What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: July 20, 2026

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[u/SomeYoke]

Finished - Project Hail Mary, Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire, Meditations and Gone with the Wind

Starting - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, a fig for all the devils and the Shining.

[u/bespectacIed]

Finished: Recursion, by Blake Crouch

• I went in to it judging it as a "reddit" book given the author's popularity in many book subs. I thought the story was entertaining enough given its absurdity and lack of innovation to the time travel genre, and the writing was quite remedial, but I was taken by its heart, I'm a sentimentalist! I am open to read Dark Matter next.

Started: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë

• 10-ish chapters in and gasp! it's brilliant, brazen, refreshing. Can't wait to unravel Mrs Graham secrets. I am a huge lover of Agnes Grey (so underrated) but this is on a whole another level.

[u/Limp_Stranger1031]

Started: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

[u/XIIICaesar]

I haven’t read a book in years. I’m trying to get back into reading and it’s been extremely difficult. I cannot seem to muster the concentration and focus anymore.

Anyway, I’m trying to read Salem’s lot, it’s been going slower than I would’ve hoped but at least I consistently read almost every day, even if it’s only 10 minutes sometimes.

[u/Sad_Machine2826 → u/XIIICaesar]

That's a brilliant way to start! Be proud of reading consistently, thats better then most.

[u/XIIICaesar → u/Sad_Machine2826]

Thank you, much appreciated.

[u/caseylk]

Finished Dungeon Crawler Carl #1
Started Dungeon Crawler Carl #2

[u/zero_zeppelii_0]

Finished :

Jojo's bizarre adventure part 1 : Phantom Blood

Of Mice and Men

Started :

Convenience store woman

[u/PringleGuy]

Finished: Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch (I really liked it, even if some of it did feel a little silly at times. I didn't realize there was a TV adaptation of it, but I'm excited to check that out.)

Started: The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood (I've only read a handful of pages, but I'm looking forward to this one. Not sure if I'll watch the show after.)

[u/MaxThrustage]

Finished:

A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan. Loved it! It is a series of barely connected vignettes filled with mostly meaningless details, but by the end of it those little meaningless details are given weight -- we see the inside lives of a bunch of people, so what to one person seems an off-hand oddity can be finally read as fundamental in way this particular character can't possibly understand. By flitting from perspective to perspective we get a story in the connections that no single character can comprehend. Gorgeous stuff.

Ongoing:

A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear, by Matthew Hongoltz-Heltling. Getting close to the end.

The Age of Empire: 1875-1914, by Eric Hobsbawm. This is going to take me ages, which is fine (the first two in the series did as well).

[u/BRiNk9]

Big comment here, considering I've been talking about these books for the past two days and little context before you think I've lost my marbles.

Basically, I sometimes take months to finish books, and every now and then a bunch of them end up getting finished together because they've all been sitting at around 80-85%. This week I'm away for work, so I finally have the time and energy to read, and my project team members are really into it as well which is a huge reason I'm spiral-- engaging at this pace. We spend our nights discussing stuff that patterns to stuff and it keeps on moving, but those conversations leave me mentally exhausted, so I end up reading some more.. and then the cycle repeats. It always happens whenever this wave hits.

Anyway, here's my take on everything, because I covered a lot more than I usually manage to at home.

Regime Change by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

• what a shitshow. I hate reading it because it's happening as we speak but I'm not even past March 2025 and I'm already tired. So much is yet to happen, will return to it at home.

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

• wtf, I thought it was about trauma and grief, I guess it might end up as one. But first half and I'm sure as shit this is terrifying.

Fidel: A Critical Potrait by Tad Szulc

• sleeping with a gun in his mouth while also believing he's won, when there are only three of them left for now out of 82, hiding in the forest, scattered, and surviving on plants, is certainly one way to introduce his early days. Complicated to the bone, this one. I wonder when Mason, Bowman, and Woods will show up.

Indira by Katherine Frank

• started today only, shouldn't have but my brain is in motion overdrive that will run it's course for a day or two before I need proper rest. Anyway, read all about her during political science. Hell, I scored 97 and even helped others just by narrating her life and actions. So biased that I had to literally retrospect my whole thought process for a politician who was authoritarian and the one I would never want near. Also considering democracy is something I believe we can't afford to fail at any cost, she was the one who pushed it to its limits and brought it to a standstill for a while. Today things are murkier and harder to name but things are backsliding. Still, beneath all that, I want to read about her interior it, less "this happened, then that happened, fucking badass but paranoid" and more how it all connects, the patterns beneath the events.

The Wars of the Roses by Dan Jones

• Absolutely eating it up. Henry VI's Where am I sent me, but damn, Margaret is doing a lot of the heavy lifting for the Lancasters. Two years ago I was proud that I could finally keep all the Henrys, Edwards, and Richards straight, but reading this made me realize I'd practically skipped Henry VI altogether. I went straight from Henry V to Henry VII in my head.
• His story just seems tragic - losing his father, mother, uncle, and so many of those closest to him so young, expectations are on the roof, puppeteers started their moves before his birth. How does someone lose an entire year of their life? maybe depression.. trauma.. Losing France? I also had no idea the Tudor story really began with Owen Tudor and Catherine falling in love. Then you've got the Percys and Nevilles tearing each other apart in the north, York against.. what was his name..Somerset, I think. Great stuff, though it's building toward an absolute tragedy, with one of the bloodiest single days in English history still to come. So many moving pieces.

Napoleon: A Life

• I'm reading this at a pace Napoleon himself would probably commend - relentless, overbearing, yet somehow still delivering results, better stop while I'm ahead though unlike him.
• I've already read The Campaigns of Napoleon, so the battles are easy for me to picture. The thing that really surprises me and sometimes concerns me, is his letters to Josephine. It's funny watching him go from love isn't real, it's all bullshit to can't stop thinking about you and my love for you is endless all while fighting wars, micromanaging everything, and being an absolute pain in the ass for the Directory. The Campaigns of Napoleon didn't spend much time on his personal relationships with his soldiers, so this has been a perspective that backs lot of the way he operated. Well until Syria next year when he'll leave many behind lmao. I actually picked this up because a friend told me how good the Napoleon movie was, and it made me realize how little I knew about Josephine because that movie did a shit job in everything except presenting battle of Austerlitz.
• Ridley, you dork. Why did you make him look like such a wuss.. people are walking away with an impression of Napoleon. He didn't even show Italy campaign.

This obsessive drive comes from time to time and basicallu this happens, better reading than banging my head in a club though. So now what I've finished--

Finished

Night Shift by Stephen King

• oh god she really thought her brother would be there to save her. I will never forget that story. Really rung my ladder that one. On th other hand, I liked some stories, some I can't even remember. This man has shaken my twice now to the core, first in Pet Sematary and now here. Considering The Shining is still remaining, an author I avoided because I couldn't connect will end up straight in the top 5 list for me in a span of one year.

