/lit/ - Literature

>>14395600
Public:
1. Mobilism - Has all the newest shids
2. Libgen - For older shid
3. IRC. All the common IRCs ban hostmasks such as mibbit so it's in your best interests to pick a normal IRC client. I use Hexchat, it's also the easiest to setup. IRChighway #ebooks is the best so just use that first, followed by #bookz or #ebooks on Undernet. The IRC is the biggest quantity of older archived releases that have not been taken down. You search it and send your request to a specific bot in the channel. If you don't get a response, you will need to pick another bot.

Private sources:
1. Myanonamouse - Hop onto their IRC and follow the steps and instructions of the recruiter. They will walk you through how to gain an invite. It is very simple.
2. Bibliotik - The most highly sought after of private book sites but also quite overrated unless you really need the 0.01% of books available nowhere else. A lot of us have invites but because this tracker belongs to a consortium of private trackers known as the cabal, inviting one bad member will get us banned on all sites. The most reliable way of obtaining an invite is to sit an IRC interview https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Redacted.ch, pass what is effectively an exam, reach Elite status on Redacted.ch (Been here at least 4 weeks, has uploaded at least 50 torrents and 100 GB, ratio above 0.65.) and obtain an invite from the recruiter. Redacted.ch is a music tracker so use something like SMLoadr to stuff the torrent site full of autosnatched FLACs

Audiobooks:
1. Audiobooksbay
2. Myanonamouse
3. Mobilism

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Other, shittier public sources (not as recommended, except for niche things)
4. The Pirate Bay - This used to be good and now it's shit
5. Baka Tsuki - This is used for translated japanese LNs, for things that have been taken down ask the threads on /a/ or check the archives
6. The Pirate Bay - Used to be a good resource and now it's shit
7. VK - May host niche interests, for example in my Doctor Who fandom, some VK members scanned extremely rare charity anthologies from more than two decades ago
Plus don't forget google eg filetype:pdf or filetype:epub it's less effective than it was many years ago

>>14393465
You might like these ones in a similar vein:
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's Doomed City (the Noon Universe books are amazing but the translation is incredibly shiddy!)
Alastair Reynolds' Chasm City
Asimov's Foundation series
Phillip K. Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch or Ubik

Scifi with a greater side of mystery:
Jasper Fforde's Early Riser or Shades of Grey
Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth