https://wildroot.io/c/books/Today’s top posts about Books, ranked by Wildroot’s own model.enThu, 08 Oct 2026 10:29:06 +0000https://bsky.app/profile/frauchen.bsky.social/post/3mxcawivujc2iat://did:plc:bi5ob2qllcndh4zvpxjxqkdo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxcawivujc2i@frauchen.bsky.socialBooksWed, 07 Oct 2026 15:25:17 +0000A Dark Matter is the first in Doug Johnstone’s Skelfs series. The Skelfs are three women: grandmother, mother, & daughter who, upon the death of the paterfamilias, find themselves running an Edinburgh-based funeral home & private investigation service. Dark, funny, thrilling. ⚡️📚💙https://mas.to/@LaserdiscTurtle/117398554393021120https://mas.to/users/LaserdiscTurtle/statuses/117398554393021120@LaserdiscTurtle@mas.toBooksWed, 07 Oct 2026 07:56:17 +0000Now that spooky season has descended upon us again I decided it was time to pick up this Stephen King omnibus I picked up in a charity shop ages ago and finally read the next story; "Carrie". I read "The Shining" last Halloween and while I enjoyed it I certainly felt like it outstayed it's welcome. "Carrie" on the other hand is a much shorter and pacier read with a great sense of momentum and building pressure. I've never seen any of the film adaptations but might have to check one out. Some of the language is certainly dated and problematic, casual racism and a few instances where Mr. King is guilty of writing female characters "titting down the stairs", but given how generally awesome he's been during America's descent into fascism I'm happy to file those instances of questionable writing down to novel being over 50 years old. "Different times" rather than problematic opinions. Will probably also read Misery this season, but might switch to another author in between.https://bsky.app/profile/zadafalcon.bsky.social/post/3mxd56vyjhk2rat://did:plc:xgsl6g2tsyfl2pu76rw7i2wg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxd56vyjhk2r@zadafalcon.bsky.socialBooksWed, 07 Oct 2026 23:51:04 +00007) Narrative Voice I'll share a snip from my short story collection (that one that comes with my newsletter). It's one of the few times I write in first person. And if you're thinking "Silver, this sounds like Ace Attorney with Dragons," I say "Yes, and?" From "Turncoat": #LitHodgePodgehttps://c.im/@NaClKnight/117401341053655694https://c.im/users/NaClKnight/statuses/117401341053655694@NaClKnight@c.imBooksWed, 07 Oct 2026 19:44:58 +0000This is a fantastic investigation of this series. Good readhttps://bsky.app/profile/stephengrahamjones.com/post/3mxda6imxec26at://did:plc:k2pqm32t3kmey32xgs2zg7gs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxda6imxec26@stephengrahamjones.comBooksThu, 08 Oct 2026 00:44:31 +0000First time seeing either Off the Reservation in the wild OR these B&N exclusives. Very cool. Signed em up. And the rest of the SGJ stuff. In Fairfax, I think? I see “12193” on the door. Anyway, this was a short walk from Chipotle. That being after I DoorDash’d some chipotle to the wrong hotel.https://social.horrorhub.club/@tinyfrights/117402861791896458https://social.horrorhub.club/users/tinyfrights/statuses/117402861791896458@tinyfrights@social.horrorhub.clubBooksThu, 08 Oct 2026 02:11:43 +0000#Bookmail! My project to own fewer things is going great!https://bsky.app/profile/dytsras.bsky.social/post/3mxdglnes6s2fat://did:plc:ybkvn6ysnlwgbmamcgljoa5r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxdglnes6s2f@dytsras.bsky.socialBooksThu, 08 Oct 2026 02:39:14 +0000He was born 92 years ago today. He's the architect of the Black Arts Movement, poet, scholar, radical, playwright, essayist, and survivor of the 1967 Newark Rebellion. Born Leroi Jones, he changed his name to Amiri Baraka after Malcolm was assassinated. He's also the father of Ras Barakahttps://hachyderm.io/@antrelescent/117399058031366956https://hachyderm.io/ap/users/117326989854559731/statuses/117399058031366956@antrelescent@hachyderm.ioBooksWed, 07 Oct 2026 10:04:22 +0000I’m not a huge sci-fi reader and have abandoned more series than I’ve finished, but when it’s good, it’s as good as reading gets. Iain M. Banks’s Culture series is exactly that. While you can skip Consider Phlebas, the rest of the series is astonishingly great.https://bsky.app/profile/fionajackson.bsky.social/post/3mxd72nd6k22pat://did:plc:vlfecqvdrxrxs2pxqcowjr7p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxd72nd6k22p@fionajackson.bsky.socialBooksThu, 08 Oct 2026 00:24:28 +0000My most anticipated book of the year has