Project Hail Mary. Paid more than I liked for a single book but quickly found it is one of my favourite books of all time!

Children of Time - It's fantastic. Easily digestable space fair about giant intelligent spiders in their war with ants. Humans are involved but I care little for them. Not going to lie, I'm mainly there for the chapters narrated by the spiders and they are expectional.

Frank Herbert's Dune

Just finished Leviathan Wakes today. Can't wait for my Amazon delivery of Caliban's War.

I'm about half way through The Fall of Hyperion. It's great

Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers.

Such amazing, lovely sci-fi that touches on so many topics.

Last one is based in a really nice intergalactic truck stop. Or like an airport hotel maybe.

And I didn't realise it until my second read-through, but it's basically all about cross-species accessibility/accomodations.

Really beautiful stuff.

Im halfway through The color of magic by Terry Pratchett, I've read a few other discworld books but I thought it was time to start the first book an try to read them all in the "right" order.

The Bobiverse books were great. Can't wait for more. I've been reading Expeditionary Force which is where the Skippy's come from. Also Rythm of War by Brandon Sanderson.

I'm 6 books into expanse series, and I've kind of lost steam with it. Might need a break. Read bobiverse in full just before it. First children of time book was good but didn't know if I wanted to read book 2.

Also loved project hail Mary and the dark Forest/three body trilogy.

Any other suggestions?

We are Bob is a great series, doesn't got something that fine in a time.

Currently reading 11-22-63. Pretty bloody grim and depressing in places, but good enough to hold my attention.

Finished Locked In by John Scalzi not long prior. Great thought experiment considering it was written long before covid too.

I recently read "A Memory Called Empire" by Arkady Martine. It's the first book I've read by her and her writing style got me good. Her background as an historian shines through in the Empire she crafted. She won a hugo or nebula for the book but I can't be bothered to look it up at the moment.

I'm on book 13 of wheel of time and am planning to do a re-read of the extinction cycle again after I finished wheel of time, I just love those books

I just finished Project Hail Mary and just started The Passage.

Must still highly recommend The three body problem books, some of my favourite sci fi ever.

Recently finished The Interdependency Series by John Scalzi. Reading Upgrade by Blake Crouch at the moment. I'm a huge fan of Murder Bot Diaries and The Bobiverse as well.

I'm reading Way of Kings right now, as well as back through the Harry Potter Series (just finished POA). Way of Kings is amazing.

The Bobiverse books are so damn good, read them last year

Children of time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Reading through Book of the New Sun. Definitely an underrated sci fi series.

Wool by hugh howey

Wife and I watched silo and enjoyed it so I thought I'd read the books.

You can buy the books DRM free off his website https://hughhowey.com/books/wool/

Make sure you get all 3. Wool shift and dust.

The Stormlight archive- Brandon Sanderson

The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

It's a surprisingly engaging read, even though the events occurred in the 80s. Computer security was non-existent.

William Gibson - The difference engine

More of steam punk era with mechanical machines, enjoying it as Audiobook on the morning walks.

Neal Stephenson - REAMDE

I recently finished Fall; or Dodge in Hell and didn’t know it was the same universe! So now I’m reading the prequel lol. Still quite enjoyable.

Just finished Scalzi's Redshirts. Was a lot of fun. Laughed at every mention of control panels blowing up in bridge crew's faces for no logical reason. Didn't much care about the last few chapters that came after the main story though.

Frank Herbert's Dune, a great read. The new movie is actually quite faithful to the novel.

In July, I finished The Lords of Uncreation (and therefore the Final Architect trilogy) by Adrian Tchaikovsky, read the newest Lee and Miller Liaden novel Salvage Right when it arrived, then zoomed through Wool, the first of the Silo books.

Currently, I’m reading a Star Trek novel Agents of Influence by Dayton Ward. It’s a sequel to the excellent Vanguard and Seeker series set in Star Trek’s 23rd century. Not sure what’s next.

Pride and Prejudice. Finishing soon.. another classic down.

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett. It's my first time reading his work and I am absolutely loving his sense of humor.

I just finished Season of Skulls by Charles Stross. 3rd book of the New Management series... a sort of sequel series to the Laundry Files.

Currently reading The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi.

I don't normally plan my reading much ahead of time but August is an exception on a few counts.

Firstly, Whalefall by Daniel Kraus comes out on August 8th. It's such a goofy idea for a story (think Jonah and the Whale meets The Martian) and I have been so pumped, I've been talking people's ear off about it for months. It's like scientifically accurate Pinocchio.

Secondly, one of the bookclub picks for the Discord server affiliated with !bookclub@lemmy.world is The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin

And then it's Tropeical Readathon (a semiannual reading challenge thing) again so I have a couple dozen books picked out to cover that, but the only other sci-fi one apart from the above is Under This Forgetful Sky by Lauren Yero.

a world without visa by ean Malaquais

https://libcom.org/article/world-without-visa

tough to get into but worth every page, but far from accessible if you are not known to french and russian names en masse

I'm re-reading the red rising series right now to be up to date for the new book that just released. Very excited to get to it