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What’s a book you’d like to read next year, either a newly published book in 2024 or a book that you didn’t get to this year?

I’ll start:

The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes (2024 pub. date) & A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (not new 😉).
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@Likewise @bookstodon I really want (hope) to dive into the "The Book of the New Sun" series by Gene Wolfe. I read the first book a while ago but want to start it over now that I have all the books.

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Top 10 I read this year, in no particular order. No rereads.

The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville

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2/10
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut

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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

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4/10
Trust by Hernan Diaz

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5/10
How Will Capitalism End? by Wolfgang Streeck

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6/10
Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris

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7/10
His Name Was Death by Rafael Bernal
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8/10
Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee

"And if that is not to be, let there still be, to the last gratitude, unbounded, heartfelt gratitude, for having been granted a spell in this world of wonders."

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9/10
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

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10/10
A Heart So White by Javier Marías
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What are you reading this week?

The 3 I’m in the middle of:

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
Mary Crow by Kathleen Grissom
Orfeo by Richard Powers
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@likewise @bookstodon I went for The Double by Saramago. I'm one third in. It's very literary; long sentences, pages upon pages without paragraph breaks, dialogue is written in one single sentence with commas as only punctuation. Quite a bit of breaking of the fourth wall as well. It's not the easiest read, but it's not a slog. I keep picking it up. 🙂

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I've been interested in Awake for a while but haven't gotten to it yet. I just read the synopsis to Sublunar and it sounds really interesting. AND both are part of a trilogy. Has anyone read any of these? @bookstodon https://mailchi.mp/ndbooks/sublunar-by-harald-voetmann?e=fd59b3851a

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A few years ago I read Thinking in Education by Matthew Lipman and I remember that I found it so good that I took a bunch of notes and transcribed whole passages. Recently, I came to think of the book and went back to my notes. It's so good! It's about teaching thinking and resoning skills to children but imo it's just as useful for adults. I need to get a copy of my own.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/thinking-in-education/C96667BA6F51079D8AA8D3983C57581C# @bookstodon

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Finally finished The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons. This was a bit of a slog I have to say.

You know when you watch a soap opera for a while and then you stop watching it for a couple of weeks and when you get back they are still at the same plotline they were weeks ago? It's like nothing happened in between. This book was kinda like that for me. @bookstodon

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I'm barely past the introduction and this book is already blowing my mind. @bookstodon

"Enthusiastic hard work must be culturally defined and recognized as test and proof of individual value, corresponding to a meritocratic worldview that explains inequality with differences in effort or ability."

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@bookstodon A good (and imo satisfying) explanation/summary of capitalism in the West since WWII and of how we got to where we are. I enjoyed this one quite a bit.
Edit: By "enjoyed" I mean I read it with great interest. 🙂

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