What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: June 01, 2026

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[u/ett-hus-i-skogen]

Finished:

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë

Started:

Dune, by Frank Herbert

[u/SeriousTechnician296 → u/ett-hus-i-skogen]

I’m reading Jane Eyre right now, my god it’s good!! The characters feel like they could walk right off the page

[u/IgnoreMe733 → u/ett-hus-i-skogen]

Is this your first adventure into Dune? If so I hope you have a good time. I love that book so much.

[u/Glum_And_Merry]

Finished:

The Odyssey, by Homer

I read the Emily Wilson translation and enjoyed it a lot more than I expected! I read the poem first, and then went back to read the introduction after, which I'm glad about because introductions always seem to have spoilers? I know, I know its a 3000 year old story but there are details I didn't know about or hadn't attributed to this particular tale!!

Started:

The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth

I've never read a 'political thriller' before and wanted to try a classic. Only about 20% in but I'm starting to understand the term "competency porn"

[u/Icy-Respond-4425]

This week was ''books that have been recommended to me'':

Finished:

Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman. I loved it! I really loved knowing these towns, these random events, these people, and the life of each of them, and the end broke me; I spent a good time crying. Definitely 5.0. u/lydiardbell TYSM for the recommendation.

“I will sleep when I’m dead,” he thought. “I will sleep when I’m dead.” And this is what he continued thinking until it was true.

44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith. This book is charming and entertaining. Remind me of soap operas that I loved to watch. And knowing there are a lot more books makes me happy. 4.5. u/lz425 tysm for the recommendation

The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck. This book made me feel miserable and guilty; the end was a punch in my gut, that's for sure. But it is the first time I got bored with Steinbeck's prose; it is sad this was his last completed novel. 4.0. u/OkiDokiPoki22 tysm for the recommendation.

Ben, the luggage boy by Horatio Alger Jr. I decided to finish the "Ragged Dick" series, and I'm glad I did. This was a breath of fresh air compared to the other books, not much but still enjoyable. 4.0

Rufus and Rose by Horatio Alger Jr. The last book of the series, the same as "Rough and Ready," was enjoyable; that is pretty much it, not much else to say. But I loved that they mentioned Richard's wedding as his conclusion. 4.0

This week is my birthday, so I will just do an "enjoyable simple reads" with:

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Espresso Tales (44 Scotland Street #2) by Alexander McCall Smith

[u/duosassy]

Finished

Destiny Disrupted, A History of the World through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary

Started:

Platform Decay, Murderbot Diaries book 8 by Martha Wells

[u/rawspeghetti]

Finished Blood Meridian

I need a moment to let it settle

[u/lazylittlelady]

Finished:

The Overcoat (The Cloak), by Nikolai Gogol: An apocryphal short story about hierarchy, bureaucracy and bad luck.

The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri: Read for my library “book of the month”, I found this a very touching story of two marriages and the search for belonging and the vagaries of fate. Off to read Gogol now!

Morning Glory Milking Farm, by C.M. Nacosta: r/bookclub what did you make me read? This was strangely cozy but really would have been better without the explicit parts which felt like they belonged to some other book.

Storm of Locusts, by Rebecca Roanhorse : Book 2 read with r/bookclub. A great follow up that sees Maggie change with the times and assembling a team to confront a cult.

Days in the Caucasus, by Banine: Part 2 of r/bookclub ‘s Read the World Azerbaijan. Banine is so entertaining! Her autobiography of her privileged childhood in the interwar period and the chaos of forced marriage and political upheaval.

Mark Twain in Washington, DC: The Adventures of a Capital Corespondent, by John Muller: This well researched book brings to life the city of Twain’s era, following the end of the Civil War. His time there and the contacts he made helped launch his career. His residency overlapped with Walt Whitman and the scandals of the Johnson Administration.

Ongoing:

Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison: Catching up with the r/bookclub discussion

Independent People by Halldór Laxness (Trans. J. A. Thompson)

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Jones

Augustine: Conversions and Confessions, by Robin Lane Fox

My Life in Middlemarch, by Rebecca Mead

The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas: Yearlong read with r/AReadingofMonteCristo .

Middlemarch, by George Eliot : Yearlong reading with r/ayearofmiddlemarch.

Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt’s Roaring ‘20’s, by Raphael Cormack

Started:

Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson: Starting soon on r/bookclub so join us!

[u/epic4evr11]

Started: A Day of Fallen Night, by Samantha Shannon

Determined to finish tonight FINISHED: Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee

How does this book get sadder every time?

Edit: wow. Masterpiece.

[u/PositiveBright2245]

Finished

The Vegetarian, by Hang Kang

The Oldest Bitch Alive, by Morgan Day

Started

Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut

[u/Rilnenfro]

Reading right now:

Into thin air, by Jon Krakauer

Interesting, good read about the Everest

[u/smshing]

About halfway through the Dark Forest by Cixin Liu, enjoying it so far, much better protagonist compared to the Three Body Problem.

Picked up my first attempt into Discworld with Guards! Guards! and Mort by Sir Terry Pratchet.

I also picked up the Stand by Stephen King. It's a chonka. Will start this one last in a couple months most likely unless something steals my attention.

[u/almostelement]

Finished:

Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck

A timeless examination of the everyday man in America. Hopeful, tragic, beautiful. Very Steinbeck to the core.

Started:

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappé

Guards! Guards!, by Terry Pratchett

[u/rollin20s]

Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel!! Got an advanced copy to review. Started yesterday and an 1/3 way through. This is the first time I’ve ever been given a book early to review by an author I’m already a fan of so it’s extra special. Really enjoying it so far

[u/TheBitterSeason]

Finished: And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie

Started: Night Shift, by Stephen King

[u/Born-Strawberry-1596]

Finished Flowers for Algernon.

Started The Ocean at the end of the lane.

[u/Adorable-Radish-Here]

Started: Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco. I read The Name of the Rose about a month ago and found I needed to read more by him. So far, this book is not disappointing me.

[u/Time-Wars]

Finished: Dune Messiah, by Frank Herbert

I really enjoyed this. It's different from Dune, has much more political intrigue. The themes of religion and authority are interestingly explored. But in some ways it felt like a bridge between the first book and Children of Dune than its own story.

[u/_holytoledo]

Finished:

Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman. I thought this book was good but not “omg incredible”. It was too long for me. Some of the imagery was really gross and scary, and it had good atmosphere throughout. I appreciated that the ending really went for it. I enjoyed it much more than The Devils by Joe Abercrombie which is a book with a similar vibe.
3.5/5 stars.

Almost finished with Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, and yup it’s pretty upsetting.

Started:

The Girl With a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean.

[u/InfamousSandwich1523]

Finished reading: The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1, by Beth Brower Historical novella about a young woman moving back to her London home after having been made to live out in the country for 3 years. So charming. Think there are 6-7 more novellas in the series.

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, by Matt Dinniman Fun series with Carl and Princess Donut trying to get through all the levels of the dungeon the aliens set up. Don’t know too much about gaming but I’m having a great time reading about their adventures

Extinction Machine, by Jonathan Maberry Another fun series with Joe Ledger saving the world from all kinds of threats. Being a part of a very secret and covert government agency has opened his eyes to everything out there.

Ongoing: Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, by Cat Bohannon Such an informationally packed book. And so interesting. Since it’s densely packed, it’s going to take me time to read it.

Started: Platform Decay, by Martha Wells I’m so invested in this series! Love everything about the books. As soon as I finish, I know I’m going to restart the series.

[u/Upset_Form_5258]

Started: lonesome dove by Larry McMurtry

Finished: lonesome dove by Larry McMurtry

[u/TheTwoFourThree]

Finished

Orbital, by Samantha Harvey

The Invisible Library, by Genevieve Cogman

Continuing

Asimov's Guide to the Bible, by Isaac Asimov

The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson

Anima Rising, by Christopher Moore

Started

Deploying Dragons, by Dan Koboldt

[u/ArimuRyan]

Finished

Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy

I think I’d say I liked this in the end. Anna did become an interesting character but I just the first half of the book to be a bit of a slog and, much like in War and Peace, the entire last part/chapter feels unnecessary.

The Last Days of New Paris, by China Miéville

Cool concepts but not really fleshed out enough to be anything special. Enjoyed it for what it was

Started

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, by Haruki Murakami

Interesting premise that seems a touch more grounded, at least to begin with, than other Murakami works I’ve read.

[u/doctorbonkers]

Finished:

Uprooted, by Naomi Novik

Dungeon Crawler Carl, by Matt Dinniman

Carl’s Doomsday Scenario, by Matt Dinniman

Started:

The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook, by Matt Dinniman

(people weren’t lying when they said how addicting this series is!)

[u/DarCam7]

Finished:

Valor by John Gwynne, book two of the Faithful and the Fallen. Kept the first book's pace and multi-perspective POVs. The story beats were engaging, but the only mark against it was about two-thirds of the way, the plot was bogged down by a constant stream of action, battles and tragedies which felt like an onslaught. It needed a few moments of brevity to break up the rush of limbs getting hacked. Aside from that, I'm invested in Corban's motley crew of survivors against the Black Sun.

Frankenstein, or the Modern Day Prometheus by Mary Shelley: My only introduction to the classic monster tale were the early Universal monster movies and modern interpretations. The original is far more involved and nuanced in its depiction of the monster. It's basically a different beast. At 234 pages, I would suggest reading it if you fancy discovering the true origins of the famous character.

I mainly started it as a test run for Calibre to see if the software extended the life of my Kindle Keyboard without Amazon's support. It did.

Started:

Ruin by John Gwynne, book three of the Faithful and the Fallen. I am on a warpath to finish this series by mid-June so I can dedicate the rest of the summer for the Sun Eater series.

[u/Pugilist12]

Finished: The Far Country (Shute) - My 10th Nevil Shute book. Story of a young English woman who travels to Australia and ends up liking it far more than expected. I just love this guys books. Well constructed stories about decent people just navigating their lives.

Started: The Three Musketeers (Dumas) - Having loved The Count of Monte Cristo I decided to try Dumas' other very famous book. Only about 120 pages in but a lot of fun so far. All for one, and one for all!

[u/BookBrainz]

Rereading The Road by Cormac McCarthy for the first time in 18+ years.

It's a quick read and so incredibly well written, but somehow even sadder than I remember. Like being draped under the heaviest blanket ever. I think maybe being older makes it harder now. That, and it feels like we're closer to the world McCarthy describes than ever.

Jeez - I'm going to need something less bleak to help me recover. Let me know if anyone has any recommendations?

[u/studmuffffffin]

Started:

A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole

The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas

Very different books, but amazing so far in their own way.

[u/AlphaPointOhFive]

Continued: The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas - Year-long Reddit read, Gutenberg version.

Finished: Recursion, by Blake Crouch - Went from sci-fi thriller to a bit of a sci-fi romance at the end. Enjoyable quick read.

Started: Steel Gods, by Richard Swan - (12%) Glad to be back for Book 2, but Large Print Version of Recursion has me feeling like an old man with the size of this font.

[u/JulianMercerAuthor]

How Not To Run A Company, by Julian Mercer

Just finished this one, for obvious reasons. It’s narrative nonfiction disguised as a business book, or possibly the other way around. Follows a fictional CEO named Richard Pemberton who fires seventeen people in a quarter and considers it a good quarter. Every chapter is a different way the same man destroys the same company while remaining completely convinced he is the problem’s solution.

I found myself laughing in places I probably shouldn’t have.

[u/MaxThrustage]

Started:

A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan. I'm liking it so far. I grabbed this as a tram read -- otherwise I would have waited to finish off some of the "ongoings" first. I'm going into this completely blind, no idea what it's about whatsoever.

Ongoing:

The Two Towers, by J. R. R. Tolkein. There was really no way I was ever going to be able to read this without 'They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!' running through my head non-stop, was there?

Simulacra and Simulation, by Jean Baudrillard Going a bit smoother once I've gotten into the groove of it. There are bits I'm just kind of accepting I won't really understand until a re-read, and I've found some online lectures to help.

The Fate of Africa, by Martin Meredith. The enormous scope of the book means it can't really dwell on anything, leaving to real room for analysis or asking "why". I don't know if that's really avoidable, when the task is to tell the history of 50 years of an entire continent, but it does mean we skip around a lot and are just told that things happen -- it's almost like a slasher movie where you keep being told people died but no one mentions that there's a murderer on the loose.

[u/dear_little_water]

FINISHED:

The Story of a New Name, by Elena Ferrante

The King in Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers

STARTED:

Between Two Fires, by Christopher Buehlman

CONTINUING:

Paradise Lost, John Milton - started Book 6

DNF:

Things in Nature Merely Grow, by Yiyun Li - It was too close to home for me. I stopped after 60 pages or so.

UP NEXT:

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, by Elena Ferrante

[u/On_Wings_Of_Pastrami]

Just finished James by Percival Everett

Now I'm gonna see what the Dungeon Crawler Carl hype is all about.

[u/jtrainbk]

Finished: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Started: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

[u/alicia_marie_ → u/jtrainbk]

Never let me go, is one of my favourite books of all time

[u/BattyNess]

The Vegetarian by Han Kang. 5 stars, in my opinion. Promptly started The Exorcist.

[u/ChoiceBet2997]

Finished -

Klara & the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Pop goes the Weasel by James Patterson

Strangers - A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden

Currently reading -

The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman

[u/Absentonlyforamoment]

Finished

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

Started

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

[u/Trubble94]

I was gifted the collector's edition of tapes for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. So now I have to read them all.

[u/Unhappy_Chemistry_33]

Finished off my '200 Books in 2 Years' challenge with a lovely book called 'The Hidden Life of Trees' by Peter Wohlleben. It's an easy read and dives into the relationships that trees have with forests, the ecosystems they live in, and with each other. I loved the language and writing style of this book and gave it an overall 4.5/5. Might bump it up because I keep thinking about this book wherever I go. It's a relaxing read and almost felt like meditation.

