Just finished ‘Children Of Strife’ the fourth book in the ‘Children Of Time’ series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

One one hand, he has a trope he keeps going back to, on the other he makes it work pretty well.

I’d suggest starting with the first book, and reading the whole series.

Classic.

Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett.

This book created the whole noir genre. The plots been used and reused dozens of times, but it’s good to go back to where it all started.

A tough private detective is dispatched to a corrupt mining city. It’s full of warring gangs and our hero is going to clean it up, no matter how many murders it takes.