Oddbean new post about login | logout Book worms! Do you have a favorite fiction series you can recommend? Been really getting back into reading this year and I usually favor non-fiction, but I'm feeling the itch to change it up. Leave a reply with your recommendations! 📚
@afb108af I always look forward to new books by Richard Powers and Silvia Morena-Garcia. Power’s latest one, Bewilderment, will rip your heart out, I was sobbing at the end just to warn you. Morena-Garcia blends sci-fi/horror with Mexican history that makes real historical events seem present.
@afb108af I anti-recommend Margaret Atwood because while her stuff is readable it's also just super depressing. For uplifting, I like the Tiffany Aching sub-series of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. They're from the end of his life and he had a whole lifetime of learning and growing to put into them. (The last one he didn't want published though because it's unfinished bc Alzheimers) Richard Powers is like if someone took some New Yorker articles and turned them into a novel.
@afb108af haven't read this and it doesn't look like a series. the description seems vague but promising: https://historians.social/@CandaceRobbAuthor/110571725885814440