Nerdist Book Club discussion

What have y'all been reading over the past month or so? I've been jamming on audiobooks while I putter around my apartment. Here are some of my recent favorites:



Most of them are thrillers, but Recursion and The Anomaly have sci-fi and horror elements, respectively. Anyone read these, or have other recommendations for me? I'm about to finish the sequel to Anomaly and I need something new. (In addition to our Book Club Dune reading, of course.)

Ironically I just started reading The Stand a few weeks before the pandemic, that was an interesting experience.

I sort of got off reading with the stress of everything but then a friend gave me a non-fiction book called The Innocent Reader. Which sparked things back. So I'm currently reading:
Set this Home in Order - Matt Ruff (nearly finished)
The Alice Network - Kate Quinn (just started)

Also a few comic books. I read Maus which is so amazingly good/sad

Shire wrote: "Ironically I just started reading The Stand a few weeks before the pandemic, that was an interesting experience.

I sort of got off reading with the stress of everything but then a friend gave me a..."

The Alice Network is INCREDIBLE. I'd love to read either it or The Huntress (which I like better) for book club, though they don't fall into the 'geeky' category.

Did you read Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, Rachel? For thrillers, have you checked out Liz Nugent? Lying In Wait is really good.

Kate wrote: "Shire wrote: "Ironically I just started reading The Stand a few weeks before the pandemic, that was an interesting experience.

I sort of got off reading with the stress of everything but then a fr..."

There's a book I read a while ago The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, that I'd love to recommend, but like yours, it's not genre/nerdy enough. But since you recommended Huntress, I'll make this too, its a romance in a way, but its so about the love of reading and what reading can achieve for people.

This Is Not Propaganda-Peter Pomerantsev

The Devil In The White City- Erik Larsson

11/23/63- Stephen King (would be an amazing book club pick as it's huge, but it flies by reading it)

A bunch of very-nerdy Trek books

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights- Rushdie (kind of a modern reimagining of the Arabian Nights)

I just finished Follow Me To Ground and it was really good if you like Shirley Jackson and Neil Gaiman type stories.

But a lot of comics and graphic novels because my mind is wandering a lot. Been reading the Sandman Universe and kids graphic novels because they make me happy.

I read the first two books of Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series. I’m also trying to work through my comic’s backlog with nothing new coming out.

The Hobbit Bluefax audiobook and graphic novel (and 3 extended movies and animated ones)

Tales from the Loop, reading the book while watching the series on Amazon. prime.

The Stand extended edition audiobook (54hours) and part way through the graphic novels. Need to watch the miniseries.

Starting May with The Passengers By John Marrs Tagline: Eight self-drive cars set on a collision course. Who lives, who dies? You decide.

I also want to read some sandman before the crossover with Locke and Key.

A book I've read back when I was in High school (1996)
Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber.

It's a fascinating sci fi book writen in 2 different pov. One from a human and the other from a Ant. I've never read anything like this since.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...

After I finished the comics I had from the library before the shutdown, I started in on the SF paperbacks I have had on my shelf for years. At this point I am almost finish with those.

Currently reading- Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin


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David Gerrold wrote The Trouble with Tribbles.

I've finished/read the following:



I'm in the middle of: