What are you reading this year 2020?

[trappedslider]

Finally picked up The Tower of Nero (Trials of Apollo, The Book Five),so i'll start reading it tonight. I love the fact that one of my favorite authors, Harry Turttledove is willing to interact via twitter with his readers/followers. I asked him a question a couple of months back about a detail in one of his series and he answered me.

 

[Zardnaar]

Wrong thread my bad.

 

[Richards]

I'm still reading my "modern" science fiction collection from 1938-1958, but it's a larger hardcover book and I'm off on an overnight business trip tomorrow, during which I prefer to read paperbacks because they're smaller and take up less room. So I swung by the library book sale yesterday and picked up Hell's Kitchen by Jefferey Deaver, the third in one of his first series, this one about a movie location scout who frequently finds himself involved in various types of trouble. This time it's a series of arsons he gets involved in trying to stop.

Johnathan

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I finished War for the Oaks yesterday. It really was as good as people said, and influential. And it gets so much right about the magic of being in a band, of writing a song, of being on stage.

Now I'm reading Philip Jose Farmer's A Private Cosmos. Shouldn't take too long, which is good because my copy of Evan Winter's The Fires of Vengeance just arrived!

 

[KahlessNestor]

Finished reading Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity -- And Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsey.

Still reading Exploring Eberron by Keith Baker.

Still reading The Shepherd's Crown, the last Terry Pratchett novel.

Still reading Night of the Assassins: The Untold Story of Hitler's Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin by Howard Blum.

Finished reading Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

Started reading Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson.

 

[Blue]

I'm seeing people discuss books I come back to time and time again. War for the Oaks. The Stars My Destination. (Though "The Demolished Man" I think beats even that.) Soon I Will Be Invincible.

I do reread books, but I've got some that I just reread a lot more often than others. They aren't even my favorites, some I just go back to. What are yours?

Here's some of mine in addition to the above.

• Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga.
• Emerald Eyes & The Long Run by Daniel Keyes Moran
• Wearing the Cape series by Marion Harmon
• The Dragon Never Sleeps by Glen Cook (same Glen Cook as The Black Company and Garrett, P.I.)
• The first N Honor Harrington books, before it jumps the shark.
• U.S. Robotics era Asimov robot short stories.
• Pliocene Exile saga by Julian May
• The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
• Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson
• Legend by David Gemmell

Gosh, I'm surprised I have time to read anything new.

Mind you, some of these are on my favorites list, but some of them aren't but still occasionally have this irresistible draw. The Dragon Never Sleeps I can pick up in the middle, or only read the A plot or the B plot. And I have a lot of favorites that aren't on my reread regularly (every few years) list.

So I'll repeat my question from above: what are your go-to rereads?

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Top of the list is definitely Tolkien. For years, I would routinely cycle from The Silmarillion to The Hobbit to the Lord of the Rings.

Other than that:

J.G. Ballard's Crash
Moorcock's The Elric Saga
Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea
Billy Martin's Lost Souls and Drawing Blood
William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch
Ellis' American Psycho
Bradbury's The Halloween Tree
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Leiber's Fafhrd & Grey Mouser books (specifically the first four)
R.E. Howard's Conan yarns

So I'll repeat my question from above: what are your go-to rereads?

 

[Eyes of Nine]

I'm seeing people discuss books I come back to time and time again. War for the Oaks. The Stars My Destination. (Though "The Demolished Man" I think beats even that.) Soon I Will Be Invincible.

I do reread books, but I've got some that I just reread a lot more often than others. They aren't even my favorites, some I just go back to. What are yours?

Here's some of mine in addition to the above.

• Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga.
• Emerald Eyes & The Long Run by Daniel Keyes Moran
• Wearing the Cape series by Marion Harmon
• The Dragon Never Sleeps by Glen Cook (same Glen Cook as The Black Company and Garrett, P.I.)
• The first N Honor Harrington books, before it jumps the shark.
• U.S. Robotics era Asimov robot short stories.
• Pliocene Exile saga by Julian May
• The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
• Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson
• Legend by David Gemmell

Gosh, I'm surprised I have time to read anything new.

Mind you, some of these are on my favorites list, but some of them aren't but still occasionally have this irresistible draw. The Dragon Never Sleeps I can pick up in the middle, or only read the A plot or the B plot. And I have a lot of favorites that aren't on my reread regularly (every few years) list.

So I'll repeat my question from above: what are your go-to rereads?

I haven't re-read anything in a long time; too many good new books. But desert island books - probably
Oz books,
Bujold's Chalion and Vor series;
Tolkien Hobbit and LotR;
a kids baseball book called Heart for Baseball;
Sandman GN series;
I can re-read Agatha Christie and Rex Stout and Ngaio Marsh over and over since they all start to blend into each other and I always forget the answers (except Roger Ackroyd).
That's off the top of my head...

 

[HawaiiSteveO]

Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson in preparation for Rhythm of War out this coming Tuesday . Same day as Tasha’s... lots to read!

As a side note, recall seeing something about interactive vampire storyline book ... details escape me that sounded intriguing.

 

[Richards]

I just started Watchlist, which is pretty different: it's a series of two novellas, The Chopin Manuscript and The Copper Bracelet, written as serial thrillers: Jeffery Deaver, who came up with the main characters and the concept of each story, starts and ends each novella but each chapter is written by a different thriller writer. Contributors include Lee Child, Joseph Finder, Lisa Scottoline...there are 22 authors in all. It ought to be interesting.

Johnathan