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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Greatures: Level One by KC Green Green is clearly enjoying himself with these little weirdos, and I had a great time too. They're a bunch of shitty little guys in a shitty little world, but they're doing their best, and there's something beautiful in knowing that someone the shnail is dancing. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones Perfect start to spooky season. I grew up next to a reservation so it was illuminating to read a horror novel from that perspective. You learn a lot about somebody when you learn what they're afraid of. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Faith of Beasts by James S. A. Corey A perfectly cromulent novel. Very much the second book in the trilogy, but there were still some interesting reveals and character development. I love the setting, but the execution doesn't match the ambition of what it's setting up. Alien slug guy ruled. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Always Never by Jordi Lafebre Perfect. Precious. Timeless. If you've got a heart in your body, you owe it to yourself to give this a read. It's such a simple twist on a love story, but it's executed so so well. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

2666 by Roberto Bolaño This novel kicked my ass. Life is so huge and wonderful and terrifying and banal and we're all just stumbling through it together and Bolaño took all of that chaos and coincidence and condensed it down as much as he could, but it's still bursting at the seams. Give it a try💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I Roved Out In Search of Truth & Love: Tome 2 by Alexis Flower Flower follows the fun in this one. Our heroines meander along their quest while their pasts and the wider world are revealed along the way. Some truly jaw-dropping spreads here. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The Sea by Rikke Villadsen This fisherman feels like he was plucked from Over the Garden Wall and dropped into The Lighthouse. Villadsen's smeared pencils dreamily convey the sense of bewilderment and imbue everything with atmospheric dread, but there's hope lurking underneath. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Kingdoms of Death by Christopher Ruocchio When reading retrospective first-person, it can be difficult for the author to maintain tension since we already know how the story ends. Ruocchio played me like a goddamn yo-yo with this one. Put me to sleep and then walked the dog on me. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman I liked this more than I thought I would. Had some genuine laugh-out-loud moments; had some shake-my-head-and-sigh moments. There's a really compelling story in here, but sometimes the cloud of Axe Body Spray is too thick to see it. 💙📚

Cover of the audiobook for Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman narrated by Jeff Hays

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I Roved Out In Search of Truth & Love by Alexis Flower Crocodile Dundee after reading Fourth Wing: That's not smut; this is smut! I think we could all stand to get a little hornier these days. Blockbusters hardly even make you bust. Remember True Lies? Why don't they make em like that anymore? 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Bug Wars: Book One - Lost in the Yard by Jason Aaron, Mahmud Asrar, Matthew Wilson, and Becca Carey Unrepentant, gratuitous, gleeful, anything but subtle, this is one heck of an opening chapter. I want fifty more books of this. I want to play a campaign in this world. I can't wait till August. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A Hero Born by Jin Yong Translated literature is uniquely powerful because, while all literature opens a window into a world not your own, translated books warp that window and expose a truth that's foundational to all worlds and worldviews: Everybody loves it when a bad dude gets his ass kicked 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The Three Fat Men by Yuri Olesha Fun little fairytale! Definitely of its time, but the core message still rings true, and Olesha has some great Adamsesque turns of phrase. A bruise is described as an unattractive rose blossom or a very attractive frog, and the narrator is exquisite. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