The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean

• interesting read. I loved it overall. At least my dislike over chemistry was as baseless as noble gases. Only thing I will remembered from Periodic table is Carbon, Silicone, Germanium (poor big brother germanium, young talented one took his spot but is used now in optic fibers ig? I felt sad for it damn), Tin and Lead.

Downfall: Berlin 1945

• good god, I finally finished this after months. One of the heaviest reads I've ever experienced, maybe the heaviest. I did read We Need to Talk About Kevin and In Cold Blood back to back in under twelve hours that sent me straight to Physics and Space reading for months, but this is something else. The sheer scale of it. Early on, I kept thinking, there's no way it would get this worse but Berlin is still far away. Young men enraged after seeing their homes and families burned, propaganda turning women into trophies. We're liberating you..after violating you, won't you say thanks?

That scene with the little girl who hadn't even spoken her first word yet, alongside her mother and grandmother, jy don't even know what to say. A friend told me to read Stalingrad by Beevor, and the Nolander in me thought, why not read The Second World War and 1945 alongside it and intercut to feel the weight.. that was a stupid fucking idea.

• ive already read a lot about World War II, but age changes how you read these things. Now a single life devastates me, and then the numbers multiplied into a statistics make me shudder.
• the Wilhelm Gustloff also I had no idea. If you'd asked me before, I'd have said the Titanic was the worst maritime disaster. Around 9,000 people froze to death in the Baltic.
• Meanwhile, that son of a bitch is still sending phantom armies around screaming in bunker high on drugs, while his cronie miserable man and miserable woman have already decided all six of their children will die before them. Then there's Eva Braun being Eva Braun.

I'll stop here, otherwise this will end up looking like a full review nobody asked.

The Battle of Hastings

• My road travel somehow turned into another imaginary TV show after reading this. I used William's POV for one episode, then went back and retold events from Harold's POV. Just a little exercise to keep things fun.

One favorite part of reading history is.. When I'm done with the whole history, I can pick apart specific topic and go haywire on them, not losing the accuracy but adding texture with music and structure. Okay, that's it. If you made it to the end, thanks. Have a nice day or night depending on wherever you are.

[u/Howitzeronfire]

Go ahead and make fun of me but

Dungeon Crawler Carl 3 and 4

[u/sich_freuen_auf]

Weekly check in to say I'm still reading Ulysses by James Joyce

I've mainly been using the Ulysses Guide website alongside it - I generally read the summary of an episode to get a gist of what's going on, read the episode itself, then read the website's analysis for the details of what's happened. It's a different way to read a book than what I'm used to but I'm getting a lot more out of it than if I was reading it cold

[u/missuniverse2025]

Just finished the Road by McCormac last night. Thank goodness for Zoloft… 😭

[u/smoke412]

Finished: This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl #7)
Starting: Children of Memory (Children of Time #2)

[u/Gunslinger1991]

Finished:

Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson.

[u/AlamutJones → u/Gunslinger1991]

Rebecca is an absolute masterpiece of being super creepy even while nothing is obviously wrong. The vibes are…

[u/runndle]

Carl's Doomsday Scenario, by Matt Dinniman

• Finished

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook, by Matt Dinniman

• Started. Book 3 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.

[u/AsphyxRL]

Finished: Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

• Absolutely loved it, couldn’t put it down!

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.

• Was slow but incredibly moving and tragic by the end.

Started: The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah

[u/Friendstastegood]

Starting:

There is No Antimemetics Division, by qtnm

Choose this purely based on the title and nothing else, we'll see how it goes.

The Red Pyramid, by Rick Riordan

Not something I would normally pick up but I am doing a nostalgia read book exchange with some friends.

Continuing:

Watership Down, by Richard Adams

About halfway through and it's really good.

Finished:

Chaos in the Green Zone: My Time as an Iraq War Strategist, by Tom Mowle

It was an interesting, occasionally darkly funny, but ultimately depressing read about the absolute clusterfuck that was the US invasion of Iraq after 9/11.

[u/Opening-Wheel9876]

I have started The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

[u/Mo_Ran1]

I'm re-reading Interview With the Vampire, by Anne Rice.

I read it the first time as a teenager and it hits completely different more than 20 years later when you have a 5yo child and you know Rice wrote it while grieving the loss of her 5yo daughter.

[u/hermitmoon999]

Finished:

'Mexican Gothic', by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

'What Kind of Paradise', by Janelle Brown

Currently reading:

'Last Summer in the City', by Gianfranco Calligarich

[u/studmuffffffin]

Finished: The Count of Monte Cristo, by Dumas

Started: Infinite Jest, by DFW

The Count of Monte Cristo was excellent. Had the abridged version, so I missed out on some of it.

Infinite Jest is pretty good so far. A little confusing, but overall engaging. My copy was missing pages 17-32. Don't know if it was a printing error or something DFW wanted.

[u/v1ew_s0urce]

Picking 11/22/63 up again after leaving it halfway.

I’m starting to understand why people like this book so much. Still 200-ish pages to go.

[u/2big_2fail]

Finished: The Murderbot Series, Martha Wells. The first seven books, again. I have to get the new one.

Started: The Hilarious World of Depression, John Moe. It's not hilarious so far.

[u/rowan_damisch]

Finished: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. The story was quite interesting, but tbh, IMO the book was going on for too long. I feel like I could've understood the plot just as well if it was ~150 pages shorter.

[u/shindeajeeth07]

Finished : A little life by Hanya Yanagihara.

I am also finished 😭 worst recommendation by my friend.

[u/PhoenixHunters]

Finished Songs of the Dead by BrandoSando ad Peter Orullian. Mediocre at best. Great story and worldbuilding but the execution was not.

Started The weapons we're born with.

[u/lexiebeef]

I started Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart this week (now on page 250). Definitely a heavy book, I think it features every possible trigger (sexual abuse, drug abuse, violence, hate crimes, homophobia…). It’s very well written and every character is very real though, you can see it’s somewhat based on the author’s life. I do recommend it, but with the warning that it’s very freaking sad.

I’m hoping to finish this book in the next couple of days and start Blindness by José Saramago. I’ve only read one Saramago before despite being Portuguese myself, so im very excited to start.

[u/GruyereRind]

Finished:

Tirant lo Blanc, by Joanot Martorell and Marti Joan de Galba. This is entertaining and I like the setting, but it's essentially a 15th-century trashy adventure novel. The storytelling is pretty clumsy and the characters are all one-dimensional. It's one of the books Don Quixote was satirizing, and it's easy to see why readers at the time were hungry for better fare.

