the_wooden_book

active reader, loving any fantasy or sci-fi adventures

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My Taste

Age of Myth (The Legends of the First Empire, #1)

A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)

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The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)

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Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)

Joe Abercrombie

The end is coming. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him but it's going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the King of the Northmen still stands firm, and there's only one man who can stop him. His oldest friend, and his oldest enemy. It's past time for the Bloody-Nine to come home. With too many masters and too little time, Superior Glokta is fighting a different kind of war. A secret struggle in which no one is safe, and no one can be trusted. His days with a sword are far behind him. It's a good thing blackmail, threats and torture still work well enough. Jezal dan Luthar has decided that winning glory is far too painful, and turned his back on soldiering for a simple life with the woman he loves. But love can be painful too, and glory has a nasty habit of creeping up on a man when he least expects it. While the King of the Union lies on his deathbead, the peasants revolt and the nobles scramble to steal his crown. No one believes that the shadow of war is falling across the very heart of the Union. The First of the Magi has a plan to save the world, as he always does. But there are risks. There is no risk more terrible, after all, than to break the First Law...

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d_Iffer

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About what percentage of the books you read are ones you own?

Since we're about halfway through the year, I was looking at some of my reading stats, and I realized that less than 1% of the books I've read this year are books that I own.

About what percentage of books that you read do you own, and why do you think that this number is what it is, high or low?

Personally, I think I'm easily drawn in by the shiny, so if something strikes my interest, I end up immediately checking to see if it's available in a digital format from one of my libraries and either start reading it right away, or put it on hold. Then I'm at the whims of my incoming holds. The deadline of books being due also motivates me to actually read them, versus when books are in my house or digitally purchased, I often take them for granted, and then they languish for years 😬

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Broken Bonds (The Bonds that Tie, #1)

J. Bree

After the death of my mother and her Bonded, I was relieved to find my own Bonds. I was sure everything would be okay if I had them. It wasn’t. The fate of our people is in my hands and I know we’re better off if I’m alone. After five years on the run, I’m caught and dragged back to face the men I ran away from. I thought I was doing the right thing. Now, I’m not so sure. North, Nox, Gryphon, Atlas, and Gabe may never forgive me but one thing is for sure. I won’t ever forgive myself. *Broken Bonds is a full length reverse harem PNR novel with material that may be difficult for some readers. This book will end on a cliffhanger. It's recommended for 18+ due to language and sexual situations.

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idaquaries

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Great Books with Horrible Covers

Just saw a post about which books didn't live up to their beautiful covers, so I wanted to ask the community if you have read any books with horrible covers that turned out to be really great?

Don't judge a book by its cover! (Although I definitely do)

I think my most recent read was Trust by Hernan Diaz (not the Riverhead cover though, that one is gorgeous, but I've never seen that one where I live!)

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The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)

Matt Dinniman

70%

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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)

N.K. Jemisin

88%

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babevamp

books that didn't live up to their covers?

i've read so many books simply for their beautiful covers and been sorely disappointed in the actual quality of the book 😭 has anyone else had this experience? and with what books?

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chanberryjuice

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Anyone else totally enthralled by their current read!?

I am currently trying to pace myself with Thrall, but it happens to fit exactly what I’ve been in the mood for. It’s hard not to pick it back up and inhale the rest. Even if the remaining 13% of the book turned out meh, I’ll appreciate the 5 star time I had to this point 🤩 Anyone else absolutely LOVING their current read and what book is it!?? 😍😍

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The Unicorn Hunters

Katherine Arden

With her country's future and her own life at stake, an orphaned duchess must journey into a world of myth and there discover a power that may be her salvation—or her demise—in this enchanting new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Winternight Trilogy and The Warm Hands of Ghosts. Anne of Brittany was a child when her realm was invaded, her home besieged, and her royal father driven to his death. Now her treasury is empty, her land occupied by her enemies, and she is ordered, under threat of renewed war, to become queen of her conquerors and marry the King of France. This marriage means her country’s annexation. But Anne promised her father that Brittany would never be conquered. Defiantly, she betroths herself in secret to France’s greatest enemy. But in a world where courts may spy on each other by magic, there is only one way to solemnize this illicit union. Anne takes her court deep into a legendary forest, where the court diviners’ skill cannot reach. The world thinks they are only a hunting party, coursing after unicorns. But that is a lie, a trick, a feint. No one in living memory has seen a unicorn. All Anne wants is this secret wedding, which is her only hope of salvation. But when against all hope a unicorn appears and a stranger out of legend stumbles from the trees and falls at her feet, Anne is plunged into a world of enchantment where a doomed sovereign might find the power to change her own and her country’s destiny—or be lost in the shadows forever.

