I'm currently indulging in the habit of juggling multiple books at the same time. My primary book (for lack of a better word) is
The Loser by Thomas Bernhardt, which tackles the insatiable human urge to be superlative- recounted from the perspective of a pianist who studied with virtuoso Glenn Gould, only to discover his own inferiority, and resultantly, his existential futility. Quite good and painfully relatable.
My secondary books are
Blow Up by Julio Cortazar (short stories- all of them poignant and emotionally transformative in that incomparable magical realist way) and a textbook on differential geometry in physics, because I'm a nerd or something.
Anyway, I think this is a cool idea! We could start a trans book club or something