In the last few months I’ve read:
- Project Hail Mary, Weir
- Fall, Stephenson
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Gaiman
- The Ultimate Earth, Williamson
- The first four Discworld books, Pratchett
- Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge, Resnick
- A Memory Called Empire, Martine
- A Desolation Called Peace, Martine
- The first five Murderbot Diaries books, Wells
- The Imperial Radch trilogy, Leckie
- Annihilation, Vandermeer
- The Kingston Cycle trilogy, Polk
For comparison, I think I read two or three books last year. It’s starting to be a non-trivial amount of money, even though they’ve all been the ebook versions, which are generally a little cheaper. Has anyone who reads a lot of SF found Kindle Unlimited to be worth the price?
I did that for a while decades ago, and ended up reading a lot of stuff I thought was pretty crappy. Then I became friends with a coworker who was also a reviewer for Locus Magazine, and he started helping me pick his to read. The difference in my reading enjoyment was exponential. So now I’m more particularly, and pay a lot of attention to things like Hugo and Nebula award nominees.
Oh our library in Seattle has a service like that! You can list books you like, and the librarians will provide a human-picked list of suggestions.
Oh, that’s a nice service as long as the people know their stuff more than “Well this is the same genre…”
From what I’ve heard, they’re very good. They even write a short description of why they selected each book.