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House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski

A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

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Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon

Matt Dinniman

A LitRPG Adventure Fantasy meets horror in this gore-soaked, standalone LitRPG adventure!It had seemed like a dream offer. Paint a mural. $15,000. How could Duke not jump at the chance? But it came with a catch, as these things often do. He had to first see what his client wanted him to paint. A private server. A digital playground. An alliance of the world’s most sadistic, most depraved minds. A place to bring their prey, to hone their skills. Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon. Survival horror. One of the most brutal, most terrifying full-immersion games ever made. A place where fantasy characters such as elves and dwarves clash with technology, where giant monsters roam the hills, entrusted with protecting the gates of heaven from the demons who would tear it all down. A game where one plays the last of the battlefield surgeons: a healer tasked with keeping the behemoths alive at all costs. But on this server, they don’t care about the game. That’s not why they’re here. They’ve come because of the game’s most unique feature: Full pain. Realistic anatomy. The ability to bring their victims well beyond the body’s normal breaking point. And most importantly, the ability to bring them back and do it all over again. Trapped in a bloody, merciless nightmare, Duke only has one goal. To survive. And in order to survive, he must play the game. He must win the game. And to do that, he must become the most cruel, most ruthless monster of them all.This brutal, 200,000 word, standalone LitRPG novel features the following:A co-op survival horror game where fantasy-type characters and technology clash. Medium-heavy stats.Lots of violence.Stomach-churning gore.No-holds-barred kaiju battles.Torture-happy, paladin dwarf toddlers.22 individual races, each with their own magical system.A pet tapeworm named Banksy.Dozens of kaiju, each with their own distinctive form and abilities.Demons and angels, and you can’t trust a damn one of them.About 200,000 words--the length of 3 books! No harem.

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Jun 28, 2026

A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl)

4.5

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0

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A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl)

Matt Dinniman

It’s off to the races in the explosive eighth book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. As chaos and mass panic spread outside the dungeon in the wake of Faction Wars, Carl and Donut find themselves on the tenth floor, where they’re forced to compete in a surprisingly normal set of tasks. Well, normal for the dungeon. Races. Get from point A to point B, and don’t come in last. After each race, they pick an upgrade for their vehicle and the track gets more challenging. It all seems a little too normal, a little too simple. Ignore those strange glitches that are occurring with increasing frequency. Don’t listen to those whispers about what’s happening on the mysterious eleventh floor, something the system AI calls A Parade of Horribles. Nobody, not even the showrunners, knows what that means. Just that the AI has ominously dubbed it “a coming-out party for the ages.” Everything is fine, Crawler. I repeat, everything is fine. Carl hates that it’s business as usual. The rules of this floor have taken away his agency. That just will not do. So Carl is planning a party of his own. It’s a plan so dangerous, so insane, he can’t even consult his friends lest the AI put a stop to it. Because if it goes wrong, it’s not just the end of Carl and Donut. No. The stakes are higher than they’ve ever been.

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Re-reading books.

I am not that big on re-reading, as I always want to tackle a new world on my neverending TBR, and was wondering how others do it. I often hear people only keep books if they would re-read them someday. I am big on collecting books, but also only the ones I find especially good. However, when I look at my shelf I feel more of an achievment to have read them than the urge to re-read them. Especially with long series. How much and which books do you re-read? Do you re-read only your favorits? Do you have certain books you read every year? How many of your yearly books are new vs re-reads?

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Re-reading books.

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What book should be graphic novelized?

I’ve recently gotten into some graphic novels and manga and it got me wishing some of my favourite books (especially fantasy ones!) could be released as graphic novels.

What book(s) would you choose to get as a graphic novel if you could? Id love to see The Priory of the Orange Tree be a graphic novel!! There are so many beautiful scenes and I feel like the world is so rich!

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