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The Mask of Mirrors by M.A. Carrick.
It's fantasy, but feels pretty fresh to me with the focus being on the main characters trying to con a rich family and less of the more usual (but no less fun) adventuring, combat etc. (at least so far, I'm still very early in the book).
If you like that kind of story you might want to read The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.
Escape from Billings Mall, by Chuck Tingle. It's a choose your own adventure book!
The Joy of Abstraction by Eugenia Cheng
Category theory is awesome!
The Wastelands - Stephen King. It's kinda nearing the middle of the Dark Tower series and it's pretty damn good.
A couple, The Institute by Stephen King and Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson. It’s the third of his Kickstarter books and I’m enjoying it so far, but I’ve barely started it.
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgård. Only read the first couple of chapters yet but I'm enjoying it so far.
Almost done with Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World. It's enjoyable but nothing to write home about haha
Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith (project gutenberg)
It's slow going because of the archaic style, but will be a revelation to anyone who thinks Smith doesn't care about humanity.
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata. I'm on page 30 of 160.
Also procrastinating on these:
Consider Phlebas
Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik.
Douglas Adams Starship Titanic: A Novel by Terry Jones
I think that is the official title. It's set inside the wider Hitchhikers universe, but so far hasn't touched on the events of that series.
Did take my a fair bit of time to get Into it, but as I approach the halfway point it's definitely got me.
Star By Star. Reading through the old EU New Jedi Order books again. The old EU is the best part of Star Wars.
Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
My notes for the next exam... Before that I was reading the Amaranthe series by G. S. Jennsen. I just finished the first three books which make up a trilogy of their own and don't want to start the sequel trilogy until exams are over because I have no self control
Sins of Empire by Brian McClellan
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence
Advanced Marathoning
The Bayern Agenda by Dan Moren. It’s decent. Wouldn’t say it’s my favorite yet and I’m halfway through. There’s a lot of talking in rooms for a political action sci-fi series. Pace is a bit slow for my taste.
Engine Summer by John Crowley. I'm only about 100 pages in, but liking it so far.
Rereading Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné, so I can read the new book, The Citadel of Forgotten Myths. Been a few moments since I did a full reread.
I have Greg Egan's Scale and John Shirley's Stormland next on the tsundoku.
I haven’t started it yet but my next book is The Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds.
Within the last month or two I’ve read Song of Achilles, The Women Could Fly, The Book Eaters, and Babel. I’d recommend all of them, especially Babel.
I'm reading a few actually: Capital volume 2 by Marx, The Tondrakian Movement by Vrej Nersessian, and Primavera con una esquina rota by Mario Benedetti
Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff. It plays in a alternative medivial fantasy world where the sunlight gets blocked after a loud rumbling. It tells the story of a you man who gets recruited in a organization of hunters that kill the supernatural while the world gets conquered by the vampires, that can't be hurt by the sun anymore.
One of the best dark fantasy books, I have read in a long time.