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Samurai Warfare, by Dr. Stephen Turnbull. Only a few chapters in, been to busy with college work to learn about the stuff I'm interested in
On the fiction side, just read The Secret History of Costaguana, by Juan Gabriel Vásquez. If you're familiar with Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad, this is set in Colombia, the country that inspired his own fictional Costaguana. Even if you aren't familiar with Conrad's work, it's worth the read. Some of the best historical fiction I've ever read. I learned more Colombian history from that book than I ever would have learned in my history courses. Of course I read the english translation, but my knowledge of Spanish has all but vanished since high school.

The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing by Charlie Papazian

A second reading of The Martian, by Andy Weir-- don't normally read books, but anything relating to realistic sci-fi is a must read for me

i've sort of given up on cities in flight, for the moment, though i will continue to slog my way through the rest of it eventually.
as a relief, i'm rereading for the umpteenth time, my favorite parts of leguinne's always coming home.

i wish it were easier, and less expensive, to find new books, more closely related to my interests and perspective.
stories about people solving technical and engineering problems, instead of making life more difficult for each other.
the kind of 'fiction ABOUT science', that i was a fan of from my earliest chance to get my hands on them in the 60s,
right up through the 80s and well into the 90s.

mysteries are my number two genre, though i don't like the idea of someone having to have done something dastardly and be punished for it.

Nolo gap wrote:i've sort of given up on cities in flight, for the moment, though i will continue to slog my way through the rest of it eventually.
as a relief, i'm rereading for the umpteenth time, my favorite parts of leguinne's always coming home.

i wish it were easier, and less expensive, to find new books, more closely related to my interests and perspective.
stories about people solving technical and engineering problems, instead of making life more difficult for each other.
the kind of 'fiction ABOUT science', that i was a fan of from my earliest chance to get my hands on them in the 60s,
right up through the 80s and well into the 90s.

mysteries are my number two genre, though i don't like the idea of someone having to have done something dastardly and be punished for it.

If you are at all into e-books, try http://book4you.org. They have an immense collection of free ones for download in multiple formats, and if they do not have your preferred format, there is https://toepub.com to convert.

Xenophon, Anabasis

Gathering Darkness, third book in the Falling Kingdoms series.

Demian by Hermann Hesse

The Organized Mind by Daniel J. Levitin

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

The story of a common soldier in the civil war

Lelander stillwell.

A biography of a common soldier's life.

Vegetius, Epitome of Military Science

The only surviving western Roman "art of war." It's not actually really an "art of war" at all, but rather an [failed] attempt to influence reform in the Roman army of either Theodosius I or Valentinian III.

Robot by Hans Moravec

The Genji Monogatari by Murasaki Shikibu.

Phaedo, by Plato

Republic Commando: True Colors by Karen Traviss

American Gods by Neil Gaiman and Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.

Socialism Made Easy by James Connolly. Not really long enough to be considered a book, but I haven't been reading much lately. I want to start reading theory again and this is a nice way of easing myself into it. It has a really nice, concise explanation of surplus value without using jargon, and it has a good analysis of religion and Irish nationalism from a leftwing perspective, and aside from all that, provides some context for syndicalism, socialism and the trade union movement of the early 20th century.

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Toraia wrote:American Gods by Neil Gaiman and Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.

Station Eleven is absolutely amazing. I've actually been meaning to reread it. Would 100% recommend it to anyone. American Gods is great too, but everyone already knows that.

Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by Vladimir Lenin. Not technically a book, but a pamphlet

Max Boot, Invisible Armies

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Weaponized Lies by Daniel J. Levitin

The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 2

The art is nice.

Succubus Summoning 101 by M.E. Hydra