arrived!! And in classic Tad Williams fashion, I am charmed before the book even begins. "Harold the Tree" had me in stitches. Looking forward to ignoring all responsibilities for a while as I read The Splintered Sun. Priorities! #bookskyhttps://sfba.social/@PlinyTheOlder/117397136379793603https://sfba.social/users/PlinyTheOlder/statuses/117397136379793603@PlinyTheOlder@sfba.socialBooksWed, 07 Oct 2026 01:55:40 +0000this is still kinda wild to me — a few years back, our friend Gerard put a young British graduate student named Gabriel Duckels in touch with Tina to talk about about the AIDS movement in SF in the 80s and 90s. a number of conversations were ultimately incorporated into a chapter about Tina in Gabriel’s The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America, written with YA author David Levithan. they wanted this book to be a way to tell the story of AIDS for young people, and it is fantastic. there is one chapter that tells the story of loss through 18 obituaries from SF’s Bay Area Reporter, all from a single month (January 1990). that was a time when most newspapers would not print the word AIDS in an obit. The Fight of Our Lives made the long list for the National Book Award’s Young People’s Literature, and just today it was announced as one of the five finalists for that award.https://bsky.app/profile/josiegz.bsky.social/post/3mxc3me2zuk2cat://did:plc:7elp3lh3d3j2oh2qlo3u347w/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxc3me2zuk2c@josiegz.bsky.socialBooksWed, 07 Oct 2026 13:50:07 +0000Satantango by 2025 Nobel Literature Prize winner László Krasznahorkai (which I read last year) features spiders, spider webs, ghostly bells, collective dreaming, also continuous rain, lust, drunkenness and despair. “So amazingly bleak that it’s often quite funny,” said the Guardian.https://kolektiva.social/@spencerbeswick/117400988378278246https://kolektiva.social/users/spencerbeswick/statuses/117400988378278246@spencerbeswick@kolektiva.socialBooksWed, 07 Oct 2026 18:15:17 +0000My first academic journal article came out in Anarchist Studies four years ago. It has long since been posted on the Anarchist Library where you can read it for free: "From the Ashes of the Old: Anarchism Reborn in a Counterrevolutionary Age (1970s-1990s)" theanarchistlibrary.org/librar… Abstract: After almost a century of Marxist predominance, how did anarchism develop from a marginal phenomenon into a force at the centre of the anti-globalisation movement? This article explores how anarchism was reborn in a counterrevolutionary age. Part one investigates how the New Right’s post-1960s counterrevolution defeated the New Left and remade US society, including by recuperating potentially liberatory elements of social movements. Part two examines how a new generation of radicals critiqued the failures of Marxism-Leninism and popularised the anarchist analysis and principles that provided the foundation for the anti-globalisation movement. The article discusses five examples of the development of anarchist theory and practice: Black/New Afrikan Anarchism, anarcha-feminism, eco-anarchism, punk anarchism, and revolutionary social anarchism. Ultimately, the article argues that anarchism was revitalised in the late twentieth century because it provided compelling answers to the new problems posed by the neoliberal counterrevolution and the crisis of state socialism.https://bsky.app/profile/ianmalcolm.bsky.social/post/3mxd7hlbv322jat://did:plc:qd4rj4rqwsj6qoxox6lqjwvf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxd7hlbv322j@ianmalcolm.bsky.socialBooksThu, 08 Oct 2026 00:31:42 +0000Just finished 'The Ruby in the Smoke' by Philip Pullman. This is an enjoyable YA novel with a plucky young heroine in Victorian London, who finds herself enmeshed in a murder-filled mystery connected to the opium trade. Apparently the first novel in a series, I'll have to hunt the others down. 