The End of the World Reading Diary

Books I think you should read. Mostly speculative fiction, biography, and various flavors of escapism.

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Thursday, December 8, 2022

Game of Thrones

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by George R.R. Martin Having been an avid fan of Game of Thrones on HBO, I’m finally getting around to reading the books. It’s super int...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

A Marvellous Light

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by Freya Marske Robin Blythe is a down-at-the-heels baronet, responsible for taking care of his sister and the sadly diminished estate h...
Saturday, March 19, 2022

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

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by Becky Chambers On a moon called Panga at some point in the distant future, there is peace and plenty. The people have set aside half ...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

The Invisible Life of Addie Larue

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by V.E. Schwab In 1714, in despair at being made to marry and spend the rest of her life in her tiny village in service to a man, Addie ...
Saturday, February 19, 2022

The Little Stranger

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by Sarah Waters A haunted house story set in England in the years just after WWII, The Little Stranger’s creepiness comes not just from...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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by Andrea Lawlor This book is shockingly good, and also not for the faint of heart. It’s sex, drugs, queerness, rough trade, postpunk, u...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Unprotected: A Memoir

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by Billy Porter Billy Porter first burst into my awareness at the same time he burst into the awareness of most people who aren’t esp...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

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  What if every time you made a choice in your life, no matter how big or small, you created a new universe? There’s a universe where you de...
Friday, March 13, 2020

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

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read by Michael Crouch It’s 1985. Yale’s career as the development director for an art gallery has just begun, his friend Nico ha...
Thursday, January 2, 2020

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

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read by Cynthia Farrell and Emily Woo Zeller  What if Michael Moorcock had decided one day to rewrite the Spy vs. Spy comics a...
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