@neauoire I feel like "swallows and amazons" might be fun and it's not on the list.

@neauoire The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes could be fun to read aloud. It’s a novel of short stories and they are like little puzzles.

@neauoire you might enjoy "Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta" by Doris Lessing

@neauoire what a marvelous reading list. Obviously you already know you can hardly go wrong with more Wendell Berry, George Orwell, or Ursula LeGuin. I very much enjoyed Gathering Moss by Kimmerer, and revisited the Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic, and you also probably can't go wrong with a bell hooks or Sharon Salzberg. For sci-fi novellas, Valente's "The Past Is Red" (raucous) or Chambers "A Psalm For the Wild-Built" (contemplative) are in line.

@neauoire I very much recommend _The Terraformers_, the new one from Annalee Newitz! _Autonomous_ was amazing, too. Modern, queer scifi with lots of fascinating relationships (between individuals and groups), with a few tough scenes as they're addressing Real Shit.

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"La cantatrice chauve", read by Ionesco himself:

https://www.ubu.com/sound/ionesco.html

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Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues (or any of his books)
https://craphound.com/shop/

@pluralistic

@neauoire Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

@neauoire Ann Leckie — "the Raven Tower" and "Ancillary Justice" are both stellar. Haven't read anything of hers I didn't adore :)

And:
Margaret Atwood — Oryx & Crake
Kazuo Ishiguro — the Buried Giant

@neauoire I think you would both really enjoy Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, the Imperial Radch Series by Ann Leckie, The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.

@neauoire This is an eclectic mix, though I'm not sure whether they're suited to 'reading out-loud':

On Walking On Ice by Werner Herzog

A Year With Swollen Appendices by Brian Eno

Red Paint by Sasha LaPointe

Biography Of X by Catherine Lacey

Woman At Sea by Catherine Poulain

We, The Navigators by David Lewis

A Sea Vagabond’s World by Bernard Moitessier

The Theory Of The Solitary Sailor by Gilles Grelet

@neauoire Some of the intriguing/unsettling/exciting sci-fi/speculative fiction I've read:

Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore by Ray Loriga

The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz

Doggerland by Ben Smith

Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki

River Of Gods and Cyberabad Days, both by Ian McDonald

On The Beach by Nevil Shute

The Swarm by Frank Schatzing (which will give any sea-goer a shiver of unease)

@neauoire I have a quite outdated list here: https://www.jan0sch.de/post/buecher/

It is in german but I guess the book titles should be findable in english.

Besides that: I have a big tome with all satires of E. Kishon on my shelf and it never fails to give us a smile even in dark times. :-)

@neauoire If Cyberpunk is an option, I'd recommend the Neuromancer trilogy, Snow Crash and maybe Ready Player One. But I guess you'd want to get away from all that when living on a boat...

The Trisolaris trilogy is also pretty mind-boggling, definitely read all books if you think the first is interesting.

@neauoire I recommend the Arthur Waley translation of Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en. I have read other translations into English but the Waley one is by far my favourite. I’ve reread it more times than any other book.

@neauoire Recently I've loved "All The Crooked Saints" by Maggie Stiefvater, it's a cute tale with a lot of humour and great characters. And I'm currently reading "Piranesi" by Susanna Clarke, which is a strange and eery read that I'm enjoying a lot so far.

@neauoire @alexglow Not a classic, but sci-fi. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098BN9KBF (I wrote it 😅)

@neauoire I’m really enjoying Walkaway by Doctorow right now, you might like it too

@neauoire I think you might enjoy The City and the Stars by A. C. Clarke - one of his slower, lyrical and visual novels. Many years after reading I no longer remember the story but the images of the world are very vivid in my memory

@neauoire player piano by kurt vonnegut

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anything by Gregory Bateson, but Mind and Nature is especially suited to be read aloud. And of course Steps to an Ecology of Mind.

Absolute must reads.

https://monoskop.org/Gregory_Bateson

https://monoskop.org/images/c/c3/Bateson_Gregory_Mind_and_Nature.pdf

https://monoskop.org/images/b/bf/Bateson_Gregory_Steps_to_an_Ecology_of_Mind.pdf

@neauoire Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

@neauoire José Saramago - The Stone Raft

"The premise of the novel is that the Iberian Peninsula has broken off the European continent and is floating freely in the Atlantic Ocean; bureaucrats around the world are forced to deal with the traumatic effects, while five characters from across Portugal and Spain are drawn ever closer to one another, embarking on a journey within the peninsula as the landmass journeys itself. " (wikipedia)

noway brutal as "blindness", i found it funny very often

@neauoire Stanisław Lem, "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub", I can imagine it being great when read aloud. The introduction is weird but the rest, I love. It is different from his other novels and one of my favourites.

@neauoire anything from the Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri: I wouldn’t strictly say these are GREAT books but they’re pretty snappy detective novels, and they would be great to read aloud.

The Humorless Ladies of Border Control by Frank Nicolay: a neat Eastern European travelogue by one of the members of The Hold Steady. It’s very well told short vignettes which would make for a good read out loud.

@neauoire I read to my 8yo at bedtime and highly appreciate any thing that's fun and interesting for both of us. We both loved @catvalente's Fairyland series and Chris Riddell's Ottoline and Goth Girl series. Excellent read aloud books.

@catvalente has written many wonderful adult books as well.

Now I'm going to look through the book list you gave and add to my ever growing to-read list.

@neauoire Outermost House by Henry Beston
edit - also, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Thanks to everyone who sent reading suggestions :) I'm going through the list now 💜

@neauoire A short and great read that should not be judged by its low-effort cover: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_Soul

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Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
The Green Child by Herbert Read
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

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I'm not so sure how they'd be for reading out loud, but I see you have a lot of SF classics on your list, so I'll recommend Alfred Bester's best works to you.

_The Stars, My Destination_ and _The Demolished Man_ are both really really good.

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oh, I guess I am late to the party, but since I know you like Lem, I think you would enjoy his colleague Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, he has a similar style of writing existential sci-fi. I really enjoyed his book Robot (not sure how much more was translated from Polish)

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/671781/robot-by-adam-wisniewski-snerg/9780241485118

@neauoire late to the party but after Swift you could try Utopia from Thomas More.

@neauoire and maybe some theater for a change, like Sophocles. The republic of Plato is also interesting, very accessible.

@neauoire Dan Simmons:
Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

@neauoire a bit late to this, but “The Vanished Birds” is the best sci-fi I’ve ever read. By Simon Jimenez, his first novel. His writing style is perfect

@neauoire a clockwork orange is a great classic and i think you'll like the fictional dialect influenced by eastern european languages since you have some russian experience :)
may or may not be fun depending on how you like the very informal and wacky narration