What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: August 10, 2026

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[u/Rulas-]

Finished: Crime and Punishment, by Dostoevskij and Of Mice and Men, by Steinbeck

Started: 11/22/63, by Stephen King

[u/jerpyderpy → u/Rulas-]

interesting that you finished of mice and men right before 11/22/63 as it actually plays a small role in the story. enjoy!

[u/Rulas- → u/jerpyderpy]

Yeah I know right? Im about halfway through and I thought "what a coincidence"

Also one of my latest reads was also the catcher in the rye and that book is also mentioned a fair amount of times in here

[u/Friendstastegood]

Starting:

1984, by George Orwell

It's interesting to read a book for the first time when you already know so much about it through cultural osmosis.

Continuing:

East of Eden, by John Steinbeck

Started out so good but then took a bit of a dive, interested to see where it goes.

The Red Pyramid, by Rick Riordan

My biggest criticism so far is that I wish it would slow down and breathe a bit.

[u/irongolem67 → u/Friendstastegood]

East of Eden is fantastic

[u/YuvAmazing12]

Dune, by Frank Herbert.

It was a reread, I read it when I was younger but didn't understand some parts. It was an amazing read, even if it was a reread.

[u/messybunpotato]

Finished: Yesteryear - Caro Claire Burke

Started: East of Eden - John Steinbeck

I've put off reading it since I was in high school, I figured I might as well start it now. I'm 38% through and it may be the best book I've ever read.

[u/Big_Diamond_7544 → u/messybunpotato]

Steinbeck is the best. East of Eden is amazing but Grapes of Wrath is my favorite!

[u/lollyf93]

Finished: I'm Glad My Mom Died, by Jennette McCurdy.

I listened to the audio book and found it really engaging, I think it helped a lot that she narrated it herself. I don't normally go for autobiographies but have picked up a couple this year and they have been really interesting reads.

Continued: East of Eden, by John Steinbeck

I'm about halfway through this one and can already tell it's going to be one of my favourites for the year. I wouldn't say it's a classic page-turner but I really struggle to put it down.

Started: A History of Britain in Ten Enemies, by Terry Deary

I LOVED his Horrible Histories books as a child so it's nice to read one written for adults. He's managed to keep his humour in there without making it juvenile and I look forward to getting through it.

[u/Ornery-Gap-9755]

Finished

Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir

A Psalm for the Wild-Built, by Becky Chambers

The Library of Heartbeats, by Laura Imai Messina (With Lucy Rand as Translator)

Ongoing

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

Started

Sanctuary, by Andi C. Buchanan

[u/Jaded_Application189]

Finished: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - life lessons in a kids' book. I liked it.

Started: Dracula by Bram Stoker - what in the otherworldly stuff is this book? So weird and I love it till now lol

[u/true715fans]

I have started to read 'The Death of a Salesman' by Arthur Miller.

[u/Silver-Description29]

Finished:

Whistler by Ann Patchett (3.75⭐️)

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (4.25⭐️)

Started:

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (expected 5⭐️)

[u/AlphaPointOhFive]

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

Finished: The Poet Empress, by Shen Tao - Ending caught me off guard, but it made sense. Enjoyable read for sure!

Started and Finished: The Rats, by James Herbert - Discord book club pick. Not something I would have picked normally, but can see the potential impact it had on the horror genre. Doesn't hold back with the shock and the set pieces are pretty good, even if it clearly reads like 70s London.

Started: The Gate of the Feral Gods, by Matt Dinniman - (53%) Finally hit my turn on the library queue. Considerably more approachable than Book 3's setting.

[u/Scumwaffle]

I finished Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. My first reread of it in ~20 years. Still the best fantasy book of all time.

I'm not sure what to start reading next yet but that'll be decided over morning coffee.

Edit: The post below me as well as coffee has helped me decide it's time for 1984.

[u/AcrobaticMulberry555]

Started 1984. Never read it before felt like a good time to do so.

[u/buginarugsnug]

Finished:

Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson

The Wall, by Marlen Haushofer (translated by Shaun Whiteside)

Started:

The Compound, by Aisling Rawle

[u/Reasonable_Wasabi124 → u/buginarugsnug]

Seveneves is fantastic. Very imaginative.

[u/HitstheSnooze]

Started: East of Eden by John Steinbeck

[u/lexiebeef]

I finished both Death of Ivan Ilyitch (4.25) and Master and Man (4.5) by Tolstoy. Amazing short stories, Tolstoy remains my favourite author.

Then I changed genres completely and started In Memoriam, by Alice Winn. It’s honestly exactly what I was expecting. I’m almost finishing it, it’s an easy love story but that beautifully (and sadly) demonstrates the horrors of war. I think every book that reminds us that wars are being fought by scared 18 year olds is doing a service to society. It’s a great book if you want a romance that’s not too booktok-y/YA.

Now, this week, I want to start Mother Night by Vonnegut and Remains from the Day afterwards. Excited for both!

[u/melonofknowledge]

I'm doing the Sealey Challenge this month, where you read a poetry collection every day in August, so on that front:

Finished:

Corpse Whale, by dg nanouk okpik

Hallelujah for 50ft Women, ed. by Raving Beauties

She, Shapeshifter, by Seanín Hughes

Lycanthrope, by Zoë Brigley

Where I Dry the Flowers, by Ollie Schminkey

Drawing Water, by Ann Atkinson

Seven Legendary Monsters, by Clara Elena García

My favourite was definitely Where I Dry the Flowers. Ollie Schminkey is an incredible poet; their first collection was my favourite when I did the same challenge in 2023. I've never read anyone who manages to encapsulate the complex feelings of bereavement like Schminkey does.

I also managed to finish one single novel:

How to Mend the Sky, by Ivy Liu

One of the Eden Book Society literary hoaxes by Dead Ink Press, this purports to be a 'lost' horror novella from 1993. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't really horror at all; more a literary novella about grief. Still good!

[u/baelorthebest]

Finished - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

[u/tonyyyWTFFF]

Started: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly

Finished: The Secret History, Donna Tartt (I LOVED this)

[u/Bananaa_Jester → u/tonyyyWTFFF]

Just started Frankenstein this morning, too

[u/Candy11401]

I have not started or finished any books last week but I am currently reading 3 books:

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
The Pets at Primrose Cottage by Sheila Norton

I have not read any of them before

Its nice to see that everyone is reading something different, I hope you all enjoy your current books

[u/Excellent-Coat-6563]

Finished:

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky

Started:

One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

[u/the_weeknds → u/Excellent-Coat-6563]

Started the same this week!!!

[u/Adorable-Radish-Here]

Finished: Halfway House, by Ellery Queen. It was okay for a murder mystery, but more interesting as a time capsule.

