We've got threads for various types of media, but surprisingly nothing for books. I've been reading a whole bunch recently, and I'm curious if the rest of you read at all for enjoyment.

What sorts of books do you like?

As mentioned in another thread, I recently read the first five books of a series called "Wings of Fire". I mostly checked it out because it had nice cover art and dragons. Turned out to be better than I expected.

Also I've been reading the "Iron Druid" series, which is pretty good as well.

If you can't tell, I definitely tend towards the fantasy genre as my main staple of enjoyment, though I do venture out and enjoy other genres sometimes.

I, last night, reclaimed some bits of my childhood when my brother opened this a random cardboard box we had laying in the office area. I found; 2 books labeled "The Hobbit"; 1 book labeled "Artemis Fowl: the Time Paradox" (Artemis Fowl novels are my personal favorite); 1 book labeled "The Amulet of Samarkand"; 2 books, labeled "The Warrior Heir", and "The Dragon Heir", of (IIRC) a trilogy; 2 books from R. A. Salvador, "The Orc King" and "Road of the Patriarch"; an Astrology book; a strategy guide to Silent Hill 2; and Pirateology, of the *ology series.

This isn't the whole kit and kabootle I had from back then, but it's definitely a handsome sum of treasure that i'd otherwise be missing. Gonna start rereading them soon.

I rarely read books. But when I do, it's mostly about sciency stuffs.
"What if?" by Randall Munroe and "Things to make and do in the fourth dimension" by Matt Parker are the only real books (as in: objects I have in my shelf) I've read in a long time.
Other real books I remember to have read (approximately in reverse-chronological order):

• "Paper Towns" by John Green
• "Der Außerirdische ist auch nur ein Mensch" by Harald Lesch (Roughly translates to "The alien is just another human")
• "Deutschland Deppenland" by Oliver Kuhn (it's more of a list of funny german names, laws, etc.)
• "Superhenne Hanna" by Felix Mitterer

I really like coming back to Catherine Halsey's personal journal every once in a while. It's super interesting and gives a lot of backstory to the Halo games. But I suspect it's only interesting for those who like the Halo games in the first place.

Siral_Exan said:
I, last night, reclaimed some bits of my childhood when my brother opened this a random cardboard box we had laying in the office area. I found; 2 books labeled "The Hobbit"; 1 book labeled "Artemis Fowl: the Time Paradox" (Artemis Fowl novels are my personal favorite); 1 book labeled "The Amulet of Samarkand"; 2 books, labeled "The Warrior Heir", and "The Dragon Heir", of (IIRC) a trilogy; 2 books from R. A. Salvador, "The Orc King" and "Road of the Patriarch"; an Astrology book; a strategy guide to Silent Hill 2; and Pirateology, of the *ology series.

This isn't the whole kit and kabootle I had from back then, but it's definitely a handsome sum of treasure that i'd otherwise be missing. Gonna start rereading them soon.

I tried reading The Amulet of Sanarkand at one point, but I could never get into it. I have fond memories of Artemis Fowl though. I read a couple of those when I was younger. And I've read the Hobbit a couple of times (a shame the movies were such an amazing disappointment).

At the moment Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb, read all the Fitz books one after another.
Another series I'd recommend would be the Malazan books by both Steven Erickson and Ian C Esslemont, just for the depth and I don't mean the doorstop size of the books!
There is Glen Cook's Black Company, which is difficult to stop reading once you get started.

The Ender series. I could relate to Bean.

The only books I like reading are science textbooks.

Urge to rename this topic into "What makes you books" rising.

To answer the question, I haven't picked up a book since the discovery of RPGs for computers. Right now they're mainly unappealing to me because games give me stories but are interactive.

NotMeNotYou said:
To answer the question, I haven't picked up a book since the discovery of RPGs for computers. Right now they're mainly unappealing to me because games give me stories but are interactive.

Pick up a Japanese "Isekai" LN. It's like being too lazy to play an RPG even with a list of cheat codes.

Oh wait, interactive. What ever happened to the "choose your own adventure" genre? Flip to page 69.

I read a book titled "Book" before. It was a good read

I mostly read non-fiction but I like fiction too.

I'm about to start the second Warriors book. I had read the first six Survivors books first, which I liked but it was written kind of flatly, so I didn't have high hopes for Warriors. Turns out they were written by different groups under the same name, the first Warriors book was amazing.

On the non-fiction front I'm reading Too Big To Fall, and afterward will be reading Infinite Monster.

I don't have much time to read anymore, but when I did, it was mostly fantasy and scifi. And occasional humor, horror, and drama. My favorites include Barry Hughart, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Neal Stephenson, Robin Hobb, Diana Wynne Jones, Lois McMaster Bujold, David Brin, Tom Robbins, Matt Ruff,...

I own about 2700 books, most of which I never got around to reading. Always too busy with other things, and I haven't found a good recommender after Alexandria Digital Literature died. (Goodreads is somewhat accurate, but it keeps recommending books that I don't own, and can't find anywhere).

there's been a few book threads before.

Anyway I think my favorite genre would be science fiction horror, especially the horror part I also seem to enjoy short stories more than complete novels such as the works of H.P. lovecraft.

I just finished reading a tom clancy book called The cardinal of the kremlin it wasn't bad but it was rather dull. I also usually read two books at the same time, one for entertainment and one for knowledge usually about knives I really like knives. I just bought two books one is put em down take em out knife fighting techniques from folsom prison and prison's bloody iron deadly knife fighting tactics revealed both of which were written by prisoners. I haven't finished reading them yet so I just skimmed through them but they seem pretty good because they have actual experience with a knife and seen what happens when someone gets attacked with a knife. Also my favorite part about these books is that they didn't start sucking japanese dick immediately.