It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!
What’s the best book you read in August 2024 and why did you love it?
It doesn’t have to be a newly published book, or even SFF, or even fiction. We just want to share some great reading material.
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Glass Houses by Madeline Ashby.
This is a really angry book – angry like She-Hulk is angry. And I can’t stop thinking about it.
It’s also a really, really good book. There is horror there, ranging from the personal to well statistical.
Go get this book. Read it.
An Inheritance of Magic by Benedict Jacka. Best and most fun book I’ve read in a lot time. Great characters, pacing and plot. Loved every minute!
Best read for August was Karel Capek’s War With the Newts, another one of his acerbic fables about the human race being undone by its greed and exploitation of supposedly lesser beings. In this case, it’s an aquatic race of humanoid giant salamanders that turns the tables on the human oppressors who treat them as expendable laborers, in a tale with obvious applications to colonialism and class warfare.
Best new book: Play of Shadows by Sebastien Sebastien de Castell
Honorary mention for The Naming Song by Jebediah Berry for a great premise and start even if it didn’t fully keep its promise
Best read: Lord of the Rings, because it had been too long since the last one