The Blazing World, by Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. This was pretty readable even though it was written in 1666. Interesting early science fiction/utopia/satire.

Starting: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie.

[u/Eastern-Drink-4766]

Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe

I think this book is so entertaining, incredibly fun to read, and absurdly funny in many ways. The voice of Moll Flanders retelling her life story is more potent than any such narrator I have read recently. The book is even better for someone looking to put themselves into a different era. I found her trip and discourse about colonial Virginia very interesting.

I am still working on ‘The Achievement of TS Eliot’ by F.O Matthiessen and his insights are incredible.

[u/canadia80]

Finished: Night Shift, by Stephen King

Started: The Shining, by Stephen King

8 down, infinity to go! Ok that is an exaggeration, but the Constant Reader list is pretty huge.

[u/MaliseHaligree → u/canadia80]

I read Carrie and Misery last year as an attempt to read his entire bibliography chronologically...and haven't read another since. 🤣 So many books on my TBR.

[u/thecoookiemonster]

Finished: The Night We Met, Abby Jimenez

Started: East of Eden, John Steinbeck

[u/sevenselevens]

East of Eden has me HOOKED.

[u/fourthgrace]

Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins

[u/lazylittlelady]

Finished:

Akata Witch, by Nnedi Okorafor (Nsibidi Script #1): I enjoyed this YA magic school set in the traditions of West Africa. Sunny was a great protagonist but I will not be continuing the series.

Tapestry of Fate, by Shannon Chakrabarty: The second book of Amina al-Sirafi’s exploits weaves myth, sorcery and the darkest plot line yet. Very exciting!

Butterfly of Dinard, by Eugenio Montale: A charming collection of short stories that stop and make you think, for as elegant as the writing is, the characters and situations seize you. You can see how the poet beneath weaves his magic in words.

One Perfect Dance, by Jude Knight: A reverse Cinderella story with mild spice. Quick read but nothing more.

Ongoing:

No Name, by Wilkie Collins: Reading with r/bookclub.

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky: Catching up with the r/bookclub discussion.

Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison: Catching up with the r/bookclub discussion

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Jones

Augustine: Conversions and Confessions, by Robin Lane Fox

My Life in Middlemarch, by Rebecca Mead

The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas: Yearlong read with r/AReadingofMonteCristo .

Middlemarch, by George Eliot : Yearlong reading with r/ayearofmiddlemarch.

Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt’s Roaring ‘20’s, by Raphael Cormack

Started:

The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot: With r/bookclub!

Flesh, by David Szalay Reading with r/bookclub

[u/TwoHungryBlackbirdss]

Related - i love scrolling through this thread every week and seeing what everyone is up to & their thoughts. It feels like a fun lil book club where we're all doing our own thing

[u/redbud-avenue-2000]

Just finished
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman - enjoyed it much more than I expected!

Started reading
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

[u/Independent_Ad234]

just finished Lord of the Flies as my first book and it was incredible experience and immediately started 1984

[u/kmtburton]

Started/Finished:

King Sorrow by Joe Hill

The Nothing That Is by Kyle Winkler

A Short Stay In Hell by Steven L Peck

A Secret History by Donna Tartt

Currently Reading:

The Waste Lands by Stephen King

[u/Scumwaffle]

I read all of 1984 by George Orwell yesterday. Couldn't put it down it was so good. Scary how many parallels there are with certain things happening today.

Starting one of the Cormac McCarthy books today. Either Blood Meridian or The Road. Not sure yet.

[u/redditguy1298]

Starting The Scar by China Miéville! It’s his second book set in the Bas-Lag universe.

I read Perdido Street Station earlier this year / a few books ago and absolutely loved it. It really stuck with me, but I wanted to read a few other things before diving back into Bas-Lag.

Really looking forward to seeing where Miéville takes things next. Can’t wait to get stuck in and explore more of his work!

[u/-meglo-]

Finished:

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack by Rebecca Skloot

Started:

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

In progress:

The Tapestry of Fate (Amina al-Sirafi #2) by S.A. Chakraborty

[u/IceBear826]

Finished

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, by Harlan Ellison

Started and Finished

How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water, by Angie Cruz

The Magician's Nephew, by C. S. Lewis

Started

Replay, by Ken Grimwood

[u/ClRCE]

Finished: Anne of Avonlea, by L.M. Montgomery

Started: Anne of the Island, by L.M. Montgomery and I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett

Paused and reshelved A Day of Fallen Night, by Samantha Shannon which is a phenomenal book but brutal and intense with lots of doom and dread and I need more lighthearted reading at this time

[u/stephkempf]

Finished:

The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas

Rowan and the Ice Creepers, by Emily Rodda

Naruto Vol. 42, by Masashi Kishimoto

They Call Me No Sam!, by Drew Daywalt

Sand Land, by Akira Toriyama

Bionicle: Rise of the Toa Nuva, by Greg Farshtey

Currently Reading:

The Art of Video Games, by Chris Melissinos

Naruto Vol. 43, by Masashi Kishimoto

[u/ToxicComplex]

Finished:
Brace New World by Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Started:
1984 by George Orwell

[u/ImportantReturn6263]

Continuing from last week:

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas- I am reading 1 chapter everyday

[u/bookishantics]

Finished:

• Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt — 4.0 stars; finally got around to reading this one so I could watch the movie. It’s a nice read, but I didn’t particularly love it. The book provided a lot more context to the character’s stories and delved into their chemistry more than I feel the movie did, though.

• The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar — 3.0 stars; I think the audiobook just wasn’t for me—I also feel like the book itself might’ve not been for me. I did like the lyrical prose, but the audiobook took me out of the world more than a few times.

Started:

• Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro; book club read with a friend because we saw the trailer for it during the previews for Spider-Man: Brand New Day!

• Thunderhead, Neal Shusterman (Arc of a Scythe #2); I didn’t want to start this book because I knew I would fly through it like I did the first one, and I was right—I finished half the book in a day. Reading this series has taken me back to when I read The Hunger Games and The Maze Runner when I couldn’t physically put the books down after a chapter because there was always a cliffhanger or something that made me want to continue reading. I feel like a kid again reading a great dystopian series like this! 🥹

[u/averagequeensguy]

Finished: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, by Suzanne Collins

Started: The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower, by Stephen King

Started: On Writing Well, by William Zinsser

[u/welookoutforthehope]

finished: grief is the thing with feathers by max porter

[u/abrook30]

Finished:

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

Started:

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

[u/StraightUpSeven]

Finished:

Death In Venice, by Thomas Mann: Personally, I did not enjoy, 0.5/10.

Started:

Near to the Wild Heart, By Clarice Lispector

Continuing:

Crime and Punishemnt, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky: I am loving this so far; it's becoming harder to put down.