💙📚https://wandering.shop/@SmallWondersSFF/117400507545437830https://wandering.shop/users/SmallWondersSFF/statuses/117400507545437830@SmallWondersSFF@wandering.shopBooksWed, 07 Oct 2026 16:13:00 +0000Even mermaids have to deal with scammers, it seems. Elis Montgomery's poignant poem today isn't just a shout of rage for a stolen voice, but also at the passage of time: smallwondersmag.com/piece/a-se…https://bsky.app/profile/caitluce.bsky.social/post/3mxd5xrtcxk2vat://did:plc:6mgl3imdrio3qubunvzduhbq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxd5xrtcxk2v@caitluce.bsky.socialBooksThu, 08 Oct 2026 00:04:58 +0000"It is a known fact that some people grow to be old, while others become birds or panthers or beasts." Set in the 1990s Bogotá queer underground Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You by Julián Delgado Lopera is a rich and vibrant read. A finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction.https://zirk.us/@EclecticHuman/117400834150507027https://zirk.us/users/EclecticHuman/statuses/117400834150507027@EclecticHuman@zirk.usBooksWed, 07 Oct 2026 17:36:04 +0000#AmReading #Helm by #SarahHall. A bewitching, raucous novel about a wind, specifically the Helm wind in Cumbria, and the people who challenge, fear, and love Helm. It’s an audacious concept for a novel, and Hall carries it off brilliantly. Her writing is miraculous, and Helm is a gloriously mercurial character. #Bookstodon #books #BlewMeAway arcade.kofflerarts.org/article…https://bsky.app/profile/maltesegeek.bsky.social/post/3mxdphi7s7s2dat://did:plc:ksigrlzaimszqmmwthwzu7kp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxdphi7s7s2d@maltesegeek.bsky.socialBooksThu, 08 Oct 2026 05:17:58 +0000Baked a citrus and Ube marble cake for work for my birthday this Friday. Fellow librarians loved it. #bakinghttps://mastodon.social/@ThisGrandpaBlogs/117400223971860828https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115583863737563958/statuses/117400223971860828@ThisGrandpaBlogs@mastodon.socialBooksWed, 07 Oct 2026 15:00:53 +0000Four stars. Dense with names and dates but the payoff is real. The sharpest look at Cold War MI5 you'll find in one book. #books #bookreview #TooSecretTooLong #nonfiction smpl.is/ane0thttps://bsky.app/profile/john-self.bsky.social/post/3mxdytrbsv22eat://did:plc:2cadvbwpkxtuvmv2gpy5laml/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxdytrbsv22e@john-self.bsky.socialBooksThu, 08 Oct 2026 08:05:54 +0000A world of Ballardian abandoned aerodromes and Shakespearean body counts, where everyone has a terrible time except the reader. Me on Eoin McNamee’s The Comets, which might appeal to fans of David Peace, James Ellroy and Cormac McCarthy;https://mastodon.social/@xavdid/117401164803289840https://mastodon.social/users/xavdid/statuses/117401164803289840@xavdid@mastodon.socialBooksWed, 07 Oct 2026 19:00:09 +0000New book review! I finished reading EVERYONE IN THIS BANK IS A THIEF and rated it ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (out of 4). david.reviews/books/everyone-i… #books #bookstodon #review #davidreviews #davidreviewsbookshttps://bsky.app/profile/harryhenry.bsky.social/post/3mxdbcd7qtc26at://did:plc:esnpam4dry27a53iepawx4pi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxdbcd7qtc26@harryhenry.bsky.socialBooksThu, 08 Oct 2026 01:04:33 +0000I recently got Part 2 of DC Finest's Crisis on Infinite Earths collection, and seeing this panel from #5 reminds me that the appeal of these busy images filled with hundreds of characters isn't that far off from Martin Handford's "Where's Wally/Waldo" books.https://mastodonapp.uk/@SteveMino/117396786607841590https://mastodonapp.uk/users/SteveMino/statuses/117396786607841590@SteveMino@mastodonapp.ukBooksWed, 07 Oct 2026 00:26:43 +0000I am now 78 books into this year, and this will be the next one that I will be allow in to escape from the teetering tower of my to be read pile onto the security of my bookshelves #CurrentlyReading #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #Booklovers #Bookworm #DavidYallop #ToEncourageTheOthers #DerekBentley #ChristopherCraig #PCSidneyMiles #DeathPenalty #CapitalPunishment #MiscarriageOfJusticehttps://bsky.app/profile/daveb23.bsky.social/post/3mxdehcmwnk26at://did:plc:rwkalbskjtsgupteyoquuynd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxdehcmwnk26@daveb23.bsky.socialBooksThu, 08 Oct 2026 02:01:01 +0000I had to venture forth to get the new Erikson book yesterday, and on my way saw this charming piece of graffiti which really brightened my day,https://hci.social/@bwaber/117397405117477651https://hci.social/users/bwaber/statuses/117397405117477651@bwaber@hci.socialBooksWed, 07 Oct 2026 03:04:01 +0000Last was “Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope” by Brandon M. Terry, who brilliantly dissects narratives and simplistic analyses of the Civil Rights movement, demonstrating how they fail to confront that history in its context and grapple with its revolutionary, imperfect philosophy and goals. Highly recommend hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742… (5/5)https://bsky.app/profile/zstraps.bsky.social/post/3mxdfzxb6xs2xat://did:plc:vlnylbt6hmxddeq35anom5lc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxdfzxb6xs2x@zstraps.bsky.socialBooksThu, 08 Oct 2026 02:29:21 +0000the fun thing about doing this when the special interest in question is printing and bookmaking and Cool Old Books is that sometimes the book you check out about bookmaking is, in itself, a Cool Old Bookhttps://social.coop/@trc/117400235689930883https://social.coop/users/trc/statuses/117400235689930883@trc@social.coopBooksWed, 07 Oct 2026 15:03:52 +0000This can be an interesting case to watch. "Taiwan Travelogue" won the 2026 International Booker Prize for English translation of fiction. It was translated by Lin King 金翎 from the Mandarin Chinese novel "Táiwān Màn Yóu Lù" 《臺灣漫遊錄》 of Yáng Shuāng-zǐ 楊双子. It is a question about "relay translation" that in this case a third-language translation being published based on the English translation of Lin King without her consent. ~~~~~ "Statement on the copyright infringement of the English translation of Taiwan Travelogue" 《臺灣漫遊錄》英譯本著作權遭侵權聲明 instagram.com/p/DeJ12J8kZf_/https://bsky.app/profile/gargroth.bsky.social/post/3mxd5plqb7s2iat://did:plc:yca4tezrqoniti57sfhyol7u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxd5plqb7s2i@gargroth.bsky.socialBooksThu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:23 +0000@beetlemoses.bsky.social Hardcover arrived & it's gorgeous, congrats once again on a physical release! Not an ad or anything, I just really loved The Far Side & this perfectly carries that torch to me It's honestly banger after banger, from heartfelt to absurd, often both. Hell yeahhttps://mastodon.scot/@scotlit/117400154081312458https://mastodon.scot/users/scotlit/statuses/117400154081312458@scotlit@mastodon.scotBooksWed, 07 Oct 2026 14:43:07 +0000Hermes was a bad god, a shifty fellow, a liar, a thief, a teller of the future (with dice, of course), a musician, herald and messenger of the gods… —Norman MacCaig, “Hermes-Mercury” published in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MACCAIG (Birlinn, 2009) birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem… #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig #Hermes #Mercury #Wednesday #Roman #Classicalhttps://bsky.app/profile/escapedexplorer.bsky.social/post/3mxdauoc7nk2xat://did:plc:qp44wbdtbrgyzzgugn5ekx2b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxdauoc7nk2x@escapedexplorer.bsky.socialBooksThu, 08 Oct 2026 00:56:55 +0000One of my favorite minor creative decisions Bill Watterson made was picking a specific white-collar career for Calvin's dad (patent attorney) It almost never explicitly shows up (except one strip where he reads some of his casework to Calvin as a bedtime story) but it somehow informs so much morehttps://social.vivaldi.net/@ravachol/117403464778513152https://social.vivaldi.net/ap/users/116516929609429535/statuses/117403464778513152@ravachol@social.vivaldi.netBooksThu, 08 Oct 2026 04:45:04 +0000My mother brought this book to me when I was a kid...apparently a new "collected Moebius fantasies" had appeared in the comics shop. The cover was amazing. Apparently Le Major's face here is based on Clint Eastwood. I held it in my hands and was a bit shocked about how thick it was. There had to be double or three times the amount of drawings in here than in the other ones. I felt intensely blessed at that moment. You see these books were essentially made of pure magic to me. I just lay there holding it for a while....without even opening it. I was stunned, just by the weight of the book. I could never understand the story of this one, it didn't made sense to me. It had been made a few pages at a time, Moebius would just evolve the story for each new issue from where he left off. It ended up being a bit incoherent and so on. It's fine I'm telling you...it's totally fine...once you see the drawings. #comics #fantasyart #moebiushttps://bsky.app/profile/altwatcher.bsky.social/post/3mxdgqphsks2lat://did:plc:7f5fdeb4ci3lefmt4zr3m3wg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxdgqphsks2l@altwatcher.bsky.socialBooksThu, 08 Oct 2026 02:42:04 +0000On what I was going to call "a lighter note" before realizing it really isn't, I just finished Chris Jennings's sweeping END OF DAYS, about Ruby Ridge and the apocalyptic faith that fueled it. I really enjoyed it! It's a great look at the conspiracy-brained history of this country.https://hachyderm.io/@laurie/117401460705268039https://hachyderm.io/users/laurie/statuses/117401460705268039@laurie@hachyderm.ioBooksWed, 07 Oct 2026 20:15:24 +0000Having just finished a re-read of The Lord of the Rings, I'm struck by the realisation that the most important factors in the success of Frodo in his quest to destroy the ring were, in order of importance 1) Lembas 2) Gollum 3) Orcish squabbling ... 