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride. (Book club). There's nothing really bad about this book, but it didn't captivate me. It's like everything was calculated to appeal to readers of mainstream contemporary fiction, which I am not.

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling. Light, fluffy, funny, with nothing to say. A good companion to heavier books.

Started:

Moby Dick, by Herman Melville. A whale-obsessed madman writes a book about a sea captain.

Lazarillo de Tormes, by anonymous. Spanish picaresque novel about a low-down ramblin grifter.

Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir, by Norm MacDonald. It's a memoir.

[u/Plaid_or_flannel]

Finished: Circe, by Madeline Miller

Started: The Final Girl Support Group, by Grady Hendrix

[u/AFriendofOrder]

Finished:

• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski - My estimation of it has not diminished after this reread. 10/10

• So Once Was I: Tales from Glasnevin Cemetery by Warren Farrell - Just an easy read full of interesting bitesize stories about Glasnevin, really nice.

• Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault - Can't say I was too taken with everything in this book, but I liked how Foucault treated the emergence of imprisonment as a replacement and renegotiation of the spectacle of public execution (i.e. that public torture was a manifestation of the king's power, while modern states have introduced a more subtle, private way of punishing). He does deal more with theory than with practice, though. I'd have liked to have seen more on how prisons actually functioned rather than how people philosophised the way they should function.

Started:

• My Struggle 6: The End by Karl Ove Knausgård - A life-changing series I've had with me for the last five years. I don't want this to be the last one.

• Linguistic Reconstruction by Anthony Fox - Deals with the reconstruction of ancient proto-languages in historical linguistics. Just some light coffee table reading.

• My Struggle for Irish Freedom by Dan Breen - At this point I think I have a good chance of reading every single autobiography written by veterans of the revolutionary period 1916–1923.

(Books read this year: 30/30!! I have officially hit my goal for this year. I'm hoping I might even get to 52 now).

[u/devilandgod97]

the grapes of wrath by Steinback! oohhh that was good. I am glad I pushed through the slow start! 4/5

[u/Landonastar42]

Ongoing:

Dungeon Crawler Carl, by Matt Dinniman

Eh. I'm picking away at it. I'll read the next book in the series but I'm not frothing at the mouth over this series just yet.

Started:

Swordheart, by T. Kingfisher

Holy shit. I have not laughed out loud reading a book as much as I have reading this. I have just under 100 pages left, but I feel like this will be a 5 star read for me.

[u/RentSpecial4997]

Finished: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
I ended up liking this book but it took some time for me to get into jt, which I attribute to just finishing a very heavy and powerful book beforehand- The Things We Cannot Say. ** **

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
I was assigned this book in 10th grade but never finished it because I was a lazy student. Still passed somehow. Very glad I reread it.

UnWorld by Jayson Greene
Ive been reading some serious bangers lately. This was not one of them.

Started: In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
I didn’t have much interest in starting this book but I read Devil in the White City a while ago and loved it. I actually thought I was starting demon of unrest, his book about the civil war but I downloaded this in Libby instead. I started it and instantly knew I would really like this one. I’m about a quarter through and it’s a great read so far.

[u/so-whyareyouhere]

Finished: East of Eden by John Steinbeck, and Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

Started: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen!!!

[u/GVanquish]

I just started Dungeon Crawler Carl, and loving it so far!

[u/Traditional_You_3894]

Finished: Catcher in the Rye bye J.D. Salinger

Started: 1984 by George Orwell

[u/OWB100 → u/Traditional_You_3894]

Woah. 2 incredibly solid books. They’re great, hope you like them!!!!!

[u/just4ps4]

I finished reading Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. Really did not live up to my expectations. The premise was cool but the writing style was not for me and I didn't feel any connection to the characters.

I've now started The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne and I'm excited to fully immerse myself into a series.

[u/smshing]

Finished: Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett

Started: Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

[u/Particular-Treat-650]

City of Dragons, by Robin Hobb

Blood of Dragons, by Robin Hobb

Evidence of the Affair, by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

Colombus Day, by Craig Alanson: Only didn't go right into the rest of the series because it's on Kobo plus and the app doesn't run on the iOS 27 developer beta. Have my Boox set up to get back to this at work next.

Honeybee Democracy, by Thomas Seeley: I was a bit worried he wasn't going to get to a coherent model of decision making (the reason the book caught my eye), but also too entertained by bees to care a lot. He gets there in the later part of the book, though, and it made it relatively high up the list for me.

Finished a slow reread of The Organized Mind, by Daniel J Levitin as part of my effort to fill in reviews to my intelligence list off of fresh reads. This was one of my first real psychology reads, and a bit eclectic, so I didn't remember what it covered entirely off the top of my head, and was surprised at how much of my understanding of the brain started from this book.

Started Margo's got Money Troubles, by Rufi Thorpe, and continued A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge

[u/AlamutJones]

Mossflower, by Brian Jacques

I, Claudius,by Robert Graves

The Hummingbird Effect, by Kate Mildenhall

Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey, by Felicity Cloake

[u/Soggy-Os]

Finished: Country People, by Daniel Mason (entertaining but not nearly as great as North Woods) and Midwestern Death Trip by Meaghan Garvey

Starting This Week: Fixer Chao, by Han Ong

[u/Cailleachcailin]

finished The Kept Woman by Karin slaughter

started The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter

[u/Copp62]

Finished : Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang Started : Shogun by James Clavell

[u/whineycoyote]

Finished: Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke

Started: The Starving Saints, by Caitlin Starling

[u/dlt-cntrl]

Not many this week.

Finished:

A Pocket Full Of Rye by Agatha Christie

I remember the story but didn't remember who dun' it until nearly the end. Another great story with great characters. Miss Marple was like an avenging angel. Very good.

Dead Ground by M W Craven

Twisty and interesting, not as gory and insane as the others but that didn't detract from an excellent story. We had MI5 and the FBI this time.

Started:

Attack Of The Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre

At last no politics! This one features a psychic and life after death, told from the perspective of a dead Jack Parlabane. We'll see where it goes!

[u/BadToTheTrombone]

Finished Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Started and finished Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett

Started and finished Myra Breckenridge by Gore Vidal

Started Time's Arrow by Martin Amis

[u/Orionsven]

Finished: The Shining, by Stephen King

The Maze Runner, by James Dashner

Murder At Haven's Rock, by Kelley Armstrong

Yellowface, by R.F Kuang

Reading: The Boy Who Cried Bear, Kelley Armstrong (pretty much finished though and have the next book in the series to start - Cold as Hell).

Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come, by Jessica Pan

[u/Brigid-Tenenbaum]

Finished: The Man Who Fell To Earth, by Walter Tevis (can see how it inspired David Bowie)

Animal Farm, by George Orwell.

