oruga's
2025
Reading Wrap-Up

Books by new authors

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

The Masquerade #1

The Traitor Baru Cormorant

Seth Dickinson

400 pages • 2015 • 23 editions

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ science fiction challenging dark tense medium-paced
5.0 oruga's review
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World

Vincent Bevins

320 pages • 2020 • 27 editions

nonfiction history politics challenging dark informative medium-paced
4.5 oruga's review
Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories by qntm

Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories

qntm

115 pages • 2022 • 6 editions

fiction horror science fiction short stories adventurous dark reflective fast-paced
3.75 oruga's review
Dead Horses by Freya JN

Dead Horses

Freya JN

84 pages • 2025 • 3 editions

user-added

fiction comics fantasy
4.0 oruga's review
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity by Adam Becker

More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

Adam Becker

368 pages • 2025 • 6 editions

nonfiction business science technology challenging informative medium-paced
5.0 oruga's review
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places by Christopher Brown

A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places

Christopher Brown

320 pages • 2024 • 7 editions

nonfiction memoir nature philosophy politics challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
2.25 oruga's review
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard

288 pages • 1974 • 38 editions

nonfiction memoir nature informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
4.0 oruga's review
Erebus by Elizabeth Lewis Williams

Erebus

Elizabeth Lewis Williams

106 pages • 1 edition

nonfiction poetry
2.0 oruga's review
Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather

Our Lady of Endless Worlds #1

Sisters of the Vast Black

Lina Rather

159 pages • 2019 • 5 editions

fiction lgbtqia+ science fiction adventurous medium-paced
5.0 oruga's review
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel

255 pages • 2022 • 94 editions

fiction literary science fiction adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced
2.5 oruga's review