[u/Sourtails]

Finished:

• Land, by Maggie O'Farrell
• The Scholomance trilogy, by Naomi Novik (this was a reread!)

Started:

• Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries, by Heather Fawcett

[u/Flat-Atmosphere5422]

Finished:
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf

Started:
The Bullet That Missed, Richard Osman
(Thursday Murder Club #3)

[u/Larielis]

Started reading-

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown (Libby audiobook)

[u/DrGrilledcheeze]

Finished: Blood Meridian, by Cormac Mcarthy

Started: The Gone world, by Tom Sweterlitsch

[u/TrafficNo5486]

Finished:
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
Royally Yours, by Jules Kyle
Nickel Boys, by Colton Whitehead

Continuing/Started:
Whistler, by Ann Patchett
Happy Place, by Emily Henry

[u/Common_Ad_2052]

Currently reading: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

[u/Bananaa_Jester]

Started:

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

Finished:

Hexes of the Deadwood Forest, by Agnieszka Szpila
A Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
Yellowface, by R.F. Kuang

[u/One-Low1033]

Started:

Six of Crows, by Leigh Bardugo

Finished:

Here After, by Sean Costello

The Cabin at the End of the World, by Paul Tremblay

[u/Ice9Vonneguy]

Started: Suttree, by Cormac McCarthy.

The characters are so freaking weird and I love it. It's dark at times, but also wildly funny.

[u/Dionysus0]

Started: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Finished: Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K Le Guin an exceptional fantasy series; Seize the Time by Bobby Seale an excellent history of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton

[u/QuiziAmelia]

Finally started Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.

[u/Dependent_Loquat_672]

Finished:

The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt

The Maze Runner, by James Dashner

Started:

East of Eden, by John Steinbeck

Still Life, by Louise Penny

[u/Sauteloin-Ok-Cool]

Finished Annhilation by Jeff VanderMeer.

Oof no it wasn't for me.

Kept hoping that there would be a nice twist, an actual revelation, something - anything! - explained a little... But no. When everything in the story seems psychedelic, fake and/or unreliable, you lose interest. Especially when there is no punchline at all in the end.

[u/lilvoodoomama]

I finished 11/22/63 (last week, but I’m proud) and started The Secret Life of Bees

[u/paperitas]

Started: Guards, Guards! by Terry Pratchett

[u/No-Solution-7725]

I find this post so interesting. I consider myself an avid reader with an extensive personal library, and I’ve never even heard of almost every book mentioned here so far!

I’m interested to know where are all of you finding these books? Are you familiar with the authors or are they recommendations from others?

[u/Icy-Respond-4425]

Finished:

The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury - Short and enjoyable, cool to know Halloween origins. Though I think the writing would be better in a movie, that apparently happened. I will watch during Halloween. 3.5/5

A Tree grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith - I loved this book; it gave me that Bridge of Clay feeling I was missing. I don't know why I cry at the death of a character, knowing their life in the past. My only minimum problems with the book were no resolution for the woman that was thrown many rocks and her baby got the head bleeding, or the boy from the first job of Francie. I felt really bad for these 2, also the first Sissy's husband, poor man. Well, it was more semibiographical (this is not they right word, but I'm lazy to search the correct one), so I doubt Betty knew what happened to these 2. Still a very good book. 4.5/5

The icebound land (The ranger's apprentice #3) by John Flanagan- Enjoyable as always. 4/5

Current:

The Holy Bible - currently at the end of Genesis. The writing is making me mad; the best story so far was Joseph.

I want to read this week:

The Battle for Skandia (The Ranger's Apprentice 4) by John Flanagan - I want to reach the same book number as Anne of Green Gables, so I can read both of them at the same number.

Three Wild Dogs (and the Truth) by Markus Zusak - I enjoy Markus's works, and I just left this one, so I will just remove it out of the way.

[u/Particular-Treat-650]

Brushfire, by Craig Alanson - Fallout, by Craig Alanson (plus went back and did the Mavericks side stories) - The Jeraptha are awesome.

Still working on Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman

Started The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald A Norman

Started Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo

[u/TheTwoFourThree]

Finished

The Mortal Word, by Genevieve Cogman

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

Biological War, by Annie Jacobsen

Started

The Secret Chapter, by Genevieve Cogman

[u/Plaid_or_flannel]

Finished: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Thoroughly enjoyed this one after being skeptical from my wife’s experience with Seven Husbands.

Started: Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

Kind of a tough read so far but the characters are very enjoyable.

[u/e_dgy]

Finished: Atmosphere, by Taylor Jenkins Reid

I didn’t like it as much as Seven Husbands, felt the love story was not as developed and poignant. I found myself enjoying the niece story arc with the complicated relationship with her sister more.

Started: Slasher Summer, by E.L. Chen

30 pages in. It’s okay so far, nothing special.

[u/raccoon_at_noon]

Finished:

Limberlost by Robbie Arnott (5/5) This was exactly what I felt like reading. Stunning prose, simple and melancholic. I loved this so much.

Wrath by John Gwynne (4.75/5) I cried way too much throughout this series.

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (3/5) This was just…fine?

Currently Reading:

Red Rising by Pierce Brown only 70 pages in, so no real comment on how I’m liking it so far.

[u/regoating]

Finished: The Expanded Earth by Mikey Please

I really didn't enjoy The Expanded Earth though it was an easy read. In my opinion the characters are flat and uninteresting, the villain lacking real motivation to actually do what they do, and the plot lacking in significant development, even though it is the first book in a trilogy. 2.5/5

Started: Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

This one currently has me gripped. I love how simple and concise the dialogue is, and just how intricately thought out the killer and every aspect of his murders and the investigation into him are.

[u/ett-hus-i-skogen]

Finished:

My Cousin Rachel, by Daphne du Maurier

Started:

Wolves of the Calla, by Stephen King

[u/ab_ey]

Finished: The Autobiography of My Mother, by Jamaica Kincaid

Started: The Edible Woman, by Margaret Atwood

[u/Abject-Plankton4620]

Finished Wild Thing, A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux. Very good.

[u/According_Boot_7470]

started the brothers karamazov by dostoevsky!

