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  • Going through the Red Rising series, which some of my friends praise immensely. Lightbringer just came out, though I'm only just finished Morning Star, book 3/6 in the series. Going to be starting Iron Gold soon. But until them, I'm reading 1984, which I just acquired a nice hardcover copy of.

  • Pretty basic but I just started reading Dune. It's been a daunting series for me with how long it is but better late than never.

    • Enjoy the ride! I still reread the first 5 every few years. They just get richer with time, especially the last couple. They seemed bizarre the first time I binged them but they make sooooo much more sense on rereads.

      • They are SO bizarre so far. I noticed the appendix seems to give a bunch of extra information on the various factions/organizations in the universe. My question, do you think it's worth doing more research on the universe beforehand or go blind for my first read?

  • Just finished 'The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet' by Becky Chambers - quite fun space opera (if you like Firefly etc.), I'll definitely pick up the rest of the series at one point.

    Started reading 'They Never Learn' by Layne Fargo - Starts interesting, I feel I'll finish this one.

    After that I will definitely start reading 'All Systems Red' by Martha Wells - I've been hearing about 'Murderbot Diaries' and how good they are for years now...

    I like reading scifi most, but always try to squeeze some other genre in between.

  • Infinite Jest.

    Or rather, trying to read it. It's more like an eternal cycle of starting, stopping, and then restarting again.

    DFW's writing is great though.

  • Yumi & The Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson, and I'm also re-reading The Stand by Stephen King.

    Do CompTIA study guides count too?

    • I'm also reading Yumi and the Nightmare Painter! Definitely a bit different from most of Brandon Sanderson's other stuff, but I'm liking it so far.

  • Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". After that, I plan to read "The Dark Edge of Night" by Mark Pryor, a mystery novel that follows a French detective's investigations in Nazi-occupied Paris during the Second World War.

  • Lost Metal by Sanderson.

    I'm trying to read the other Sanderson books. Got through Way of Kings, but it was a slog. I don't love really long books.

    So I'll probably read Tress next and then give Storm Light Archive stuff another shot.

    • I just finished Lost Metal myself, it was good stuff

    • Tress is a great book. There are some minor spoilers for some of Sanderson's other stuff, but it is a nice easy and fun read.

    • 4 Noble Truths.

    So far, I get the impression that it's a phiosophical treatise discussing the suffering in life and the inevitability of it. I'm not sure when I'm going to end, because I don't approach philosophical texts sober and my stash of beer has ended abruptly.

    • The Way it went down volume 2

    An anthology of stories relevanat to Delta Green role-playing game. It's one of those rare cases when a RPG-inspired material doesn't suck. The stories are usually very short, horror, borderline Lovecraftian. Some are quite disturbing to read.

    • Finnegans Wake - my 'big read' which I am doing over the year along with a group over on reddit: one of the only things that still has me dipping into reddit now. Fascinatingly incomprehensible.
    • Tchaikovsky's Children of Time - some good thoughtful worldbuilding and a solid story.
    • Robert Brightwell's Flashman's Waterloo - one of his series of Flashman prequels featuring the uncle of George MacDonald Fraser's protagonist. Very well researched and entertaining
    • A collection of Neil Munro's Para Handy tales - gentle humour and a glimpse of a very different world - albeit rather stereotypical and patronising in some ways.

  • After a long time of no reading, I started reading on the beach The Handbook of Epictetus. I bought it thanks to the recommendation of PewDiePie of all people in the video he did after losing the first spot in YouTube rankings

  • Beyond Command and Control by John Seddon, my second time though and a good book about systems and how systems dictate human behavior and how to alter them instead of beating people up to get results.

    Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang, a series of short stories. I'm on the third story in the book now and I've loved each one of them. Compelling hook, well written. They have all gotten me obsessively thinking about the world he's created.

  • Currently reading Manifolds, Tensor Analysis, and Applications by Abraham et al. Basically, how do you do geometry and calculus on surfaces or objects that are enough like a surface?

    For STEM nerds: this book discusses manifolds in infinite dimensional spaces as well as finite dimensions. I believe there is a fluid dynamics application in the book that requires the infinite dimensional theory. There are far simpler books to learn this material if you just need to speedrun into calculations, but I really want the "full story".

  • "Full Sea" by Chang-Rae Lee. Dystopian fiction, but not sci Fi and not like any dystopian fiction I've ever read. It's about a young girl who makes her living as a tank diver in a giant hydroponics farm/fish farm. They make her boyfriend disappear for genetic experimentation, because he's the only human the researchers have ever seen who is completely cancer-free. She poisons the fish and leaves the farm compound forever to find him. Very few workers have ever left the compound, because it's so dangerous outside. Some bad stuff happens.

  • Reading Stalking Darkness, by Lynn Flewelling. 2nd book of the Nightrunner series. Up next is the rest of the series! :P This is my 2nd read through. After that, I'm planning to re-reading a few Mercedes Lackey books before finally reading the newest one. Might just hop into the newest one if I get impatient though.

  • Currently re-reading Matter by Iain M. Banks. The Culture books just get better and better as they go on.

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