I started a new book series this year.
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Started reading T Kingfisher last year, really enjoyable books. The warhammer 40K books are on my list but there's so many of them!
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Since you might like Vernor Vinge, give A Fire Upon the Deep a try. It's spectacular.
Read it and love it. I think Vernor creates fantastically alien life.
Here’s my list of what I’ve read over the last 2 1/2 years.
- The Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
- Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel
- Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Shogun by James Clavell
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
- The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
- Wool by Hugh Howey
- Shift by Hugh Howey
- Dust by Hugh Howey
- Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald
- A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
- A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
- Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
- Blood Music by Greg Bear
- Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Olena Bormashenko
- Stoner by John Williams
- Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clark
- The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas
- The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
- The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross
- The Fuller Memorandum by Charles Stross
- Sundiver by David Brin
- Startide Rising by David Brin
- Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clark
- The Uplift War by David Brin
- Brightness Reef by David Brin
- Infinity’s Shore by David Brin
- Heaven’s Reach by David Brin
- The Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Before anyone asks, I don’t know how much I’d recommend the Uplift series. I mostly kept reading cause I wanted it to FINALLY pay off. There’s great concepts in there but some of it is a slog. There’s definitely parts that from less aware time too is probably the nicest way I’ll put it lol.