Books

Drink your potions, gather your familiars, and ready your spacecrafts to blast off with these new sci-fi and fantasy books out in July 2023!

Even though Franz Kafka had been dead since 1924, his writing would provide Cold War-era writers and intellectuals in the United States with a literary vocabulary for imagining life behind the Iron…

Get ready to heighten the frights in your summer days with these 8 exciting new horror books to read in July 2023!

Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered is a collection of essays published in 1973 by German-born British economist E. F. Schumacher. The title "Small Is Beautiful" came from a principle espoused by Schumacher's teacher Leopold Kohr, advancing small, appropriate technologies, policies, and polities as a...

Publishers Weekly, USA Today, the NYT, Amazon, and Indie Bestsellers all have their own bestseller lists. Here are the combined results.

Like Fracassi’s previous novel, Gothic, Boys in the Valley involves devil-worship and demonic possession. The publisher’s pithy tagline describes Boys in the Valley as “The Exorcist meets Lord of the Flies, by way of Midnight Mass.” Similarities to The Exorcism are obvious, and both the absence of effective adult...

What book is currently on your nightstand?...

From George R. R. Martin’s new Wild Cards anthology to Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's dystopian take on America, there is a wealth of exciting science fiction out this month. Culture editor Alison Flood shares the novels she is most anticipating

As title. Even better if whatever you use also helps with recommendations! I’ve been mostly using Goodreads, but Bookwyrm looks like a neat decentralized alternative. Does anyone have any experience with it?

Real late in making this thread this week - but I got busy......

Audiobook versions of the novels, first published in the Eighties, to warn listeners of ‘outdated’ attitudes prominent at the time

An antidote to the civilizational compulsions that rob human nature of nature.

I've been on a binge this year of reading some fairly good and some terribly bad thrillers and mystery books. I just finished reading "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie, which I greatly enjoyed, particularly after reading the Silent Patient, which I thought was awful....

If you haven't read this short story, first published on June 26, 1948 and written by Shirley Jackson , you should! It quite possibly makes June 27th the creepiest/scariest day of the year (outside on Halloween of course)...

What book is currently on your nightstand? How do you like it? Would you recommend it to others?

I have a habit of reading far too many books at once, and have developed "themed" reading months for myself to help keep my focus (for instance I usually read one Stephen King novel a year, and only in October)....

Stranded on an Island. By random chance you've got your three favourite books with you....

Which book would you recommend me as my first ever book?

I recently read his article about enshittification and watched an interview where he talks about "chokepoint capitalism"....

I think many of you know the feeling of being in a reader's slumber: you both want to read but whatever you are reading right now just isn't cutting it. This was my case for the past months: while I absolutely loved reading The Karamazov Brothers, I barely made any progress due to it being quite a dense book and me being...

As I've become a part of the Fediverse I keep thinking back to the Bobiverse book series and wanted to give it a shout out on here. It's a fantastic, funny sci-fi series about a man named Bob who gets his consciousness uploaded as the controlling AI for a space ship.

Cross-postong from https://Kbin/m/wheeloftime...