One Piece Vols 37, 38, 39 by Eiichiro Oda You should really give One Piece a shot. I know it's long, but if you read just five minutes a day, you'll have a fun hobby for the rest of your life. Franky says Trans Rights. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Daughter of Crows by Mark Lawrence This left me wanting more. An academy turning girls into incarnations of the Furies is a hell of a pitch, but ended up as the Book of the Ancestor with a far less developed world. Read like we had to get this out of the way before the story starts. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Mina's Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa A tilt-shift slice-of-life. Ogawa beautifully captures those idiosyncratic moments of childhood that only see odd in retrospect, but followed perfectly with a child's logic and acceptance of the world. My grandma had a monkey, didn't everyone's? 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir I absolutely loved this movie, and I heard the book dove a little deeper into the science, so I picked this up. The science is the best part. Ryan Gosling lends Grace an affable nature, but he sucks in this book. I would still die for Rocky, though. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco The Plan was always for me to have read this book. Shockingly relevant in the face of GenAI and the splintering of our democracy. It's also really funny and reads like The DaVinci Code for adults. I loved TDC as a kid, but Renowned Author Dan Brown slays me. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Mr. Styke by Brian McClellan I love Mad Ben Styke so much he wormed into my subconscious, and I played him in an improvised dungeons and dragons comedy show without realizing it. I seriously considered buying and wearing a replica of his ring. Everyone, read Powder Mage and play the TTRPG w/ me 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The Wall of Storms by Ken Liu Really solid. A fable blown up to epic scale, I'm reminded of Kipling's Just So Stories de-colonialised or Sanderson's Rhythm of War made compelling, or Dickinson's The Flight of Dragons with an actual plot. This would be a great entry point into the fantasy genre. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian O'Brian is a master at communicating only what needs to be understood. The violence in this is so understated and the few deaths of note stand in stark relief. Aubrey and Maturin are a perfect pair of goobers and it's so fun watching them flail. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

No Life Forsaken by Steven Erikson What a victory lap for the Malazan Book of the Fallen. Erikson has gotta be having the time of his life writing these. "Indulge me", he says. "With pleasure", I reply. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Kraken by China Miéville When I was a highschool wrestler, my dad called me The Kraken. I used to wear an octopus ring. I am definitely biased, but this is a super fun read. A giant squid specimen goes missing from London's Natural History museum and kicks off the end of the world. Weird & grimy 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates I voted for Obama both times, but I didn't really become politically conscious until his second term, and my views have changed considerably since, so reading something I so agree with now written during that era makes me wish I'd started earlier. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab Picked this up blind from an airport bookstore because I loved Addie LaRue. I wasn't expecting sexy lesbian vampires dealing with the cyclical nature of generational trauma, and the pace drags at the end, but, all in all, a very fun read. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Demon in White by Christopher Ruocchio This series has the best Dune books since God-Emperor. Ruocchio plopped himself down at the all you can eat Spec-Fic sushi conveyer belt and helped himself to the best parts of so many works but it's a synthesis rather than a derivation. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

By Blood, By Salt by J.L. Odom This was so close to being great. The prose, the characters, and the world all show ambition and skill, but they don't pop off the page. The whole novel has this barely simmering tension throughout, but there's no release or catharsis. Curious how book two fares. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

One Piece vols. 34, 35, 36 by Eiichiro Oda Shit is happening! The Foxy Pirates were a fun interlude, but Water 7 kicked off with a bang. Can't wait to read more. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Tom's Crossing by Mark Z. Danielewski I loved this. It's a Western Moby Dick, it's the Iliad in Utah, it's The Great Panda Adventure but with horses instead of pandas. It's beyond epic, and the tension builds at a glacial pace, but when everything finally breaks loose, you feel born again. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Scale your Everest by Erik Z. Severinghaus New job, so I figured now was as good as time as any to read the co-ceo's book. For a book about a man climbing Mount Everest, it is a shockingly humble and mindful work. In an effort to combat bias, I do have to call out the unhinged footnotes. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Twelve Months by Jim Butcher We're so back. Peace Talks and Battle Ground were pretty choppy, but Butcher's righted the ship. Crazy lore reveals, crazy reunions, I laughed out loud, I cried, I don't know what else I could've asked for. Read this series; Start at Dead Beat, then try Storm Front. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Let Me in Your Window by Adam Ellis Ellis does such a good job introducing premise, developing tension, and playing with modern technology in the form. I want to see him unleashed on a longer format and answer, "If this is true, what else is true? And, if that is true, what ELSE is true?" 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Bad Dreams in the Night by Adam Ellis Scary, but superficial. I don't know if it's his art style, but this felt a little tongue in cheek throughout. I really liked the commentary after each story, and the stories are all clearly very personal, but I wish that came through more in the telling. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The Order of the Stick: On the Origin of PCs by Rich Burlew I can't believe I've been reading this series for twenty years, and it can still make me laugh out loud. If you want to understand what makes me tick, I think you could do a lot worse than reading this and watching The Venture Bros. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

