Well, I'm currently reading 5 books right now:
1. Fiore dei Liberi's Fior di Battaglia. I practice HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts), and this manuscript covers grappling, spear, sword in one hand, sword in two hands, poleaxe, mounted combat, dagger, and such. Mainly I'm focusing on Fiore's plays with the sword.
And if you're wondering, historical sword combat looks far different than what you think it should look like.
2. Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive.
3. The Vinland Saga, a manga about Vikings. It'll put hair on your chest.
4. Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy.
5. Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
And since I don't consider short stories or novellas books, per se, I always find time for a good Lovecraft story. If you're wanting to get into them if you haven't read them, I'd start with The Dunwich Horror, At the Mountains of Madness, The Color Out of Space, and of course, The Call of Cthulhu.
1. Fiore dei Liberi's Fior di Battaglia. I practice HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts), and this manuscript covers grappling, spear, sword in one hand, sword in two hands, poleaxe, mounted combat, dagger, and such. Mainly I'm focusing on Fiore's plays with the sword.
And if you're wondering, historical sword combat looks far different than what you think it should look like.
2. Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive.
3. The Vinland Saga, a manga about Vikings. It'll put hair on your chest.
4. Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy.
5. Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
And since I don't consider short stories or novellas books, per se, I always find time for a good Lovecraft story. If you're wanting to get into them if you haven't read them, I'd start with The Dunwich Horror, At the Mountains of Madness, The Color Out of Space, and of course, The Call of Cthulhu.