9: The 10th Victim by Robert Sheckley

There's some really funny stuff in here but I was disappointed with the last ~1/3rd. A lot of the comedy comes from the absurdity of the worldbuilding, once everything's established the good jokes became fewer.

12. Forms Stretched to Their Limits: Jack Cole and Plastic Man - Art Spiegelman and Chip Kidd

More like an essay by Spiegelman spread to book length by a few reprints of classic Cole comics. It’s all beautifully presented in Kidd’s classic book design style. Real great look into one of America’s greatest cartoonists.

14: Seekers in the Void by Glynn Stewart

A new book by Stewart in a new universe. The plot sounds like the first few stories of Murderbot - A university is exploring an uncharted world but are forced to rent security and a ship from an evil company that has a monopoly on FTL travel. Then one of their security bots becomes sentient. But Stewart does a good job of not just ripping off a popular franchise. This bot is more child like, the academics aren't that likeable at first and the crew of the evil corporation spaceship are good guys. I hope he continues writing this series, I really liked the main characters.

15: The Forest of Ire by Torsten Weitze

Pretty deep into the 13th Paladin series. The big evil is gaining more power and they keep getting sidetracked trying to save whole regions from a bunch of lesser evils that have been slowly growing here and there and then they find yet another missing Paladin. I hope the dozen or so book lead up to a big bad battle isn't as disappointing as the last season of Game of Thrones...

For the remainder of the year 15 seems doable but ill shoot for 20 cuz Ive got so many great books on my shelve.

Last year I got to 37 but I burnt out completely so I wont aim that high.

10: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

A man's (Siddhartha's) lifelong journey to self-discovery. Very simplistic yet beautiful prose, a lot of things in here you've probably thought about but never seen expressed in the written word