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    What’s the book you’re currently reading before bed, or the one you dip in and out of whenever you feel like it?

    by ryetoasttt

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    1. 2666 and Red Meat Cures Cancer alternating between the two. RMCC is awful and 2666 is fantastic so far

    2. Thomas Manns The Magic Mountain. What a pleasant stay at a sanatorium, one could stay there forever.

    3. Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese. Beautifully written and has the perfect chapter length for winding down before bed.

    4. Intrepid-Back-6946 on

      Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, The Idiot by Dostoevsky, Dead Souls by Gogol and House of Leaves

    5. The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz…written in 1938 (in four weeks!) after the author escaped Nazi Germany…it’s the story of a man on the run, trying to escape Nazi Germany.

      Written with an amazing sense of urgency and authenticity. Only about 1/3 of the way through so far.

    6. Books currently on my nightstand are my short TBR also the ones I am currently reading. The Magic Kingdom of Landover 2nd Omnibus by Terry Brooks, The Sparrow by Mary Doris Russel and Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay

    7. **The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince**, by Robin Hobb.

      It is a prequel novella to Hobb’s 16 book Fantasy series, The Realm of the Elderlings. RotE is one of my favorite series of all-time: beautiful prose, complex characters, lots of political drama.

      This novella is the only thing by Hobb I have never previously read – so I’m rectifying that!

    8. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare:1599 by James Shapiro. And The Secret History, which I just cannot seem to finish.

    9. Inherent Vice -Thomas Pynchon

      Irrational Judgements-Kristen Swenson

      Off the Wall, Rauschenberg and the art world of Our Time – Calvin Tomkins

    10. glittersparklythings on

      Merry Christmas ya filthy animal – Meghan Quinn

      The Widow – John Grisham

      Remain – Nicholas Sparks & M. Night Shyamalan

    11. The Indifferent Stars Above (finished)

      Under The Banner of Heaven (almost finished)

      Go Set a Watchman (on deck)

    12. The Best Short Stories of J G Ballard

      Sight Lines by Arthur Sze

      The Snow Poems by A R Ammons

    13. So many great recommendations, I wanted to add my answer too: I am currently reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir but sometimes I find it hard to put down and end up going to bed too late. I also have Stephen Fry’s The Odyssey which I picked up at an airport bookshop and started reading on the flight home. I dip into and out of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and Psychology in Bite Sized Chunks which I got as a gift.

    14. PuppyJakeKhakiCollar on

      I usually read books I already read before bed. Otherwise I will stay up too late trying to see what happens next. Right now it’s Yellowface by RF Kuang and Wahala by Nikki May.

    15. BernardFerguson1944 on

      I’m currently reading two books:

      * *Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin* by Timothy Snyder.
      * *Boldly They Rode: A History of the First Colorado Regiment of Volunteers* by Ovando J. Hollister.

    16. GeneralCommand4459 on

      At night I’m reading ‘Tess of d’Urbervilles’.
      Before that I was reading ‘Artificial Wisdom’.

      I read fiction at night but during the day I read factual books. Currently reading ‘The Prime Ministers’ and ‘Running from Office’.

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