Yeah, I’m mainly re-reading right now.
Re-reading Good Omens
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I have a bunch of series where I read 3-6 books of, then the author kept publishing them but I didn’t keep up, so I figure it’s easier to just go back and start over. Discworld, I don’t think I’ve touched in over 10 years, and only read the first 15 before, so I figure I can do a full read through from the start.
Re: Discworld, it doesn’t much matter the order of reading, except possibly the City Watch books. It’s nice when the series isn’t really a series so much as a world, and then you can drop in wherever.
I read it in the order I could get used paperbacks initially, and I’ve read publication order, and now I just read whatever I’m in the mood for.
I have a tendency to prefer publication order on almost everything I read.
I may give it a try in the order I can take the e-books out of the library.
Right now I’m reading Ancillary Sword. I really liked Ancillary Justice, so I borrowed the other two.
Just finished When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, and added How We Die by Sherman Nulan to the list (once I buy it… the library doesn’t have it 
).
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Suggestions on what to read?
I like old schol sci-fi a la Orson Scott card (though I prefer not him specifically). But I’d be open to something nonfiction.
How old is old school? I’d suggest the 80s short story collection Burning Chrome, by William Gibson. It has a lot of now very retro notions of cyberpunk and brain uploading etc. but I love Gibson for his ability to actually write a good story and good characters.
What have you read?
Only listing wht I have read
Asimov
Herbert
King
Bradbury
Vonnegut
Verne
Wells
Gaiman
Chrichton - Particularly Andromeda Strain
Orwell - 1984
Shelley - Frankenstein
Clarke - 2001
I’ll have read most of everything by those folks at least a couple times through the years.
I just re-read the foundation series again :).
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Paol Anderson? (sp?) I’m not sure if he is considered old school, but he writes a good story.
The Martian is most likely my next Sci-Fi
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About 2/3 through Eye of the World. I’ve also started Wuthering Heights.
As long as we’re getting book suggestions, I need something for my MIL. She likes Russian history and she has probably read all of Louis L’Amour. Anything new along one of those lines?
A hardback or two, some fru-fru tea and a mug with a lid (she has tremors) ought to do it.
I might get her the LBJ books if I can find a set.
Russian History and American Westerns? odd combo
For the former - how is she on actual Russian classics? Tolstoy, Dostoevsky
For the latter, Larry McMurtry, Jack Schaefer
I actually know a new western author Gary Kamen - haven’t read any yet, but from his excerpts he seems to have a very good use of language
When I was a kid, my dad was a big fan of Louis lamour. He also really like Zane Grey (not new though. He died in 1939).
I liked Eye of the World a LOT more than I recall liking it about 16 or so years ago.
Started Storm Front (book #1 of the Dresden Files). About 1/3 through Wuthering Heights. Have queued up the Lost Book of Adana Moreau after I finish these.
I really enjoyed Ancillary justice, by Ann Leckie. It’s not very old, but it’s pretty traditional science fiction.
I finished The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny, then started on The Dark Forest, but didn’t get very far. Like The Three-Body Problem, it’s one of those where you can’t let your mind wander much.
I’m taking a break from listening to books. Catching up on podcasts instead. It’s a fun diversion.