The following books are being considered for our reading list:
Contemporary Candidates
- Awaken Online: Catharsis by Travis Bagwell
- Turbulence by Samit Basu
- Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
- The Subjugate by Amanda Bridgeman
- Kill the Farm Boy by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne
- This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- The Peripheral by William Gibson
- The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
- The Quantum Magician by Derek Künsken
- Sanctified and Chicken-Fried by Joe R. Lansdale
- Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu
- Monstress, Vol. 1 by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
- The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord
- Severance by Ling Ma
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng
- David Mogo, Godhunter by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
- Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
- Witchmark by C. L. Polk
- Free Chocolate by Amber Royer
- We are Legion (We are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor
- Rosewater by Tade Thompson
- Irontown Blues by John Varley
Classic Candidates
- The Still, Small Voice of Trumpets by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
- Frozen Hell by John W. Campbell, Jr.
- Shadow of a Broken Man by George C. Chesbro
- Hellspark by Janet Kagan
- Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
- The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft
- The Many-Colored Land by Julian May
- The Unicorn Expedition and Other Stories by Satyajit Ray
- The Power by Frank M. Robinson
- Picnic on Paradise by Joanna Russ
- The Kindly Ones by Melissa Scott
- The Voyage of the Space Beagle by A. E. van Vogt