yo i made a separate topic for audiobooks and podcasts, because i consider those things separate enough from wh book you read to justify it.
 
i'm listening to a bunch of audiobooks currently and i'm also reading a bunch of good old-fashioned print books too. i've been reading Ender's Game for months now and i really should try to find time to finish it... also i've gotta finish The Count of Monte Cristo one of these days but danngg that book is HUGE. also i recently acquired The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky and Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, so i plan on reading those as soon as i can.

I'd ditch the MLM bullshit and stick with just the first M. ;) The three volumes of Capital, the Grundrisse, and The German Ideology are all incredibly important books that are about as fresh today as when they were written. I've been doing a study of Marx's critique of political economy in my spare time for a few years now and recently picked up Michael Heinrich's Introduction to the 3 volumes of Capital and it's very good considering that it's just an introductory text; I'd really recommend it. There's a growing body of literature associated with value-form theory taking a fresh look at Marx's "wertkritik" since the availability of the economic manuscripts. It's fascinating because it seems to buck a lot of the orthodoxy rooted in 2nd/3rd International dogma opening the way for a fresh and timely re-evaluation of Marx, although a lot of it seems to be philology it's still pretty interesting if you're into this sort of stuff.

i am reading werner herzog's conquest of the useless. i've been a bit of a neanderthal and out of the habit of reading seriously for a couple years, and this has been a great thing to get back into the game. it's a collections of journals he kept while making his film fitzcarraldo, which was notable for him successfully pulling a 320 ton steamship over a reasonably steep hill without the use of special effects. i picked this up somewhat reluctantly, figuring it would be a slightly boring collection of production notes. it's not. at all.
 
i am at the part where termites eat one of his journals and rather than try to fake it he just writes a little apology, scavenges two barely legible sentences that survived the termite attack, and skips ahead several months to where the next journal picked up.
 
i don't remember ever having this much fun reading a book.

taking another shot at The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, about halfway in (so 650 pages :bar​, it's mostly about ideas and there's a lot of good thumbnail caricatures of things that are still around today (idee-fixee TED-style poptimism, allure of nebulous seaweedy states of Pure Feeling esp to businessmen and stock merchants, progress....) but the weird, loose, self-cannibalising structure makes it dufficult to get a fix on.
 
also reading Salem's Lot by Stephen King. i read The Dead Zone a while ago and kinda liked it, feel similarly about this one - they feel like nerd fantasy books with an image of grown-up life that's crude and sorta grotesque at the same time, like in terms of contrast between the gentle bookish (but still 100% man!! and everyone takes time out to recognise this, he drinks beer etc) suburb protagonists and the brutish townies who are always one step away from evil possession or killing someone... coupling of bland semi-idyllic smalltown presentation with what seems like some creepy score-settling thing going on between the lines in the way the different characters are presented is more unsettling than the monster bits. also i'm a sucker for stereotypical america zones presented as spooky psychic hotspots. but they're also pretty goofy and bland as books and go downhill after the first couple chapters!

I just read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? followed by Ubik followed by A Scanner Darkly (all PKD novels).
 
It will be a while before I read another existential crisis. I enjoyed them all but perhaps reading in the order I read them I subjected myself to an increasing feeling of despair! ASD, being equivalent to watching a car crash in slow motion as the protagonist is turned into a vegetable.
 
Ubik was incredible. It deals with the concept that humans can be kept alive after death in some form of stasis and can live out their own fabricated realities in half-life, but as time goes on the world starts to regress through time as what they remember of their world ebbs away. There are more factors than just this which I wouldn't want to spoil, it gets quite horrific. It makes me want to read more novels that are close to how absurd actual dreams are.
 
At the moment I am reading Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. It's an apocalyptic novel with a sorta deadpan scientific narrative/main character. It seems less about horror and closer to some sort of simulation theory with a smattering of story-events. It's hard reading but at the same time it's interesting and feels somewhat accurate so I keep on going. The author seems somewhat emotionless half the time, besides just noting that many of the characters encountered are "in a state of shock".
 
I tried to read the sequel to The Quantum Thief which is called The Fractal Prince, however, I don't know what kind of drugs Hannu was taking at the time he wrote it but is beyond the scope of my neanderthal brain and I cannot understand it enough to enjoy it.

I've started reading Naked Lunch, and it's a very engaging read. Poetically written, but full of 50s slang which at first makes it a little hard to follow, but I'm much more comfortable now.

recently finished The Psychopath Test, Lolita, and Right Ho, Jeeves. all good stuff. not too long ago, i also finished The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, The Graveyard Book, and a bunch of Mark Twain short stories. i don't think i'll ever run out of books to get through!! i'm currently in the middle of Ender's Game (which i've been in the middle of for a long time...), The Stranger (by Albert Camus), and Thank You, Jeeves.

I recently read several books that I maybe should have read when I was younger:
 
Moby Dick, Catcher in the Rye, and Crime & Punishment I thought were pretty good. I didn't find them life-changing as I've heard them described, tho maybe that would be different if I had read them at the right age. Sections of MD were good but the bulk of it was pretty boring! A lot of C&P is really good, tho it's still my least favorite of Dosty's writings so far. I found Rodion a little too BadAss & wished would have been more despicable and more like the Underground Man.
 
I thought The Stranger and The Great Gatsby both kinda stunk! again maybe if their main themes were still new to me I'd like them more. I liked how scotty/fitzy wrote dialogue and his character interactions. I dunno if I should read the stranger (camus) again, cuz I really didn't get anything out of it. I've read some criticism and other people's takes on both of the books, and nothing I've seen anyone say about either of them sounds very interesting!