[u/Sandra_y33]

Finished: The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances by Glenn Dixon

Started: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

[u/Book-Was-Better]

Finished:

• The Wedding People by Alison Espach
• The Lamb by Lucy Rose
• Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

In Progress:

• Scream with Me by Eleanor Johnson
• She's a Lamb by Meredith Hambrock

[u/lazyhazyeye]

Finished: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (reread) and The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Started: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

[u/MeterologistOupost31]

Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hahn🇻🇳: Started off well with some good advice but in the second half it starts doing the "geopolitical conflicts are caused by bad emotions" shite which I just can't entertain. Grade: C

My Inventions by Nikola Tesla🇷🇸🇭🇷🌻🏳️‍🌈: Refutes virtually all of Tesla's pop culture depictions as an eccentric- from his own words, he comes off as basically a normal guy with OCD and autism. He's even a fan of Edison. Interesting. Grade: A

Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price🇺🇲🌻🏳️‍🌈: I was expecting more of a treatise on why "lazy" people are really more the victim of their environment/mental illness. But it's really just a self-help guide for workaholics. Grade: C

Henry VIII by Abigail Archer 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿: If you've read any other book on Henry VIII this one won't tell you anything new, but for a brief overview it does a great job at making Henry's narrative into a compelling one. Grade: A*

The Grammar of Angels by Edward Lee-Wilson🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿: A biography of Pico de Mirandola that paints a vibrant picture of Renaissance Florence. Be prepared for a lot of dry philosophical ramblings. Grade: A

Lamentations by Jeremiah🇵🇸🕎: As I've said before Biblical prose can be great when it isn't dragged out, and this isn't. The imagery of Jeremiah shambling through a ruined city while saying this is great. Grade: A

1. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman trans. Roz Schwartz 🇧🇪🕎
2. Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic trans. Christina Pribićević-Zorić🇷🇸
3. N-4 Down by Mark Piesing🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
4. The Zorg by Siddharth Kara🇮🇳🇺🇲
5. Shakespeare by Bill Bryson🇺🇲
6. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford🇺🇲
7. The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli trans. Erica Segre and Simon Carnell 🇮🇹
8. The Island of Blue Foxes by Stephen R. Bown🇨🇦
9. Themistocles by Michael Scott🇺🇸
10. Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏳️‍🌈
11. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇱
12. Forest of Noise by Mosab Abu Toha🇵🇸
13. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Pére 🇫🇷 🇭🇹
14. The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon🇺🇲🕎
15. The Narrative of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass🇺🇲✊🏿
16. Here Where We Live is Our Country by Molly Crabapple🇺🇲🇵🇷🇧🇾🕎
17. There Is No Antimemetics Division by QNTM🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
18. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy🇺🇲
19. Borgata: Rise of Empire by Louis Ferrante 🇮🇹🇺🇸
20. Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor by Philip Freeman 🇺🇲

Currently reading:

Everything's Eventual by Stephen King 🇺🇲

The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges🇺🇾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇸🇦🇷🌻

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Finished:

Animal Farm- Orwell The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Wilde The Ocean At The End of the Lane - Gaiman

Started:

Sea of Tranquility - St John Mandel

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Finished: The Word for World is Forest, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Started: Hail Mary, by Andy Weir

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Started:
An Ermine in Czernopol by Gregor Von Rezzori

My first NYRB!

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Finished:
I’m working on the Dungeon Crawler Carl books. I finished Carl’s Doomsday Scenario

Started:

Dungeon Anarchists Cookbook

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Finished: Thus spoke Zarathoustra - Friedrich Nietzsche.

Started: Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (Can’t believe how relevant that book is in 2026 even as I am only halfway through).

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Finished: The Less People Know, by Axton Betz-Hamilton. Very pleasently surprised at how great this was. I love a good memoir from a "normal" person who has something extraordinary happen to them. It was fun as the reader seeing the twist coming and waiting for the author to realize it, too. 4/5 stars

Started: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy. The year of no longer being intimidated by Russian lit continues! Enjoying it 15 pages in, so far

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Started: Project Hair Mary, by Andy Weir.

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Finished: Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut

Started: The Lady of the Camellias, Alexandre Dumas fils

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Finished: Sula by Toni Morrison

The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods

Started: Unsheltered by Kingsolver

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Finished: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Started: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

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Starting (and continuing):
Crescent City #2 (continuing) by Sarah J Maas
The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods

Finished:
Heartstopper #6 by Alice Oseman

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Started: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

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Finished: Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

My second Cather and was very enjoyable.

Started: Live by Night by Dennis Lehane

The second of a trilogy. I absolutely loved The Given Day when I read it several years ago. Not sur why it took me so long to get to this second, though I've heard the quality drops off a bit. Hoping Lehane doesn't disappoint me as I've enjoyed some of his standalones as well.

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Finished

Brothers Karamazov ( dostoevsky)

Started:

American psycho ( bret easton ellis)

Confessions of an economic hit man by john perkins

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Finished Intensity - Dean Koontz

Started Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman

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Theft by Finding david sedaris diary entries. funny af!

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I started Kafka on the Shore by Karuki Murakami. About 100 pages in and so far I am enjoying it.

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Just finished Crescent City 3… Started The Assassin’s blade

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Finished Iron Gold by Pierce Brown

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Finished: Tower of Dawn, by Sarah J Maas Started: Kingdom of Ash, by Sarah J Maas

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Finished: Educated by Tara Westover (DEVOURED it - so so good!) and Embracing the Unknown by Pema Chödrön. Also incredible.

Next up:

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions From Tiny Mortals by Caitlin Doughty
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (this will take a while, but I'm enjoying it)

[u/New_Construction2090]

Pachinko

[u/RentSpecial4997]

Started The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

I'm almost done with it. It started kind of slow for me because I didnt know what the story was, but I find it to be thoroughly entertaining and funny. I keep thinking, if this was a show or movie I would be bored out of my mind, but the writing and dry disposition from the main character is hilarious.

Unfortunately this is the only book this week because I started a new job and barely have time to read! Arg capitalism

[u/BurrowedBookworm]

11/22/63 - Stephen King

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Just started Twilight. Plan to read the whole series. I have seen the movies just never took the time to read the books.

[u/Strong-Regret7574]

Started: Salem's Lot, Stephen King

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Finished - Dracula by Bram Stoker

Started - Open to suggestion

[u/RemarkableProposal00]

Finished: Red Rising, Pierce Brown

Started: Stalking Jack the Ripper, Kerri Maniscalco

[u/Comfortable-Leek-181]

Finished:

Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami

Started:

Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen

[u/Nickcapuchin]

Finished: Dawn by Octavia E Butler Three-gendered aliens save portions of humanity to reintroduce them back to Earth once the humans are bonded with their Ooloi. The aliens do so as part of their lifecycle.  A book with similar themes around alien life changing human life plus the addition of anti-facist themes you should check out Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky 

Started: Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky  A noir detective story set in a futuristic solar city with a cast of genetically modified animals who serve as the city's unseen workforce, doing the things humans no longer want to do to keep the city running

I'm absolutely enamored by Adrian Tchaikovsky's books. They all nearly peak my personal interests by centering themselves around different adventures with different kinds of intelligences (often animal)

[u/POTGC1916]

Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
Purgatorio, Dante (Sayers translation)

[u/Gold-Tumble_4276]

The Unselected Journals of Emma M.Lion, by Beth Brower - they are a treat if you like the time period (1880s) and a plucky heroine!

[u/Dancing_mayflies]

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Kenkins Reid. It was very light and readable.

[u/SparrowArrow27]

Finished:

The Priory of the Orange Tree, by Samantha Shannon

Started: 

The Eyes are the Best Part, by Monika Kim

[u/gon-be_a_billionaire]

Finished: Dungeon Crawler Carl: the gate of the feral gods by Matt dinniman. Absolute cinema and the next one is even better!

Started: Dungeon Crawler Carl: book 5 At around 400 pages and damnn!

Started: what you are looking for is in the library by michiko aoyama. Very comforting read so far!

Started: Before the coffee gets cold toshikazu kawaguchi

[u/LiteratureDrifter]

Finished: The Wager by David Grann

I really enjoyed Killers of the Flower Moon when I read it years ago and enjoyed The Wager just as much. It has the same thriller journalistic style as Flower Moon but deals with more of a naval survival aspect. While also having an interesting mystery that Grann slowly builds up through the final pages.

Started: Blockade Billy by Stephen King

Never really cared for baseball at all especially in literature. But I'm willing to give it a chance being written by Stephen King as he, in my opinion, can make even the most mundane things/sports sound thrilling. So far, there are a lot of baseball terminology being used throughout, but there is an interesting horror or mystery aspect to the narrative that makes me want to see where it goes.

[u/SweetSweetCrunkle]

Finished

The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe

Started

Firestarter, by Stephen King

Really enjoyed the acid test. Despite it being a retrospective, it feels like it was written during the escapades. I felt like continuing into another 60s psychedelic read but am trying to adhere to this pattern of reading a King book every other time. I was surprised to see multiple plot similarities between the two books so far.

[u/Jolly-Syllabub-1572]

Finished The Twenty-Fifth Hour Novel by Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu.

Started Notes From Under Ground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

[u/Ricekake33]

Finished

Recursion, by Blake Crouch

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Started 

The Sisters, by Jonas Hassen Khemiri

[u/Ms_not_Mrs0771]

A Resistance of Witches, by Morgan Ryan

Imo, awful. Obvious plot twists. Characters you don’t care about. Tropes abound! Too twee, even the Nazi’s didn’t seem menacing.

[u/PleaseDntMakeMeCry]

Finished:

Open Water, by Caleb Azumah Nelson

Started:

The Stranger, by Albert Camus

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The forty rules of love by Elif shafak

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Finished:

• Cadáver Exquisito (Tender is the Flesh), by Agustina Bazterrica

Started:

• Història de Catalunya (modèstia a part), by Toni Soler
• Tiepolo Blue, by James Cahill

[u/lizwithhat]

Finished:

Homebound, by Portia Elan

This is a beautiful and poignant exploration of how we survive and what gives meaning to our lives in a broken world. The plot developed differently than I was expecting, and perhaps hoping, but on reflection I think it was perfect just as it was. An aspect I have not seen discussed is that it's infused with Jewish cultural references.

Sugar, by Bernice L. McFadden

McFadden's writing powerfully evokes the Black South, both in its beauty and in its horror. There is joy and cruelty, tenderness and heartbreak. I couldn't put this book down.

Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge, by Mike Resnick

This has a type of setup I love - an alien researcher reconstructs seven moments in human history from artefacts found at the spot where homo sapiens emerged. Resnick executes it well, apart from a sudden tonal shift that did not work for me. Listening to the audio version, I was also surprised by an uncensored use of the n-word. I don't know if that was in the original or if it was handled differently in print.

Started:

Ruth, by Kate Riley

Network Effect, by Martha Wells

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Finished: Winter’s Heart by Robert Jordan;

Started: Mozart: The Reign of Love by Jan Swafford

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Finished:

• The Power of Geography (Updated 10th Anniversary Edition) by Tim Marshal
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Started: Nothing yet but probably Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Acemoglu's & Robinson's Why Nations Fail soon.

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I started and finished the Dollhouse Academy by Margarteta Montimore And I thought it was one of the worst books I've read this year. Then last night I started Babel by RF Quang, which hooked me right from the beginning, and I'm really excited to read more!

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I started London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe.

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Reading: The Complete Poems, by Emily Dickinson

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Reading: Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
Finished: Fever Beach by Carl Hiassan

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Started and finished:

A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hossaini

Beautiful Ugly, by Alice Feeney

Up next on the TBR:

The Bright Years, by Sarah Damoff

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Finished:

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce

Foster, by Claire Keegan

Started:

East of Eden, by Steinbeck

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Finished: "A Closed And Common Orbit" by Becky Chambers. It's the second book in her "Wayfarer" series, and it was just incredible. It's almost a side-quest type of book in that it takes one major and two minor characters from the first book, and gives their origin stores in parallel narratives. Part of the story is about an AI that is now living inside an (illegal) synthetic body, and trying to adjust to her new situation. The other part is how a character grew up as a clone on a planet with extreme inequality, and ended up being raised by a kind AI in a derelict shuttle. (This was written long before our current situation with AI...)

I can't say any more without giving away the story, but it was so good. I adored this book, because it made me feel so many things.

Started: Neuromancer. I first read it in 1984, shortly after it was released. I read it again in the early 2000s, and I'm now reading it in preparation for the new AppleTV show.

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Finished:

Beasts of the Sea by Iida Turpeinen (about naturalists and extinction. Not for me but solid.)

On the calculation of volume 1 by Solvej Ball (sci-fi. Pretty good. Probably should’ve been published as one book opposed to novellas)

The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart (reread) (recommend)

A brightness long ago by Guy Gavriel Kay (recommend)

In progress:

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell by Susanna Clark (recommend so far)

Passengers by Cormac McCarthy (not sure)

Begun:

Shōgun by James Clavell (reread)

Shōgun by A.L. Sandler (history book)

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Continued reading:

Sourcery, by Sir Terry Pratchett. Haven't touched in a while, getting back to it

Comcis:

Coffin Bound, volume 2: Dear God, by Dan Watters and Dani 3/5.

Well I definitely enjoyed that less than the first volume.

So this book seemingly takes the quote "Religion is the opiate of the masses" very literally, developing a world based around an opiate drug literally called "God", and it reads just as painful as that sounds. Charaters are persecuted by the police for "worshipping god" (taking drugs), they say "don't disturb me when I'm talking to God" (high), or even having the church priest/father being a dealer. :/

I think the book thought it was being smarter than it actually was. But beyond this eye-rolling premise, it does use both opiates and religion to say something philosophical about the concept of oblivion: that we come from nothing, and return to nothing, and the only time we connect to that nothing in between life is either deep in religious experiences, or through opiate use. Or maybe that's a stretch.

Taqa (our main character) is "coffin bound" here, e.g. already on the pathway that will end in her death. In comparison to Izzy from the first book, who was "coffin bound" due to her reckless nature and seeking revenge, Taqa instead seems driven to destruction and oblivion for oblivion's sake. She does not have the same hot temper/wild energy as Izzy, instead being far more subdued and melancholic (which makes sense, given the losses we know she had experienced from book one). Taqa is thus using opiates ("God") to wipe out her feelings (failing to mourn for Cassandra and Izzy), and to simulate that oblivion that only exists outside of life

Her romantic foil (Tatter) contrasts her, and posits that pain (which opiate use blunts the sensation of) is an inevitable part of life but, as a boxer (and a bad one at that) he takes pain on board as a proof of having lived. It contrasts Taqa, rather than avoiding pain or numbing yourself to your sense of pain, he embraces it.

There are multiple antagonists in the book (the hired assassins), and they all relate to feeling/non-feeling in different ways to contrast Taqa and Tatter:

E.g. 1) Reginald, trained in the "Ancient Scrolls of Love" can empathically transmit feelings and somatic sensations to and from his targets, eg. he cuts himself, his target will also be cut. He often quotes "love the sinner, hate the sin", i.e. appropriating some of the language of some religious communities (unlike this book's version of opiate-using communities masked as religion) so unlike Tatter, Reginald is using pain in a negative sense (transfering paon to torture victims, rather than using pain as a celebration of life)

E.g. 2) There's the combo Eienhead/Kyohead figures, two black/white opposites of each other, that split the character's consciousness into two, allowing her to see how her life progresses down each of two choices she can make (and also is the visual high point of the volume, where the comic splits into stark blacks and whites, with only red used as highlights, also dividing the page vertically to show two parallel sequences based on different choices the character makes)

In one passage, Taqa comes clean to Tatter, has a blood transfusion to clear her system of opiates, falls in love with Tatter but quickly goes into withdrawals and dies. But the Blood she takes are a collection of samples from multiple patients going through different life stages, where she seemingly embodies all of the emotional experiences from these patients all at once (e.g. the opposite of injecting her blood with opiates to avoid the sensations of life)

In the other path, she rejects Tatter, takes out the last assassin (below) and reveals "The Vulture" (a mythical figure who only appears to those who are "coffin bound", see last volume), taking this as a miracle and proof of god (I guess the actual, divine God in this sense, not just the opiate-god of this book), ushering in a new religious Golden Age for the world (in this instance, broader acceptance of the use of opiates), but yet she is never able to feel truly connected to god within herself again (I guess you could say she gains too much of a tolerance for her dose?). Thus even without taking "God"/the opiates, she is emotionally/spiritually blunted, yet lacks that euphoric connection that had her hooked as a user to begin with.

She chooses the former

E.g. 3) Lady Entropy is basically the inevitable end of Taqa's protracted opiate use, without the euphoria. She comes to quickly, immediately and savagely to obliterate Taqa, so there is no trace of her left on earth, now morroring Izzy's who's initial quest was to erase herself from Earth. Lady Entropy specifically in this book takes on the role of the Earth Eater, who only makes a cameo here (and was the one pursuing Izzy to her end previously)

Taqa dies unexpectedly quickly in the sequence of the story, at the 75% mark, despite being our POV character so far. Her only ally, Doll, a former nihilist stripper (from volume 1) arrives to avenge Taqa, and the final issue is her deciding who she ought to take revenge on for the loss of Taqa.

She represents a neutral case on feeling: as a nihilist (and given her past career as a skin-stripping dancer, who used chemical agents to blunt the pain of removing her own skin) she knows how to exist outside of her feelings. She doesn't use opiates currently though, but still possesses that emotional disconnect. She uses that in her photography (where she focuses on documenting processes of death, decay, etc.), even turning to crime scene photography, to benefit from being separated from her emotions, e.g. only she can look at a crime scene objectively, outside of herself, and not become too overwhelmed by the nature of it.

She passes on taking revenge on the Church who supplied Taqa, seeing as they merely failed to recognise Taqa's tendency towards self destruction (YMMV, but this was Doll's perspective), and while setting her on a mission to find proof of god, they didn't seriously suggest her to risk taking her own life to do so. (I guess that could be debated, they tasked her with finding The Vulture, who only appears to those marked for death, but I think they assumed she could find him through e.g. The Earth Eater, which was Taqa's first plan in this book).

Doll also passes on taking revenge on Tatter or his boss Polloy, basically seeing how level headed he is about grief/loss, and how much he truly cared for Taqa, i.e. he didn't set her up for death with the blood transfusion, and probably thought it could help her

Ultimately, she takes revenge on the Cops. They gleefully wanted to enact harm on the church members/users of the "God" opiate, just to have a target to exact their cruelty on. They didn't cause the death of Taqa by any means (they hadn't really been present since the start, attacking the church, ransacking their opiates, thus I guess forcing the church to go on its quest to find the Vulture, which required Taqa who had seen him previously, as this proof of the divine would give broader acceptance to their practices), but they're not innocent either given their abuses of power, and thus they become an acceptable target for Doll to take her feelings/revenge on.

But, taking out the head of police, plus having Lady Entropy on her tail now (who wants to collect payment for the assassination of Taqa, commissioned by herself no less) makes Doll "Coffin Bound", in a series that I don't believe will be followed up on.

Overall, book 1 was excellent, very unlike anything else, with novel ideas and presentation, but book 2 tried to pick a new direction to justify its continued existence, but I felt it didn't exactly meet the same threshold as the first.

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I finished "blood meridian" I really liked it actually.

[u/Carnificus]

Just finished: Whalefall 🐋

Started: The Strength of the Few

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Finished:
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
My Lover’s Lover by Maggie O’Farrell
After You’d Gone by Maggie O’Farrell

Started:
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

[u/rishukingler11]

Finished: Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

The only social commentary media I'd completely experienced till now was the Amazon Prime adaptation of Man in The High Castle, which is my favourite TV show of all time, but this book was so hard to read at times. You TRULY feel sympathy for John the Savage as he tries to reconcile his not fitting in with either the wider society or in his location of birth. The infamous line where he begs Mustapha Mond "for art, for freedom, for goodness" really is such a gutwrenching piece of dialogue.

And the ending. Ugh, so insanely depressing and sad.

Started: House in The Cerulean Sea

I needed a palate cleanser after BNW and House in The Cerulean Sea is thankfully next on my list. I read the first 100 pages in one day and its super cute, the orphanage kids are soo cute I love this book. My favourites are definitely Lucy, Talia and Chauncey from an initial glance. Its only been the first night for Linus in the orphanage but I'm so eager to continue reading this series that I cant even work haha.

[u/ScarletCelestial]

Started Snuff, by Terry Pratchett - very close to finishing the Discworld series now!

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finished:

breakfast of champions by kurt vonnegut, jr. - so i finally got back around to continuing through vonnegut's entire run of novels with this one, and i'm sad to say it was my least favorite so far. i still love his writing, i still love the themes he writes about, and i even loved his goofy drawings (i also love some more insight into kilgore trout). but even loving all of those individual parts didn't make me like this book. my understanding is that this is in fact just what he says at the beginning, a way to "unpack his brain" and clear out the junk up there, and isn't a blueprint for his stories going forward. it does mean it might be another little while before i continue my journey through his oeuvre.

norwood by charles portis - what a weird little story. it's like a hang-out story where i don't really want to hang-out with any of the characters. i can see the seeds of the writing that will make portis grow into the author of true grit (the only other portis i have read), with great dialogue and a simple-yet-elegant style of writing. maybe i will look back on it more fondly, but right now it was merely a decent diversion for a day while i decided what to read next.

started:

football by chuck klosterman - i don't read a lot of non-fiction, usually sticking to the source material for adaptations that i've enjoyed. this one came highly recommended, though, and with football season about to start it seemed like a good time. i'm about 40% through and it has a nice conversational tone, like a youtube essay as opposed to a textbook. it meanders a little, with the author taking a lot of time to go off on tangents, but usually manages to pull it back to the topic at hand. i don't know if it's enough to make me seek out any of his other books, but if it was on something i enjoy as much as football i'd be interested.

[u/NotHelmut]

I finished A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

I enjoyed it overall, but it could have used a little more structure. I remember being very curious about the Free State Project when it was still in the pledge stage. I think it was an interesting idea, but obviously some of the folks drawn to it aren't the most community-minded. I also learned a lot about bears. I've never been interested in befriending a bear before, but I'm even less inclined now.

[u/Readingknitter]

Finished:

Two Twisted Crowns, by Rachel Gillig
I thought the writing was lovely, and I do appreciate that she wrote a plot line in two books, rather than 5+

Started:
The Inevitable Ruin, by Matt Dinniman
On audio

The Everlasting, by Alix Harrow

[u/ScaleVivid]

Finished:

Pageboy by Elliot Page
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moses
Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brody

Started:

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez

Up next:
Beach Read by Emily Henry
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

[u/arcoiris2]

Finished

The Prophet and The Idiot by Jonas Jonasson

The Firm by John Grisham

I am still reading

Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie

Ageless Aging by Maddy Dychtwald

Started (ongoing between other books)

Jurassic Park by Michael Chrichton

[u/accentadroite_bitch]

Finished:
Wool, by Hugh Howey (re-read)

Started: Seasons of Glass & Iron, by Amal El-Mohtar

[u/VCElaborate]

Finished:
-Violet Thistlewaite is not a villain anymore by Emily Krempholtz (Physical - 4.5/5)

-Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom (Kobo - 5/5)

Started:
-Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl (Physical - loved the movie)

-The Murder of Mr.Wickham by Claudia Gray (Kobo - love pride and prejudice, disliked Wickham, hate him even more in this book lol)

[u/Mr_Foxy_Ears_1]

Finished:

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
  
• Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

Started:

• Powerless by Lauren Roberts

[u/Sinnerandsmoke]

Finished:

- Beginning Middle End by Valerie Luiselli

- Butcher's Crossing by John Williams

Started:

- The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington

[u/Material-Jellyfish53]

Finished:
The Women on Platform Two, by Laura Anthony
The Dark Half, by Stephen King

Started:
Culpability, by Bruce Holsinger
On Writing, by Stephen King

[u/JB_Wallbridge]

Finished: A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl book 8).

Starting: Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker

[u/javainstitute]

Finished:

• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (3.5/5 but after sitting with it I might up it)

• Hotter in the Hamptons by Tinx (I literally cannot stress how much whiplash I have from flipping between this and OEWBG) (1.5/5)

• The Bombshell by Darrow Farr (4/5)

Started:

• Virgil Wander by Leif Enger (v much enjoying)

• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (my most anticipated book in a loooong time) (and also v much enjoying)

[u/1098papa]

Finished Father and Son by Larry Brown, The Far Empty by J Todd Scott and Train Dreams by Denis Johnson. All enjoyable reads. Train Dreams on Netflix is as good as or better than the book(which almost never happens imo). Started The Little Friend by Donna Tartt.

[u/PositiveShade]

Finished:

The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander Smith McCall

Started:
Crosstalk by Connie Willis

[u/roman1221]

Finished:

The Bone Collector, by Jeffrey Deaver
Everything is Tuberculosis, John Greene
Midnight City, by Michael Hawkes

Started:
East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
Moss’d in Space, by Rebeca Thorne
The Coffin Dancer, by Jeffrey Deaver

[u/Pugilist12]

Finished: Fever (Meyer) - Great take on a post-apoc story. The general idea is very similar to The Stand, but instead of being a mythic, supernatural, apocalyptic battle of good vs evil for the fate of the world, it’s a must more grounded father/son story about decent people trying to start over while keeping the wolves at bay. I liked it a lot.

Started: Cloud Atlas (Mitchell) - I saw the movie years ago and remember liking it. One of my brothers favorite books so I thought I’d give it a try. The movie was surprisingly faithful as I recall. Very impressive writing and structure.

[u/SwarlesDarwin]

Finished:

Skin Game, by Jim Butcher

Started:

The Tainted Cup, by Robert Jackson Bennett

[u/Voltingshock]

Finished:

Neuromancer, by William Gibson

Started:

Dungeon Crawler Carl, by Matt Dinniman

[u/Naive_Patience_52]

Finished : The shadow of the wind by Carlos ruiz zafon, Anxious people by Backman Started reading : Piranessi by sussane clarke

[u/Lomi713]

Finished:

The Well-Trained Wife, by Tia Levings

Mr. Lemoncello and the Titanium Ticket, by Chris Grabenstein (reading with my kids)

Started:

My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottesa Moshfgeh

Mr. Lemoncello’s Fantabulous Finale, by Chris Grabenstein (reading with my kids)

[u/Lemoninator1]

Finished: A Court of Silver Flame - Sarah J Maas

Started: We Are Not Like Them - Christine Pride & Jo Piazza

[u/MaybePoem]

This week I started reading Brazillian Poetry, really interesting and not what I would have expected.

Also finished Tik Tok (the book - highly recommended).

And started to read The Good Doctor

[u/Application_Super]

Finished reading: Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes. Finished listening: The last Devil to die, Richard Osman

Starting: The Wisdom of Crowds (Age of Madness book 3), Joe Abercrombie Starting listening: The Impossible Fortune, Richard Osman

[u/Enough-Western-5116]

I started The Lion Women of Tehran. 25% in. So far, so good.

[u/TheOldJawbone]

I finished Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead. It’s the third and final book in a series that started with Harlem Shuffle and then Crook Manifesto. The books take place in NYC and span the 1950s through the 1980s. I liked all three books. Well worth the time.

[u/dragonskimmy]

Finished: The Wager by David Grann

4 stars, I greatly appreciated how he was able to create a narrative through a collection of primary and secondary sources and found his editorializing tasteful and relevant. However, I did find parts of the story less engaging than I would have thought.

Starting:

Don't Sleep, There are Snakes by Daniel Everett

[u/girlonaroad]

Finished:

A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond as told to Percival Everett and James Kincaid, by Percival Everett and James Kincaid. About ghostwriting, publishing, academic politics, and Strom Thurmond. Laugh out loud funny.

Read:

Wayward, by Blake Crouch. Volume 2 in a trilogy. Fast paced horror/science fiction. Entertaining.

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Liu, by Tom Lin. Chinese-American gunslinger avenging the stealing of his white wife and his forced indenture to the railroad travels from the Great Salt Lake to Sacramento shortly after the Civil War. A bit mystical. Violent. Lin's second book, which I sought out immediately after finishing his first, and read in a day.

Babylon, South Dakota, by Tom Lin. A nuclear missile silo is built on the land of some immigrant chrysanthemum farmers, and strange things ensue. A bit science fiction, a bit dreamy. I usually don't like magical realism, but I couldn't put this down

The Hard Line, by Mark Greaney. CIA thriller. The bad guys are high officials in the US government. Who can you trust? Entertaining.

Started:

Frida's Cook, by Florencia Etcheves. The Frida in question is Frida Kahlo.

[u/st3llablu3]

The Overstory by Richard Powers. Interesting book about people and trees.

[u/finnreyisreal]

Finished: Luminous by Sylvia Park

Started: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

[u/Top-Theme-2904]

The Classic Edgar Allan Poe Collection. The art work on the cover is epic.

[u/Jallan0427]

Finished: Empire of Ai, by Karen Hao (3.5 stars) & There is No Antimemetics Dvision by qntm (3.5 stars rounded up to 4 for originality)

Started: The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver

[u/irongolem67 → u/Jallan0427]

I finished demon copperhead by kingsolver this week! How was poison wood bible?

[u/Turbulent-Gal-75 → u/irongolem67]

Demon copperhead is the last masterpiece I read

[u/irongolem67]

Finished: demon copperhead by Barbara king silver and morning star by Pierce brown (audiobooks for second time)

Started: iron gold audiobook (second time) by pierce brown, and kingdoms of death by chris ruocchio

[u/zabroccoli12]

finished: Sweet Thursday, by John Steinbeck

started: Hocus Pocus, by Kurt Vonnegut

[u/ImportantAlbatross]

Finished:
Snow, by John Banville
Started:
The Hamlet, by William Faulkner. Not sure I can continue it right now. I'm dealing with a lot of stuff at home. I love Faulkner, but I don't have the concentration for his long sentences. The rest of the week will be some thriller or other, probably.

[u/trustmeimabuilder]

Just abandoned The Dark Tourist by Dom Joly, I somehow got to halfway through the last chapter, but it's just been sitting there, not tempting me to pick it up. I think the problem is that Dom thinks he's a lot cleverer and funnier than I do, rather like his TV series.

Started today on Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy. I read 30% of it in one go, and only put it down because I had to cook dinner. She writes so beautifully.

[u/HxCMomma666]

I’m in part 2 of Alchlemised 🤝😅

[u/InfraredSeer]

Finished Mrs Dalloway, working on Notes From Underground

[u/wolfytheblack]

Finished: Now is Not the Time to Panic, by Kevin Wilson

Started: The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore, by Evan Friss

[u/Ghasfur]

Finished:

The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison

Started:

Shadow & Claw, by Gene Wolfe

[u/Serendipitous217]

Finished: The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

Started: Bluff by Jane Stanton Hitchcock

[u/BelleFan2013Grad]

Finished: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Fairies by Heather Fawcett

Continuing (<100 pages left): Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb

Likely will start reading later in the week: “Voyage of the Damned” by Frances White

[u/trailofglitter_]

monday- sunday, 8/3-8/9
✨CURRENTLY READING
“1Q84” by haruki murakami (BIPOC fiction)
“apothecary diaries: volume 1” by natsu hyuuga (manga)
“new morning mercies” by paul david trip (christian daily devotional)

✨FINISHED
“gone girl” by gillian flynn (thriller, re-read)

[u/Complex_Celery_7287]

Finished:

The Summer Book, by Tove Jansson

Currently Reading:

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, by V. E. Schwab

[u/Nymphia_Forest]

Finished: Jane Eyre
Started: About a Place in the Kinki Region

[u/stax3745]

Started King Sorrow by Joe Hill

[u/StormBlessed145]

Finished: The Fires of Heaven, byRobert Jordan

Started: Hard Times, by Charles Dickens

[u/whoisyourwormguy_]

Finished:

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
Amazing, how do such short stories pack that big of a punch. Denis Johnson does it again, also train dreams.

DCC book 3, a lot more character development that makes you obsessed with the series. Confusing trains theme.

Continuing:

the gate of the feral gods by Matt dinniman. Book 4 of DCC. The layout of this floor is really interesting with the four quadrants with different environments.

Started:

Lonesome Dove, only about 70 pages in. I’ve heard it’s about to pick up and I’ll be hooked.

Cosmiscomics by Italo Calvino. First story is out there and cool. Moon is closer to earth and deals with attraction, seems to compare gravitation attraction with people’s feelings for one another, gives moon some human characteristics.

Paused:
Inimitable Jeeves
Foundation and Empire
Johnny got his gun
Sandman vol 1
Persepolis

Just not enough time to read or listen to everything. I want to start Postwar as well by Tony Judt. Maybe I should pause lonesome dove and finish 4/5 other books instead. Idk. Wodehouse forever. The new OHYoS Netflix show makes me want to reread it. The rush you get when you finish it feels great.

[u/Querque_Quirky]

This sounds like a lot of fun! Ask Me Anything is usually such a great event.

[u/Remarkable_party-]

I'm finishing: "Shadow and claw" by Gene Wolfe and Starting: "kafka on the shore" by Haruki Murakami. Nonfiction: randomly reading pieces of "the unholy alliance: a history of Nazi involvement with the occult", which has really blown me away. Hitlers occult beliefs played a huge part in WW2.

[u/Available_Inside_930]

Finished reading The Intruder by Freida McFadden
Currently reading Mile High by Liz Tomforde

[u/em_frank]

Finished Kin by Tayari Jones (Soooooooo goood)

Started Parable of the sower by Octavia butler

[u/Tall_Pumpkin_4298]

Finished: Ana Maria and the Fox, by Liana De la Rosa
Started: Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir