Candidate Books

The following books are being considered for our reading list:

Contemporary

  1. Sunward by William Alexander (224 pp)
  2. Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa (383 pp)
  3. The Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (476 pp)
  4. Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear (351 pp)
  5. Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (446 pp)
  6. Acts of God by Kanan Gill (410 pp)
  7. Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon (273 pp)
  8. Volatile Memory by Seth Haddon (167 pp)
  9. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (448 pp)
  10. The Hospital at the End of the World by Justin C. Key (398 pp)
  11. Katabasis by R.F. Kuang (567 pp)
  12. The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami (336 pp)
  13. Artificial Truth by J. M. Lee (220 pp)
  14. Transmentation | Transience by Darkly Lem (382 pp)
  15. All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu (416 pp)
  16. Red Star Hustle / Apprehension (Saga Double) by Sam J Miller & Mary Robinette Kowal (416 pp)
  17. Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi (234 pp)
  18. Esperance by Adam Oyebanji (415 pp)
  19. There Is No Antimemetics Division by QNTM (267 pp)
  20. The Compound by Aisling Rawle (290 pp)
  21. The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran (298 pp)
  22. Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky (453 pp)
  23. Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove (407 pp)
  24. Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite (100 pp)
  25. A Philosophy of Thieves by Fran Wilde (363 pp)

Older Titles

  1. Brother Termite by Patricia Anthony (200 pp)
  2. Adam Link, Robot by Eando Binder (230 pp)
  3. The Night of the Ripper by Robert Bloch (258 pp)
  4. Finder by Emma Bull (205 pp)
  5. Poor Things by Alasdair Gray (337 pp)
  6. The Listeners by James Gunn (277 pp)
  7. The Artificial Man and Other Stories by Clare Winger Harris (338 pp)
  8. The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison (108 pp)
  9. Wizard of the Pigeons by Megan Lindholm (225 pp)
  10. Restoree by Anne McCaffrey (256 pp)
  11. This is the Way the World Ends by James Morrow (318 pp)
  12. Lincoln’s Dreams by Connie Willis (258 pp)