I think that my female coworker JB mentioned reading The House In The Cerulean Sea a year or two ago, but I could be wrong; that could end up being the next fiction book I read / listen to.
Hopefully we have audio versions of these books, if so, there might be a chance for me to read some or all of them.
Then I can break my book reading record & slump of the last few years.
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer is one of my favorite sci-fi books ever!
It’s basically a modern Lovecraft story.
The book details the account of “the biologist” who is a member of a group on an expedition into the mysterious “Area X” a realm governed by something incomprehensible.
So you haven’t read Battle Royale by Koushun Takami?!
The book that inspired the Battle Royal Genre and media like Squid Game, Fortnite, and The Hunger Games?
Then pull up a chair and don’t get too cozy as we discuss how in this dystopian world the government is forcing children to fight to the death on an island and how one student’s plan is to take the system down!