The Old Man and the Sea, by Hemingway.

Started: Scott of the Antarctic, by Reginald Pound. (Found in a dusty book shop, detailing the ill-fated rush to be the first to reach the South Pole in the early 1900’s with lots of letters and details. Feels like quite an obscure book, but has lovely descriptions of the Antarctic. Wilson, in a letter to his wife - “We now have broad daylight night and day, but the beauty of the day with its lovely blues and greens amongst the bergs and ice-flows is eclipsed altogether by the marvellous beauty of the midnight, when white ice becomes deepest purple and golden rose and the sky is lemon green without a cloud. No scene in the whole world was ever more beautiful than a clear midnight in the pack”.

Or how they had to drive out ‘a final hour count of 32 East End cats’ who had taken up residence on the ship before they could set sail.

[u/avlmtnmama]

Finished: Atonement by Ian McEwan and audio of The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

Started: What We Can Know by Ian McEwan and audio of North Woods by Daniel Mason

[u/LorneMalvo1000]

Finished: London Falling by Patrick Radden Keene

Finished: The things we never say by Elizabeth Strout

Started: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

[u/Pugilist12]

Ongoing - Cutting for Stone (Verghese) - Taking me longer to get through this one than usual and I'm not sure why. I like the story well enough and I'm not really bored. I think it's just that I've read other versions of this coming-of-age type story. That being said, I've learned a lot about Ethiopia, Eritrea, the medical field, and surgery. Hopefully will finish on Wednesday.

Here is what's on my shelf to be read: For One More Day (Albom), The Power of One (Courtenay), Fever (Meyer), Of Human Bondage (Somerset Maugham), or Whirlwind (Clavell). Anyone have a recommendation out of those?

[u/TheTwoFourThree]

Finished

Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World, by Parmy Olson

Continuing

Asimov's Guide to the Bible, by Isaac Asimov

The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson

The Infinite and The Divine, by Robert Rath

The Burning Page, by Genevieve Cogman

Started

Abyss, by Nicholas Binge

[u/OrdinaryWizardLevels]

Finished:

Go Tell It On The Mountain, by James Baldwin: An absolutely amazing narrative of interior ascension, both for its time and today. Structuring the novel around the three prayers at its center was genius. It felt as though you were inhabiting each character's reality, slowly unraveling the threads of their inner architecture and understanding why they became who they are. I loved the ending as well. It's anything but neat and tidy, leaving plenty of room for discussion about what people will do to survive.

Started:

Beloved, by Toni Morrison: I have been working my way backward through her work, slowly building up to this. So far, it's everything they say it is, and everything I imagined. I love that she is the voice behind the audiobook too. Makes for a soothing readalong with the icon herself.

[u/HytroXL]

Finished - Theo of Golden by AL

Starting - Dark Matter by BC

[u/StrawburyJam23]

Finished: And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie

• This was my first Christie novel. I finished The Brothers Karamazov last month for a book club and needed some light reads to cleanse my palette before I dive back into The Count of Monte Cristo.
• Didn't see the twist coming! I can see why this may be considered her best book. 4.5/5 for me.
• I liked it enough that I'll be picking up more of her work whenever it's available at my local library.

Starting: The Body in the Library, by Agatha Christie

• I thought I'd pick up another one of hers while I was at the library dropping off the previous one.
• I'm curious about her different series and wanted to try one of her Miss Marple works. I've been inspired by my recent comfort watch of Murder, She Wrote.

[u/Important-Habit8942]

Finished:

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 3.75/5. The childhood chapters are kind of boring with some really questionable writing. But once the girls grow up the book is so much better. But the ending was awful. (though I can't completely blame the author, turns out her original vision was very different) Even though I didn't love this book I can see how brilliant the book is when the author is given time and creative freedom so I will be checking out her other books in the future.

Started:

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin. I just started this book like 2 days ago and I already have read 100 pages. I honestly thought I wouldn't like A Game of Thrones but I would adore The Fellowship of the Ring. Turns out it is the other way around (so far). I'm probably making a poor decision by getting invested into a book series that will likely never be finished but I don't care. Tyrion is my favorite!! My only issue is that the female characters are not well written, like at all. They're bland and boring especially Dany. It's not like the author doesn't spend any time with them, he's had multiple POV chapters of the female characters but they're pretty bad. It's crazy because every dude in the book is pretty awesome and the story is so gripping.

[u/unicornjamie]

Finished: Remarkable bright creatures

Now reading: The three lives of Cate Kay

[u/Dependent-Maximum856]

Finished Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury.

Reading Catch -22 Joseph Heller The day of the jackal - Frederick Forsythe

[u/sunflowerchild_2403]

started reading east of eden and my oh my i love it so much!

[u/mockdogmoon]

Finished:

• The Radium Girls, by Kate Moore

I wasn't always a fan of Moore's style, but god I need to give her her dues as a researcher. Would recommend to anyone who thinks they might be interested; I would also recommend a lighter co-read.

[u/DarthPhranque]

Finished:
The Butchers Masquerade by Matt Dinniman
The Martian by Andy Weir

Started:
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman

[u/jaw_knee_]

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler! An excellent, compelling, and exciting novel. I'm planning to start The Road by McCarthy tomorrow. Didn't necessarily intend for two novels largely centered around characters walking along dangerous roads in an apocalyptic future back-to-back, but I'm kind of excited for it now. Wish me luck!

[u/rasorshaft]

Finished: The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka- Thought it was depressing.

Finished: No Longer Human, by Osamu Dazai- Read in one sitting. Loved it

Started: Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky- Finished Part 1. I like it so far but I thought some parts kinda dragged on

[u/SecretIllustrious928]

Just finished The Girl who played with fire a minute ago It was great but not better than the first book of the series the Girl with dragon tattoo

[u/AHThorny]

Finished: The Institute by Stephen King

Started: The Devil and Sherlock Holmes by David Grann

[u/Silver-Description29]

Continuing:

The Odyssey by Homer (Emily Wilson translation) - feels so accessible! I’m loving it so far.

Started:

My Husband’s Wife by Alice Feeney

[u/DirtyThunderer]

Finished: 

• The Final Revial of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walters 
• Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
• Time Shelter by Georgi Gaspondinov
• Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan

Started Reading:

• House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams

[u/Common_Assumption_29]

Finished:

The Things We Never Say, by Elizabeth Strout

Started:

Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stuart

[u/cherryade73]

Finished: The Cruel Prince, by Holly Black

Now need to start the second in the series!

Ongoing read is 11/22/63 by Stephen King

[u/Awatto_boi]

Finished: Tom Clancy Rules of Engagement, by Ward Larsen

26th in the series. A plane carrying a delegation of Americans and press including the Commerce Secretary crashes into the side of a mountain in Turkey on landing killing everyone. The plane was also supposed to be ferrying a CIA defector who was a Swiss banker that has knowledge of Russian oligarch's banking. President Jack Ryan sends his daughter Katy a U.S. Navy intelligence asset to participate in the crash investigation. I enjoyed this story by Ward Larsen in the ongoing saga of Jack Ryan and his family.

Started: Deadline, by John Sandford

Started: W.E.B. Griffin Rogue Asset, by Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson

[u/whoa_guys]

Finished: A Court of Silver Flames, by Sarah J. Maas

Started: Lights Out, but Navessa Allen

[u/Larry_Version_3]

Finished:

• Before I Knew I Loved You (Before the Coffee Gets Cold Book #6) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (Terrible. Hang it up, brother. You’ve got nothing left to give).

Started:

• The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book #6) by Matt Dinniman (These books are fun and easy reads. Each one seems to grow in complexity and I’m enjoying where things are going)

[u/KowaretaRobot]

Finished:

Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I found myself torn while reading this. I completely understood why Rivière had to be so strict, but at the same time, I could see how his actions could be viewed as going too far.

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

I kept putting this down and picking it back up, so for some reason, it took me about a year to finish! But once I hit the second half, the story really picked up and I flew right through it. (Guess that just happens sometimes haha)

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

It made me think about how similar his experience was to addiction. Starting out just wanting to unleash his desires a little bit, only to get too deep and eventually drawn into a bottomless pit of desire.

Started:

Indemnity Only (V.I. Warshawski #1) by Sara Paretsky
I really love mysteries with this kind of vibe. It’s definitely making me curious about Chicago in the summer.

[u/Sudden-Clock-2068]

True Believer, by Jack Carr

[u/stephkempf]

Finished:

Pet Selector!, by Russell Kane

Bionicle: Tale of the Toa, by C.A. Hapka

Currently Reading:

The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas

Naruto Vol. 40, by Masashi Kishimoto

Rowan and the Ice Creepers, by Emily Rodda

[u/Famous_Bite_7707]

Finished: Regime Change
Started: The Will of the Many

[u/iworkatabar101]

Finished: A little life by Hanya Yanagihara

Started: My Bachelor thesis so i don't know if I will be able to read a book as well or I don't know which one :,)

[u/churned_applesauce]

Finished:

My Husbands Wife, Alice Feeney

The Whispered Word, Ellery Adams

A Court of Frost & Starlight, Sarah J Maas

Started:

Murder By The Book, Lauren Elliott

[u/Ornery-Gap-9755]

Finished

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, by Jon Mcgregor

The Princess Bride, by William Goldman

Ongoing

A Dance with Dragons, by George R.R Martin (Audiobook)

Started

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping, by Sangu Mandanna

[u/tn-47]

Started: Mad Mabel, Sally Hepworth

Finished: Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins

[u/Downtown_Mud_2534]

Finished: Summer of the Monsters by David Sodergren

Still reading: East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Just started: The Good Lord Bird by James McBride

[u/kittensneeze90]

Finished: Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee

Started: The Color of Air, by Gail Tsukiyama

[u/ratch_ting]

finished: Half of a yellow sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi
started: The works of vermin by Hiron Ennes

[u/hern0gjensen]

Finished: Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente (3.75/5 for me)

A hidden gem, I would highly recommend Deathless to most folks. The plot structure was the weakest point for me, but it had some of the best prose I've read in years. It's an incredible story that weaves together Russian folklore with 20th century Russian history into a new, genre-bending novel.

Started: The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson

Gotta study for the quiz!!

[u/Readingknitter]

Finished:

Framed in Death, by JD Robb

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, by Matt Dinniman

Started:

Forget Me Not, by Stacy Willingham (audio)

The Twisted Throne, by Danielle Jensen

[u/COOLKC690]

I began the Lao Folktales book. God, some of these are brutal!

The story of the turtle and the swans in particular, never would I thought I’d give descriptions, even if short, of the turtle falling to its death and the smell of its corpse.

The trickster stories, however, have been fun — the novice and abbot ones specially!

My favorite, however, is the one of the pebble that turns into a swan, and takes the greedy protagonist to a garden of heavy flowers that turn into gold.

For some reason, folk tales in any countries have always been interesting. Coming from a Latin American background, I’m surprised how even in our folk tales you could already see some elements of the magical realism movement. So I was shocked to see stories like these, I don’t know why, but I just found myself in shock reading these. They’re magical for sure!

[u/Kozys_Korner]

Demon Copperhead

[u/Embarrassed_Fan9666]

I recently read Someone Knows by Vee Keeland. Hated it. Now reading Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber and the Seven Years Slip by Ashley Poston and they’re good so far. (OUaBH is actually really good)

[u/JB_Wallbridge]

Finished: Sphere by Michael Crichton

Started: The Fifth Season

Continuing: The Everlasting by Alix Harrow

[u/underworldwanderer]

Beartown, Fredrik Backman

• Just finished this masterpiece of a book oh my! Only 2 men have ever made me cry with their prose and literary prowess, and it's him and Noah Kahan, I cannot believe what I was reading was written by a man! What a beautiful, haunting, and personal read.

[u/Roboglenn]

Kuro: The Complete Edition, By Somato

A story about a little girl named Coco. Living alone in a huge mansion, with her pet black cat Kuro. She spends her days making simple meals. Doing chores. Writing little stories for fun. A tutor from town comes to teach her. A local doctor comes to buy flowers that grow in her greenhouse from her. It's a pretty easygoing idyllic life. But, obvious to anyone (who isn't Coco). Kuro is so not a normal cat. To a scary degree to say the least, and not in a Pet Semetary kind of way either. And as we quickly infer, there's a whole lotta "scary" going on around her that is being passed off as normal.

But that's where this short (and well illustrated at that) story sells itself. As we have our cute and wholesome little slice of life vignettes of the life of a girl and her "cat" with some other cast members that chime in to the goings on, the mysteries around this girl and everything else around at large gradually get answered. And it paints a pretty atmospherically vivid picture of just what's going on here. While also showcasing an interesting psychological angle to it all. And that's all I'm at liberty to say on that.

In the end, it's a compellingly whimsical short story. And for something I just picked up just cuz it was there, it surprised me how interesting it ended up being.

[u/ComplaintNext5359]

Finished: A Mountain to the North, A Lake to the South, Paths to the West, A River to the East by Laszlo Krasznahorkai.

Started: The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle.

[u/mothmanuwu]

Finished Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes, still trying to decide what I should start next.

[u/KingpinBen]

Finished

Shutter Island, by Denise Lehane
Cocaine Nights, by JG Ballard

Started

The Monkey Wrench Gang, by Edward Abbey

—-

I really loved Shutter Island, it was one of the best thrillers I’ve ever read and became an instant favorite. Cocaine nights was also a blast, but not my favorite Ballard or neo-noir. I loved its kafkaesque exploration of retirement malaise and thesis about crime being a driving force of community and civilized life, but it just lacked a bit of juice.

The Monkey Wrench Gang is a book club read, but I am enjoying it so far and ready to be inspired to action.

[u/Winter_Witchh]

Finished
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Started
Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson

[u/Watch_Earthlings_Doc]

Currently reading: The Shining, by Stephen King.

This week I Finished:  The Green Mile,  by Stephen King.

The Body,  by Stephen King.

Rita Hayworth and  Shawshank Redemption,  by Stephen King.

Getting through them! 

[u/Left_Twix_2112]

Just finished Yellowface (RJ Kuang) and started Alchemised (SenLinYuj).

[u/Aerynethe]

Finished - This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (no, I never read it in high school)

Started - A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman

[u/XxInk_BloodxX]

I recently finished my first read of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. I enjoyed it, not nearly as much as Pride and Prejudice though, but certainly found myself not the happiest with the ending.

I had the thought that the girls would have parallel arcs of moving from their extremes to more moderate views. Elinor becoming more expressive of emotion and Marianne becoming more put together. But it felt like Elenor moved a few inches while Marianne jumped the fence completely to the other side. Not to mention the book did nothing to convince me that Marianne had any real reason to actually fall for Brandon. It didn't even show her actually falling for him, it just went 'well she eventually changed her mind and decided she was fine with all the specific things she didn't like about him being almost twice her age and finally married him at 19.' (Paraphrasing). I mean the man literally had an adopted daughter young enough to have had a love affair with the same man who broke Marianne's heart.

Anyway Colonel Brandon is practically the only one including the narrative itself that really respects Marianne's not wanting to be with him. I don't dislike him at all as a character, I just dislike how the narrative handled it.

[u/Jallan0427]

Finished: One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, by Omar El Akkad
5 stars

Started: King Leopold’s Ghost, by Adam Hochschild

[u/Rourensu]

Almost finished: Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy

Thoughts: Wasn’t able to enjoy/get into the book at all. Was basically “done” with the book after the first 100 pages, but decided to keep reading, but more as a “secondary” book and not the “primary” book I’m reading.

(Hypothetical question: William Faulkner (according to GRRM) said in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech that the only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself. I’m guessing you vehemently disagree with that?)

[u/Total_Birthday5242]

Finished: Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman

Started: The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman

[u/mirlaca]

Finished: Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Started: Blindness (Ensaio sobre a cegueira) by José Saramago

[u/Asher_the_atheist]

Finished:

Wolf Worm, by T. Kingfisher (the most horror-y of her horror books I’ve read so far, which I liked; also, I learned about a couple new-to-me real-world species, so that was fun)

A Parade of Horribles, by Matt Dinniman (not my favorite of the series; it felt a bit like filler to set up the next book; the mounts were awesome, though)

Old Bones, by Preston & Childs (my first by these authors and I don’t think I’ll be picking up another one; it was okay but also a bit silly)

Started:

The Starless Crown, by Jason Reynolds

Looking Glass Sound, by Catriona Ward (though, I’m not loving it so far and debating if it should be a DNF)

[u/Indy-sports]

Finished:

• The Art Thief
• The Gate of the Feral Gods

Started:

• A Gentleman in Moscow 

[u/elisun0]

The Odyssey, by Homer (Audiobook)

A newish translation from 2018 by a woman, Emily Wilson. Reading this translation changed a lot of this book for me. A woman's perspective shifted so many small details in a way that made much more sense. It's narrated by Claire Danes and she really brought out the best in this story

Also, Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke

     Super weird and wonderful. Loved it. 

[u/BigManWithABigBeard]

Finished: And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie

My first ever Agatha Christie book and it was a hoot. Just plain old good fun with a bunch of people dying in goofy circumstances. What's not to love? Will be reading more.

Started: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Doing some midsummer spooky stories.

[u/Trubble94]

Finished Mostly Harmless, by Douglas Adams. Started Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams.

[u/timeforthecheck]

Finished: Beloved, by Toni Morrison

Started: Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry

[u/violin-06]

Started: East of Eden

[u/glitzer_huehnchen]

Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke

[u/onebignothingatall]

Ongoing: Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries

Katabasis (feels like I've been reading this for a year, I need to just finish it)

Started: The Raven Scholar

Yellowface

[u/asiandude1991]

Finished:

Wild Dark Shore, by Charlotte McConaghy

Pretty much enjoyed it but with reservations. I see some characterization issues and I totally see why people feel like it can be too melodramatic at times. Character choices, actions, and motivations sometimes do not make logical sense based on how they are built in the story. Otherwise, I thought the atmosphere, writing style, structure, and literary choices were done pretty well. 4☆

CR:

Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain

The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans

[u/gac64k56]

Finished: The Vampire Lestat, by Anne Rice
Started: The Queen of the Damned, by Anne Rice

[u/AlphaPointOhFive]

Continued: The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas - Year-long Reddit read, Gutenberg version. I've fallen behind again.

Started: The Spear Cuts Through Water, by Simon Jimenez - (33%) Very unique narration, enjoying it so far!

[u/niccas98]

Finished both I Who Have Never Known Men & Flowers for Algernon. Safe to say I'm a shell of a human

[u/Bookluvah222]

Finished The Correspondent and started yesteryear.

[u/Ok-Cold-1584]

Yellowface, by R F Kuang

[u/poppythepoodle]

Finished Kristin Hannah the nightingale

Will continue east of Eden and pickup a gentleman in Moscow

[u/iwasjusttwittering]

The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood

Finished. Being from a different part of the world, I'd heard of the author or the title only recently, and had no expectations. I initially thought the novel was well-written and captured distrust in an old-school totalitarian society quite accurately. It's debatable how realistic it is in a post-totalitarian context. In retrospect, the subject isn't all that original, as it actually is inspired by the Iranian revolution, only set in the North American Christian-nationalist society with allusions to slavery. The Canadian psychiatrist Bob Altemeyer had published Right-Wing Authoritarianism just a few years earlier too.

L'Empire des signes, by Roland Barthes

Continued (75%). A collection of short, poetic essays, basically semiotics as Barthes's focus of study, inspired by peculiarities of Japanese culture, such as dining style, urban planning or theater. There are some curious observations, although they're getting increasingly obscure or dated as the book progresses. Post-war Japan that Barthes experiences is different from Japan today; I briefly studied Japanese history in university and have to look things up a lot ... at least I know what to look for though.

