I’ve been trying to go to the library and read more but I’m out of ideas for what to read next. Help plz.
Hunger by Knut Hamson.
Hamson was a fascist, Nazi sympathizer to be clear but still a great book on poverty and idealistic, self-destructive pride.
Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen.
A very interesting proto-existentialist, late-Romantic novel about a disillusioned young man and some of his relationships.
The Outside by Ada Hoffmann, which is a cool horror tinged space opera about eldritch physics horror, cybernetic angel cops, mutual aid and organising
also
It has lesbians & many other queers in it. Of course it does, I’d never let you down baby
If you like soft scifi then I recommend the Imperial Radch trilogy. Featuring:
- Protagonist with a very interesting backstory (it’s the point of like half of the first book so I won’t spoil)
- A post-gender (?) empire
- A dictator with a networked consciousness so she can be present everywhere
- Default she/her pronouns
- The one true throuple (I ship it!)
- A kind of boring middle book
- Body and brain horror?
- WEIRD aliens! (although you only see them through their proxies)
- Good old aristocracy in space
- Like almost no one is white
- Set thousands of years in the future
edit: everyone is recommending scifi lol
The Dispossessed by Ursual Le Guin is lovely and a perennial favorite of mine.
Been reading Memed My Hawk by Yashar Kemal for awhile now. Solid novel about a Turkish kid who becomes a bandit. Politically excellent. The first few pages are a little slow so don’t let them stop you.
Since I got my first full-time job in years I had this uncontrollable urge to read Michael Crichton’s Sphere. Don’t judge me too harshly. It’s kind of shitty and awesome at the same time? Like it’s almost just an outline for a movie script but it’s still keeping my interest as I’m dying of boredom at work. As a writer I can’t help being impressed by how Crichton throws a twist at you like every five pages for hundreds of pages. A high school friend of mine was obsessed with him.
