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Blackshirts and reds is one of my Favorit

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Delightfully absurd and existential.

Monopoly Capital. After reading Marx, it was like a second set of blinders fell off.

My favourites are all escapism from this hellworld.

Jean Auel - Earth's Children series

Diana Gabaldon - Outlander series

Tom Slemen - Haunted Liverpool series

Patricia Leitch - Jinny At Finmory series

C S Lewis - Narnia series

I mostly like comic novel series

• Dork Diaries

Its similar to my favorite story, Miraculous

• Penny Pepper

The closest a book series I've read got to a cartoon

• Diary of a ~~Noob~~ Warrior

Instead of fantasy based on real life, this is fantasy based on Minecraft

• Trouble is a friend of mine

This is not a comic novel series, but the text's signal-to-noise ratio is really good, so I can still read it without getting overwhelmed

• The City and the Stars
• Rendezvous with Rama
• Hard to Be a God
• Blindsight
• Roadside Picnic
• Diaspora

A side question, does LemmyGrad have a presence on Bookwyrm? I mean, we discuss books and Bookwyrm is all about discussing books

• Toward a Contextual Realism (Jocelyn Benoist)
• Helgoland (Carlo Rovelli)
• Dialectics of Nature (Friedrich Engels)
• Dialectical Logic (Evald Ilyenkov)
• Science and Humanism (Erwin Schrodinger)
• Critique of the German Ideology (Coral Marques)
• Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language (Saul Kripke)

The Jakarta Method.

Culture Warlods.

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

The End of Policing.

After the Fact.

Takeover.

The Rape of Nanking.

Heretics of Dune (Dune book 5). After the slow books 2-3 and contemplative 4, the bonkers action and bizarre concepts are really refreshing. It was also neat to get a deeper look into the world.

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden. It is a very fantastic graphic novel / webcomic about found family and queerness, I read it as a teenager and it has heavily affected me.

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. Also a sci-fi found family story with queer themes but in the form of a novel. The worldbuilding and stories told in the Wayfarer's series has moved me to tears multiple times <3

anna karenina
war and peace
stoner
death comes for the archbishop
pride and prejudice
just some off the top of my head :)