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[–] unce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm just started reading Wool by Hugh Howey. I finished the first season of Silo and didn't want to wait a year to get more of the story. The book has been great so far. It seems like the show followed the book pretty well with a few changes.

[–] nom_nom@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] selfreferentialname@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Almost done with Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World. It's enjoyable but nothing to write home about haha

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

It's definitely a classic that everyone should read at least once

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Blood Meridian by Cormac Mcarthy. Book is outright brutal but written in such a compelling way you can't help be want more. Fantastic writer.

[–] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith (project gutenberg)

It's slow going because of the archaic style, but will be a revelation to anyone who thinks Smith doesn't care about humanity.

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[–] Daisyifyoudo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

The Wheel of Time

[–] tram1@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (2 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!!

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[–] markr@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno and Postmodernism by Frederick Jameson. Just finished Lacan’s lectures on the 4 fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis and understood about 10%. I’m playing catch-up with the serious people from the last century.

[–] nueromancer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. Actually I'm at 52%. The reason I stopped because of exams

[–] Crismus@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Star By Star. Reading through the old EU New Jedi Order books again. The old EU is the best part of Star Wars.

[–] FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik.

[–] Oneeightnine@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

Douglas Adams Starship Titanic: A Novel by Terry Jones

I think that is the official title. It's set inside the wider Hitchhikers universe, but so far hasn't touched on the events of that series.

Did take my a fair bit of time to get Into it, but as I approach the halfway point it's definitely got me.

[–] gogosempai@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

[–] Scrath@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Sins of Empire by Brian McClellan

[–] furrious09@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence

[–] willsenior@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Advanced Marathoning

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] dixius99@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Engine Summer by John Crowley. I'm only about 100 pages in, but liking it so far.

[–] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] 07Chess@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I haven’t started it yet but my next book is The Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds.

Within the last month or two I’ve read Song of Achilles, The Women Could Fly, The Book Eaters, and Babel. I’d recommend all of them, especially Babel.

[–] raresbears@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm reading a few actually: Capital volume 2 by Marx, The Tondrakian Movement by Vrej Nersessian, and Primavera con una esquina rota by Mario Benedetti

[–] Rhabuko@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

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.

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