Recently:
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Plainsong - just the prettiest book out there
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Anathem - cool sci-fi
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Perdido Street Station - gritty sci-fi
Nostalgic:
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Lord of the Rings
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I, robot (light, good to get back into reading)
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Brothers Karamazov (since you like Russians)
Triggered by this thread:
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Left Hand of the Darkness, by Le Guin (scifi and gender identity)
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Dune, by Herbert (scifi and ecology)