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The Malazan Book of the Fallen saga is so long that I tend to forget most of the plot of the earlier books by the time I finish.

Synchronicity because I just put a book on hold at the library that I'm going to read again. It is called "Galileo's Dream" by Kim Stanley Robinson, and it's half historical fiction, half science fiction about: "what if future humans living on the Galilean moons of Jupiter discovered time travel and needed Galileo's help?"

Neuromancer moves faster than some movies. Absolutely worth rereading

Infinite Jest. Takes about like 2 years to read though lol.

Clemens p suter’s two journeys series.

There are so many, but here are a few from the top of my head:

The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien.

The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien.

Time Enough For Love, Robert A. Heinlein.

Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein.

Don Quijote, Miguel de Cervantes.

Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri.

Dune, Frank Herbert.

Paradise Lost, John Milton.

Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke.

The Riftwar Saga, Raymond E. Feist.

The bridge trilogy.

The philosophical strangler by Eric Flint, absolutely.

The bone comic book omnibus from Jeff smith Bone omnibus amazon link

The book is basically Tolkien+Disney, it is aimed at a kid audience but it tackles some heavy topics that adults will enjoy, its great because it tackles metaphysics a lot in ways that are interesting for all ages.

A few I've read at least twice and will definitely read again at some point:

• Catch 22
• Infinite Jest
• The Windup Bird Chronicle
• The Handmaid's Tale
• Full 5 part Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy
• His Dark Materials Trilogy (plus the Book of Dust series, if we ever get that last one!!)
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Brave New World
• Slaughterhouse Five

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

by Robert M. Pirsig

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

The Murderbot diaries.

This is also an awesome thread. I see a lot of books I love and a lot that I'm interested in.

I'm on my 13th or so read of Blindsight. Think I've unpacked it all, finally. I feel like a fruitcake having read it and *Echopraxia" so many times, but damn they're deep.

Not a fan of all of Watt's novels, but those two feel like he packed something to think about into nearly every single sentence. Easy read if you want to go fast, or, take your time and dig in. Never read a novel(s) that could go both ways.

Fuck me. Just talking about it is getting me hype for another run.

Blindsight:

"I brought her flowers one dusky Tuesday evening when the light was perfect. I pointed out the irony of that romantic old tradition— the severed genitalia of another species, offered as a precopulatory bribe—and then I recited my story just as we were about to fuck.

To this day, I still don't know what went wrong.”

Echopraxia:

“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there were`t any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid. Even here in the 21st century we can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. Even now we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us.”

Several that others have already mentioned, and:

• The Golden Age Oecumene, by John C Wright
• The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, by Barry Hughart
• Any and all of The Culture novels
• The Hobbit, and TLotR trilogy. Used to read them every summer, for about twenty years.
• Armor, by John Steakley. Sadly, the only sci-fi novel he ever wrote, and one of only two books he ever authored, IIRC.
• The Jean le Flambeur trilogy by Hannu Rajaniemi, which is on my list to read again this year.
• A Wizard of Earthsea trilogy, which I'm about to read again as soon as my wife finished them.
• The Chronicles of Narnia, which I used to read frequently when younger. I'm almost afraid to pick them up again now, for fear that they won't be as good (for an adult) as I remember.