Candidate Books

The following books are being considered for our reading list:

Contemporary

  1. We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry (385 pages)
  2. The Actual Star by Monica Byrne (621 pages)
  3. Quicker by Laurence E. Dahners (246 pages)
  4. The Book of All Skies by Greg Egan (274 pages)
  5. A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys (343 pages)
  6. The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow (545 pages)
  7. The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia (194 pages)
  8. The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings (465 pages)
  9. Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar (289 pages)
  10. The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (393 pages)
  11. The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox (637 pages)
  12. Observer by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress (395 pages)
  13. Translation State by Ann Leckie (433 pages)
  14. Middlegame by Seanan Mcguire (492 pages)
  15. Fool by Christopher Moore (385 pages)
  16. 51 by Patrick O’Leary (330 pages)
  17. The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older (160 pages)
  18. Even Though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk (133 pages)
  19. The Surviving Sky by Kritika H. Rao (549 pages)
  20. The Legend of Charlie Fish by Josh Rountree (158 pages)
  21. Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson (443 pages)
  22. Stealing Worlds by Karl Schroeder (311 pages)
  23. Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi (325 pages)
  24. Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes (460 pages)
  25. The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente (155 pages)
  26. Siren Queen by Nghi Vo (281 pages)
  27. Witch King by Martha Wells (424 pages)
  28. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (416 pages)

Classics

  1. The Dancer from Atlantis by Poul Anderson (225 pages)
  2. The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov (256 pages)
  3. The Ginger Star by Leigh Brackett (188 pages)
  4. The Steel Crocodile by D. G. Compton (232 pages)
  5. Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodischer, translated by Ursula K. LeGuin (260 pages)
  6. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami (418 pages)
  7. Spaceling by Doris Piserchia (235 pages)
  8. I Remember Lemuria by Richard Shaver (270 pages)
  9. The Night Life of the Gods by Thorne Smith (272 pages)
  10. Claimed! by Francis Stevens (147 pages)
  11. Dracula by Bram Stoker (352 pages)
  12. The Dragon Masters by Jack Vance (240 pages)
  13. Titan by John Varley (324 pages)
  14. Kate Wilhelm in Orbit, Volume One by Kate Wilhelm (290 pages)