[u/zopea]

Finished: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. I LOVED this book! So, so good. So interesting, so sad, so fucked up. I enjoyed it from start to finish. Really good.

Started: The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

[u/fatholla]

Was a big reading week for me:

Finished:

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 4.5/5, really enjoyed it.
• Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe 3.5/5 interesting topic, a little dry at times though
• Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green 4/5 I listened to the audio book narrated by John and I think it added to the experience

Started:

• Flesh by David Szalay
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Marquez

Paused - overall enjoying it but need a bit of a break from the series:

• The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman

[u/yellowzebrasfly]

Finished: pachinko by min jin lee

Started: the poisonwood Bible by Barbara kingsolver

[u/ohh_really]

Allen Carr How to Stop Smoking the Easy Way. Again. Been quit for almost 6 years. Can't believe I started back. /feelsbadman

[u/Marissa_Palmer_Style]

Started My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante

[u/iwasjusttwittering]

Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe, by Serhii Plokhy

Started.

L'Empire des signes, by Roland Barthes

A curious little collection of essays about Japan.

Piko: Junkies' lives matter, by Apolena Rychlíková, Pavel Splichal

Finished. An oral history and series of interviews with a variety of methamphetamine users in Czechoslovakia/Czechia where it's been of the most common drugs. Uses Bruce K. Alexander's Rat Park experiment as framing and shows addiction as a function of social circumstances.

[u/FlyByTieDye]

Finished reading: The Light Fantastic, by Terry Pratchett 3.5/5.

Discworld shifts from a set of short stories to a full novel with The Light Fantastic. You can still see some traces of short stories about, in having the plot divided into episodes (the forest and the ginger bread house, the mountain druids and the super computer, visiting Death's house, the rock trolls, the star people), but the book at least has a throughline of the Unseen University and the Octavo (more of a book ends approach, most relevant to the start and end of the book, with some gentle nudges sprinkled elsewhere throughout the text.)

I know people love this series, so I'm hoping it gets stronger as it goes, and focuses on book-length ideas over this episode structure, because otherwise I think the short-story format fits some of these ideas and stock characters better. I'll give Discworld a bit of a break to focus on Lovecraft and the Criminal comic series again, but when I return, it'll be for the other Wizard books.

Also continued: The Complete Tales of H. P. Lovecraft. This week I read:

Sweet Ermengarde - a rather weird little tale, exact in so many of it's details (like the female main characters height, and weight, and lots of familial details in it's final twist) but so many other details just don't match up (how can she leave home, fall in love, get cheated on, get adopted by an heiress, become rich, find her old cheating ex working as a cheaffuer, reunite with her childhood sweet heart who also got recently married, all in the time it takes for her parents house to get foreclosed on, the catalysing incident for her leaving home?). I will say, the twist of her being the Heiress' biological daughter, not just adopted (though strange that could go overlooked), yet thus making her ineligible to inherit her (former) father's farmland house, which had an untapped vein of gold, forcing her to marry the villain foreclosing their home just to legally possess the gold again was a good twist, but also takes too many steps to reach organically in the restricted time frame the story exists in

The Nameless City - a good one again. Maybe a bit long for it's idea, and a bit too big in its final monster reveal. But another story of a lost civilisation, and the perilous pursuit of an adventurer who simply can't turn away from an historic find, even to his own demise

The Outsider - good, kind of a mirror to the last story. While in Nameless City, a character finds a ruined city, and a ruined temple with stairs leading far down below the earth, which he follows for a revelation about the nature of sentient life that existed before humans, which is eclipsed by the sudden emergence of surrounding monsters, in this story the character starts off in the deep guts of a castle, only to eventually climb up and out of it, reaches the surface world, immerses himself in and amongst man kind, only to discover he himself is the monster.

The Moon-Bog - good. If anything a classic ghost story, rather than Lovecraft's brand of fantasy/cosmic horror, but it had a nice atmosphere to it

[u/Soggy-Os]

After 40% or so, I ended up DNF-ing: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke 😪

Starting Today: The Land and Its People, by David Sedaris because I could use a little humor in my life right now...

[u/Dagobertinchen]

Started

I, Claudius, by Robert Graves

I am currently in my Roman phase, which I started last year with Colleen McCullough’s fantastic Masters of Rome series.

This is my 13th (?) novel relating to Ancient Rome.
I am a quarter into it and so far it was 100% narration, which I found tiring. Only now did they have a longer dialogue. The alleged humour rarely lands with me. Or maybe I am tired of Rome? I will keep reading regardless, because apart from Livia’s portrayal as a murdering monster pulling the strings of the Empire and Augustus, it seems historically accurate and well researched.

[u/APlateOfMind]

Started:

**Atmosphere, by Taylor Jenkins Reid**

Finished:

**The Borrowers, by Mary Norton**

Ongoing:

**Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, by Adam Higginbotham**

**Doppelgänger, by Naomi Klein**

**Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace**

[u/accentadroite_bitch]

Started Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

[u/Frosty-Sorbet1223]

Finished:
The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
It was beautiful, I feel I want to re-read it in a while.

Started:
Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke
and
Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee which I am listening as an audiobook

[u/HollzStars]

Finished:
- A Traitor’s Tears by Fiona Buckley
- Nemesis by Agatha Christie (my last Miss Marple novel!)

Currently reading:
- Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
- Twelve Months by Jim Butcher

[u/ME24601]

Finished:

The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

Dune: Messiah by Frank Herbert

Revenge by Alex Isenstadt

Started:

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

I'm Starting to Worry About this Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin

Sex and the Weimar Republic by Laurie Marhoeffer

Still Working On:

Regiment of Women by Clemence Dane

[u/lia-resme]

Finished:
The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro (loved it).

Starting:
It’s a tie between Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury or Stoner, by John Williams.
I’m thinking that Stoner might be a bit too similar to The Remains of the Day, so would be nice to switch up the genre.

[u/stephkempf]

Finished:

Naruto Ani-Manga: Guardians of the Cresent Moon Kingdom, by Masashi Kishimoto

A Few Stout Individuals, by John Guare

Bionicle: Dark Hunters, by Greg Farshtey

Naruto, Vol. 35, by Masashi Kishimoto

The Book of Shame, by Zach M. Stafford

Currently Reading:

The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas

Rowan and the Zebak, by Emily Rodda

They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei

Naruto Innocent Heart, Demonic Blood, by Masatoshi Kusakabe

[u/GardenSenior9774]

Finished The Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood. Loved it. Loved hearing where inspiration for her characters came from, her life up north, her friends and enemies.

[u/AzorAham]

Finished:

A Parade of Horribles, by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #8)

Started:

Lightbringer, by Pierce Brown (Red Rising Saga #6)

---

Parade of Horribles may be my favorite DCC book so far - just a great mix of humor, action, and drama while not messing around and furthering the overarching plot.

Lightbringer has also been amazing - seeing Darrow's journey juxtaposed with Lysander's is really interesting. Brown writes some absolutely brutal combat scenes.

[u/Sirius_55_Polaris]

Finished:

A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin
The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett

Started:

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

[u/Radiant_Pudding5133]

Finished:

Return of the Crimson Guard, by Ian C. Esslemont

Started:

A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller

Ongoing:

Ulysses, by James Joyce

[u/lollyf93]

Finished:

Educated, by Tara Westover

Started:

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, by Robert Dugoni

[u/bottle-of-smoke]

I just finished The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.

[u/Vermillion1978]

Finished: Cher, A Memoir;

Started: Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan

[u/F0__]

Finished: The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro. Took a full month to get through which is quite long for me but the book is meant to be strolled through. I appreciated the journey and while it wouldn't be the first Ishiguro I recommended to someone, I didn't find it as tedious as some do.

Began: Vesper Flights, Helen MacDonald: Flying through this and enjoying it very much, despite the melancholy of looming ecological disaster she writes about ~2020 accelerating like gangbusters. I like to read natural history & science essays as palate cleansers between big pieces of fiction and this is doing the trick.

[u/lazyhazyeye]

Finished: Beartown by Fredrik Backman. It was a little cheesy and redundant in some parts, but for the most part, I liked it!

Started: A Mercy by Toni Morrison. Taking my time with this one, but loving it so far!!! My 4th book from her and not disappointed.

[u/ToCo25]

I just finished Leviathan Falls, by S.A. Corey.

[u/Alternative-Lack-434]

Finished: Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry (Loved it)

Started: Malice - John Gwynn Struggling a bit with the narrator and multiple POVs and lots of character introduction)

[u/GenXgirlie]

I finished The Secret History, Donna Tartt, but haven’t started anything yet, still searching

[u/whitemagicblackmagic]

Finished Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby van Pelt

Started Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman

[u/kdawggyyyy]

Finished Stoner by John Williams

Started The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

[u/sxales]

It has been a busy couple of weeks, so I have to play catch-up here.

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, by Ursula K. Le Guin. The depth at which Le Guin explores her ideas without ever losing track of the plot and characters is a marvel. This could have easily been a treatise on anarchism and how the pursuit of ideological purity becomes yet another method of control. My only complaint is that it felt more like poli-sci-fi, and I would have liked a little more sci-fi.

Epitaph for a Spy, by Eric Ambler. Honestly, it was good for an early spy thriller. It is just that everything that Epitaph does well, Ambler's later novel, The Light of Day, did better. I can't really blame Epitaph for that, but while I will take Arthur Simpson with me forever, I couldn't tell you much about Josef Vadassy. The only standout was the interrogation of the German, which had me forgetting this was written in 1938. It is a time capsule of what was generally known about the Nazis's Germany (and the camps) in the days leading up to the war. For some, that alone will be worth the price of admission.

Started: Elsewhere, by Dean Koontz. I have not read much Koontz, so I can't say how representative it is, but once you get past the ham-fisted politics, it is a serviceable techno-thriller. The writing is a little more clunky than I would have expected from someone with as much experience as Koontz. He also doesn't write children particularly well: Amity is supposed to be 11 years old, yet Koontz bounces back and forth between infantilizing and somehow making her hyper-competent. You never quite know which one you're going to get in any given scene. I saw Elsewhere mentioned in a thread about Blake Crouch, and I thought I would give it a go. I am about 2/3 of the way through, and I can see where the comparison comes from, but I wouldn't have made it.

[u/rutfilthygers]

Finished: Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is Burning, by Jonathan Mahler. It's a non-fiction account of New York in 1977, when a four-way mayoral race captivated the city, the Son of Sam terrorized it, and all along the way Reggie Jackson, Billy Martin and the New York Yankees were trying to win the World Series without killing each other first.

Started: Culpability, by Bruce Holsinger. A teenager behind the wheel of his family's AI-powered vehicle is investigated after a fatal crash.

Started: The Unsuspected, by Charlotte Armstrong. The friends of a young woman suspect her suicide in the home of her wealthy boss was actually murder. They infiltrate the house to investigate.

[u/kkeller4]

Almost finished: 11/22/63, Stephen King

Next up: Half His Age, Jeanette McCurdy

[u/[deleted]]

Started and Finished: 'Of Mice And Men' by John Steinback.

Still Reading:'Powerless' by Lauren Roberts.

[u/VeronicaCorningstond]

Finished Yesteryear by Claire Caro Burke

Started Yellowface by RF Kuang

[u/RentSpecial4997]

Finished: Stoner by John Williams, The World’s Worst Assistant by Sona Movsesian

Started: Detour by Rob Hart

[u/catfrend]

Finished Artemis, by Andy Weir, Crazy  Rich Asians, by Kevin Kwan, Dead Until Dark, by Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas, by Charlaine Harris and Undomestic Goddess, by Sophie Kinsella.

Currently reading Club Dead, by Charlaine Harris.

Everything I've read/am reading this week is light, fun, and perfect for summer!

[u/PopCultureWitch]

Started: Witchcraft For Wayward Girls, by Grady Hendrix. I'm only a couple chapters in and I'm loving it so far! My first book by this author.

DNF'd: The Housemaid, by Frieda McFadden. I got annoyed by the repetition and quit at chapter 12. I looked up the ending and I'm glad I quit. 💁‍♀️

[u/misskrismas → u/[deleted]]

Omg jealous you're reading East of Eden. First time? (I have only read once but it will be a reread for me for sure).

[u/SnooPuppers6684]

I finished reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, while starting to read Merlin’s Tour of the Universe by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

[u/EricasElectric]

Finished: One Little Mistake by Lucinda Berry

Started: The Yellow Wallpaper

[u/HypothesisHardback]

Finished: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Started: Harry Potter and The Philosopher Stone by JK Rowling (needed a light read)

[u/A_Guy195]

Finished:

At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft

 

Started:

The King of Elfland’s Daughter, by Lord Dunsany

[u/Illustrious_Bug_9426]

Devils, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Currently reading, it's my 1st Dostoevsky and I'm enjoying it so far :)

[u/raccoon_at_noon]

Finished:

The Tower of Fools by Andrzej Sapkowski - 4/5. I really enjoyed this. There’s a playful humour to the way Sapkowski writes that I love. The only thing I struggled with was there being SO MANY names and places that I got lost multiple times throughout the story.

Just started:

Empire of the Damned by Jay Kristoff - I accidentally read the last book of the series first, so I’ve gone back to read from the beginning. It’s kinda nice reading a story in reverse and retracing the steps that got them to where they ended up.

[u/elphie93]

I finished Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard which was really good - interesting, well written and well researched.

I finished Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix. I thought the third part was strongest, but this didn't have the impact I expected.

Just started John of John by Douglas Stuart. This is gonna be another one of his gut punch books I think....

[u/Litterboxbonanza]

Finished:

A Parade of Horribles, by Matt Dinniman

Started:

Meet the Newmans, by Jennifer Niven

[u/doctorbonkers → u/Litterboxbonanza]

There’s a number of us in this thread reading DCC right now huh lol

Just started book 3 this morning!

[u/BurningJointUSA]

Finished: The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison

Started: The Dying Earth, by Jack Vance

[u/TalynRahl]

Finished: Cloud Cuckoo Land.

(Re)started: Curse of the Mistwraith.

CCL was… okay. Solid writing, solid concept, execution felt a little off to me. Can’t get past the “we have Cloud Atlas at home” vibe.

CotM is a slog. I know people say WOLAS is legendary, and the series picks up after the first book but Jesus tap dancing Christ this first bookie painful. I’m 50% through and just don’t give a shit about any of the characters or events. Probably going to DNF.

[u/Particular-Treat-650]

Nightfall and Other Stories, by Isaac Asimov

Autopsy of a Fairy Tale, by Nicole Scarano through Evidence of a Folk Tale, by Nicole Scarano

Consciousness Explained, by Daniel Dennett: a blend of great narrative imagery with some obscure abstract theorizing I don't find particularly interesting, but ultimately an interesting and useful perspective on how our brains may work.

Started:

Royal Assassin, by Robin Hobb

[u/Overall_Sandwich_848]

Started:

Ripe for the Picking by Annie Hawes, more adventures in Liguria for this brilliant travel writer.

Finished:

Extra Virgin by Annie Hawes, fantastico ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie, a classic ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[u/annievaxxer]

I finished Know My Name by Chanel Miller, and am now reading Demon Copperhead.

[u/averagequeensguy]

Finished: Children of the Fleet by Orson Scott Card

Started: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

[u/Awatto_boi]

Finished: Tatouine, by Jean-Christophe Réhel, translated by Catherine Hastings and Peter McCambridge

A debut novel, The unnamed 31 year old narrator is a poet who lives in a basement apartment in the Montreal suburb of Repitgny. He barely gets by on his meagre royalty cheques and and odd jobs like stocking shelves in grocery stores and playing Santa's elf in a Shopping Mall. His jobs never last very long because he suffers from cystic fibrosis and frequently loses employment due to hospitalization when his illness flares up. Fantasizing about Star Wars, video games, and movie scenes he is constantly dealing with mucous and phlegm and his breathing struggles in daily life and he retreats from reality into his fantasy world where he can dream of escape to the desert planet Tatouine with his girlfriend and muse who in his mind is Amidala. This book is written in stream of consciousness and has poetic overtones that mirror the narrators thoughts. It received Quebec's prestigious prix littéraire des collégiens in its original French titled Ce qu'on respire sur Tatouine. I found this amusing light reading, and quite funny despite the underlying tragic life that he leads. It was a pleasant diversion from what I normally read.

Finished: Silent Horizons, by Chad Robichaux and Jack Stewart

First in the Silent Horizons Series. Foster Quinn is a force recon marine soldier who is struggling with his re-enlistment decision. He is anxious about his absence from his wife and daughter's life and possible affects on his marriage. When he finds his best friend is killed in a training accident he makes a decision to discuss it with his wife and get out, but she is supportive of his re enlistment. When he reports to his commanding officer to re-up he finds out the officer doesn't want him to stay in but instead has another mission for him. The captain explains that his best friend did not die in a climbing accident, but was killed on a covert mission to find the source of Iran's export of drone technology. He is convinced to accept a solo mission to leave the military and go to Iran under cover of a big game hunting entrepreneur. His task is to determine who is responsible for Iranian drone export and prepare the way for a team to infiltrate and disrupt it. His personal reason is to to find out how his buddy was killed and get justice for his death. I enjoyed this story and I will have to read the next instalment as the ending left me in suspense.

[u/IgnoreMe733]

Finished:

The Strength of the Few by James Islington - I finally finishes this one. After doing so I started to look at other people's reactions and mine have been, more or less, the same. I enjoyed the book quite a bit, but didn't feel it lived up to my expectations. The premise is cool and I still look forward to where it goes in the next books, but felt it was a bit too rushed here.

Started and Finished:

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titan's Curse by Rick Roiden - My eldest daughter is a huge fan of these books and I always try to take an interest in things my kids enjoy, so I finally got around to reading book three of the series. Overall, I thought it was enjoyable enough. I do kind of wish they'd scale back how much of the driving force of the books is Percy or someone else having a dream that causes them to take action. Just not a plot device I care for.

Continued Reading:

Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey - I'm about six hours into the audiobook and enjoying it a lot. Having extra view points of view is a good change of pace from the first book and I can't wait to see how it all blends together.

[u/traylaplaya]

Finished: Score, by Kennedy Ryan ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ beautiful love story. Incredibly raw and vulnerable look into Black female mental illness, but still a romance aboveall. Book 2 in her Harlem Renaissance series. I didn't care as much for the first one, but this one made up for it.

Started: Arm of the Sphinx, by Josiah Bancroft Book 2 in the Books of Babel series. The first one was incredible and looking forward to the second one.

[u/Bithbo]

Finished:

Geek Love; Katherine Dunn

Started:

Cat’s Cradle; Kurt Vonnegut

[u/Ornery-Gap-9755]

Finished

The Farthest Shore, by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Measure, by Nikki Erlick

The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett (reread)

Ongoing

La Belle Savage, by Phillip Pullman (Audiobook)

Started

What Feasts at Night, by T Kingfisher

[u/BackyardWalker]

Finished:

The Dry, by Jane Harper

Game Changer, by Rachel Reid

Currently Reading:

A Deadly Education, by Naomi Novik

How to Age Disgracefully, by Clare Pooley 🎧

[u/JanethePain1221]

Finished: The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark

Started: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

[u/paulhaahr]

Finished: Matrix, by Lauren Groff

Started: How to Read a Book, by Monica Wood

[u/DrewzmaLS]

Started a Maya Angelou collection that's just titled "Poems" as far as I can tell. Unsurprisingly, absolutely gorgeous writing. I've been reading more 20th century American poetry in recent months and I find that regardless of the author I feel much more of a personal connection to what I'm reading than I do with older poetry (which I tend to enjoy more in the way that you enjoy a painting at a museum; the technical proficiency is impressive but there's not as much human touch).

[u/somegrump]

Finished:

The Deep, by Nick Cutter

Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir

Starting:

The Martian, by Andy Weir

I'm actually going to re-read project hail mary before starting the martian. I blew through project hail mary in one cozy day, and while I enjoyed it, I fear my annoyance with The Deep may have distracted me through the beginning, so I'm just going to go through it again since I have plenty of time on my hold.

[u/MeterologistOupost31]

Finished: 

A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale🇮🇲🏳️‍🌈: Gale is an expert in making just about every scene feel engaging even if little happens. Abrupt ending was disappointing. Grade: A.

The Stranger by Albert Camus🇫🇷🌻: Camus can do but Sartre is smartre. Ironically this made me feel a lot like the protagonist: mostly just indifferent. Grade: B.

The Master and Margarhita by Mikhail Bulgakov🇺🇦🇷🇺🌻: Has some witty lines but honestly I was more interested in the Palestinian subplot with Pontius. Grade: B.

Forest of Noise by Mosab Abu Toha🇵🇸🌹: The pain coming off Toha's words are palpable. A stark reminder that the perpetrators of this genocide are not fit to live. Grade: A*

Currently reading:

Dictionary of the Khazars🇷🇸

Dune Messiah 🇺🇲 

Top Ten:

1. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman trans. Roz Schwartz 🇧🇪🕎
2. N-4 Down by Mark Piesing🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
3. The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli trans. Erica Segre and Simon Carnell 🇮🇹
4. Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson🇺🇲
5. Themistocles by Michael Scott🇺🇸
6. Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
7. Here Where We Live Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple🇺🇲🇵🇷🇧🇾🕎🌻🌹
8. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Pére trans Chapman and Hall 🇫🇷🇭🇹
9. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇱
10. Borgata: Rise of by Louis Ferrante 🇺🇸🇮🇹

[u/shoestringsubmarine]

I finished Babylonia by Costanza Casati. I didn’t know much about it going into it, but the book description talks about the plot being based around the rise of Assyria’s only female ruler. I wasn’t really expecting the majority of the book to revolve around a true love triangle …. Throuple … threesome kind of situation? I was pretty disappointed by that. I wanted more about her actually being the queen.

I started reading Crooked Kingdom this week. I read Six of Crows on my trip to Amsterdam in April and want to know how the story ends. This isn’t usually my preferred genre, but I’m enjoying it well enough.

I’m also reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. That’s my treadmill book - I put it on my ereader and use a remote page turner while I walk for an hour. Again, so far so good, but I have a nit to pick. I usually download the audiobook to listen to while I read. The author narrated the ebook. There are enough mismatches between the audio and the text to be jarring (but not enough to make me think they’re different versions or something). Sometimes they make sense - describing or summarizing charts and data instead of just reading them - but sometimes they really don’t. Like in one part, someone was being quoted, and the audiobook narration just omitted several sentences of the quote. With pertinent information! It wouldn’t be noticeable if I wasn’t reading and listening simultaneously but I think it’s so bizarre because THE AUTHOR IS NARRATING. You wrote it there!

[u/chxllqueen]

Started:

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Finished:

The Wife Before, by Shanora Williams

[u/kurtozan251 → u/chxllqueen]

I also started the Brothers! (Just finished Cannery Row). How far are you in and how are you digging it? Which translation are you reading?

[u/chxllqueen → u/kurtozan251]

ooh book twin!
it’s the Constance Garnett translation, and I am truly enjoying it so far, specifically the variety of characters and the depth and wisdom of the elder. i’m still early on, about halfway through book two (and taking my time :) and you!?

[u/SwarlesDarwin]

Reading has slowed down the last couple weeks, but yesterday I

Finished:

Cold Days, by Jim Butcher

[u/IcyLychee6]

Finished: Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns

Started: Stoner by John Williams

[u/Puzzled_Egg_3803]

Finished:

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Reaper's Gale, by Steven Erikson

Started:

My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante

[u/luna_seafarer]

Finished: My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante

Started: The Story of a New Name, by Elena Ferrante

The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan

[u/GonDFreecs]

I started reading dune this work since I wanna read messiah before part 3 comes out

[u/Shoddy-Bobcat3929]

Currently reading: In the Woods by Tana French

Finished: The Heartbreak Hotel by Ellen O'Clover

[u/Lament-of-Andromache]

Finished:

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman

Read the entirety of this book on a three day trip, which is pretty unusual for me and a testament of the book. 4*

Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro

Another book I read unusually fast, I can't get enough of Kazuo Ishiguro. I can't get enough of his writing style. As much as I liked it, I think it was my least favorite of his books so far and I wasn't really sure what to take from it unlike the others. For something that came out on the cusp of the mass adoption of LLMs, it felt very omniscient of a path we're heading down. 3.5*

Continuing:

Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy

On the opposite end of the spectrum I've been taking a crack at this tome for two months now and just about done. Can be a bit of a slog at times, and hard to keep track of so many names, but it fascinating nonetheless.

[u/JST8]

Finished: Les Roi Maudit: Le Roi de Fer (English Title: The Accursed Kings Series: The Iron King)

Historical fiction series that served as major inspiration for ASOIAF, set in early 14th century France. It’s got court intrigue, assassinations, “curses”, scandal, infidelity… if you enjoy one, you’ll enjoy the other. Super highly recommend it. Was tough to get used to all the medieval terminology in French though.

Started: There is no antimemetics division

Started it with the goal of reading a chapter last night and ended up reading half the book. Just an insane premise well executed. Some good existential cosmic horror vibes.

[u/Nie_Nikt]

Finished The Odyssey translated by Daniel Mendelsohn

Started Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

[u/Overall-Peace8533]

Finished: Housemaid’s secret : 4/5 loved it. Great break, popcorn read.

Just started: Norwegian Wood : Not sure yet. I’m 80 pages in but I still don’t see the point of the book yet. Watanabe is pretty unlikeable and makes me not want to read more so hoping it gets better

[u/siros_girl]

WiP: The Ways We Hide by Kristina McMorris

Lilac Girls- esq- this is in the genre of strong woman in WWII taking on an important/ unexpected role using her skills to achieve her goals. Highly recommend.

[u/GoodbyeEarl]

Finished The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I can see why it’s popular, and the twist at the end was good, but i didn’t enjoy it overall. Started London Falling: A Mysterious Death, by Patrick Radden Keefe.

[u/Plastic_Leopard_7416]

I was so excited for this weeks post. I've been in the worst reading slump. But last week I read some good ones. Both of them were 4star reads
Finished:
Wolf Worm By T. Kingfisher (was warned by a friend not to read/listen while eating and I accidently made the mistake once, and lost my appetite for the entire day)
Into the Drowning Deep By Mira Grant

Starting:
Iron Gold By Pierce Brown
I feel like its a good time to finish the Red Rising Series

[u/JB_Wallbridge]

Continuing Lonesome Dove. I'm 400 pages in. Something clicked around page 200 and I don't want to put it down.

[u/MissyMercurial]

Finished: The Burning God, by R.F. Kuang

The third book of The Poppy War trilogy.

[u/bhammer100]

Finishing - Soul Circus by George Pelecanos

Probably going to start - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

[u/pskaa]

Finished Carls Doomsday Scenario by Matt Diniman. Excellent book, was entertained. Solid 8.5/10.

Started Endurance by Alfred Landing. Captivating this far (20 pages in)

[u/oh_god_its_raining]

Started: The Indifferent Stars Above - so good! Unputdownable

Finished: The one day you were my husband - this one had a really strong start, banging middle, and a fairly weak finish.

[u/Some-Negotiation2493]

Finished: The Odyssey, Homer Started: The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas (again 🙂)

[u/SLCaitCake]

Finished:

Trad Wife, by Saratoga Schaefer

I wanted to read a horror-fiction book to bond with my horror-fiction nerd boyfriend, and in a book shop Trad Wife stood out to me on a shelf.

I'm "interested", from an entirely-critical academic perspective, in the sub culture as a woman already completely excluded from their idea of what a woman is. My boyfriend and I do our own sub culture things, and we love thinking about gender roles in our lives. I'm also fairly constantly thinking about gender-y stuff, as a woman probably completely excluded from all this trad wife stuff anyway!

Anyway, a horror book set in this "world" felt like a very manageable way into the genre!

The author excellently portrays living a lifestyle in a sub culture displayed all over social media. She weaves so much internal monologue and conversational dialog into the text to where I felt I'm just living in the head of the main character, and loving every second of it. The grizzly bits made me almost want to put the book down -- I'm super squeamish -- but the pacing and tension kept me going anyway!

[u/RentSpecial4997]

Finished The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko

Incredible book and story. May be my favorite nonfiction book so far. I highly recommend it!

[u/seoltang95]

finally managed to finish something after a terrible reading slump, took me longer than usual to read them but I enjoyed both:

A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories, by Flannery O'Connor

Silence, by Shūsaku Endō

[u/k1p1ssk]

I just started Lessons in Chemistry this morning! Only a couple chapters in, but I love it so far! End of last week I finished Crying in H Mart (by Michelle Zauner) and Small Things Like These (a novella by Claire Keegan) and both of those were excellent!!

[u/psychedelicdevilry]

Finished For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway. Honestly, I didn’t care for it. It had some interesting things to say about war, government and class, but was too slow moving and just didn’t vibe with writing style. This was my first Hemingway book.

I started the Hobbit by Tolkien. Love the movies but never read any LOTR books so I’m excited for this.

[u/New-Inspection2665]

Finished

The Long Walk, Steven King

Started

Julia, Sandra Newman

Deep into my dystopian reading!

[u/duckie768]

Finished:

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English by Natasha Solomons

And still deciding my next read ☺️

[u/jumpingtheshark89]

Finished:

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle.

Started:

End of Watch by Stephen King.

[u/whitleywayne]

Finished:

Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke

[u/fantasyrea]

Finished The Deal by Elle Kennedy

[u/LilChemie]

Finished:

Dopamine Nation, by Anna Lembke

You Deserve Each Other, by Sarah Hogle

Under Your Care, by E Baileu

Static, by Marie Ann

Started:

Yours to Break, by E Baileu

Thoughts: I wasn’t a huge fan of Dopamine Nation. Felt like the author was trying too hard to relate to the addictions her patients felt. It was oddly condescending at times. It also didn’t touch on the science of dopamine as much as I thought it would.

Static was enjoyable. It was my first clown stalker romance. Always love a good surprise. I’ve read better dark romance, but it touched on some kinks that I don’t see as much. Good for this week’s deviancy.

[u/kelkashoze]

Radiant Star, by Ann Leckie. She's probably one of my favourite authors and I have re-read the Ancillary Justice Trilogy at least 5 times. So excited for a new book in the same universe

[u/monvino]

Finished 'Buckeye'

Listening to: 'I Regret Almost Everything'

Reading: Mavis Gallant short stories

Next up: 'John of John'

[u/Ok-Spend7450]

Finished: Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie

Started: La Nausee, by Jean-Paul Sartre

[u/LesYeuxHiboux]

Started: The Nesting: A Novel by C.J. Cooke

[u/EleventhofAugust]

Finished:

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies 3/5

The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler 5/5. This novella was a great ride.

Currently Reading:

The Glamour by Christopher Priest

Anathem by Neal Stephenson

[u/crabbiecrabby]

Finished: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain James, by Percival Everett Kin, by Tayari Jones

Started: Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

[u/ShiftintoGEAR4]

Fourth wing

[u/kangkongkang]

Finished: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

Started: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

[u/FaPaDa]

After having read The Martian and Project Hail Mary years ago the movie finally made me pic up Artemis that has been stuck in my shelf for basically 3 years now.

idk how to feel about it yet... the main character feels... obnoxious

[u/KowaretaRobot]

Finished: Hooky by Míriam Bonastre Tur

Started: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

[u/JSB19]

Finished- Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown, step down from Book of Doors but still a very engaging magical read.

Silvercloak by L.K. Stevens, loved it! Great world, interesting characters, unique magic system… can’t wait for the sequel

All of Us Villains and All of Our Demise by Amanda Foody, magical duology that deserved more attention.

Reading- Book by Lost Hours by Hayley Gelfuso

Good Girls Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

[u/Raidertck]

Last week I read the first three dungeon crawler carl books. I started and finished the 4th over the weekend finishing it yesterday. Safe to say it hooked me. I'll probably finish the series by early next week.

[u/FlowernotFading]

Finished: Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

Started: On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield

Struggled to get through Tender is the Flesh. Felt like shock over substance. I just didn’t care about the characters. Really enjoying On Sundays She Picked Flowers, though. Had me hooked from the first chapter.

[u/aireenk]

Finished: Sapiens Started: Thursday Murder Club

[u/Big_Gas_5297]

Finished: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Phillip K. Dick

Started: Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir

I have to frame P.K. Dick's writing with the timeframe in which it was written and published, as I think some of the ways in which the female characters are described and interacted with feels very surface level. However, overall I thought that the book made so many interesting points about humanity, consent, and what having a sense of self truly means.

Gideon the Ninth is a bit of an odd choice for me (not typically a big fantasy reader), but it has been recommended by a few friends and, two chapters in, I'm enjoying it so far!

[u/peony_44]

Finished Yesteryear. Started Stoner by John Williams

[u/BakerInTheKitchen]

Finished:

The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Started:

Dune by Frank Herbert

[u/GruyereRind]

Finished:

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte. This was good and had a somewhat dark and spooky vibe that I wasn't expecting.

Puberty Blues, by Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey. Light on plot, but I learned a lot about 1980's Australian surfer culture.

I'm Glad My Mom Died, by Jennette McCurdy. I liked it. It was an interesting look at child stardom, overbearing mothers, and disordered eating.

Started:

A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemmingway. An American serves in the Italian army during WWI. I haven't gotten to the part where he loses his arms yet.

Billy Budd, by Herman Melville. It's about a sailor.

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, by Marcus Aurelius. A self-help book by some really old guy.

[u/e_paradoxa]

Finished:

Pretty Human, by Ruby Dixon

Out of the Loop, by Katie Siegel

A Long and Speaking Silence, by Nghi Vo

The Grave Robber, by Tim Carpenter

Any Means Necessary, by Lila Herron

A Widow’s Charm, by Caitlyn Paxson

[u/bytdobru]

Finished The Night Watch by Sarah Waters. It is the best book I have read this year.

