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« on: May 29, 2020, 12:00:35 PM »
« edited: May 29, 2020, 05:15:09 PM by bagelman »

I have 12 credits on audible that are all expiring at the end of the month when I leave the service, which is in a couple of days. Audible is evil for even having expiring credits in the first place and Amazon should be antitrust'd, but I'm sure if I just ignore their racket I'll just be screwed over.  I need to go on a shopping spree for books.

Feel free to recommend anything: biographies, fiction, non-fiction, funny lunatic tirades, whatever.

Books I enjoyed

The TL-191 series by Turtledove

The Dune series by Frank Herbert (and only by Frank)

The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov

Redshirts by John Scalzi

Gateway by Frederik Pohl

The Futurological Congress and Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanislaw Lem

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

Watership Down, the classic by Richard Adams

The Culture Series by Ian Banks

Most of these are Sci-Fi but I'm more than happy to branch out.
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« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2020, 12:20:34 PM »

Some suggestions:

Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog, a very funny combination of SF (time travel) and comedy of manners.

The Count of Monte Cristo (IMO the greatest novel ever written); it's very long but never boring.

The Firm by John Grisham for a gripping legal/crime thriller.

The Dortmunder novels (humorous crime novels) by Donald Westlake.  The Hot Rock is the first one in the series, although the second (Bank Shot) is probably my favorite.
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