<story><title>Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?</title><text>The year is coming to an end. Time to look back and reflect. What are the books you&amp;#x27;ve read in 2023? Which books made you change your mind or you simply enjoyed? And which books would you recommend to others for 2024?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Semaphor</author><text>I re-read the 10 doorstopper long &amp;quot;Malazan Book of the Fallen&amp;quot; high fantasy series by Steven Erikson and enjoyed it just as much as I did originally, slightly over a decade ago. Still my favorite series of all time. This took up a pretty big chunk of the year, so most other books were rather light urban fantasy novels.&lt;p&gt;But one other mini-series stood out (potentially going to be a trilogy, but both #1 &amp;amp; #2 can stand alone).&lt;p&gt;Teixcalaan #1 &amp;amp; #2, &amp;quot;A Memory Called Empire&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;A Desolation Called Peace&amp;quot; by Arkady Martine for being very different feeling sci-fi books that are not your typical western-centric fare. Highlights are the language, and that the story feels both very small and contained, and also all-encompassing, at the same time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>disgruntledphd2</author><text>&amp;gt; Teixcalaan #1 &amp;amp; #2, &amp;quot;A Memory Called Empire&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;A Desolation Called Peace&amp;quot; by Arkady Martine for being very different feeling sci-fi books that are not your typical western-centric fare. Highlights are the language, and that the story feels both very small and contained, and also all-encompassing, at the same time.&lt;p&gt;These were marvellous, well worth reading for any fans of Malazan&amp;#x2F;other fantasy or sci-fi.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?</title><text>The year is coming to an end. Time to look back and reflect. What are the books you&amp;#x27;ve read in 2023? Which books made you change your mind or you simply enjoyed? And which books would you recommend to others for 2024?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Semaphor</author><text>I re-read the 10 doorstopper long &amp;quot;Malazan Book of the Fallen&amp;quot; high fantasy series by Steven Erikson and enjoyed it just as much as I did originally, slightly over a decade ago. Still my favorite series of all time. This took up a pretty big chunk of the year, so most other books were rather light urban fantasy novels.&lt;p&gt;But one other mini-series stood out (potentially going to be a trilogy, but both #1 &amp;amp; #2 can stand alone).&lt;p&gt;Teixcalaan #1 &amp;amp; #2, &amp;quot;A Memory Called Empire&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;A Desolation Called Peace&amp;quot; by Arkady Martine for being very different feeling sci-fi books that are not your typical western-centric fare. Highlights are the language, and that the story feels both very small and contained, and also all-encompassing, at the same time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bodantogat</author><text>I read Malazan for the first time this year after putting it off for decades. Loved it and will likely read it again</text></comment>