Tanitha's Cosmic Musings

Here is the next challenge: to ask my librarian for a reading list. That is a tough one for me. I have not been in a physical library for a number of years. I did when I first moved to the UK, and used the library heavily.

However, with my buying a Kindle, and finding a lot of offers and free books on various sites, I stopped going. Plus I do buy a lot of physical books; nothing like the smell and feel of paper on your hands. So I guess, I must have accumulated in the UK only, a few hundred books both on Kindle and physical. (And not talking about my library down in Greece, which I have not been able to move to the UK due to both space and, of course, money.)

I am also ordering more books: from new hardcover books (like The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi), to offers for £0.99 on Kindle, to second hand bookstores or charity shops where you can find a lot of good books for really good prices.

I am not acquainted with a librarian either; or I would have asked them for a reading list. If any of my readers is a librarian, I would welcome the suggestion of 5 books to read. Old or new, I do not mind. Genre I do not mind, I will read anything. Of course, my personal preference is to classic literature, science fiction, fantasy and crime. Which is wide enough!

Next step then, is to find online lists. Online lists? Too many to count, and a lot of wonderful literary sites, that I try to follow and read. There is Electric Literature, which is my favourite, with lots of lists and lots of wonderful articles and interviews from new and established writers. There is Literary Hub, another great site I follow, which has lots and lots of good articles on books. And all the sites, have a lot of lists!

So, in essence, I do not have a librarian or anything close to make a small reading list. I, then decided to do a 5-book list of my own, from my own library to read this year. Here is the 5 book list, I intend to add to my ever-growing list of books to read this year:

• Detransition, Baby – Torrey Peters
• Living Next Door to The God of Love – Justina Robson
• Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
• Kindred – Octavia E. Butler

I could have done a 10 or 20 or more book list; but as I have said in previous articles, I like to keep it realistic as much as possible.