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Neuromancer moves faster than some movies. Absolutely worth rereading

I've read Terry Pratchett's Night Watch three times, currently reading The Color of Magic for the first time and then I'm going to re-read Mort

I've read Ellen Raskin's The Westing Game three times, but that was for school. Pretty good children's mystery book, though

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

I have all discworld books, I would definitely reread most of them. I just reread The Hail Mary Project.

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.

Project Hail Mary was amazing. Can't wait for the movie too.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

by Robert M. Pirsig

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.”

The Dark Tower series. All of them

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.

Lockstep by Karl Schroeder Hard sci-fi about how a intergalactic empire being run without developing any faster than light technology.

The Martian. I’ve read it twice, and would love to read it again. It’s so good.

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

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.

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.

Lord Of The Rings.
He Who Fights With Monsters.
Thrawn.
The Hunt For Red October.
The Cardinal of the Kremlin.

So many I will give another listen to.

Most of The Culture series

Adam Levin's The Instructions

Ecclesiastes

Philip K. Dick's Galactic Pot-Healer — actually most Dick outside of A Scanner Darkly

Neal Stephenson's... well, anything, but especially Zodiac, Anthem, and Diamond Age

Brian Daley's Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds

Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood and The Blind Assassin

Anything by Ursula LeGuin, ever

Hugh McLeod's Ignore Everybody

Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series

Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Trilogy

A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers

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?"

Speaker for the Dead

Eisenhorn

Count of Monte Cristo

The Emperor of All Maladies

Moby Dick

Lords of Silence

All Honorable Men: History of the war in Lebanon

Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology

The Biology of Cancer (Weinberg)

Japan to 1600

History of Medieval Russia (Martin)

The Baltic: A History

On War (Clausewitz)

The Back Channel

Timbuktu (Villiers)

Sorry if this is too many, just looked at my book app for ones I keep reading.

Edit: Fuck it, I'm having fun. Here are a few more I remembered while roasting a bowl.

Dune

Amulet of Samarkand

Venice (Madden)

The Golden Compass

First and Only (Abnett) - read the first omnibus

Harrisons Manual of Medicine 18th ed

Gomorrah (Saviano)

The Gunpowder Age (Tonio)

The Money Illusion (Sumner)

Just done a reread of these and would gladly reread again.

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (all 5 books in the series)

They are short enough that you could easily read all of them in a couple months at a steady pace.

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