I was going to say Ursula Le Guin but someone beat me to it lol.
So instead: I haven't read all of her books yet, but I've really liked everything by Emily St. John Mandel that I've read so far. Station Eleven was great (and the TV series is even better somehow!) and Sea of Tranquility was super interesting.
Good for them. They've been there for over 450 years, it should be on the Olympics to work around them IMO.
I might have a similar situation coming up, but I think what I'm going to do is essentially just get rid of most of my books and then try to re-acquire them at the other end of the move. Apart from a few specific ones where the physical book itself is important, like a couple of signed copies I have and some well-worn ones that I've had forever.
I'm also working on cataloging everything in BookWyrm so I can keep track of what needs replacing. Bit of a pain but I just don't think I can physically transport that many books.
As the technology progresses, I think it'd be cool if someone made make an eBook reader that could also use text-to-speech to read basically any book in a fairly natural way.
Of course it's no match for a properly-acted audiobook, but it'd go a long way to making things more accessible I think.
Or we just conscript Stephen Fry and put him to work until we have him reading every book that exists lol.
I actually had no idea because I always bring things back on time because I'm a square lol, but I looked it up and apparently they got rid of them during the pandemic.
I remember really liking a book called The Alchymists Cat, which I had no idea was part of a series lol. Also I have no idea if it holds up today or not, but as a kid I was all over that.
I really like Homage To Catalonia, it might actually be my favourite Orwell book.
Also most Bill Bryson books. I read One Summer, America, 1927 recently and really enjoyed it, but A Short History Of Nearly Everything and At Home were also highlights.