What Are You Reading?

I just started reading The Martian by Andy Weir. It's my birthday on tuesday though and I'm getting a bunch of new books that I picked out for my family to get:
The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Born To Run by Christopher McDougall
The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg

I'm really excited to read those books. I also really wanna get a book written by Weston Price called Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, but the book literally doesn't exist in Sweden, not even in the biggest national library. So I have to pay quite a hefty price ordering it from amazon.

 

I'm in the middle of two books at the moment: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and Authority by Jeff Vandermeer. They're both fantastic stories, and I 'm loving each of them for different reasons. Both are mysterious and suspenseful, and definitely worth reading.

 

Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

 

I just started catch-22 by Joseph heller.

In the future I want to read: things fall apart by Chinua Achebe, Tamburlaine by Christopher Marlowe, and the meditations by Marcus Aurelius, ( the based emeperor XD)

 

I have to study Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie for an english exam in a few days and while that book it fun to analyze, it just doesn't work as a good book without going too deep into it.
I've just finished Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and I really liked it, and I'm also a bit of the way through The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, which has been very interesting.

 

I am currently reading The Stormlight Archive: Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson. I'm a huge Sanderson fan.

Bite Me by Christopher Moore. I highly recommend Christopher Moore

It by Stephen King.

 

Lately I've been focusing on a Tolstoy collection, The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories [first time I've ever read any of his work;] also Emerson's essay 'Nature' and might continue with some other pieces afterward.

 

The Beauty of Men by Andrew Holleran and Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin.

 

Jesus Before the Gospels by Bart Ehrman

Ehrman sure has written a lot of books on the exact same topic, but since this is only my second Ehrman book, I doubt I'll think he's repeating himself too much.

 

Columbine by Dave Cullen.One of the most fascinating yet chilling books that I have ever read.It is similar in tone to In Cold Blood by Truman Capote and very somber as well.

 

Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins. Lots of sex, perfumery and beet references. I love it.

 

Working my way through Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (after many failed attempts) and Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.

 

The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson. Have to say, it's actually a pretty sweet book. Skeptical at first. It's going to be published in the US in a couple days (UK edition came out last year) so check it out if you're looking for an actually fairly decent book about trans kids (well, haven't finished it yet but I'm about a quarter through and it's holding up- more than I can say for fucking Parrotfish)

Also reading Red Rising by Pierce Brown. I guess it's YA month for me. Starts off pretty slow but intrigued so far.

And still working on The Beauty of Men by Andrew Holleran. Depressing but beautiful. Considering it's about a guy who's dealing with the death of all his friends from AIDS...yeah.

 

Revisiting Dubliners by James Joyce after finishing the Tolstoy collection, also reading a short biography on Joyce by Edna O'Brien from the 'Penguin Lives' series.

 

The Dispossessed. I haven't gotten far yet, but I'm enjoying it.

 

I'm in the process of reading "The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories" which is a collection of short stories by H.P. Lovecraft, I'm loving it so far, they're 2spooki

 

I'm reading Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird

 

"With The Light" is a manga series about an autistic kid, Haruka Azuma, growing up and the roles his family plays in his life. I'm in volume one.