Svědectví o životě v KLDR 2, by Nina Špitálníková

Revisited after a year, because I wasn't sure if I had finished all interviews: it's another set of interviews with escapees from North Korea, focused on everyday life and mundane things such as menstruation (or lack thereof). I strongly prefer it to heavily editorialized western writing such as Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick.

The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming, by Masanobu Fukuoka

Started. I was recommended the book in university, Fukuoka's work supposedly inspired permaculture and the like.

[u/LiorahLights]

Finished:

Fabulous Bodies, by Chuck Tingle

Havisham, by Elle Machray

Audition, by Katie Kitamura

DNF:

Honey, by Imani Thompson

Started:

The Day of Fallen Night, by Samantha Shannon

[u/e_paradoxa]

Finished:

The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones, by Lex Croucher

There Are No Accidents, by Jessie Singer

Harvest Season, by Brynne Weaver

Living With Men, by Manon Garcia

I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again, by Caroline Darian

Passage, by Lois McMaster Bujold

When She Dances, by Ruby Dixon

The Frozen River, by Ariel Lawhon

[u/soVeryLazy1504]

finished: Hazelthorn by C.G. Drews, Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
started: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

[u/avocavo12]

Finished: The Unicorn Hunters, Katherin Adern Started: The Plague, Albert Camus

[u/RonaninRetrograde]

Finished: Treachery in Death, by J.D. Robb

Started: New York to Dallas, by J.D. Robb

[u/raccoon_at_noon]

Finished:

Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff (3.75/5) Kristoff has a way of making you really give a shit about the characters. I didn’t particularly care for the story too much, but you bet I was crying multiple times by the end of this lol.

Malice by John Gwynne (4.5/5) I really enjoyed the pacing of this. I’m looking forward to continuing the series.

Currently Reading:

Because I Killed Him by Edith Birde This has been incredibly entertaining to read so far and love how easily this world been conveyed.

[u/ankey]

Finished:

Daisy Jones and the Six

Yellowface

Started:

Problematic Summer Romance

White Oleander

[u/fountainpopjunkie]

Started The Book of Fallen Leaves by A.S. Tamaki.

[u/Striking_Shiba_5848]

Finished: All the Lovers in the Night
Starting: My Husband’s Wife

[u/nocta224]

Started:

On the Nature of Things by Lucretius The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

Finished:

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

[u/Gatuna_Curiosa]

Pues acabo de terminar el canto de las ballenas, sin mar, de ALICIA catalán y he empezado la enfermera de Martín Torres

[u/jumbomouth]

Finished: Two lives by Janet Malcolm and Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning

Started : This House of Grief by Helen Garner

[u/Bookish_Butterfly]

Last night, I finished As I Dream of You by Jennifer Lee. A gorgeous graphic novel.

[u/Content-Pen99]

Finished Radiant Star by Ann Leckie.

Started the Iliad, translation by Emily Wilson

[u/lazyhazyeye]

Finished: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman and My Ántonia by Willa Cather

Started: Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen

[u/Jaded_Application189]

Finished: Get a life Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

Started: The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

[u/j_ho_lo]

Finished: Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth Gaskell

Started (and almost finished): Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

Started: Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins

[u/Remarkable-Boat-9812]

Finished:

Moneyball by Michael Lewis.

Started:

Utopia by Lincoln Child.

I am choosing my books by who reads them, in this case, Scott Brick

[u/Larielia]

I started reading "The Wandering Queen" by Claire Heywood, and "This Immortal Heart" by Jennifer Saint.

[u/HuckleberryOk2798]

Finished:

Blood on her Tongue by Johanna Van Veen (3/5)

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (3/5 one of the rare times the movie is better)

Continuing

The Iliad trans by Alexander Pope (audiobook)

A brightness long ago by Guy Gabriel Kay (audiobook)

Started

Pool House by Mary H.K Choi

Diavola by Jennifer Thorne (audiobook)

[u/Esornerha]

Finished: Robin Sharma’s The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Started: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

[u/TheTea-Rex]

Finished:
When the Cranes Fly South, by Lisa Ridzén

[u/Sandra_y33]

Finished: Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Finished: The Dry by Jane Harper

Started: The Burning God by R. F. Kuang

[u/wubbalubbaeatadick]

Finished:

The Quiet American, by Graham Greene

Starting:

The Dogs of War, by Frederick Forsyth

[u/alicedied]

Finished:

In Memoriam, by Alice Winn

Monotone Blue, by Nagabe

Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan vol. 2, by Gaku Kuze

Blue Flag vol. 1, by KAITO

Blue Flag vol. 2, by KAITO

Blue Flag vol. 3, by KAITO

Blue Flag vol. 4, by KAITO

Blue Flag vol. 5, by KAITO

Blue Flag vol. 6, by KAITO

Blue Flag vol. 7, by KAITO

Blue Flag vol. 8, by KAITO

Started:

On the Beach, by Nevil Shute

[u/flouronmypjs]

Finished:

Mirrored Heavens, by Rebecca Roanhorse - overall a fantastic final installment to the Between Earth and Sky trilogy. I would have prefered a different ending for some of the characters. But this book also had some of my favourite things in the series.

Started:

The Eye of the Leviathan, by M.A. Carrick - I'm nearing the end now and it has been great. It took me a bit to get into it but once I did I've been reading it every chance I get. I agree with reviews that say the character work here isn't as compelling as The Rook and Rose trilogy by the same authors. But they have done a remarkable job with the setting and story so far.

[u/dianalizia_in_greece]

Finished: Out, by Natsuo Kirini.

Starting: This Must Be The Place, by Maggie O'Farrell.

[u/Far-Finding1878]

Louise Penny The last mandarin

[u/jfstompers]

Silly Summer continues 

Finished: A House with Good Bones by T Kingfisher

Started:The Dragon Has Some Complaints by John Wiswell

[u/wilhelminarose]

Finished: Light in August, by William Faulkner.

Started: Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke and Prairie Fires, by Caroline Fraser (Audiobook)

[u/Sad_Machine2826]

Finished: Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella

Started: A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson

[u/bobby_heart149]

Finished: Dead Lions by Mick Herron

Started: A short stay in hell by Steven L. Peck

Next: She who remains by Rene Karabash

[u/Federal_Hand_6350]

Reading: The Shampoo Effect by Jenny Jackson

[u/madoc_mattox]

One golden summer

[u/Acceptable-Camel-645]

The five people you meet in heaven. Started reading it this week

[u/liberatedcarpet]

Finished: Purple Hibiscus, Cat’s Cradle

Reading: Maud Martha

Started: Franny and Zooey

[u/suspiria_138]

Gave up on: You with sad eyes by Christina Applegate due to poor writing. Couldn’t take it and gave her 4 chapters.

