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This includes articles, ebooks, audiobooks, etc. If you do, what genres and which books?

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[–] cityboundforest 1 points 2 years ago

I do! I mostly read fiction myself. I’ve taken to reading things like the Percy Jackson series (both Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Heroes of Olympus; I still need to read the Magnus Chase Archives and the Kane Chronicles), Pendragon, Eragon, Fablehaven, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing and its sequel A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, the Ender’s Game series, and many others.

I am currently reading the non-fiction book The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green, essays about various facets of the human experience (including such essays as Super Mario Kart, Diet Dr Pepper, and Haley’s Comet), as well as fiction book The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu, a fictional story about the real sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and how she composed music and also created a fantastical, magical world. It’s a very interesting read so far (I’m about half-way through), especially for someone who was, at least for the first six years of their life, classically trained on the piano and learned much about all of the classical composers like Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and others.