The Illiad, unfortunately the translation i got is the worse it could be

I just got into Brandon Sandersons books and they are amazing fantasy books. Mistborn: The Final Empire is the best starting place

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. Truly magnificent, just like the movie by Tarkovsky.

In parallel to that I went also down the rabbit hole about what cybernetics was and what happened to it.

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

The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Malazan

I recently started The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

Finished Dungeon Crawler Carl book 8. Reading Witcher: Crossroads of Ravens

Bhagvad Geeta

I just got through ask for Andrea and it was decent af.

Apathy And Other Small Victories.

Been absolutely crawling through Black Reconstruction, but it's extremely well written and informative.

The Philosophy of Pinball by Godwin

ES6 by Dr. Axel

I'm reading Hatemonger, the book on Stephen Miller. And just re-started Pandora's Star by Peter Hamilton.

Not exactly a new book, but All Quiet on the Western Front was a fantastic read. It's a grotesquely frank depiction of the unfortunate "Have Not"s fighting a meaningless war for the "Have"s in society, set in the german trenches of WW1.

We are legion we are Bob

I mean I’m a communist so YMMV, but I’m re-reading the Vietnamese textbook on Dialectical Materialism that Luna Oi translated. I’m re-reading it because I also have the second textbook she translated (on Historical Materialism) and I wanted to brush up before diving in to that one.

Recently my favourite genre have been "2019 lesbian sci-fi debut novels about an empire, starting a series".

A Memory Called Empire is absolutely amazing. A very close second is Gideon the Ninth and its sequels.

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

New Scientist magazine, the paper version so that I can put it down, think about it, and come back a week later. I’m not a scientist, and not highly educated, but I’m curious about the world, and many of their articles are easy to read at my level.

The only thing I am reading rn is Capital but I don't think you came here for political theory so I will recommend The Hot Zone. It's the last book I read and it's about the discovery of Ebola, its investigations, and how it got to the US.

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.

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

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

Non-fiction:

• The Demon-Haunted World
• The Fourth Turning is Here

Fiction:

• There is No Antimemetics Division

Currently reading about all the horrors of the CIA - finished The Jakarta Method and Washington Bullets, currently reading through Killing Hope, and next on my list is Operation Gladio.

I'm reading a famous superhero web novel called "Worm" part of the Parahumans universe.

It's pretty good. I heard it's got 30 or so arcs with 1.4 million total words.

I am at arc 10 currently, and I got here super fast because the story is pretty good.

Recently read Piranesi. Wonderful book in a unique setting. A page turner which can be finished in a day.

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.

For non fiction I'm reading The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle, and can highly recommend. Short, thought provocative, and engaging. For fiction, Children of Strife is great, latest instalment in Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series which I really enjoyed overall.

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

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