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Ryan
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· Feb 15
2025 Reading List
1.) Martyr, Kaveh Akbar
5/5 - I couldn’t put this book down. The whole thing was thought provoking, meaningful, and the ending had me running to Reddit to see what others thought.
1.) Martyr, Kaveh Akbar
5/5 - I couldn’t put this book down. The whole thing was thought provoking, meaningful, and the ending had me running to Reddit to see what others thought.
Bonus points if you add a picture of the cover. I’m a sucker for good cover art
What’s the best book you’ve read this year? I need new recs. My only two 5/5s have been Martyr! And Babel
November 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Bonus points if you add a picture of the cover. I’m a sucker for good cover art
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If you like a magic-system fantasy/dystopia, Will Of The Many was a 4/5 on first read that I'd probably give a 5/5 in hindsight (I think it will depend on if you've read Red Rising), and the sequel was solidly 5/5 for me.
November 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
If you like a magic-system fantasy/dystopia, Will Of The Many was a 4/5 on first read that I'd probably give a 5/5 in hindsight (I think it will depend on if you've read Red Rising), and the sequel was solidly 5/5 for me.
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I think you’d also really like The Great Believers, which was one of my top books from 2023
November 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I think you’d also really like The Great Believers, which was one of my top books from 2023
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I've been raving about 'You Dreamed of Empires' since reading it
November 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I've been raving about 'You Dreamed of Empires' since reading it
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The Shards was excellent and certain bits left me truly breathless/gagged
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The Shards was excellent and certain bits left me truly breathless/gagged
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Actually, I think I also finished The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis and loved it.
November 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Actually, I think I also finished The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis and loved it.
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I feel like you might enjoy Strange Houses by Uketsu, which was a very light read but still creepy enough to be interesting. Bonus: I seem to recall you speak some Japanese, and supposedly the original Japanese is written in accessible language for readers of all ages/skill levels. Cant confirm tho
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I feel like you might enjoy Strange Houses by Uketsu, which was a very light read but still creepy enough to be interesting. Bonus: I seem to recall you speak some Japanese, and supposedly the original Japanese is written in accessible language for readers of all ages/skill levels. Cant confirm tho
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The King Must Die - Mary Renault
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The King Must Die - Mary Renault
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This is such a hard question. If you liked Babel, I'd recommend the entire Poppy War trilogy. That's my probably my favorite read(s) of the year. I almost took a small Kuang break after book 2 but it hurt too good. I had to finish the trilogy.
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is such a hard question. If you liked Babel, I'd recommend the entire Poppy War trilogy. That's my probably my favorite read(s) of the year. I almost took a small Kuang break after book 2 but it hurt too good. I had to finish the trilogy.
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I loved Wild Dark Shore and North Woods
November 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I loved Wild Dark Shore and North Woods
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I've been reading the Red Rising series. It's a dystopian future space-age story that gets pretty dark, but a very fun read.
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I've been reading the Red Rising series. It's a dystopian future space-age story that gets pretty dark, but a very fun read.
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‘Separate Rooms’ by Tondelli (slow, insightful queer romance during the AIDS crisis translated from Italian), and ‘In Memoriam’ by Alice Winn, gay love story set during WWI in a British boarding school and the French trenches.
Bother very emotional and deep reads if you go for that!
Bother very emotional and deep reads if you go for that!
November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
‘Separate Rooms’ by Tondelli (slow, insightful queer romance during the AIDS crisis translated from Italian), and ‘In Memoriam’ by Alice Winn, gay love story set during WWI in a British boarding school and the French trenches.
Bother very emotional and deep reads if you go for that!
Bother very emotional and deep reads if you go for that!
What’s the best book you’ve read this year? I need new recs. My only two 5/5s have been Martyr! And Babel
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
What’s the best book you’ve read this year? I need new recs. My only two 5/5s have been Martyr! And Babel
I just think it’s funny
November 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I just think it’s funny
I’m not a single issue voter, but I AM a single issue hater.
November 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I’m not a single issue voter, but I AM a single issue hater.
Girl, the fascism
November 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Girl, the fascism
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"we just fell in love with convoluted regulations for no reason and need to fall back in love with building things" is a lazy misdirection away from the fact that corporate power and extreme wealth have so grotesquely corrupted the American experiment it no longer serves the public interest
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"we just fell in love with convoluted regulations for no reason and need to fall back in love with building things" is a lazy misdirection away from the fact that corporate power and extreme wealth have so grotesquely corrupted the American experiment it no longer serves the public interest
Can and will
Clyde: Point of order. You may not call the President of the United States a felon
November 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Can and will
Easy, Gym
Jim Jordan: "We're all for protecting innocent victims, we're all for exposing the bad guys who did bad guys who did bad things, but ... "
November 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Easy, Gym
Freedom of speech is when you are told to ask nice questions to the Saudi Crown Prince
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Freedom of speech is when you are told to ask nice questions to the Saudi Crown Prince
I would loveeeee to get new California maps while Texas doesn’t get theirs.
November 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I would loveeeee to get new California maps while Texas doesn’t get theirs.
I need coffee but this cloudflare BS is fucking with the POS system at my coffee shop and I don’t have cash and if this isn’t the end times idk what is
November 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I need coffee but this cloudflare BS is fucking with the POS system at my coffee shop and I don’t have cash and if this isn’t the end times idk what is