that I enjoyed quite a bit: Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome, JJ Benitez's Caballo de Troya series (if you ignore the author's insistence in that everything in the book is real and you take it as an adventures book or science fiction it is actually enjoyable), I'm liking so far McBride's detective Logan McRae series.

And I'm about to begin Mikel Santiago's La Chica del Lago

I'm currently between books, I think I'm gonna read The Terror next. But my absolute favourite is The count of Monte Cristo. I read it three times over the past 15 years. And I love Simon Singh's popular science bookThe Big Bang.

My favorite are the Kushiel trilogy, anything by Ian McDonald, almost anything by Adrian Tchaikovsky or Michael Carey. Though it's difficult to pick.

Currently reading The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers.

currently listening to the 4th book in the children of time series

i love these books

Among my favorites I remember: Gideon the ninth, slavery by another name, worst journey in the world, anything by Ted Chiang, blindsight/echopraxia

Recent reads: little bosses everywhere (excellent), no more tears (also excellent), get in trouble (I really like parts of it but it's classic Kelly link, super weird and abrupt)

Favourites include Lord of the Rings, Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey & Maturin series, Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! trilogy.

Currently reading Bleak House.

Favorite\
The 120 Days of Sodom /jk

The Silmarillion

Reading now\
The Silmarillion

The flowers of evil ( akunohana , Japanese) (manga) by Shuzo Oshimi

Picking up after having finished the above\
Les Fleurs du mal

I read a lot of fantasy when I was younger but gradually fell out of love with the genre. It started to feel really trope heavy and I got tired of everything feeling like it needed to be a 3-5+ novel epic series that was so enamored with its own world-building it felt more like a history lesson. Perhaps my choices on reading material were to blame, but still. I moved onto sci-fi and fiction for a good while.

I've been trying to rekindle my passion for it with one off "weird" fiction. Standalone stories that are just interested in doing weird stuff, whatever that may entail. It's not well-defined and if anyone has any recommendations I'd be happy to hear them but so far some of my best discovies,

• The West Passage, Jared Pechaček. A palace the size of a city ruled over by giant, eldritch ladies and mired in ancient bureaucracies is threatened by a forgotten prophecy. I like it because it doesn't overexplain its world, it just throws a bunch of interesting events and scenery at you while gesturing at the architecture of the world that holds it up, leading you to speculate on the mystery of it all.
• The Starving Saints, Caitlin Starling. Claustrophobic, horrifying, vaguely sapphic. It follows the storylines of a knight, a nun, and a peasant girl trapped in a castle under siege. As supplies diminish and things are looking grim, their saints miraculously appear to save them but not all is at it appears etc. etc. Just a good read, I liked this one a lot
• Currently reading: Mad Sisters of Esi, Tashan Mehta. This one got off to a bit of an uneven start but it's an interesting mashup of myth and sci-fi where the universe is referred to as the black sea, planets are islands, and spaceship may be literally ships with sails. Not done with it yet, but enjoying it as it has strong characters and a good emotional core.

I’ve been on a scifi binge. MurderBot on audio is worth your time. After Atlas was quite good, stands out from the rest. Timothy Zahn’s Icarus series was fun.

As for fantasy it’s been a slog. We need better search parameters. It took the book people forever to separate scifi and fantasy, but there’s still work to do. Paranormal romance is there for some reason and clutters up Libby’s ability to search. That, and it feels like there’s a glut of books involving either the fae or dragons right now, and little else, not unlike the vampire thing 2 decades ago.

Favourites include Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series, Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy, Susanna Clarke's Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell, Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings series, Ursula K Le Guin's Hainish cycle.

Currently reading Le Guins Dispossessed.

I don't read books much anymore. Combo of internet and my close vision getting worse. I like piers anthony a lot as a general story teller and wheel of time although I only read the books jordan wrote and did not finish off the series. Honestly though there are tons of authors with great books.

I do read new stuff, on occasion, but at the moment they are one and the same: the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I just picked it back up and I already noticed something new. At Bilbo's 111th birthday party, Tolkien describes the dragon firework as passing "like an express train", which struck me as an odd turn of phrase that I'd never noticed before.

Favorites in fiction I keep turning back to: old Murakami (anything before 1Q84), and Kafka.

Currently reading Careless People. Not too impressed (yet?)

Right now I'm reading Neocolonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism by Kwame Nkrumah. It's a really good expansion of Lenin's work on Imperialism as a stage in capitalism. Nkrumah was coup'd one year after its publishing with support from the US.

As for favorites, I really love both Piranesi and Roadside Picnic! The former is just a really fun mystery with a good deal of whimsy, the latter is excellent sci-fi.

Midgley’s Ethical Primate changed my life.

So did Hayes’ A Liberated Mind.

So did Welzel’s Freedom Rising.

Currently reading Archer’s Explicit Instruction and Groshell’s Just Tell Them.

Roger Zelazny is one of my favorite authors. Roadmarks and A Night in the Lonesome October are probaby my favorites from him.

I just finished the most recent Dungeon Crawler Carl, which was fun. And I'm currently working on This Way Up.

Elizabeth Lynn's Chronicles of Tornor trilogy; currently reading a book of Larry Niven novellas and short stories.

The Trial - Franz Kafka The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood Fight Club - Chuck Palahnuik Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy