I have all discworld books, I would definitely reread most of them. I just reread The Hail Mary Project.
Third run through Discworld in the past 2 years. My god, been trying to think how to explain to my best friend. I lack the words.
Project Hail Mary was amazing. Can’t wait for the movie too.
I’m glad you enjoyed it. I think I must be one if the few people on the planet who didn’t care for it.
A few I’ve read at least twice and will definitely read again at some point:
- Catch 22
- Infinite Jest
- The Windup Bird Chronicle
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- Full 5 part Hitchhiker’s Guide trilogy
- His Dark Materials Trilogy (plus the Book of Dust series, if we ever get that last one!!)
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Brave New World
- Slaughterhouse Five
It’s 2025 and I’m reading Slaughterhouse Five again. So it goes.
Poo tee weet 👍
The Murderbot diaries.
This is also an awesome thread. I see a lot of books I love and a lot that I’m interested in.
The Bobiverse recommendations seem to go hand in hand with Murderbot. Read both series back to back, didn’t know what I was missing.
I hadn’t heard of the bobiverse before. I look forward to checking those out. It sounds like a neat premise.
Murderbot series is a mixed bag. Some of the books are great fun. Others read like filler to me. Wondering what you think about casting of Alexander Skarsgård in the upcoming tv series? Personally I think he’s way too old for the part.
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
I’m on my 13th or so read of Blindsight. Think I’ve unpacked it all, finally. I feel like a fruitcake having read it and *Echopraxia" so many times, but damn they’re deep.
Not a fan of all of Watt’s novels, but those two feel like he packed something to think about into nearly every single sentence. Easy read if you want to go fast, or, take your time and dig in. Never read a novel(s) that could go both ways.
Fuck me. Just talking about it is getting me hype for another run.
Blindsight:
"I brought her flowers one dusky Tuesday evening when the light was perfect. I pointed out the irony of that romantic old tradition— the severed genitalia of another species, offered as a precopulatory bribe—and then I recited my story just as we were about to fuck.
To this day, I still don’t know what went wrong.”
Echopraxia:
“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there were`t any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid. Even here in the 21st century we can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. Even now we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us.”
Lord Of The Rings.
He Who Fights With Monsters.
Thrawn.
The Hunt For Red October.
The Cardinal of the Kremlin.So many I will give another listen to.
Just because this is the first post that I see that mentions LoTR, I’ll throw in
The Silmarillion
Children of Hurin
Beren and Luthien (personal favorite)
The Fall of Gondolin (incomplete, but incredible)
These are all Tolkien works and I could read them over and over.
Just done a reread of these and would gladly reread again.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (all 5 books in the series)
They are short enough that you could easily read all of them in a couple months at a steady pace.
Speaker for the Dead
Eisenhorn
Count of Monte Cristo
The Emperor of All Maladies
Moby Dick
Lords of Silence
All Honorable Men: History of the war in Lebanon
Adams and Victor’s Principles of Neurology
The Biology of Cancer (Weinberg)
Japan to 1600
History of Medieval Russia (Martin)
The Baltic: A History
On War (Clausewitz)
The Back Channel
Timbuktu (Villiers)
Sorry if this is too many, just looked at my book app for ones I keep reading.
Edit: Fuck it, I’m having fun. Here are a few more I remembered while roasting a bowl.
Dune
Amulet of Samarkand
Venice (Madden)
The Golden Compass
First and Only (Abnett) - read the first omnibus
Harrisons Manual of Medicine 18th ed
Gomorrah (Saviano)
The Gunpowder Age (Tonio)
The Money Illusion (Sumner)
I’ve read Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch three times, currently reading The Color of Magic for the first time and then I’m going to re-read Mort
I’ve read Ellen Raskin’s The Westing Game three times, but that was for school. Pretty good children’s mystery book, though
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
The Dispossessed
Left Hand of Darkness
The Sandman Slim series
https://www.goodreads.com/series/46424-sandman-slim
And
The Dresden Files series
I’m a big rereader in general, but occasionally a book will grab me so hard that I finish it & begin again right away. I’ve had two of those in the past year:
- Moonbound by Robin Sloan
- Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
