Discworld is my go-to comfort series. The last 3 on my DNF list will be restarted and finished next year. They only got postponed, not abandoned.
- Weird Sisters- T. Pratchet
- Starship Troopers- R. Heinlein (Podcast)
- Berserker- A. Edmondston (NF)
- Pyramids- T. Prattchet
- Left Hand of Darkness- U. K. Leguin (podcast)
- Philosophy for Life- J. Evans (NF)
- I Am Legand- R. Matheson (podcast)
- Lonely Boy- S. Jones (NF)
- Guards, Guards- T. Prattchet
- The Sparrow- M. D. Russell
- Station 11- E. St. J. Mandel
- Lucifers Hammer- L. Niven (podcast)
- Hitchhikers Guide- D. Adams
- Restaurant… End of the Universe- D. Adams
- Life, Universe, Everything- D. Adams
- So Long…Fish- D. Adams
- Mostly Harmless- D. Adams
- The Iron Man- T. Huges (short story)
- HHGG BBC Radio drama
- When the Moon…- J. Scalzi
- Eric- T. Pratchet
- Hitchhikers…- D. Adams (podcast)
- Restaurant at the…- D. Adams (podcast)
- Life, Universe…- D. Adams (podcast)
- Hyperion D. Simmons (podcast)
- The Outsiders- S. E. Hinton
- My Friends- F. Backman
- Moving Pictures T. Pratchet
- Perdido Street Station- C. Miéville
- Reaper Man- T. Pratchet
- The Ruins- S. Smith (podcast)
- Relic- D. Preston/L. Child
- Handmaids Tale- M. Atwood (podcast)
- Witches Abroad- T. Pratchet
- Men at Arms- T. Pratchet
- Star Trek- G. Rodenbury
- Lonsome Night in October- R. Zalzny (podcast)
- Soul Music- T. Pratchett
- Maskerade- T. Pratchett
- World War Z- M. Brooks (podcast)
- The Devil Rides Out- D. Wheatley
- Johannes Cabal, Necromancer-J. L. Howard (podcast)
- Flybot- D. E. Taylor
- There…Antimemetics Divison- S. Huges (podcast)
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight- unknown, Tolken, Flynn, and Armatige translations.
DNF
- Naked Lunch- W. Burroughs
- Canretbury Tails- G. Chaucer
- Star Trek movie tie in- A. D. Foster
- Diamond Age- N. Stephenson
- Cabal, book 2- J. L. Howard
- How to Read a Book- M. J. Adler


I tried going into “The Ruins” blind, alas a bit like the protagonists, and what I was expecting was a very different book.
::: It felt like it was relishing in the suffering and seldom more. There was some good character creation but, as you said with seldom redemptive qualities. But my key problem is the omnipotent omniscient and omnipresent antagonist. And at an opposite junction, everyone is so daft. :::