Please tell me about your favorite books, in list form

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I want to buy a whole fuck off stack of books to just pull from and read.

Please give me a list of books you've enjoyed.

Preferably fiction, no other genre restrictions.

Preferably released within the last 5 years, but I'm not going to stop you from telling me about older books you've really loved.

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I've read beloved and it is good.

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I'll emphasise the "whole fuck off stack" bit, over the "last 5 years" part.

- The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. In particular the following books: Mort, Sourcery, Wyrd Sisters, Men at Arms, Interesting Times, Feet of Clay, Jingo, Monstrous Regiment, Going Postal, Making Money. (But really, all 40 are good.)

- Agatha Christie books. Especially the Poirot ones (but really all of them).

I have a bunch of books in grabbing distance from my bed right now, but they're either non-fiction (maths and Marxism), or in Greek. The only exception is Star Warped by A3R Roberts (Adam Roberts), which is a parody of the original and prequel Star Wars trilogies. So, if that sounds like something you'd like, there you go.

I've definitely read every poirot and I don't particularly care for terry pratchett unfortunately.

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Bonus points now awarded for anything that is not in the fantasy genre you god damned nerds.

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Thank you for your contributions to my first acquisition.

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I've definitely read most of Le Guin's work before including the dispossessed.

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I wasn't a huge fan.

Spoiler: discussion with minor spoilers

I felt like a lot of it just felt very similar to me to name of the wind in terms of the entire first half of the plot and the characters. The second half felt really rushed and under explained to me. I felt like there really wasn't super good justification for why the characters were making almost all of the extremely drastic choices they were making which made it so my immersion was broken somewhat. I just fundamentally didn't understand all of everyones motivation.

I compare this with babel where I felt like the plot was super unique and I felt all of the characters had very consistent and well developed reasons for wanting and doing the things they did.

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To the general population: I am receiving that previously posted screenshot of books today. What should I read first?

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I have read infinite jest.

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Ydra destroyed by facts and logic

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Thanks!

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I appreciate how female author focused everyone has been.

Unrelated to this project I noticed a while back that the vast majority of books I have read in my lifetime are by men and I'd like to change that.