Absolution

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1. kryptnDec 2025
   Lots of scifi.

   Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance, and Absolution of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series. https://www.goodreads.com/series/112239-southern-reach

   Reread books 1-4 of Dennis E Taylor's Bobiverse series to read #5 https://www.goodreads.com/series/192752-bobiverse

   John Scalzi's Interdependency Series https://www.goodreads.com/series/202297-the-interdependency

   Basically all of the Culture Series by Iain M Banks https://www.goodreads.com/series/49118-culture

   Of Peter F Hamilton:

   - The Salvation Sequence series https://www.goodreads.com/series/242882-salvation-sequence

   - The Void Series, a sequel-trilogy to the Commonwealth Universe series https://www.goodreads.com/series/43520-void

   Of Alastair Reynolds:

   - Pushing Ice https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48991704-pushing-ice

   - Eversion https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60097716-eversion

   Of Adrian Tchaikovsky:

   - Shroud https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230237860-shroud

   - Elder Race https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56815367-elder-race

   - Alien Clay https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199851460-alien-clay

   - Going through The Final Architecture now https://www.goodreads.com/series/305076-the-final-architectu...

   Also Upgrade, by Blake Crouch https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59439117-upgrade

   Also First, by Randy Brown https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196399619-first

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2. ChristopherDrumDec 2025
   I tried to read a mix of things, especially "classics I never got around to." I didn't meet my personal target of 30 books (got sidetracked writing my blog), but definitely read things that stuck with me.

   Notable and beautiful

   - "The Nickel Boys" by Colson Whitehead

   - "Blind Sight" by Meg Howrey

   - "The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. LeGuin

   Non-fiction

   - "Workflow"

   - "Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D"

   - "Debugging: The 9 Indispensible Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems"

   The rest (all first-time reads)

   - "Absolution" by Jeff Vandermeer (I enjoyed it but it was kind of unnecessary)

   - "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte (I don't get the fascination with it)

   - "Strange Pictures" by Uketsu (odd)

   - "Starship Troopers" by Heinlein

   - "Rendezvous with Rama" by Arthur C. Clarke

   - "Ubik" by Philip K. Dick

   - "Mickey 7" by Edward Ashton

   - "Fugitive Telemetry" and "System Collapse" by Martha Wells

   - "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson (I was surprisingly into it)

   - "Glass Houses" by Madeline Ashby

   - "Cover Her Face" by P.D.James

   - "The Crystal Shard" by R.A.Salvatore (I needed to see what Drizzt is all about)

   - "James" by Percival Everett (maybe my biggest disappointment of the year)

   - "Alien Clay" by Adrian Tchaikovsky

   - "Some Desperate Glory" by Emily Tesh

   - "Sea of Rust" by C. Robert Cargill

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