Like the title! I've been getting back into reading for pleasure, and want to know what you like! I recently read Piranesi and loved it. I've heard good things about The Poppy War and Babel by R.F. Kuang, has anyone read them?

Generally just want a bunch of recommendations from your favorites, on our commie corner of the internet. No genre needed! toriel-snooze

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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    2 months ago

    I got turned on to Becky Chambers last year and really enjoyed her stuff, both Wayfarers and the Monk and Robot series. Just recently read China Mieville's Bas Lag trilogy, that was really good. Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin was really good but touches on a lot of transphobic stuff, so could be triggering. Love Terry Pratchett, The Culture Series, and Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. Oh, just read Butler's Kindred which was really good too. Less of a fan of Parable of the Talents. LeGuin is great too!

    Edit: Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson is about a world in which John Brown won!

    • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]
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      2 months ago

      Thanks for the recs! I've had China Melville's stuff recommended to me to death, so he's been on my list for a while, same with LeGuin.

      • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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        2 months ago

        China was great. LeGuin has a kind of an old style so she's not for everyone but The Disposessed and Left Hand of Darkness are must reads. Her short story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is only 4 pages but hits hard.