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Clemens p suter’s two journeys series.

A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers

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.

Nobody has yet mentioned A Gentleman in Moscow, so I will. It's fairly recent, but I know I'll read it again in a couple of years.

I’m not a big rereader, but at some point I’d like to read through the expanse and the locked tomb again

The Dispossessed

Left Hand of Darkness

I plan to reread all Clive Barker novels a second time, at some point in my life. His prose is just so unique and has an effortless beauty about it that I've yet to find in another author.

Plot can only really draw you in once... when you already know what happens in a story it doesn't have the same pull it had the first time. But prose has a lasting appeal, one that can be revisited. The indescribable quality of the way that words can make you feel is unique to the relationship between reader and writer.

The Sandman Slim series

https://www.goodreads.com/series/46424-sandman-slim

And

The Dresden Files series

https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The+Dresden+Files+series

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I should probably give The Illuminatus! Trilogy another read.

Books. Multiple.

The Practice Effect by David Brin. It's an isekai (it's not anime, but it's an isekai) where things get MORE useful when you use them, reversing entropy.

Sentenced to Prism. MC is sent on a mission to a world inhabited by silicate based life forms. Shenanigans ensue. Mildly autistic coded MC.

Resurrection Inc. The dead are resurrected as mindless zombie robots. Sometimes it goes wrong and the dead regain their memories. The MC does. Hijinks ensue.

edit - more

Mistborn Chronicles - an orphan gets super powers in a very messed up world. A group recruits her for a heist.

World War Z has hit differently after major life stages: College, marriage, kids, global pandemic, etc.

Snow Crash Rendezvous with Rama Foundation (all of them) Moonwalking with Einstein (non function about memory champions)

Also, I keep meaning to make time to re-read some required reading books from HS: Where the Red Fern Grows, Call of the Wild, Flowers for Algernon. It's probably all going to be painfully YA, but I've thought about the stories often over my life, and they deserve a re-read.

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

I re-read it a few times already, and even though written in the 50s it holds up quite well (except for the total absence of computers). Its a brilliant read. Edit: to clarify, I meant the societal trends he projected are quite fascinating. Also the transition to a post scarcity society. It's not very prophetic obviously. :)

Malazan Book of the Fallen.

The Count of Montecristo.

Too many to count. Foundation trilogy, anything by Heinlein, Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke or various other classic sci fi writers, any Conan book or story, any Jeeves book or story, The Mote in God's Eye by Niven & Pournelle, Mary Lasswell's Mrs. Feeley books (pretty obscure), anything by HP Lovecraft...

'The Count of Monte Cristo' is one I look forward to reading every few years.

Easier to say which books I WOULDN'T read again.

The Art of War in the Middle Ages. Just interminable.

There was another book, I can't recall the name of it unfortunately. It was about ethical non-monogamy but went into such blatantly STUPID territory that I classed it as "should not be set aside lightly, it should be thrown with great force."

One of the more stupid statements was about how gangbang porn is prevalent (multiple men, one woman), but the inverse doesn't exist. I was like "Fuck off, you aren't looking very hard then..."

Edit My wife assures me it was "Sex at Dawn".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_at_Dawn