Fantasy

Babel by R. F. Kuang, really enjoying it. I've been trying to learn a second language this year, and the idea that determining the relationship between languages can be a source of magic is very fun.

Also, the Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin. I understand it's a good faith attempt to examine 1969 America's notions of gender and sex, but 50 years on, the age is showing. The default pronoun for all these non-gendered characters being 'he/him' scratches my brain continually.