Recently finished the seond book in Ken MacLeod's Lightspeed Trilogy, Beyond the Reach of Earth. Nice SF series with some interesting takes on the complexities of FTL travel, First Contact, global politics, and more.

Tokyo Ghoul and Tokyo Ghoul:Re. A decade late but I loved it.

It was called “Drunk” and was about human’s history with inebriates with an emphasis on alcohol. For a book on booze it was incredibly dry and while the author made some decent points he tended to just repeat them over and over again.

I’ve been on a memoir kick. Specifically women celebrities. I just finished Mean Baby by Selma Blair and it was good. I’m about to start Hello Molly by Molly Shannon.

This is How You Lose the Time War

Given the amount of fantasy books in this list - you're all welcome to come join us over at !fantasy@lemmy.ml

I'm chewing my way through the stormlight archives by Bryan Sanderson. Just finished book 2.5, on book 3 now.

Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis

somewhat interesting and in the same vein as the Barsoom/Mars books by Burroughs but more preachy and less action.

It was on the "free" pile at the library.

fiasco by stanislav lem.

The Gate of the Feral Gods; Book 4 of recently 6 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl LITRPG series by Matt Dinniman. It's been an absolute blast so far, and I highly recommend the series if you like some combination of tabletop RPGs, cats, death games, or explosions.

I just finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. It was okay, though I don't think it lived up to the hype for me. I actually preferred Klara and the Sun to this one, though still worth a read.

5th book of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, currently reading. Before that I read the 4th book.

Overlord. I've need to finish volumes 14-17, but it demotivates me that author abandoned his work.

Currently reading war and peace by Tolstoi

I read The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb and it was fantastic

Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything (Viktor E. Frankl)

"GOD: An Anatomy" by Francesca Stavrakapoulou.

"An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancient worshippers—with a distinctly male body, and with superhuman powers, earthly passions, and a penchant for the fantastic and monstrous."

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

Death's End by Liu Cixin

The Poet by Michael Connelly

I finished Machine Learning (short story anthology) by Hugh Howey about an hour ago, so pretty fresh.

Oryx & Crake - solid start to a Margaret Atwater series. Lots of world building and exposition. Looking forward to continuing the series. Currently reading Fairy Tale by Stephen King

Just finished re-reading all of the pre-Disney Star Wars novels. I'm into Patrick O'Brian's standalone novels now, starting with "The Unknown Shore".

Just finished reading Waybound, the 12th and final book in the Cradle series by Will Wight.

I just finished The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. I've kind of half-followed Welcome to Night Vale for years and enjoyed all the books so far.

I'm currently reading House of Leaves. This is my second attempt, after making it about halfway a few years ago. It's a great book, but a challenging read because it's dense and shifts context frequently. I find that the context-switching adds to the unsettling feel that the book is going for, but it's definitely not for everyone.

The last new book I read was Ready Player One.

The last book I've read in general was At The Mountains of Madness for the umpteenth time.

Herb Mertz, The Selection Effect.