The following books are being considered for our reading list:
Contemporary Candidates
Science Fiction
- Lexicon by Max Barry
- The Coincidence Makers by Yoav Blum
- Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
- The Spaceship Next Door by Gene Doucette
- The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
- Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn
- Noumenon by Marina J. Lostetter
- The Robots of Gotham by Todd McAulty
- Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
- Qualify by Vera Nazarian
- Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
- Substrate Phantoms by Jessica Reisman
- Rosewater by Tade Thompson
- Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
- The Genius Plague by David Walton
- Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
Fantasy
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
- Uncharted by Kevin J. Anderson & Sarah A. Hoyt
- Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
- Dreadnought by April Daniels
- Silver on the Road by Laura Anne Gilman
- Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
- The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
- The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang
- Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
- The Way of the Shield by Marshall Ryan Maresca
- The Last Adventure of Constance Verity by A. Lee Martinez
- Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
- Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older
- Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore
- Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
- The Sisters Mederos by Patrice Sarath
- The Cult of Broken Knives by Anna Smith Spark
- The Black Tides of a Heaven by JY Yang
Classic Candidates
Science Fiction
- Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Morning Child and Other Stories by Gardner Dozois
- I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
- Benefits by Zoe Fairbairns
- In the Country of the Blind by Michael F. Flynn
- Missing Man by Katherine MacLean
- Summer of Love by Lisa Mason
- Emergence by David R. Palmer
- The Power by Frank M. Robinson
- Picnic on Paradise by Joanna Russ
- Reefsong by Carol Severance
- We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Fantasy
- Outside the Dog Museum by Jonathan Carroll
- Sunglasses After Dark by Nancy A. Collins
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
- The Bear Went Over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle
- The Prince of Morning Bells by Nancy Kress
- Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz
- Boy’s Life by Robert R. McCammon
- Endless Honeymoon by Don Webb