I have some recommendations to start from, but absolutely still appreciate further recommendations. I just picked up a book from the library that I need to get through before I grab another (personal limitation, just because I know I'm more likely to actually follow through on reading before they're due if I pace myself like this).

Am mildly irked that a couple of the ones recommended that sound like they might suit my tastes are ebook and audiobook only. >.< My particular flavor of neurospicy does not handle ebooks and audiobooks well. Fuck knows what the problem is with the ebooks, since I literally spend all day reading shit online, some of it long form even, but audiobooks are absolutely I can't find that delicate balance point of "enough to do" while listening to keep the ADHD from sabotaging me, but not too much to keep me from actually processing what I'm listening to. I hate my brain sometimes.

@deathkitten my local library uses their requests/transfers/holds lists to justify additional funding or select books to add to their collections. I would definitely recommend requesting any books that they don't currently have. Most staff I've worked with in the past would love to be able to get whatever books their patrons want.

@deathkitten The eBook borrowing thing is terrible for libraries and from what I've heard not great for authors either. I will say I didn't particularly enjoy the follow-up to Wicked, but I heartily recommend reading Pratchett! There's so many good stories on the Disc. Just don't start with the "first" books (Colour of Magic is rough), go for Mort, Going Postal, or Small Gods imo. The nice thing about Pratchett's series is that you CAN start them anywhere and it's a bit like catching a well written TV show. They'll give you enough context to get through, but long-time viewers get the bonus bits that may be hidden.

@dracoling Yeah. When I heard how much they charge for the eBook licenses for libraries, and how few times they can be "borrowed" before they gotta pay for a new one? 🤮 Makes me think the management of publishing houses belong in ​​

I've read all three of the books that followed Wicked directly, and I thought they were interesting, which is why I was interested in the books following Rain after the Wicked threads wrapped up. But I wasn't invested enough to want to buy them, which is why I wanted to borrow from the library.

And yeah, I'm pretty sure the reason I bounced off Pratchett last time is I didn't listen when I was warned to not start at the beginning. I'm so used to binging books and TV in order from start to finish, the idea of starting somewhere other than the first book just didn't make sense to me. But by now, I've seen enough people I trust the judgement of holding him as beloved for the things he wrote, so I figure I can get over that personal hangup.

Unfortunately Small Gods is one of the books the library doesn't have in dead tree form, only eBook. I may give in and buy it if one of the ones the library does have resonates better for me. I think Going Postal was one of the ones someone else recommended and the library did have the dead tree version. I don't think Mort's come up in the other recommendations I've gotten... what about it in particular makes you recommend it?