What Are You Reading Right Now

[Piston]

Simple one. What book is on your bedside table or open on your phone or halfway finished and feeling guilty about? Fiction, non-fiction, technical, whatever.

One sentence on why you picked it up and one on whether you would recommend it.

No judgment on genre or pace or what counts as serious reading.

[Hydra47]

The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman. Picked it up because the Fable shutdown situation made me want a longer view. It is sharper than I expected from a founder memoir and actually engages with the hard questions

[Oscar_38]

Re-reading Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future for the second time. First read I was sceptical of the form, second read I think it might be the most important novel of the decade

[Brad92]

A very dry history of the telegraph which I found in a charity shop and cannot put down. Every story about how AI changes communication maps onto what happened in the 1860s with uncanny precision

[Freddy95]

Middlemarch. Third attempt. This is the one where I actually finish it. Forty pages in and it has already earned its reputation

[MJF_Fan]

Chip War by Chris Miller. Essential for understanding why every technology story eventually becomes a Taiwan story. Recommended without qualification

[SharpLantern]

A cookbook that is more essay collection than recipe book. The author keeps going on unexpected tangents about memory and place and I keep following them

[Glenn84]

Nothing. I have been reading forum threads and news articles for three weeks and I miss actual books. This thread is my reminder to fix that