All of them. You should always know which book it is before opening it.

I recommend not just reading the titles, but the entire book!

But seriously, I’ve been getting back into Bill Bryson’s books lately. I’m currently on 'At Home - A Short History of Private Life '. Entertaining and educational. I highly recommend them.

I also can’t recommend Dan Hardcastle’s (aka Nerdcubed) debut novel ‘The Paradox Paradox’ highly enough. I couldn’t stop reading and ended up going to work on zero sleep. It’s available on his Patreon for a few dollars and is totally worth it.

https://bookwyrm.social/book/1805003/s/the-culture-of-contentment

It’s difficult read because of its insitefullness

what type(s) of books? (and what type of reader? Beginner, advanced, experimented in whatever type of book they want to read)

I’m at the end of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. It’s great and should really be consumed via audiobook because the narrator goes above and beyond with the character voices.

I also recently read Going Zero by Anthony McCarten, I highly recommend it. Gives you new perspectives on privacy.

Ima throw in the Odd Thomas series, which starts with a book of the same name, by Dean Koontz.

Delightfully odd in the Koontz tradition, but manages to do so in a very engaging way. It’s his best series, imo, and each individual book in it can stand as him at his best. It also has the most painful, amazingly fulfilling, and sweet ending to a series I can think of. The only one I would say is a more impacting final book to a series wasn’t exactly an ending, just the last book (the final discworld book).

Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy series by Douglas Adams if you haven’t, likewise Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by the same. Imajica, Weaveworld, The Great and Secret Show, and Everville by Clive Barker were some of the best fantasy horror I’ve read so far, very good books much more mature than his Books of Blood/Hellraiser stuff he is more well known for. The Book by Alan Watts, it’s a very refreshing outlook changer, a bit of an introduction to eastern thought for western minds but in a very positive and affirming manner not steeped in all sorts of scriptures and koans and vedas. I could probably go on a while but that’s a good few.

The books I read recently are:

• Dune
• Ender’s Shadow
• Elantris
• Project Hail Mary

Currently finishing the first Mistborn.

I enjoyed all of the above enough that I would recommend them.

The Master and His Emissary and The Matter with Things, both by Iain McGilchrist. Those books had a profound impact on my psyche. I know it’s a bit of a cliché to say this, but those books were life changing for me. I mean that sincerely.

I liked all of Dune, except for the first half of Messiah. The core of Asimov’s stuff is really good. It is all interesting, and there is merit to the short stories originally published in magazines, but the real stories with continuous threads are the best. The later the story was written in his life, the better they got in terms of immersion. However, there are many little nods to other works interwoven. They are not built upon each other in such a way as to be unreadable, or appear like ads or something. There are just plot elements that will be lost upon you as a more basal mystery versus something that is much more deeply layered in meaning.

In terms of free, Carroll’s original Alice in Wonderland is amazing to visit as an adult. Machen’s The Great God Pan is another fun little work that is very readable. Both are on Gutenberg, and YT in audio form.