I actually never read Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe even though it gets recommended so much. It’s great. Halfway through

Pick any of the Asimov’s books if you’re into science fiction.

I’m currently on book 5 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, I started book one In January.

Liberalism: A Countrr History, by Domenico Losurdo. Mostly so far looking at how all the liberal revolutions and theorists ended up being at least lukewarm to slavery.

In the same genre: Brene Brown: Dare to lead; Connor Beaton: ManTalks, Lindsay C Gibson: Adult Children of emotionally immmature parents, Kelly McGonigal: The Willpower instinct, and Thais Gibson: Learning Love.

Fiction: James SA Corey: The expanse series, and Sofia Oksanen: The dogpark. I also just started Dimitry Glukhovsky: Metro 2033 (Don’t know if its good yet)

“Venomous Lumpsucker” by Ned Beauman was good. The writing style reminded me of Weir a bit.

“The Reformatory” by Tananarive Due was also pretty good.

Very different books from each other. Neither are completely without flaw, but both books were a solid B+.

Ive never read a bad Agatha Christie book.

My favorite book is “A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole, and his novella “Neon Bible” was also very good.

“The Dog Stars” by Peter Heller was good.

“Godshot” by Chelsea Bieker was very good.

I’m reading The Light of all that falls by James Islington (3rd book in The Licanius trilogy)

I just got a kobo for Christmas so I’ve been catching up on a ton of Stephen King I hadn’t made time for, re-reading some Michael Crichton. Trying out some of Clive Barker’s horror stuff (never read it before).

Just read Back To The Island, a companion/episode guide to Lost. Which has made me want to watch the show again.

Dungeon Crawler Carl. The premise is that aliens take over the world and immediately kill 99% of the population. The remaining 1% are forced to compete on an intergalactic reality TV show called Dungeon Crawler World. The series is a scathing critique of modern capitalism, dressed up like a fart joke. If you liked The Good Place, you’ll likely enjoy DCC. Book 8 just released earlier this month, with more on the horizon.

He Who Fights With Monsters is a fun fantasy isekai series. The world-building in this one is absolutely top notch, to the point that I have considered ripping entire cities out of it for my tabletop games. The main character is pretty divisive, and enjoying the series is dependent on liking him. So the people who enjoy the series really enjoy it, and the ones who dislike Jason simply can’t like it. It has 12 books currently. It would have been 13 by now, but the author was in a medically induced coma for lots of last year. That kind of put a damper on his writing schedule. But he is back to writing now, so book 13 is set to release soon.

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) was a nice sci-fi series. It’s still ongoing, but book 6’s release date is TBA. Nerdy computer programmer gets Futurama’d and frozen. But instead of waking up in a distant future like he expected, he wakes up as an AI in charge of a self-replicating space probe.

Poject Hail Mary, The Martian
Both by Andy Weir.

Also M.O.N.A. and S.I.N.O.N. by Dan T. Sehlberg

The books by Andy Weir are hard sci-fi books. Very grounded in physical/realistic expectations but with a sprinkle of “the future”.

The books by Dan Sehlberg are IT thriller-like novels.
Basically something like current ‘Neuralink’.
The first books plot is about a scientist developing a brain-computer interface enabling the user to visit cyberspace in a sort of advanced VR like world but full on inside instead of just goggles you put on.
His wife trials it, visits her job sites web page during a cyber attack on the jobs IT-infrastructure, get’s in contact with the malware there and brings the digital virus inside her to the real world.
Now the digital malware/virus has become a biological one. The scientist now wants to find the cure for the illness.

I recently read (listened to the audiobook actually) Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.

It’s about the life of Thomas Cromwell. The narration style is not for everyone, but it’s the best historical fiction story I’ve read.

The Fifth Season. I’m currently on the second book The Obelisk Gate so can’t attest for the quality of the whole thing but it’s geological fantasy and I find it quite fascinating. The scale of the world and conflict keeps getting bigger and bigger. It’s very dark but also really draws you in as things ramp up. Themes of the paradox of tolerance, and the challenge of preparing for future crises. The magic system she came up with also feels very fresh to me

The blade itself is what I’m current reading (when not frantically trying to catchup on one piece)

If you are into fantasy, then I need to recommend you the books of Brandon Sanderson, especially the Stormlight Archive series. It’s so epic, nothing else comes close

I have trouble keeping up a reading habit, but I’ve read 5/6ths of the Lord Of The Rings over the last year. Just can’t seem to find the time/motivation to finish it, although I quite enjoyed it and I expect Tolkien to focus even more on the inner struggle of the ringbearer in the final book. That was the biggest advantage of reading the books thus far, over watching the movies.

Apart from that I’ve read the German Romantic (as in era) novella “Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts” by Eichendorff. But despite it checking the boxes for that era and adding to my canon of bourgeois education, it didn’t give me much. It was rather shallow lighthearted entertainment.

But I guess you could say I lean towards the classics. I don’t know if I’d recommend it, for finding stuff that is actually good. But skimming through modern books in my library, I’m often already put off by their covers.