A Gentleman in Moscow
Seconded recommendation
00D Book Recommendations
56 entries · 15 contributors · 15 July to 28 October 2026
Ralph (16)
Copenhagen
Interesting but confusing, particularly the shifting accounts of Heisenberg’s wartime motives.
Headlong
Additional recommendation
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Nathaniel’s Nutmeg
Seconded recommendation
Olga Dies Dreaming
Precipice
Stumbling on Happiness
The Alice Network
The Book of Negroes (Someone Knows My Name)
The Forty Rules of Love
Seconded recommendation
The Life Impossible
Disappointing compared with The Midnight Library; too much implausible supernatural material.
The Piano Player of Budapest
The Secret War with Iran
There Are Rivers in the Sky
Stefan Loesch (11)
Count Zero
Johnny Mnemonic
Mona Lisa Overdrive
Neuromancer
The Hyperion Cantos
Excellent world-building, narrative and characters.
The New Europeans
Link shared; author not given in chat
The Peripheral
Disturbing future vision, especially given the accuracy of Gibson’s earlier predictions.
The Three-Body Problem trilogy
Excellent world-building and insight into Chinese culture and competition; felt the third book lost direction.
The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology
Academic paper
The Wheel of Time
Loved the early volumes, but the sprawling series eventually became too long.
We Have Never Been Woke
Recommended; critical of length
Igor Krol (6)
Against Identity: The Wisdom of Escaping the Self
Consider Phlebas
Read; recommended as part of The Culture series
How the World Thinks
Approximate rating
On Bullshit
Short philosophical essay distinguishing the bullshitter from the liar; suggested MBA reading.
The Player of Games
Read; recommended as part of The Culture series
Use of Weapons
Reading; The Culture series
Moneshia (5)
A Gentleman in Moscow
Summer reading recommendation
The Book of Longings
Summer reading recommendation
The Eighth Life
Recommended
The Forty Rules of Love
Summer reading recommendation
The Happiness Hypothesis
Family book club
Fabian Rucker (4)
It Can’t Happen Here
Recommended
The American Way of Killing
The Hyperion Cantos
Strongly endorses Simmons, praising his range across genres.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Detailed history of the scientists and discoveries behind the bomb; substantial physics and chemistry.
FC Le Dieu Aime (2)
The King Must Die
Mentioned favourably
The Persian Boy
Mentioned favourably
Femke (2)
Circe
Currently reading; positive mention
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
Seconded recommendation
Halli (2)
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Enjoyed the series; had read around six volumes at the time.
Red Rising
Enthusiastically recommended as entertaining science fiction.
Johannes Eltz (2)
Martyr!
The Lion Women of Tehran
Andrea (1)
Say Nothing
Recommended
Charles Kottering (1)
Nathaniel’s Nutmeg
Edo Buckingham (1)
Copenhagen
Explores Heisenberg’s 1941 visit to Bohr and the uncertainty of human motives.
Ehren Cory (1)
Who Needs Friends?
A travel memoir and reflection on friendship and loneliness among middle-aged men.
Nadya Wells (1)
Empire of Pain
Recommended
Queralt (1)
London Falling
Praised the empathy towards real people and the way the true-crime story preserves uncertainty.