What books have you read this year? Any genre. Drop the titles and authors below.

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The Invisible Man - HG Wells
Harry Potter 1-7 - JK Rowling
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
1619 Project - Nikole Hannah-Jones
Under the Big Black Sun - John Doe
Common Sense - Thomas Paine
Martin Van Buren - Ted Widmer
The Kingkiller Chronicle 1-3 - Patrick Rothfuss
Trillion Dollar Triage - Nick Timiraos
Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer - Robert Owens
Reliquary - Douglas Preston
Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernst Hemingway
Great Mythology Series 1-3 - Stephen Fry
Elon Musk - Walter Isacson
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Queens Gambit - Walter Tevis

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E1 That man is the worst lol. Write Winds of Winter, coward!!

Recursion - Blake Crouch
Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
Miracle Workers - Simon Rich
Artemis - Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Kaikeyi - Vaishnavi Patel
The Guest List - Lucy Foley
Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitz
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
Kindred - Octavia Butler

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Just finished dark matter was decent

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The Bible

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The real Anthony fauci by rfk jr

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Anna Karenina
Read plenty of others (mostly in murder mystery genre since I’m in a book club for that) but that one sticks out most as I spend several months reading it and just finished it.

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Fourth wing/ Iron Flame- Yarros
Finlay Donovan series- Cosimano
The perfect marriage- rose
The maid- Prose
The only game in town- Waldon
Love theoretically- Hazelwood
True love experiment- Lauren
The long game- armas
Exes and os- Lea

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Start with NO by Jim Camp

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Does fiction count? 👀

My bad, talking about the Clifton Chronicles. Read it a few years ago so got the names mixed up

the newest hunger games is really great

Songbirds and snakes? Or is there something newer?

Audiobooks for the win. But I am reading the DevOps handbook for the third time.

Fantasy:
Django Wexler - The Thousand Names
Gu Zhen Ren - Reverend Insanity

Scifi:
Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Martha Wells - Network Effect
Mike Kupari - Trouble Walked In

Drama/other Fiction:
Tomihiko Morimi - The Tatami Galaxy
Jamil Jan Kochai - The Haunting of Hajji Hotel
Alex Michaelides - The Silent Patient

Nonfiction:
Florence Williams - The Nature Fix
JB MacKinnon - The Day the World Stops Shopping

Just read Needful Things & Fairy Tale, both Stephen King, and they were very different but both great!

Also about time for my every-third-year-ish rereading of the Abhorsen series from Garth Nix. It's definitely somewhat in the YA category but it's got a very interesting dark fantasy slant and satisfying ending that makes it a good comfort re-read.

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