I just finished Dead Wake and Armada, both were beyond excellent. Armada is the new book by the author of Ready Player One, one of my all time favorites. I am super excited for the new John Irving coming out soon. AND there will be a new Stephen King out next month. Such an influx!! :D

I'm reading The Peach Keeper by: Sarah Addison Allen just a few chapters left and I'm thinking that I need to fall clean my house before starting another book. :-(

Pedagogy of the Oppressed? True story; less fun.

I have been reading a lot of Cornell Woolrich. His short stories and books like Black Alibi, Rendezvous in Black and The Bride wore Black. I can't believe I had never heard of Mr Woolrich until just recently. He wrote a ton of stuff. Very Noir, suspense and many of his stories were made into movies. (Rear Window). I've really been enjoying finding his books at used book stores during my travels

Amanda from Seattle.

Just finished Tell the Wolves I'm Home (by Carol Rifka Brunt) - fine story, and evocative of the 80's and the fear as the AIDS epidemic began. Also enjoyed Love May Fail (by Matthew Quick) and Euphoria (by Lily King) -- I've got both authors' other books in my library queue now!

We just read Working Stiff for my book club and our next book is Station Eleven. I'm also listening to The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, which I read years ago and am considering picking for book club when it is my turn to host.

Currently reading Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. Just finished Mosquitand

I'm reading Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass for an English class. Pretty depressing stuff. So, in my free time I'm reading mindless stories on Fictionpress. Sometimes I come across a good one.

I like Tell the Wolves. The Euphoria book sounds right up my alley too, thanks!

I've read Stiff and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, so thanks for the rec of Working Stiff! I am going to request it at the library today. I read Station Eleven and even though it's on all the best seller lists I just did not enjoy it one bit. Oh well. :)

Just finished A God in Ruins, the new Kate Atkinson. If you liked Life after Life you'll like this one too. I loved it, her writing is so unique.

I liked working stiff, but be warned that there are graphic descriptions of autopsies. I don't consider myself a squeamish person but I definitely got a little grossed out

I started "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" but also have "Wild" "A Short History of Nearly Everything" and "A Walk in the Woods" to read. I downloaded them for a plane ride but only got 2/3 of the way through TILoHL.

Armada is on my nightstand waiting for me....I really liked Ready Player One, or "Game One: Player Ready" as DH likes to call it. :)

Just finished 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles' by Agatha Christie, which I picked up used at Powell's in Portland a few weeks ago.

Before that, I read the first Dresden Files book, which was 'eh.' I prefer more character development....

I highly recommend The Painter as well as The Dog Stars, both by Peter Heller. If you are an audio book fan, listen to The Painter! (Realistic fiction, btw. Dog Stars is post-apocalyptic.)

I am looking forward to Patrick Ness' new book, The Rest of Us Just Live Here and Armada -- I also loved Ready Player One. Also After You by Jojo Moyes, the sequel to Me Before You.
Just added some new titles (recently or about-to-be-published) to my list by new or new-to-me authors:

Fiction
Fishbowl -- Bradley Somer
Let Me Explain You -- Annie Liontas
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street -- Natasha Pulley
Black Chalk -- Christopher J. Yates

Nonfiction
Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the Brink by Julianna Barbassa
Avenue of Spies: a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris by Alex Kershaw. (I thought this would be a good follow-up to The Nightingale, which I liked a lot to my surprise.)

Currently reading Circling the Sun by Paula McClain and Longitude: The true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time by Dava Sobel.

Happy reading!
Tamsyn

I agree on Station Eleven. It did live up to the rave reviews for me

I plan on reading Pillars of the Earth and World Without End by Ken Follett. I have been reading a few of his books this year (The Man From St. Petersburg, Twins, Triple, Whiteout, Fall of Giants). Reading his Night Over Water now.

Every single one of those is AWESOME!! I have read Bryson's entire collection.

lol I work in healthcare. Squeamishness went out the window years ago.

I just finished Orphan Train. and "Forty Acres" (a very good book by the way) It was thought provoking. Along the thought provoking theme was the Unwound series. It is deemed YA but as a parent and adult I find myself still pondering over them. I just started "All the light we cannot see"

On the to read list is:

The girl in the spider web. a continuation of Girl with a dragon tattoo series.
Girl on the Train

~Aurora

I just finished Ready Player One. I loved it! Of course, I am an 80s fanatic so I guess it isn't too surprising. Did you like Armada as much as RPO? More? Less?

In terms of Fall reading, I just zipped through the new Ilona Andrews' Kate Daniels book, Veiled by Benedict Jacka, From the Ashes by Sabrina Flynn, and Overload Flux by Carol Van Natta (you always need some space opera, don't you???). I am about a third in on Fearless by Elliot James. On deck, I have Owl and the Japanese Circus by Kristi Charish, A Red-Rose Chain by Seanan McGuire, Insanity 3: Circus by Cameron Jace, The Paladin Caper by Patrick Weekes, and Dark Horse by Michelle Diener. Oh and I just decided I need to re-read the Dirk Gentlys by Douglas Adams.

I love SAA! I've met her a few times and she's super nice too!
Amyrica

The best books I read this summer were:

Love Anthony by Lisa Genova
Cress (Lunar Chronicles #3) by Marissa Meyer

--Amyrica

I loved Station Eleven and everything else by that author! I also love Kate Atkinson and read all her stuff too! Also Circling the Sun is on my library queue...but it might be a while before I get to it. And I have to give thumbs up to Orphan Train, I read that and then read several more books about that period of history! SO fascinating!! I am going to the library tomorrow to pick up these books which are on hold for me!!

The Almost Nearly Perfect People
Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia By Booth, Michael

The Black Ice
By Connelly, Michael

Day Four
A Novel By Lotz, Sarah

Finders Keepers
A Novel By King, Stephen

The Girl on the Train
By Hawkins, Paula

Jack of Spades
A Tale of Suspense By Oates, Joyce Carol

The Mountain Story
By Lansens, Lori

--Amanda from Seattle

I just ordered In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware. Looks so creepy!

That is awesome! It's the first book that I have read by her.

I just finished "Go Set a Watchman" and "How Dogs Love Us"
I enjoyed watchman...I didn't think Atticus came across as terrible, I also thought it was an important historical piece. I wish I knew what happened to Boo though.
Also enjoyed the Dogs book (read for my book club) Very readable, and interesting too. More of a memoir of a scientific experiment than a discourse on what was learned.

Currently in the middle of Roughing it by Mark Twain (also a book club book); and "Power of Half". And I need a light fantasy candy read.

Armada is not as good as RPO but I'm not sure *any* book could be. It's in a similar vein with the 80s video games, lots of similarities to The Last Starfighter. It was very entertaining!

I'm currently re-reading my Anne of Green Gables books--because we are planning a trip to Prince Edward Island (and other places Canadian) this fall!

Recently finished:

**The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey--fascinating history about a trip down an uncharted river in South America. A trip that nearly killed him.

**The Buried Giant by Ishiguro--not as good as Remains of the Day but still thought-provoking.

**The Oregon Trail: A New American Adventure--interesting read about a man and his brother who drove a mule-pulled covered wagon along the Oregon Trail

The latest Kinsey Milhone novel is coming out soon--or maybe it is already out. Called X. Only 2 more letters and then she is done :(

Ohhhh now I want to read that. I thank you and so does amazon.com since I'll probably get it that way. ;)