I can’t find the good book thread from a while ago. Just finished the likes of Billion Dollar Whale, Panic and Spider Network. What do you got that’s good?

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The Way of Kings

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Almost any Edgar Rice Burroughs. Loved the Princess of Mars series

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If you like classics, I can recommend Jukes Verne’s “Paris in the 20th Century”. It’s also referred to as his “lost work”.

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