I have all discworld books, I would definitely reread most of them. I just reread The Hail Mary Project.
I’m going through the Discworld series for the first time right now. I’m going in chronological order but when I finish I’ll probably go through them again eventually but I think I’ll do series instead in bunches. I’m already looking forward to rereading the Watch series back to back.
On my third pass right now. Skipped a couple of the first novels, but I love the original order. Got feels for all the series, but I like the perfect way he kept them mixed up.
“Oh shit! Another witches book!”
“Back to the Watch! NICE!”
“Rincewind? Hell with it, those are all funny as hell.”
Third run through Discworld in the past 2 years. My god, been trying to think how to explain to my best friend. I lack the words.
Project Hail Mary was amazing. Can’t wait for the movie too.
I’m glad you enjoyed it. I think I must be one if the few people on the planet who didn’t care for it.
The Dark Tower series. All of them
Don’t ask me silly questions, I won’t play silly games I’m just a simple choo-choo train, and I’ll always be the same I only want to race along, beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo-choo train, until the day I die
That series was amazing and I’m still mad they tried to cram it all into a single movie.
That was definitely pitchfork worthy. I haven’t even seen it and I never will.
It got awkward when King decided to be a character in his own story. But aside from that I really enjoyed them.
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I’m on my 13th or so read of Blindsight. Think I’ve unpacked it all, finally. I feel like a fruitcake having read it and *Echopraxia" so many times, but damn they’re deep.
Not a fan of all of Watt’s novels, but those two feel like he packed something to think about into nearly every single sentence. Easy read if you want to go fast, or, take your time and dig in. Never read a novel(s) that could go both ways.
Fuck me. Just talking about it is getting me hype for another run.
Blindsight:
"I brought her flowers one dusky Tuesday evening when the light was perfect. I pointed out the irony of that romantic old tradition— the severed genitalia of another species, offered as a precopulatory bribe—and then I recited my story just as we were about to fuck.
To this day, I still don’t know what went wrong.”
Echopraxia:
“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there were`t any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid. Even here in the 21st century we can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. Even now we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us.”
A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
I loved that one.
Most of The Culture series
A few I’ve read at least twice and will definitely read again at some point:
- Catch 22
- Infinite Jest
- The Windup Bird Chronicle
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- Full 5 part Hitchhiker’s Guide trilogy
- His Dark Materials Trilogy (plus the Book of Dust series, if we ever get that last one!!)
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Brave New World
- Slaughterhouse Five
It’s 2025 and I’m reading Slaughterhouse Five again. So it goes.
Poo tee weet 👍
Poo too weet
I believe the last book of dust is slated for this year unless I’m mistaken
Yeah, I think so, but I think it was also slated for 2024, and possibly even 2023! It’ll come, and I’d rather he takes his time to get it right, but still, very impatient! 😁
Yeah, it was at least slated for 2024 at some point. I finished the second one early last year, and as December rolled closer I realized that wasn’t going to happen. Same thing happened to a few others I’m waiting for I believe. Alecto and white wing, dark star. I think Alecto is tentative for this year but I have no idea on white wing, dark star
Just looked it up and someone on Reddit six days ago said BoD3 is finished and will hopefully be out this year! Woop!!
I’ve not heard of those others, will need to check them out 👍
I love the locked tomb books (Gideon, harrow, Nona the ninth, with Alecto the upcoming one). A cheeky description would be lesbian necromancers in spaaaace. I really really like the dark star trilogy as well, but that is harder for me to throw out recommendations for, it can be brutal. A lot of gory violence, and a fair share of sexual violence as well. Black leopard, red wolf and moon witch, spider king each have separate narrators with their own distinct histories, but then their stories intertwine around the same mission and its consequences, and their tales are relayed to an inquisitor who is interrogating them. They are both unreliable narrators and they HATE each other, but there may be more to it. White wing, dark star will be the last one, with a third narrator, and will be more horror focused I believe
Thank you for such detail, they sound really cool.
Also, “spaaaaace”! 😁
Neuromancer moves faster than some movies. Absolutely worth rereading
The Murderbot diaries.
This is also an awesome thread. I see a lot of books I love and a lot that I’m interested in.
The Bobiverse recommendations seem to go hand in hand with Murderbot. Read both series back to back, didn’t know what I was missing.
I hadn’t heard of the bobiverse before. I look forward to checking those out. It sounds like a neat premise.
Murderbot series is a mixed bag. Some of the books are great fun. Others read like filler to me. Wondering what you think about casting of Alexander Skarsgård in the upcoming tv series? Personally I think he’s way too old for the part.
While I enjoyed the first book, and might pick up the others, I wasn’t as impressed, and wouldn’t put it on any reread shortlist. What did I miss?
I’ve read Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch three times, currently reading The Color of Magic for the first time and then I’m going to re-read Mort
I’ve read Ellen Raskin’s The Westing Game three times, but that was for school. Pretty good children’s mystery book, though
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.
So you didn’t let Mr B go?
Fittingly enough, that was the first of his novels I read and will likely be the first one I reread.
Only one I’ve read so far. I intend to get to the rest, but I’m more of a sci-fi and fantasy junkie than horror, and there is so much to read
Lord Of The Rings.
He Who Fights With Monsters.
Thrawn.
The Hunt For Red October.
The Cardinal of the Kremlin.So many I will give another listen to.
Just because this is the first post that I see that mentions LoTR, I’ll throw in
The Silmarillion
Children of Hurin
Beren and Luthien (personal favorite)
The Fall of Gondolin (incomplete, but incredible)
These are all Tolkien works and I could read them over and over.
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.
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
I’m not a big rereader, but at some point I’d like to read through the expanse and the locked tomb again