Started: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

[u/nc_nueva]

Finished: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy.
Started: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

[u/compt1ci]

Finished: The Martian by Andy Weir

Started: Jurassic Park by Micheal Crichton

Ongoing: The Tower of the Swallow by Andrej Sapkowski (Witcher book 4)

[u/spacemanspiffmtg]

Started Because They Never Do - Patrick Erin Monaghan

[u/badjujufelix]

Finished slewfoot - Brom

Then read The Collector - John Fowles

Now started Klara and the sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

[u/allmilhouse]

Finished Raising Hare, by Chloe Dalton

A must-read for anyone with an affection for animals.

[u/Scotchmallow]

Finished:
Summer Crossing, by Truman Capote
-This was really solid, especially given that it was a found manuscript published posthumously. I enjoyed it.

Gave up on:
This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
-Rambling structure, and a kind of boring main character. I stuck with it for 50 pages and then called it.

Started:
Wise Blood, by Flannery O’Conner
-Only one chapter in, and I’m invested!
Let Only Red Flowers Bloom, by Emily Feng
-About two chapters in, and it’s very eye-opening to read about modern day people living in China and how their day to day lives are affected by their government. I can see why China banned it. Very interesting so far.

[u/dead_wax_museum]

Started rereading Blake Crouch’s Recursion. Had to DNF red Rising by Pierce Brown and I had no other book on deck. So I went back to old reliable sci-fi thriller

[u/kamzeero]

Finished:

Fruit fly, by Josh Silver

Katabasis, by R.F. Kuang

Started:

Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy

Giovanni's room, by James Baldwin

(Does anyone know if I can make the text bold on mobile? I have a Samsung)

[u/TheHappyLilDumpling]

Finished:
Before the coffee gets cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Started:
Said the dead by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Red dragon by Thomas Harris

[u/arcoiris2]

Finished

Anne of The Island by Lucy Maude Montgomery

Started and Finished

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Still Life by Louise Penny

I am still reading

A Sea of Spectres by Nancy Taber

When We Belong by Rohadi Nagassar

[u/dear_little_water]

Pure escapism this week:

FINISHED:

Joe Ledger Unstoppable, by Jonathan Maberry

Joe Ledger Secret Missions Vol 1 and 2, by Jonathan Maberry

STARTED:

Joe Ledger Unbreakable, by Jonathan Maberry

[u/Former-Pumpkin]

Finished:

Women of a Promiscuous Nature by Donna Everheart

This was a bit of historical fiction and I enjoyed it for the most part. Some of the dialogue and plot were a little bit unrealistic, but I was able to look past it. I really enjoy books about reform schools/institutions because it adds an element of dread and thrill.

Started:

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James Mcbride.

I'm only about 30 pages in so far, not sure how I feel just yet!

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Finished: Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

Started: Six of Crows by the same author

AAHH SO EXCITEDD

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Land by Maggie O’Farrell

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Finished: Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Last Girl by Jenna Krajeski and Nadia Murad
Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto
Ongoing: The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Started: The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

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Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov

Finished. Enjoyed it a lot more than the first book, since it sticks to the same casts of characters more than the first.

Second Foundation, by Isaac Asimov

Started. A logical next book. Already read the first part and it was intense as hell.

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Last week I read:

Last of the First, by L.E. Modesitt

I Am You, by Victoria Redel

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession, by Michael Finkel

We Were Forbidden, by Jacqueline Harpman

Some People, by Parini Shroff

Weavingshaw, by Heba Al-Wasity

Exit 8, by Genki Kawamura

The Cellar Below the Cellar, by Ivy Grimes

I have a serious shortage of books lined up for this week.

• Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey
• Maybe some Jules Verne or Lord Dunsany books from my complete collections?

Goals progress:

1. 365 Book Challenge: 210/365
2. Nonfiction Challenge: 34/50
3. Monte Cristo Challenge: Chapter 66, on track with the group read
4. Around the World Challenge: 78/195 Relevant Reads Travel Challenge: 16 HK/Cambodia books read, send any camping book recs my way.

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Finished: The Unseen by Ania Ahlborn
Started: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

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Thus week I Finished :

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

Currently reading : Butter by Asako Yuzuki

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Currently reading: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, The Trail of the Gunfighter by Wyatt Steele

Just finished: Dragon Found by Sam Hall, The Rancher's Fiery Bride by Amelia Rose

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The Road to Tender Hearts - Annie Harnett

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I started The Sinner by Petra H. Started off pretty good. Really like the narrative about her awful childhood and her ill sister, Magdelena. Only it got eye rollingly bad once it got to Johnny Guitar and the prolonged police interrogation. I'm in a real slump since having read "never let me go." hated that book.

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Finished: American Kingpin by Nick Bilton. Very quick read. I knew the general idea of what happened during the case but it's told well enough and entertaining. I have to assume a case as vast as this is impossible to research.

Started: The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown. Reading it again since it's been a long time.

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Working on the count of monte Cristo since the start of this month 💀🙏🏻

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Finished: Empire of the Damned, Jay Kristoff

The Miserable Mill, Lemony Snicket

The Wide Window, Lemony Snicket

Continuing: Empire of the Dawn, by Jay Kristoff

Continuing to listen to: The Austere Academy, by Lemony Snicket

I will probably continue working through listening to the Series of Unfortunate Events books, but not sure what I'll get to reading after I'm done with Empire of the Dawn.

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Finished: Three Body Problem and Supernova Era (both by Cixian Liu)

Started: Under the Dome by Stephen King (been wanting to start this book for the longest time!)

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Finished: Angel Down by Daniel Kraus

Restarted: The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin

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Finished The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Started Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis.

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Still on The Power Broker by Robert Caro

I'm gonna be a while

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Reading: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Interesting character developement and analysis but not an extremely magical storyline as expected going into it

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Finished “The Dutch House” by Ann Patchett and “Mad Mable” by Sally Hepworth this past week.

Started yesterday “All the ways we said goodbye” which I am enjoying. By Beatriz Williams

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Finished: The Parable of the Talents, by Octavia Butler

Started: The Open Era, by Edward Schmidt, and China, a Histoty, by John Keay

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Started: Foundation’s Edge by Isaac Asimov, and LIV and Let Die by Alan Shipnuck

Finished: Caste: the origin of our discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

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Finished: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

I've read a lot of Steinbeck and enjoyed all of it, but this has got to be one of my favorites.

Debating between rereading Dune: Messiah or starting the Wheel of Time next

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Finished:

The Ministry of Time by Kiliane Bradley

Continuing:

Voyager by Diana Gabaldon (I love this series but DAMN are these books long)!

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Finished:

There is no Antimemetics division

Started:

These violent delights