A Canticle for Leibowitz
I keep coming back this book and I think it's wonderful, but calling this a comfort book seems wrong somehow.
I think I would say Consider Phlebas. Flamboyant space opera.
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#12Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
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#13Used to be the Swallows and Amazon series (when I was much younger).
Then it was the 2 memoirs by Patrick Leigh Fermor: "A Time of Gifts" and "Between the Woods and the Water".
Lately it's the Aubrey-Maturin by Patrick O'Brian series which I have re-read multiple times.
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#14The Zhuangzi
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#15Currently Anatham. Couldn’t tell why exactly but there’s something about the society described in the novel that I find very comforting.
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#16The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson.
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#17Pratchett discworld series. Started when I was young and I still enjoy rereading them all, still spot some new things in them now and again too.
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#18Not a single book, but The Dresden Files series is really good. The first few books are a little on the weak side, but the author gets better and better and the world building is very deep. There's gotta be a zillion characters interacting to a point where it feels real. Good arc going on too. It's a wizard detective series set in modern times.
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#19To Stay Alive by Michel Houellebecq
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#20Currently Anatham. Couldn’t tell why exactly but there’s something about the society described in the novel that I find very comforting.
For me it is Zodiac, Snow Crash and Diamond Age.