Art of The Deal Hey its fantasy right?

Karmic Traces by Eliot Weinberger

An Immense World. Listen to it if you can, Ed Yong reads his own amazing work.

Capital: The Eruption of Delhi is engaging, interesting and easy to read. Been recommending it non stop a.co/d/3sFUjsf

John Ganz. “When The Clock Broke.” Really good political history of the conservative movement in the 90s.

Stick is one of my favorite Elmore Leonard books. Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen also very fun.

I’ve been reading Arguably by Christopher Hitchens. Great collection if essays, wit sharper than a razor blade

I'm reading Chris Hayes' the Siren's Call at the moment. I don't know if you should, but that's what I'm reading.

I've been enjoying the SLOW HORSES series recently.

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Frankenstein Enterprises, the novel of labor market horror and cannibalistic UBI. (Apologies for the cheesy self-promotion but I'd be genuinely curious to hear your thoughts on it. Happy to send you a copy if you're interested.)

David Lodge

Yes! Author, Author is a favorite. Also compelled to reread Home Truths every so often.

some poetry (Yeats is on my roster at the moment). some murder mysteries (Detective Kindaichi Mysteries for example) some popular economics (I've read A splendid exchange over the summer while enjoying a glass of something spicy and thinking about the Spice Islands).

This is pretty cool:

REFORM, REVOLUTION, REACTION by Vervaet DOMINATION AND THE ARTS OF RESISTANCE by Scott ENGINE SUMMER by Crowley

also, have fun!

To The Lighthouse

Any Vonnegut book. I particularly enjoyed Cat’s Cradle.

Blood Telegram

Non-fiction: Prequel (Rachel Maddow) Fiction: Henry Himself and/or Emily Alone (Stewart O'Nan) Enjoy your vacation!

the shadow of the torturer

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Any Francis Spufford

Aztec by Gary Jennings

Summer Lightening

78 Degrees and Bloody by George Prior

Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog) by Jerome K. Jerome

I enjoyed Connie Willis' riff on this more than the original -- "To Say Nothing of the Dog: or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last".

Infrastructure by Brian Hayes. Explains every feature of the human/industrial environment.

The bible

Apple in China

still life of woodpecker

Tainted Cup

Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin, with a _twist_!

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Freedom by Jonathan Frantzen

What kind of books do you like to read on vacation?

Better, Faster, Farther by Maggie Mertens @maggiemertens.bsky.social Best book I've read this year.

The Magic Mountain is all about going on vacation.

Love that book - no subtext. Just a guy visiting the mountains.

Silence by Shusaku Endo. Also, I am hearing good things about this kid named Vonnegut.

Hyperion

The Milagro Beanfield War. Hilarious. us.macmillan.com/books/978080...

Any John Sandford novel.

Roots

Or East of Eden

I need to read East of Eden I’m embarrassed I haven’t.

It's really good but I think Steinbeck had some issues with women

Oh, yeah -- he very much did!

Same.

Denise Mina is always good. Glasgow. Mystery.

A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Garviel Kay for not-Italian Renaissance political and personal intrigue A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine for Space Armenians dealing with Space Aztecs and extremely beautiful and technical prose

Charle's Mann's 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created is an extremely engaging history book. It's about The Columbia exchange and certain emergent forms of globalized homogenization, and discusses topics such as malaria, fertilizer, rubber, Mao's disastrous agricultural projects.

Perhaps the best novel ever written would be a good choice?

The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer. Surprisingly funny for a book about authoritarianism research.

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Foner’s Reconstruction, Destructive Creation by Mark Wilson, Ages of American Capitalism by Jonathan Levy, anything my Mieko Kawakami, Yoko Ogawa, Hilary Mantel

Oldie, The Killer Angels.

The shahnameh, on account of everyone should read it

Read project hail mary yet? Same guy that did the martian and is getting a movie. But really recommend reading the book before even watching the trailer, cuz the trailer spoils major twists

All 33 volumes of Ascendance of a Bookworm, because I assume you read too much non-fiction.

Alien Clay

Memories, Dreams, and Reflections by Carl Jung.

I bet you're fun at parties lol

If it’s not too crass to self-promote? I wrote a fantasy novel that is fun if you like hating on corporate America in general and finance bros in particular. It’s called Marginal Virtue, and yes the title is a very bad industry pun books2read.com/marginalvirtue

Piranesi Susannah Clarke

Bad Company by Megan Greenwell Five Decembers by James Kestrel Range by David Epstein Slow Productivity by Cal Newport Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski

The Stories of John Cheever (first published 1978). Big anthology of his short stories including a number of his best known & most highly regarded, like The Swimmer. Great read, imo

sometimes a great notion by ken kesey

when we cease to understand the world by benjamin labatut

my year of rest and relaxation by ottessa moshfegh

orange world and other stories by karen russell

Do u want to have fun or to learn something and maybe be sad after?

both

Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey. Farsi marriage law, 1920s India (politics and culture), well-plotted mystery. Beautifully read audiobook.

Learn something: Arabs (Mackintosh-Smith) Baboon Metaphysics (Cheney & Seyfarth) Black Earth (Snyder) The Invention of Science (Wootton) The Price of Victory (Rogers) Fun: Lent (Walton) Witch King (Wells) The Siege of Krishnapur (Farrell) Piranesi (Clarke) Metropolitan (Williams)

Sad learning: Empire of Pain, about the Sacklers Dense learning: Gödel, Escher, Bach Light learning: Beyond Measure Memoir with feelings: Ducks (graphic novel) Fun graphic novel: Digger Romance: Swordheart Fantasy (funny): Mort Sci-fi: Murderbot (any) Fantasy: A Sorceress Comes to Call

"Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands", by Kate Beaton is _terrific_. I'd known her by her comic graphic novels. This is a memoir of her struggles to support herself after college, before getting her art career of the ground -- and it's a portrait of the miserable toll of the tar sands oil industry.

The Vlad Taltos novels are good.

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi

Peter Sis's " Starry Messenger; Galileo Galilei" is much more than a biography of Galileo. It has award winning art, copies of Galileo work, quotes from inquisition documents. The story is layered and the courage of Galileo to stand by what he sees with his own eyes continues to have meaning today.

The Last Battle by Stephen Harding. Still can’t believe it hasn’t been made into a movie.

ringworld

Killers of the Flower Moon

How long of a vacation? Here's a book of 1100 pages to help you meet your "thinking about the Roman Empire daily" quota. I'm currently half-way through and it's very engaging, highly opinionated, but candidly, only of interest to people who already think about the Roman Empire daily.

The Fifth Season Stupidly good Scifi (bleeds into fantasy a little), very interesting post-post-post apocalyptic society

Ada Palmer, TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING and sequels. Rare SF that imagines new social arrangements. Karl Schroeder, STEALING WORLDS. Near-future SF where augmented reality RPGs get used for resource management.

If you haven't already started the Murderbot series: Action, Found Family, Free Will, Fuck Capitalism -- all in novel form! If you like unreliable narrators satirizing publishing, RF Kuang's Yellowface. Hilarious British mystery epistolary novel, Thus Was Adonis Murdered, Sarah Caudwell

The into their labours trilogy by John Berger

Go dog go

‘The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store’ by James McBride.

I'm reading caros lbjs we can have a book club