red rising breh do it

and remember it goes to another level with book 2

just picked up the first book from the library of the red rising series

love when a novel randomly references other fiction work

was reading King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby and it mentioned the stories of Bryce DJ Pancake which I later read

reading Don Winslow's The Power of The Dog trilogy rn and a Mexican asks an American DEA agent at a party what books he reads and he namedrops Roberto Bolaño (who does this often too), Luis Alberto Urrea, and Elmer Mendoza. checked out Elmer Mendoza and his books have less than 1,000 ratings on goodreads. pretty cool way to get recommendations

anybody else ever read books cause they were mentioned in novels?

Good luck, brother

keep us updated

will do!!

Looking forward to ghost of hiroshima

Any fantasy books where the protagonist isn't an indestructible demi-god who can do everything. I'm tryna read that Malazan and Sanderson what y'all think

Asoiaf

Not tryna read that s*** to keep it a buck with ya!!

Not a fantasy reader that much but somebody recommended The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie and the premise doesn't sound like it's demigod-flavored

At this point idk if I am! Will check it out though cheers

I'd recommend The Lies of Locke Lamora/Gentlemen B******s series by Scott Lynch. The characters in the story are specialized and well trained in some subjects but are otherwise completely normal people with no magic/special powers.

Thank you! Already have Lies of Locke Lamora downloaded so will bump that up the list

The works of Susanna Clarke

Thank you, John. I have Piranha downloaded so I will bump that up my list

Piranesi?

Fantastic book though I'm not a huge fantasy guy so it might not be what you're looking for

Just read Norwegian Wood. Not sure how to feel about it but it kept me immersed I’ll give it that. I’ll collect my thoughts in a bit

been reading the tatami galaxy during my work breaks. p good so far

This turned out to be a great trilogy. A great exploration of culture and tradition vs modernization. How it affects family, individuals, businesses, and countries. By book 3 the way the characters have grown, and see how life’s experiences have changed them - really great series. Then on top of all that it’s some supernatural martial arts mob s*** going on. It’s been said of the series, but to sum it up in a sentence, The Godfather just a lil supernatural.

It is distinctly its own thing however.

I read the first 3 novels in The High Republic Star Wars line. Idk if I’m gonna continue, I just read through them to finish them. There are some good parts but overall wasn’t really a page turner for me. Starts off with way too many pov switches. Wasn’t really familiar with characters fr until the 3rd novel. I’m a big Star Wars fan so gave it a chance. Never really read Star Wars novels, mainly comics. I hear phase 2 of The High Republic is really good, better than phase one, but it’ll probably be some time before I pick the series back up tbh.

From there I read Isles of the Emberdark, pretty good Cosmere story. Definitely read it if you’re big on Cosmere lore.

Now reading Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time, and this s*** is what I been looking for. This book is f***ing nuts. Got me looking at Spiders different been taring through the book, almost done with it in bout a day n a half

late to the party but the first red rising book was a solid read. I really enjoyed the story, the characters were a ton of fun, and it had some great action. I hear it’s the weakest book of the first trilogy, so I’m excited to get into book 2! may have to make a thread for the series once I finish them.

i picked up invisible cities and stories of your life and others.

Any readers of Autobiography of a Yogi ?

the second the weather got chilly i wanna do a secret history reread