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  • House of Leaves. I don't know if I want to read it again, but that book was a cool experience.

    • Yes! You may want to write in this one, it's kind of made for this.

  • Flowers for Algernon

    Blackshirts and Reds - Parenti

    • She's Come Undone and The Hour I First Believed both by Wally Lamb have made a immersion on me. They are both wonderful and hesrtwreathing novels. Also The Long Walk by Stephen King is frightening book that makes me wonder, what would happen if we allowed that in American.

  • These two changed my whole perspective on American history and the public school system, as I learned a lot of information that had been deliberately withheld from me.

    • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
    • A People's History of the United States

    As for fiction:

    • The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (Beautiful and a little sad)
    • The Tapestry Series by Henry Neff (Just a wonderful series to read)
    • Night Shift by Stephen King (Read it way too young, in elementary school)
    • The Bible (in a bad way, God is an asshole)
    • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (A trip through my childhood, basically)
    • Incidents Around the House (A scary book that touches on all our worst fears as kid)
    • The Witches by Roald Dahl (Just a great kids horror book)

  • Time enough for love - Heinlein

    Nor crystal tears - Foster

    A world out of time - Niven

    Ringworld - Niven

    Sassinak - McCaffrey

    The Martian - Weir

    • Time Enough for Love was my favourite book as a young man. Tried re-reading it recently and really struggled. I feel like the last 20 years of social progress has really dated Heinlein's language especially (less so his ideas). Was a shame.

      • Agreed. Several of his books have suffered the same fate unfortunately.

        That said, the ideas do still ring very true... Albeit, many of them are the ideas I wish were more fantasy.

  • How to seize the means of computation By cory Doctorow.

    Great author love all of his books. Love his its free to read any of his books on craphound. But i ended up buying physical copys because i just needed to own them.

    The book talks about how things were with betamax and VHS. And how modern day tech is crap and how to fix it!

    Its diffently the most influential books ive read.

  • This was a short story, but I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream left me in a depressive state for a few days. Based purely on the feelings I got involved I wouldn't recommend it. It's not necessarily bad though. It's just... Intense I guess.

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey touched me in that special place between science, religion, and spirituality.

    It was always hungry, and now it was starving. When the first faint glow of dawn crept into the cave, Moon-Watcher saw that his father had died in the night. He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness

     

    In their explorations, they encountered life in many forms, and watched the workings of evolution on a thousand worlds. They saw how often the first faint sparks of intelligence flickered and died in the cosmic night. And because, in all the galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.

  • Played bloody knuckles with hard copy of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire once in grade school, and still have a lil mark from it.

    • The Gray House, Maryam Petrosyan. It's the story of a house, which is a disabled children and teenagers institution. It's weird, hard, and incredible. It's not a book for children, nor a young adult one – I mean, you can read it if you're a young adult or a late teen, but don't skip this book only because the characters are teenagers. I will reread this one.
    • Woman on the Edge of Time, Marge Piercy. I read it recently because it was translated in french in 2022, but it's a book from 1976. It's a SF novel, and one of the few fictions which speaks against psychiatry. It's a feminist utopia, but the first pages are pretty hard.

  • The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer

    It isn't just sci-fi, there's a lot of coming to terms with your limited amount of human influence on your environment and life, that there unknowns that will always be unknown, and that's ok, we're no different than the gains of sand by the lighthouse, as subject to nature as the grass, or birds.

    There are also clones of people that have to come to terms with their identity as to what they are, even if they themselves don't fully understand it, and can't.

    The universe is bigger than you, and your scope is limited, but that's ok. Find wherever you fit and try to find purpose in the chaos.

  • Tigana

    A book about loss. Loss of family. Loss of country. Loss of culture. Loss of all things. It's beautifully written, and the theme of loss doesn't mean a somber tone throughout, the found family is strong.

  • "Entering Space: Creating a Spacefairing Civilization" by Robert Zubrin. My mother's work when I was growing up had a "free book shelf" that someone had put it on and she'd brought it home because I liked sciency stuff, and I've been extremely interested in space development and futurism ever since.

  • Something Happened, the other, far lesser-known work by Catch-22 author Joseph Heller. It's too apples-to-oranges to throw around "better", but I already love Catch-22 and still prefer Something Happened. It's considerably longer, but in my opinion, it's criminally overlooked.

  • Two books that made me cry at the end and helped me shape my idea of war and what really is for the common men are "Il sergente nella neve" (the sargent in the snow) by Mario Rigoni Stern, which is about the retreat of the Armir (italian army in Russia) after the second Don offensive by the Red Army from the point of view of Stern, as they started the endless march back to Italy on foot, with the Red Army biting their asses. Almost 80.000 between dead and missing. Amazing piece of literature and yet another reason to despise fascism; and All quiet on the western front, which doesnt need many explanations.

    Absolute chills everytime i think about those books and the images of tragedy and hopelessness they shaped so vividly in my mind.

  • Voltaire's Bastards by John Ralston Saul. It showed me how the world really works. Also The Doubter's Companion as a supplement to that.

    Edit to add that after reading through all the comments, it's pleasing what a well-read community we have here.

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