You Like it Darker by Stephen King Like any collection of short stories, there's some bangers and some duds, but the back half of this is absolutely stacked. Rattlesnakes is a phenomenal sequel to Cujo, The Dreamers is a great nod to Lovecraft, and Laurie is King at his best. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville It would not be too far a stretch of the truth to say that, in this writer's view, Melville's prose (while often parenthetical and meandering) nevertheless brings joy not unlike that found upon grasping some ineffable truth once thought hidden by the Creator 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

How to Invent Everything by Ryan North North makes humanity this loveable bunch of saps bumbling around in the dark accidentally inventing things that work for the wrong reasons, and says "Look at all the great things these bozos did. You can do better. Go do it." 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

King Sorrow by Joe Hill Starting the year off with an absolute ripper. Joe Hill wrote a love letter to his dad chock full of gold coins for Constant Readers to find. I love the way he plays with form: short chapters, changing fonts, looping narratives. It's 900 pages but I never wanted it to end 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk Nice little read. I didn't fully resonate with the main character, but I enjoyed the imagery and some of the philosophical musing. There's a passage about the heavenly sphere's influence on the soul that'll stick with me. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Battle Ground by Jim Butcher This book rules. It's super clunky, but it's got the juice. I feel like I've been reading Butcher my whole life and these books are so special to me. They're cheesy, they're dated, but they've got heart where it counts. Strange to get so much rain in December 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Peace Talks by Jim Butcher Reread in preparation for Twelve Months next year. Enjoyed it much more the second time around, but it's still a really flawed book. It's padded. It's too short. Characters make huge choices that only make sense if you've read all the short stories. Still Dresden tho 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

One Piece: Skypiea Vols. 31, 32, 33 by Eiichiro Oda Got literal chills at least three times while reading this. That scene at the end of the arc that sounds like a Beatles song? Perfection. And, the Davy Back game might be the funniest yet. "I'll do it!! I'm the Ball-Man!! This ball suits me!!" 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu This book's got it all: schemes, romance, betrayal, war, and most importantly GIANT WEIRD ANIMALS. ARMORED NARWHALS TWICE THE SIZE OF A BLUE WHALE. DIRIGIBLE FALCONS WITH A TWENTY FOOT WINGSPAN. WHATEVER THE HELL MATA ZYNDU IS. Book rules; read it. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

The Daughters' War by Christopher Buehlman Buehlman delivers on the promised goblins, betrayal, and revenge, but I didn't expect such a touching and introspective piece. Constraining the scope to a single character is such a smart way to do a prequel, and getting more Galva was such a delight. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Simplicity: A Novel by Mattie Lubchansky Mattie crushed it with this one. It's grimy dystopia blended with stunningly beautiful surrealism lovingly steeped in raw sexuality. This book made me want to fight a bear. This book made me want to fuck an elk. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Stonewielder by Ian C. Esslemont Enjoyed the time I spent with this, but I never really felt compelled to keep reading until the last couple chapters. All the story-lines made sense retrospectively, but I wish he'd set the hook more firmly at the outset. Beyond excited for No Life Forsaken tho. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

This is how you know it's gonna be a good one

Cropped picture of the first page of a book. The text reads:
Prologue
The Elder Age
Height of the Jacaruku Crusades
The Many Isles

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi Picked this up for spooky season, and it delivered a horrifying glimpse into the monsters haunting post-invasion Iraq. Reading translated literature is the best way to broaden your view and build empathy, and everyone should go check out Clevo Books. 💙📚

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Cale Harter @caleharter.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Post something random or you'll have an awful November

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