Started Flight 149 by Stephen Davis Deep Nutrition by Catherine Shanahan

[u/MusclesAndCharisma]

Finished

84 Charring Cross road by Helene Hanff

Started

Angel Down by Daniel Kraus

[u/hausofvelour]

finished: Venus in Furs, by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch started, or rather went back to reading: Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov

[u/drinkmilknkickass]

Finished

The Radium Girls, by Kate Moore

Started

Quackery : a brief history of the worst ways to cure everything, by Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen

[u/bhaswar_py]

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

[u/RealPrinceJay]

Beloved

I’m about halfway through, but it really feels like it’s operating on another level. Morrison was a genius

[u/Grouchy_Salad89]

Finished: A Darker Shade of Magic, by V.E. Schwab

Started: Minor Mage, by T. Kingfisher

[u/SomeKindoflove27]

Finished Song of Solomon by toni morrison which was exquisite

Starting Tipping the Velvet by sarah waters

[u/therottersclub]

Finished

The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford

Started

How To Be Both, by Ali Smith

Re-read of Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf

[u/MiddletownBooks]

Started:

The Stone Sky, by N. K. Jemisin

[u/CaribeBaby]

Finished:

Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End (Apocalipsis Z: El Principio del Fin), by Manel Loureiro. It's a standard zombie survivor story, but I liked it a lot. It's a trilogy, so I will eventually read the other 2. I followed it up by watching the movie on Amazon Prime and meh, the book was better. The book is told from the POV of the main character's thoughts - he spends a lot of time isolated at first. I find that this POV is hard to replicate on the screen.

[u/MistyMoose98]

Finished: Wild Dark Shore, by Charlotte McConaghy

Unfortunately, I hated it. Loved the setting and ecology aspects, but the writing was utterly dreadful imo.

Started: The Pearl, by John Steinbeck

Wonderful so far!

[u/rogueslayer1138]

Finished:

Devil in the Grove, by Gilbert King
Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain

Started:

Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder

[u/Margayred]

Finished:

The Everlasting by Alice E. Harrow
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinnigan

Started:

Pony Confidential by Christina Lynch
Long Division by Kiese Laymon
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (audio book)

DNF

Drop Dead Sisters by Amelia Diane Coombes - I couldn’t warm to the main character.

[u/Healthy_Plant]

Started: Good Material by Dolly Alderton

[u/Obvious_Question9222]

All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr

[u/hpasta]

Finished:

The Husky and his White Cat Shizun (Book 8, also known as Erha), by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou
The Husky and his White Cat Shizun (Book 9, also known as Erha), by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

Currently reading:

The Husky and his White Cat Shizun (Book 10, also known as Erha), by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou
Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
The Jakarta Method, by Vincent Bevins

[u/Graphica-Danger]

I started the first Expanse book. I'm a little taken aback by how realistic it feels. One of the few sci-fi books I can point to and say this is generally what the future of our species will look like if we manage to crack interstellar travel, with all the good and bad that comes with it. We'll mostly set up shop in our own solar system if we ever get to that point. Only more speculative thing so far is the Epstein drive, but then again, maybe we innovate something like it down the road. I really like Holden!

[u/1llFlyAway]

Finished The Maidens by Alex Michaelides. It wasn’t that good. Can’t decide what to start next.

[u/rustymatrix99]

Just finished Project Hail Mary. The science was a bit heavy at times but the ending really stuck the landing. Starting Circe next since everyone on here seems to recommend it constantly.

[u/DoopSlayer]

Finished:

Meat Puppets by Hannah Smart Just really witty and fun and very rewarding to reread. Would love to have an AMA with her to ask about her essays as well! !invite

and

Exodus: The Archimedes Engine by Peter F. Hamilton - nice Sci-fi space opera. Good set up and payoff and doesn't dive too deep into any singular sci-fi trope foible while playing with most of them. I had fun with it. Will take a break then read the second as they are kinda long.

[u/peach583]

Finished: Starling House by Alix E. Harrow— loved it!
Finished: The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer

Started: The Girl With A Thiusand Faces by Sunyi Dean
(I am really really pulled into this one!)

[u/d_nicky]

I started The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

[u/ShowMeYourHappyTrail]

Finally finished Red City by Marie Lu. Started reading it around the time it came out in October/maybe early November. My New Year's Resolution was to work through some of my Switch video game backlog so my reading has been taking a back seat. I liked the book though! Did I love it so much that I can't wait for the next one to come out...no. But will I read the next one when it comes out...yeah, probably! A magical realism Romeo and Juliet style of story.

Finished Dungeon Crawler Carl - Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman. Audiobook. Hubby and I are listening to these on the car rides home from work. So funny!

Started Hungry Ghosts by Anthony Bourdain. Now that I finished a novel, it's time to read some of my comic book trade/graphic novel backlog for a change. I've had this for several years and never got around to reading it.

Started Dungeon Crawler Carl - The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman. Onward to book three!

[u/Raineythereader]

Finished:

• Two for the Lions, by Lindsey Davis, the tenth(?) of the Marcus Falco mysteries set in ancient Rome. Unlike the previous books, the murder victim in this one was an arena lion; naturally Falco kept digging into the issue, even though the people around him didn't particularly care what had happened to it, and although (for once) he had a paying job from the Palace that he should have been doing instead.
• Vampires of El Norte, by Isabel Canas, a historical-horror novel set during the Mexican-American War. In its overall concept and style, it reminded me of Lone Women by Victor Lavalle, but frankly the writing was a little less mature, and the relationship between the two mains was pretty paint-by-numbers. I liked the historical and geographic setting enough, though, that I finished it in only a few days.

DNF: Learning to Talk Bear, by Roland Cheek

Started:

• The Book of Eels, by Patrik Svensson, a "microcosm non-fiction" sort of book in the tradition of Mary Roach or Mark Kurlansky. This one, as the title implies, is on humans' relationship with eels, and the scientific questions that hung over that relationship for centuries.
• The Letter of Marque, by Patrick O'Brian, one of the middle books in the Aubrey-Maturin ("Master and Commander") series.

[u/shhhitswabbitseason]

Finished: People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry

Started: The Merge, Grace Walker

In progress (around other holds coming through): Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

[u/LysanderWrites]

I am very nearly finished with New Europe, by Michael Palin.

[u/SadNAloneOnChristmas]

Just finished book three of Dungeon Crawler Carl and onto the fourth. For audio, I’m listening to Lord of the Flies.

[u/DarkParticular2946]

Ho appena iniziato 'Under the lilacs '.

Ho appena finito ' Cosa fece Katy '.

[u/CapriciousSon]

Finished:

All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson
Root Rot by Saskia Nislow

Started:
Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-Zi

[u/dormant-plants]

Finished: Mrs Kim is a Killer by Kang Jiyoung

Finished: Strange Pictures by Uketsu (I inhaled this one in one day)

Started: Hunger by Choi Jinyoung

I’ve specifically been looking for books by Korean Authors, but a few Japanese authors (such as Uketsu) caught my attention at the bookshop so I ended up picking those up too.

[u/GapReader]

Finished:

Koko, by Peter Straub

I loved it, was one of my favorite books in years. I was so immersed in the characters that I was sad that the book had to end. My favorite from Straub so far. Onto the next book in the Trilogy.

The Old Man, by Thomas Perry

I loved it, was an interesting suspense thriller in which I was easily able to connect with the characters.

Started:

Now Is Not The Time to Panic, by Kevin Wilson

Mystery, by Peter Straub

[u/empireofeggs]

Finished: The Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty

Finished: The Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakroborty

Finished: She Who Became the Sun(reread) by Shelley Parker-Chan

Started: A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin