I’m currently reading The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle and The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales. A couple of my favorite books are I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter and The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke.

I mostly read fantasy books. Right now I’m reading The well of Ascension 2nd book in mistborn era1

At the moment I’m reading the “Book of the new Sun” series. Its quite confusing in the beginning, but with time it gets better and better. I like that it covers a lot of philosophical questions, while still being a fun fantasy story.

I read almost exclusively translated light novels the past few year. Almost two thousand different books across over a hundred different series. No idea what my all time favorite book ever is but, for light novel series ascendance of a bookworm would be it.

Currently reading i got a cheat skill in another world. Pretty mid series. But fun none the less.

I like the funny ones. Like good omens. Or the Martian.

Currently I’m reading “what if?” By Xkcd

Right now I’m reading Neocolonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism by Kwame Nkrumah. It’s a really good expansion of Lenin’s work on Imperialism as a stage in capitalism. Nkrumah was coup’d one year after its publishing with support from the US.

As for favorites, I really love both Piranesi and Roadside Picnic! The former is just a really fun mystery with a good deal of whimsy, the latter is excellent sci-fi.

I just finished Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky, it was fantastic. The big twist isn’t really a surprise if you’ve read his other works, but it’s really well done here.

The Stand (by King), The Stormlight Archive (by Brandon Sanderson), and The Player Of Games by Ian M. Banks are excellent.

I also liked Yesteryear by Caro Burke, but it gave off similar vibes to the video game called “Omori” and the nonfiction book called Educated by Tara Westover. All three are not happy stories, lol.

I’m currently reading through the Stormlight Archive series and I’m currently waiting on copies of the third book to become available at the library. It can’t come soon enough!

Edit: I’ve also read through a number of books on diseases and Ebola just before the current outbreak happened. If you like virology and that sort of thing, lmk :)

R. D. Laing, A Divided Self. This book analizes schizophrenia not as a brain malfunction, but as a psychological strategy existentially vulnerable people adopt. It can teach everyone a lot as we all struggle from the same problems but much more superficially

Favorite Books:

• Watership Down
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• The Winds of War
• A World Undone
• The Stand
• Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
• The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

Now that I’m retired, I’m rediscovering hard science fiction. Currently reading Songs Of Distant Earth by Clarke.

The First Law series by Abercrombie, the Mercy Thompson series by Briggs, the Monstrous series by Mayne.

Fantasy and urban fantasy are my favorites. Currently reading This World Won’t Kill Me by Ilona Andrews. It’s not as good as the raves have said it would be, but I’m only a quarter in. They are exceptional writers so I expect to be wowed by the end.

The only books I keep returning to are adult children of emotionally immature parents (on audio) and the loving parent guidebook (workbook). I just finished doing the workbook. No other books have changed my life.

I’m constantly reading, so favorites are kinda hard to nail down. I’d have to do it by category or something.

I just recently finished Liberal Fascisms by Slavoj Zizek. It’s a collection of essays. He’s an excellent writer and is always enjoyable.

I just started Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr. So far it seems pretty interesting.

Favorite: Philip K. Dick’s Galactic Pot-Healer and I’m rereading it right now

Another favorite is Stephenson’s Zodiac, and I reread it every couple years

Also reading right now: RF Kuang’s Katabasis (sadly, not nearly as good as Babel) and
Sanderson’s Mistborn series (definitely recommend the first trilogy and books four and five)