KattyB

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Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

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Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

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Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)

Edward Ashton

Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there’s a mission that’s too dangerous—even suicidal—the crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. After six deaths, Mickey7 understands the terms of his deal…and why it was the only colonial position unfilled when he took it. On a fairly routine scouting mission, Mickey7 goes missing and is presumed dead. By the time he returns to the colony base, surprisingly helped back by native life, Mickey7’s fate has been sealed. There’s a new clone, Mickey8, reporting for Expendable duties. The idea of duplicate Expendables is universally loathed, and if caught, they will likely be thrown into the recycler for protein. Mickey7 must keep his double a secret from the rest of the colony. Meanwhile, life on Niflheim is getting worse. The atmosphere is unsuitable for humans, food is in short supply, and terraforming is going poorly. The native species are growing curious about their new neighbors, and that curiosity has Commander Marshall very afraid. Ultimately, the survival of both lifeforms will come down to Mickey7. That is, if he can just keep from dying for good.

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The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir

Vivian Gornick

A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a city (New York) that has done the same. Running steadily through the book is Vivian Gornick's exchange of more than twenty years with Leonard, a gay man who is sophisticated about his own unhappiness, whose friendship has "shed more light on the mysterious nature of ordinary human relations than has any other intimacy" she has known. The exchange between Gornick and Leonard acts as a Greek chorus to the main action of the narrator's continual engagement on the street with grocers, derelicts, and doormen; people on the bus, cross-dressers on the corner, and acquaintances by the handful. In Leonard she sees herself reflected plain; out on the street she makes sense of what she sees. Written as a narrative collage that includes meditative pieces on the making of a modern feminist, the role of the flaneur in urban literature, and the evolution of friendship over the past two centuries, The Odd Woman and the City beautifully bookends Gornick's acclaimed Fierce Attachments, in which we first encountered her rich relationship with the ultimate metropolis.

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Lesbiandisaster23

Is reading meant to be political?

I feel like on TikTok and Instagram this has become a sensitive topic but do you think reading is inherently political? Or do you think politics should stay out of book discussions and overall reading?

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Anyone watching The Summer I Turned Pretty?

The show has me in a chokehold, but no one around me has been watching it so I have no one to debate Team Conrad/Jeremiah with 🥹 Have you guys been watching it too? I've been Team Jere in S1 & 2 but S3 has been a roller coaster ride 🤯 Any book recommendations for similar love triangles / character dynamics while waiting for the next episode?

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The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)

miawgicalreads

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arieznocturne

Have you ever changed your reading challenge number half way through the year?

At the beginning I set my reading challenge at 24 books, thinking "on average, two books per month sounds like an achievable goal". But then not only I had to juggle between work and university, I had to endure a reading slump that stopped me from opening a book from like, april to july. I'm slowly starting to read again and i'm super happy about it but I decided to change my goal from 24 to 12 and it's the first time i've done this. I know life is life and sometimes you have to slow down a bit but I guess this hit me because during the pandemic my reading numbers sky-rocketed because (sadly) I had a lot of time available back then, and ever since my yearly book numbers have dropped. I don't know, any thoughts? Have you ever changed your number in the middle of the year or do you maintain it even if you know you won't make it?

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Missgothics

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Ooo so that’s why everyone has been reading it recently

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Sparklychee

What's your fave albums to read to?

Hi 🤗! I'm looking to expand my reading music selection and would love to know what everyone enjoys listening to. My music tastes kinda vary and the flavor really depends on the scene or energy of the book. Sometimes I just listen to soundtracks and ambience channels, other times I'm knee deep in early 90s RnB, some variation of metal or something in a different language lolll Maybe it's a lil dramatic 🫣 lollll but one way I like to lock in to really exciting scenes is to find music that goes along with it. I'm a visual reader so reading is like watching a movie in my head so maybe that's why 😄. Some of my favs lately are: Sleep Token Gore Dark Tranquility Dayseeker Hurtwave Gojira Deftones Dayshell Siamese Bloodywood Imminence Spiritbox TesseracT Time, The Valuator Light the Torch Underoath Anywho, I'd love to know what you all enjoy!

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Water Moon

Samantha Sotto Yambao

A woman inherits a pawnshop where you can sell your regrets, and then embarks on a magical journey when a charming young physicist wanders into the shop, in this dreamlike and enchanting fantasy novel. On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see a cozy ramen restaurant. And only the chosen ones—those who are lost—will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets. Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first morning as the pawnshop’s new owner to find it ransacked, the shop’s most precious acquisition stolen, and her father missing. And then into the shop stumbles a charming stranger, quite unlike its other customers, for he offers help instead of seeking it. Together, they must journey through a mystical world to find Hana’s father and the stolen choice—by way of rain puddles, rides on paper cranes, the bridge between midnight and morning, and a night market in the clouds. But as they get closer to the truth, Hana must reveal a secret of her own—and risk making a choice that she will never be able to take back.

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Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.

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Blood Over Bright Haven

M.L. Wang

Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have come calling. An orphan since the age of four, Sciona has always had more to prove than her fellow students. For twenty years, she has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic, fueled by a mad desire to achieve the impossible: to be the first woman ever admitted to the High Magistry. When she finally claws her way up the ranks to become a highmage, however, she finds that her challenges have just begun. Her new colleagues will stop at nothing to let her know she is unwelcome, beginning with giving her a janitor instead of a qualified lab assistant. What neither Sciona nor her peers realize is that her taciturn assistant was once more than a janitor; before he mopped floors for the mages, Thomil was a nomadic hunter from beyond Tiran’s magical barrier. Ten years have passed since he survived the perilous crossing that killed his family. But working for a highmage, he sees the opportunity to finally understand the forces that decimated his tribe, drove him from his homeland, and keep the Tiranish in power. Through their fractious relationship, mage and outsider uncover an ancient secret that could change the course of magic forever—if it doesn’t get them killed first. Sciona has defined her life by the pursuit of truth, but how much is one truth worth with the fate of civilization in the balance? A standalone dark academia brimming with mystery, tragedy, and the damning echoes of the past. For fans of Leigh Bardugo, V. E. Schwab, and Fullmetal Alchemist. (Content warnings for gore, sexual assault, and suicidal ideation)

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Fantasy

Welcome!

Hello and welcome to the Epic Sci-Fi and Fantasy Series Quest! I'm so excited this is live for you to enjoy. My goal with this quest is to encourage people to read the heftier series and worlds that the genres have to offer. My criteria is that the series must either by 5+ books OR there's an established world/universe with multiple series, in order to make the list. I looked for a variety of older and newer works, authors, and SFF subgenres as sci-fi and fantasy is diverse and this quest should reflect that. I tried to be kind and made the quest book the FIRST book in series/world, although some are debated, rather than the LAST 😉. If you have any suggestions, please let me know below! I will add to this quest periodically. I'm especially excited to discuss the reading order of some of these with you all as I currently only have Silver in this quest and need to get to work! Happy reading!

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KattyB

Jul 28, 2025

4.5

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.0

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Tiny but Mighty Nonfiction 💡🌎🤏

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Classics to modern nonfiction, all under 300 pages.

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Dancing Girls and Other Stories

Margaret Atwood

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale This splendid volume of short fiction testifies to Margaret Atwood's startlingly original voice, full of a rare intensity and exceptional intelligence. Her men and women still miscommunicate, still remain separate in different rooms, different houses, or even different worlds. With brilliant flashes of fantasy, humor, and unexpected violence, the stories reveal the complexities of human relationships and bring to life characters who touch us deeply, evoking terror and laughter, compassion and recognition--and dramatically demonstrate why Margaret Atwood is one of the most important writers in English today.

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Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories

Ben Fountain

The well-intentioned protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara are caught -- to both disastrous and hilarious effect -- in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. In "Near-Extinct Birds of the Central Cordillera," an ornithologist being held hostage in the Colombian rain forest finds that he respects his captors for their commitment to a cause, until he realizes that the Revolution looks a lot like big business. In "The Good Ones Are Already Taken," the wife of a Special Forces officer battles a Haitian voodoo goddess with whom her husband is carrying on a not-entirely-spiritual relationship. And in "The Lion's Mouth," a disillusioned aid worker makes a Faustian bargain to become a diamond smuggler for the greater good. With masterful pacing and a robust sense of the absurd, each story in Brief Encounters with Che Guevara is a self-contained adventure, steeped in the heady mix of tragedy and danger, excitement and hope, that characterizes countries in transition.

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Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

Martha Wells

It calls itself Murderbot, but only when no one can hear. It worries about the fragile human crew who've grown to trust it, but only where no one can see. It tells itself that they're only a professional obligation, but when they're captured and an old friend from the past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action. Drastic action it is, then.

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Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

KattyB

Jul 27, 2025

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5

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Such a sweet murderbot! I thoroughly enjoyed reading about this sweet bot coming to terms with its humanity and "emotions" and realising it loved its humans/clients. Its internal dialogue is as hilarious as ever. Immediately starting the next book to see what happens and if it makes anymore not friends 😊

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