99) Sam 100) Frodo #books #bookstodonhttps://mas.to/@emmettoconnell/117400065483220265https://mas.to/users/emmettoconnell/statuses/117400065483220265@emmettoconnell@mas.toBooksWed, 07 Oct 2026 14:20:35 +0000Thev Used the Profits to Replace Us (2025) #poem #poetry #spokenword During the 1986 Pacific Northwest timber strike, Aberdeen mill workers marched over 100 miles to save their communities from corporate concessions. Much like the Luddites, they targeted bosses who weaponized automation to devalue labor rather than technology itself. By exposing how companies like Weverhaeuser blamed global competition to mask profit-driven layoffs, the movement proved that economic fate is a corporate choice rather than an inevitability.https://mastodon.scot/@KenLussey/117398355707303799https://mastodon.scot/users/KenLussey/statuses/117398355707303799@KenLussey@mastodon.scotBooksWed, 07 Oct 2026 07:05:46 +0000Can somewhere be loved to death? My new novel ‘Bridge of Sighs’ is a fast-paced contemporary murder mystery set in Edinburgh and northern Scotland. Balnakeil Bay, in north-west Sutherland, offers a superb beach leading to Faraid head, seen in the distance. It plays a background role in the story. Find out more on my website: kenlussey.com/bos/index.html #Books #Bookstodonhttps://universeodon.com/@eggmont/117396719358907792https://universeodon.com/users/eggmont/statuses/117396719358907792@eggmont@universeodon.comBooksWed, 07 Oct 2026 00:09:37 +0000#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 6: What might an inattentive reader miss in your work? The serious subtext and research behind the humor. "The Wine and Cheese Pirates" is a romp, but it also explains the economics of grey markets in the presence of unreasonable tariffs. There are unintended consequences when one chooses to implement economics that went out of favor in the 1800s with good reason. If one irrationally sets tariffs too high it creates an incentive for smuggling otherwise legal goods to profit on the arbitrary profit margin created by the tariff. I would be astounded if this isn't going on all over the world right now. The inherent danger is that once the grey market logistics are in place it becomes easy to use off the books supply chains to ship black market goods, as well. That too is probably happening right now. In "The Adventures of [Unfortunate Panda-Face] Wilson in the First Dimension**" I look into the differences between logographic symbolic languages and alphabetic languages using Emojuese, a language consisting of symbols with culturally agreed upon idiomatic meanings, Emojis, and Angstlish as it was spoken before the advent of the cerebral cortex InnerNet allowing people to communicate directly in most cases without text or vocal intermediation. This of course results in a pidgin language that attempts to combine both languages in ways that often impeded communication. The difference in the level of terror associated with Emojuese:🗡️ 🥷 ❔[Dagger][Ninja][Question Mark] and the alphabetic Angstlish: "Nobody Knows, Inc., LLC of the Isle of Man" is orders of magnitude greater for Emojuese users in part because rather than being spoken or written the symbols just appear inside their heads. There is a lot of comparative linguistics going on in the background that has little to do with the plot, but is there just because I find it interesting. The clown car has a lot of very sophisticated moving parts under the hood in most of my writing.https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/117400448012634285https://glammr.us/users/jessamyn/statuses/117400448012634285@jessamyn@glammr.usBooksWed, 07 Oct 2026 15:57:52 +0000Book 73: Villain. Picking up where Hench left off, sort of a "What kind of person becomes a villain, and what motivates them to do evil things?" novel where the protagonist is the hench person to a villain named Leviathan who is partially insectoid. Things get complicated when he defeats his rival (in the last book) and loses a sense of purpose. Then they get somewhat involved. Then they fight the good guys. Not as good as the original (to relationship-angst for my tastes) but clever and fun.