The Andy Serkis audiobooks of The Hobbit and LOTR are incredible.

Children Of Our Alley (اولاد حارتنا) by Naguib Mahfouz the GOAT of egyptian literature. Can also recommend his Cairo Trilogy 🇪🇬

What’s the premise of the actual novel? Wikipedia is mostly just about the controversy. Also the Cairo trilogy? Both sound pretty interesting.

Can’t go wrong with Camus — The Plague; The Fall; and The Stranger are all amazing.

Infinite Jest is very sci-fi.

Kafka’s stuff is good in that regard too

Camus Kafka Dostevisky are in that realm, bonus points if u want to try Thus Speak Zarathustra which is kinda Nietzsche book in that realm but it’s much harder than something from the authors listed first

It's basically about this guy Gabalawi who lives in a huge house that resembles the Garten Eden. The house is at the end of an alley in a district where people have to hustle day by day, whereas Gabalawis family lives a sheltered life inside the house. He has a foundation that gives money to the people living outside of it and declares Adham as his successor and let's him run his foundation. Idris the oldest son feels betrayed and rampages around the house until he gets exiled into the district, where he becomes some kind of street thug. He tries to get back for multiple years but sees that it won't ever happen, so he seduces Adham instead to look for some hidden book, that nobody but Gabalawi is allowed read. Adham gets caught and exiled as well. From there on it's about Adhams and Idris' family and descendants and their life in the district, their feuds and hate for each other and their journey to return to the house. You'll find a lot of abrahamic symbolism throughout the book.

The cairo trilogy are three books named after streets in cairo and is a semi autobiographical epos about the life of a Cairoean middle class family during the times where Egypt was under british authority.

I loved the metamorphosis by Kafka, one of my favourite books but man The Trial is dry. I’m halfway but struggling to continue reading it

I been reading this book in my down time instead of playing games

Homegoing

Currently reading Deadhouse Gates. Leaving Edgedancer/Oathbringer in the back burner smh.

Someone should make a cosmere book thread pls🙏🏽 I been reading the books and want to discuss it

What are some good prompts to reflect on after finishing a book? Like questions that you can ask yourself to go deeper/ process aspects that you enjoyed or didn’t enjoy. The more specific the better rather than Q’s like: was this a good or bad book?

@sniper what’s a anarchist book or essay you’d recommend people new to left theory in general that’s pretty short

Whats the best place to get a more niche audiobook?

theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works

A little outdated due to it being published in 2010, but very explanatory.

Mood readers when you pick up a book you put down a long time ago, do you continue from where you believe you left off or start again?

where I left off unless it haven't passed years

I think last I read this book was Fall of 22. I remember the part I'm rereading but I stopped again because it's too familiar lol

Started on 3 books and quitted all of them.

Where did my energy go

I have a reading goal of 45 books this year, need to pick up again to reach that goal

Saw a beautiful ballet recital over works of Adrienne Rich yesterday. Forgot how weightless her work is

Maybe they're just boring books?

Nah, they’re good books. Celine, Kafka, Handke.

Those authors are boring. I'm not surprised you tapped out

Kafka’s The Metamorphosis one of the best stories ever written