re: SECrOTB Book Club: I need a good book to read

I can't read on an e-device either.

Recent reads:

Robogenesis by Daniel H. Wilson (sequel to Robopocalypse): this was a pretty good sequel. If you've read the first one, then you might have been surprised that it had a sequel becaues things seemed pretty wrapped up. I was suspicious that this would feel contrived and like a money grab, but the author actually did a really nice job of coming up with a fresh continuation of the story.

David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell: typical Gladwell stuff. This one is about how apparent advantages in life may actually be disadvantages and how apparent disadvantages might actully be advantages (like how David's small stature and use of a sling as a weapon was actually what allowed him to defeat Goliath, even though it's what made people so dubious as to how he would succeed).

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson: possibly one of my favorite Stephenson books so far. The moon gets struck by an "agent" causing it to fall apart and dooming earth. The people of earth attempt to colonize space to save the species. Great cerebral science fiction with some zany writing.

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Set in Thailand in a steampunk type future destroyed by pestilence and famine and ruled by calorie companies that control the food. Thailand is the last holdout from the influence of the calorie companies, still having their own private genetic seed stock and ruled over by a tightly controlled environmental ministry. This one took me a while to get into due to so much crazy language and the alien world, but it was worth it in the end.