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submitted 1 year ago by Evolone@lemmy.ml to c/books@lemmy.ml

Looking for new books to read as I am preparing to head out on a much needed vacation and want to dig into some good reading. Can be fiction or nonfiction, just so long as it hooked you and made you want to keep reading and reading until the end.

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[-] wccrawford@lemmyonline.com 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I feel like I have read quite a few books that I felt that way about, but it's always hard to bring them to mind when someone asks. That said, the first few that popped into my head:

  • Cradle (series)
  • Wool (series)
  • The Martian (Audio book is especially well narrated!)
  • Murderbot Diaries (series)
  • The Bobiverse (series)
[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Bobiverse (series)

4th book was such a disappointment.

Overall message too, somehow went from "we are the avantgarde of transhumanism and the universe is our playground" straight up to something like "i wish 50's back". Every single Bob turned to either flat meme or boomer.

[-] ProfessorGumby@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here are a few of my favorites:

Susanna Clark

  • Piranesi
  • The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

Vonnegut

  • Cat's cradle
  • Slaughterhouse Five

Douglas Adams

  • literally anything he ever wrote

Mark Haddon

  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Margaret Atwood

  • Oryx and Crake

Ursula K. Le Guin

  • The Lathe of Heaven

edit: formatting

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Piranesi is a real gem!

[-] PixlShft@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

Gibson's sprawl trilogy when I read them back in '89. The fact that it had many short chapters made it easy to consume in quick bursts of reading

[-] setenforce@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

I love all of Gibson's books, have you read anything by Pat Cadigan? Fools may be the most mind bending book I've ever read, in a good way

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net -1 points 1 year ago

The Mote in God's Eye

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