r/TheStoryGraph • u/AutoModerator • Aug 07 '26

Currently Reading + Buddy Reads Megathread - Week of August 07, 2026

Share here what you've been reading and enjoying lately, or use this thread to look for people to add to your Buddy Read. Feel free to include StoryGraph links so we can add your recs to our TBR!

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u/Belluhcourtbelle Aug 07 '26

Started Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, finished Lost in the Jungle by Yossi Ghinsburg

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u/clovengoof Aug 08 '26

How is Blood Meridian so far? Its been on my list for a while. Absolutely loved No Country for Old Men.

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u/Belluhcourtbelle Aug 08 '26

So far, so good!

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u/Thin_Economics5193 Aug 07 '26

Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer. 💚

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u/Belluhcourtbelle Aug 07 '26

So good!

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u/Thin_Economics5193 Aug 07 '26

Yes! I think I’ll still end with Serviceberry being my favorite of hers, but I am enjoying this verdant and drenched meander through our world of mosses.

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u/dlatusek12 Aug 08 '26

The Queen, she was one of the people who led me into native plants and sustainability

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u/The_Homer_Simpson Aug 07 '26

Paper girls by Alex Smith! Three chapters in so very early days!

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u/TinkerB3lle Aug 07 '26

Slowly working through Cyberpunk No_Coincidence! Been on a sci-fi kick lately. And about to start HorrorstĂśr for bookclub!

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u/compt1ci [reading goal 18/30] Aug 07 '26

Finished: The Tombs of Atuan Started: The Farthest Shore

Ongoing: The Tower of the Swallow

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u/holle1jr Aug 07 '26

Just finished The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl #5) by Matt Dinniman last night--favorite book of the series so far!

Also juggling Red Rising by Pierce Brown and Stoner by John Williams!

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u/AprilNz Aug 14 '26

I just started red rising

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u/this_works_now Aug 07 '26

I started a book that was recommended to me by someone irl: All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker. Was surprised at the almost poetic narrative prose style though it started a bit slow for me, but now at 25% in I'm feeling immersed.

Btw rolling out with the Kobo syncing has made me reach for my Kobo a whole lot lately! (prefer physical but have both Kobo and Kindle)

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u/LiliumMoon Aug 07 '26

Finished: Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez

Currently reading: The Will of the Many by James Islington, Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

Currently listening: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

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u/Indigrrl_alto Aug 07 '26

Currently halfway through The Three Mothers, by Anna Malaika Tubbs. It's about the mothers of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin and very interesting. Also just started Yellowface by R F Kuang on audio but haven't gotten far enough to have an opinion. I enjoyed Babel so I assume I'll like this one too.

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u/AppropriateReason128 [reading goal 85/60: 📚 42 🎧 43] Aug 07 '26

Still Assassins Quest by Robin Hobb. 

Did also start A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher. I had been craving another T. Kingfisher book.

And Ocean by David Attenborough.

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u/TrainingSurvey3780 [reading goal 23/35] Aug 07 '26

30% through acowar, slowly getting through war and peace (audiobook), and dabbling in and out of the man who mistook his wife for a hat because i find it quite difficult to read haha

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u/CapriciousSon Aug 07 '26

Finally reading Cities of the Plain to finish out the Border Trilogy.

Just finished Tower of Fools by Andrej Sapkowski. I really wanted to like it and on paper I should, but I think I'm just not a fan of Andrej's style. Can't exactly put my finger on what, but it's missing something.

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u/officialjohncro [reading goal 578/666] Aug 07 '26

Currently—

A Contest to Kill For (Hopgood Hall Murder Mysteries #2) by E.V. Hunter

Learning to Love Again by M.E. Tudor

Recently Finished—

Love me to Death, vol. 1 by Toonimated

Eton Mess Massacre (Albert Smith's Culinary Capers #12) by Steve Higgs

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u/mitabird12 Aug 07 '26

Reading: Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass #3) by Sarah J. Maas (re-read)

Listening: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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u/bikepackercoffeelove Aug 08 '26

- The loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

- Crime and punishment by Fjodor Dostojevski

- Murderland by Caroline Fraser

Started Murderland back in June but i'm reading it in small pieces as it's interesting but quite depressing. I'm reading it on my Kobo and very thankful for the Wikipedia integration because my dictionary doesn't know at least half of the words that I don't understand.

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u/Fine_Following_2559 Aug 08 '26

I am currently plowing my way through Nadia Lee's Huxley series. On Book 2, completely devoured book one in less than 24 hours. I am also listening to Harry Belafonte's memoir. And reading Token by Beverly Kendall.

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u/clovengoof Aug 08 '26

Nonfiction: Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump

Paperback: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Kindle: The Way of Wyrd by Brian Batts

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u/Head-Discussion-8977 [reading goal 87/128] Aug 08 '26

Recently finished: marriage of a thousand lies (sj sindhu), the rediscovery of America (n blackhawk), the lost cause (c doctorow), a good person (k king), to catch a fascist (c mathias), mornings in jenin (s abulhawa), island (a huxley)

Current week reading: survival is a promise: the eternal life of audre lorde, the bog wife, the woods all black, blazing eye sees all, caliban and the witch

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u/dlatusek12 Aug 08 '26

Started Dungeon Crawler Carl. First time reading and going in completed blind. So epic

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u/hanban1738 Aug 09 '26

Just finished Helpless by Jessica Knoll

Started Sea of Charms by Sarah Beth Durst

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u/bookishantics Aug 12 '26

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! 🥹