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Want to Read

The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian or something like that
Natural General Intelligence: How understanding the brain can help us build AI by Christopher Summerfield
Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South: Macy, Beth: 9780316337540: Amazon.com: Books
White Malice by Susan Williams
reccs for people that think Gravity’s Rainbow is the best book ever - Reddit GR Reccs

To Read

see #to/read
see Anarchism#Anarchist Fiction
Horror
- The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro - makes vampires the stuff of nightmares
- Metro 2033 - series of people creeping each other out with stories - some say it’s not written well, but some disagree
- The Exorcist - obligatory
- The Damnation Game - Clive Barker - great writing style/prose elevates the subject matter
- The Ring
- Colour out of Space by Lovecraft - 20 pages
- The Shining and It - Stephen King better than the movie
- Uzumaki - spirals down
- Pet Cemetary
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- The Changeling
- Nos4A2 - Joe Hill
- Mexican Gothic
Cosmic Horror/Sci-Fi
- Songs of a Dead Dreamer - Thomas Ligotti - Short stories
- Shadows of Carcosa - Stories by Lovecraft, Poe, Etc.
- At the Mountains of Madness - HP Lovecraft
- The Gunslinger - Stephen King - in pursuit of man in black
- Book of the New Sun - challenging read - distant future, return to feudal, sun is dim, protagonist is executioner and torturer
- The Passage - Justin Cronin - freaking scary, part of a series
- Anything by Alastair Reynolds - Revelation Space - space operas, plays with mysteries of the universe, deep time
- The Mist - Stephen King
- ✅ 1984
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
- ✅ ⭐️ Hyperion - Dan Simmons
- ✅ ⭐️ The Fisherman
- ✅ ⭐️ The Ballad of Black Tom
- The Cipher
- ⭐️ Blindsight
- ✅ ⭐️ The Croning - Laird Barron
- Dreams from the witch house
- Agents of Dreamland
- Ring Shout
Sci fi series
- Foundation
- Three Body Problem series, The Dark Forest, deaths end - Cixin Liu - Fermi paradox, they are hiding - some peope don’t like these books
- Valis series
Sci fi
- Soft sci fi - literary
- Dhalgren
- The glamour - Christopher priest
- ✅ ⭐️ Neuromancer - Gibson
- ✅ ⭐️ Star of the Unborn - franz werfel
- ✅ The left hand of darkness - le guin
- ✅ ⭐️ Hothouse
- ✅ ⭐️ The palace of eternity - space opera by Bob Shaw
- ✅ ⭐️ Downward to the Earth - Robert Silverberg
- ✅ ⭐️ Roadside Picnic (Stalker is loosely based on this book)
- ✅ The lathe of heaven - Ursula K Le Guin
- Scanner Darkly
- Behold the Man - novella
- Annihilation
- Brave New World
- Children of Time
- Ice
- Dying Earth
- ✅ ⭐️ Solaris
- A case of conscience
- Beyond Apollo
- We who are about to…
- Blood Music
- The Sluts - Dennis Cooper
- Overlay - Barry Malzberg
- Snowcrash - Stephenson (cyberpunk)
- Vurt - Jeff Noon (surreal cyberpunk)
- Gnomon - Nick Harkaway
Russian revolution
- Trotsky - history of Russian revolution
- ten days that shook the world - John reed
- October - China Mieville
Authors
- Robert Silverberg
  - Tower of Glass
  - Nightwings
  - Man in the Maze
  - dying inside
  - book of skulls
  - Phases of the moon - short stories (see ⭐️ passengers)
- Barry Malzberg
  - The Gamesman
  - ✅ ⭐️ Overlay
- Stephenson
- Gibson
- PKD
- Alastair Reynolds - https://booksreadingorder.com/alastair-reynolds/ - book order