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Date Discussed Title Author Published Genre Tuesday, August 17, 2010 Date Discussed Title Author Published Genre Tuesday, August 17, 2010 Eyes of the Overworld Jack Vance 1966 Fantasy Tuesday, September 21, 2010 Boneshaker Cherie Priest 2009 Science Fiction/Steampunk Tuesday, October 19, 2010 Hood (King Raven #1) Stephen R. Lawhead 2006 Fantasy/Historical Fiction Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos #1) Dan Simmons 1989 Science Fiction Tuesday, December 21, 2010 Lankhmar Book 1: Swords and Deviltry Fritz Leiber 1970 Fantasy Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 Science Fiction/Dystopia Tuesday, February 15, 2011 A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) George R.R. Martin 1996 Fantasy Tuesday, March 15, 2011 Hull Zero Three Greg Bear 2010 Science Fiction Tuesday, April 19, 2011 The Lies of Locke Lamora Scott Lynch 2006 Fantasy Tuesday, May 17, 2011 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 2005 Science Fiction/Dystopia Tuesday, June 21, 2011 The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss 2007 Fantasy Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Old Man's War John Scalzi 2005 Science Fiction Monday, August 01, 2011 NO MEETING Wednesday, September 07, 2011 Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury 1962 Fantasy/Horror Wednesday, October 05, 2011 Altered Carbon Richard Morgan 2002 Science Fiction/Cyberpunk Wednesday, November 02, 2011 Prospero's Children Jan Siegel 1999 Fantasy Wednesday, December 07, 2011 Replay Ken Grimwood 1986 Science Fiction/Time Travel Wednesday, January 04, 2012 Raising Stony Mayhall Daryl Gregory 2011 Fantasy/Horror Wednesday, February 01, 2012 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Heinlein, Robert 1966 Science Fiction Wednesday, March 07, 2012 Talion: Revenant Michael A. Stackpole 1997 Fantasy Wednesday, April 04, 2012 Man in the High Castle Phillip K. Dick 1962 Science Fiction/Alternate History Wednesday, May 02, 2012 The Darktower: The Gunslinger Stephen King 1982 Fantasy Wednesday, June 06, 2012 In the Garden of Iden (The Company #1) Kage Baker 1997 Science Fiction/Time Travel Wednesday, July 11, 2012 Gun, with Occasional Music Jonathan Lethem 1994 Fantasy Wednesday, August 01, 2012 The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1) Suzanne Collins 2008 Science Fiction/Dystopia Wednesday, September 05, 2012 Watchmen Alan Moore and David Gibbons 1987 Fantasy/Graphic Novel Wednesday, October 03, 2012 The Hobbit or There and Back Again J.R.R. Tolkien 1937 Fantasy Wednesday, November 07, 2012 The Keep (Adversary Cycle #1) F. Paul Wilson 1981 Fantasy/Horror Wednesday, December 05, 2012 Ready Player One Ernist Cline 2011 Science Fiction Wednesday, January 02, 2013 Night Circus Erin Morgenstern 2011 Fantasy Wednesday, February 06, 2013 Kindred Octavia Butler 1979 Science Fiction/Time Travel Wednesday, March 06, 2013 Mistborn: The Final Empire Brandon Sanderson 2006 Fantasy Wednesday, April 03, 2013 A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought #1) Vernor Vinge 1992 Science Fiction Wednesday, May 01, 2013 The Blade Itself (The First Law #1) Joe Abercrombie 2006 Fantasy Wednesday, June 05, 2013 World War Z Max Brooks 2006 Science Fiction/Horror Wednesday, July 03, 2013 American Gods Neil Gaiman 2001 Fantasy/Urban Fantasy Wednesday, August 07, 2013 Ender's Game (The Ender Quintet #1) Orson Scott Card 1985 Science Fiction Wednesday, September 04, 2013 Kingdom Come Mark Waid 1996 Fantasy/Graphic Novel Wednesday, October 02, 2013 Shards of Honor (Vorkosigan Saga #1) Lois McMaster Bujold 1986 Science Fiction Wednesday, November 06, 2013 Horns Joe Hill 2009 Fantasy/Horror Wednesday, December 04, 2013 Wool (Wool #1) Hugh Howey 2011 Science Fiction/Dystopia Wednesday, January 08, 2014 The Great Book of Amber Roger Zelazny 1970 Fantasy Wednesday, February 05, 2014 The Forever War Joe Haldeman 1974 Science Fiction/Military Wednesday, March 05, 2014 Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon #1) China Miéville 2000 Fantasy Wednesday, April 02, 2014 Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse #1) James S. A. Corey 2011 Science Fiction Wednesday, May 07, 2014 Watership Down Richard Adams 1972 Fantasy Wednesday, June 04, 2014 Science Fiction Hall of Fame, V. 1 Robert Silverberg 1970 Science Fiction/Short Stories Wednesday, July 02, 2014 Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles #1) Margaret Weis 1984 Fantasy Wednesday, August 06, 2014 Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse #1) Daniel Wilson 2011 Science Fiction/Post Apocalyptic Wednesday, September 03, 2014 The Mists of Avalon (Avalon #1) Marion Zimmer Bradley 1982 Fantasy/Arthurian Wednesday, October 01, 2014 Parasite (Parasitology #1) Mira Grant 2013 Science Fiction Wednesday, November 05, 2014 The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company #1) Glen Cook 1984 Fantasy/Dark Fantasy Wednesday, December 03, 2014 Retribution Falls (Tales of the Ketty Jay #1) Chris Wooding 2009 Science Fiction/Steampunk Wednesday, January 07, 2015 Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman 1990 Fantasy/Urban Wednesday, February 04, 2015 The Martian Andy Weir 2012 Science Fiction Wednesday, March 04, 2015 The Last Wish (Saga o Wiedźminie #1) Andrzej Sapkowski 1993 Fantasy/Dark Fantasy Wednesday, April 01, 2015 Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch) Ann Leckie 2013 Science Fiction/Hard SF Wednesday, May 06, 2015 Annihilation (Southern Reach #1) Jeff VanderMeer 2014 Science Fiction Wednesday, June 03, 2015 The Mote in God's Eye (Moties #1) Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle 1974 Science Fiction/Space Opera Wednesday, July 01, 2015 The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni #1) Helene Wecker 2013 Fantasy/Historical Fiction Wednesday, August 05, 2015 Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel 2014 Science Fiction/Dystopia Wednesday, September 02, 2015 The Book of Jhereg (Vlad Taltos #1-3 omnibus) Steven Brust 1983 Fantasy/High Fantasy Wednesday, October 07, 2015 The Stars My Destination Alfred Bester 1955 Science Fiction/Cyberpunk Wednesday, November 04, 2015 Let the Right One In John Ajvide Lindqvist 2004 Fantasy/Horror Wednesday, December 02, 2015 The Last Legends of Earth (Radix #4) A.A. Attanasio 1989 Science Fiction Wednesday, January 06, 2016 Theft of Swords (The Riyria Revelations #1-2) Michael J. Sullivan 2011 Fantasy/Epic Fantasy Wednesday, February 03, 2016 The Daedalus Incident (Daedalus #1) Michael J. Martinez 2013 Science Fiction/Steampunk Wednesday, March 2, 2016 Last Call (Fault Lines #1) Tim Powers 1992 Fantasy/Urban Wednesday, April 13, 2016 Up Against It M. J. Locke 2011 Science Fiction/Hard SF Wednesday, May 04, 2016 Goblin Emperor Katherine Addison 2014 Fantasy Wednesday, June 01, 2016 Red Rising (Red Rising, #1) Pierce Brown 2014 Science Fiction Wednesday, July 06, 2016 Rogues George R. R. Martin (EDT) 2014 Fantasy/Short Stories Wednesday, August 03, 2016 The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past #1) Cixin Liu 2007 Science Fiction Wednesday, September 07, 2016 Blood Song (Raven's Shadow #1) Anthony Ryan 2011 Fantasy/Epic Fantasy Wednesday, October 05, 2016 Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (Pastwatch #1) Orson Scott Card 1996 Science Fiction/Time Travel Wednesday, November 09, 2016 Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (Johannes Cabal #1) Jonathan L. Howard 2009 Fantasy Wednesday, December 07, 2016 Pilgrimage: The Book of the People (The People) Zenna Henderson 1961 Science Fiction Wednesday, January 11, 2017 Vicious (The Villains #1) V.E. Schwab 2013 Fantasy Wednesday, February 1, 2017 Children of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky 2015 Science Fiction Wednesday, March 1, 2017 The Library at Mount Char Scott Hawkins 2015 Fantasy/Horror Wednesday, April 5, 2017 The Doomed City Arkady Strugatsky 1975 Science Fiction/Dystopia Wednesday, May 3, 2017 The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) N.K. Jemisin 2015 Fantasy Wednesday, June 7, 2017 Dark Matter Blake Crouch 2016 Science Fiction Wednesday, July 7, 2017 The Six Gun Tarot R.S. Belcher 2013 Fantasy / Weird West Wednesday, August 02, 2017 Logan's Run (Logan, #1) William F. Nolan 1967 Science Fiction/Dystopia Wednesday, September 06, 2017 Master of the Five Magics Lyndon Hardy 1980 Fantasy Wednesday, October 04, 2017 Armor John Steakley 1984 Science Fiction/Military Wednesday, November 01, 2017 Sandman Slim (Sandman Slim #1) Richard Kadrey 2009 Fantasy/Urban Fantasy Wednesday, December 06, 2017 Dune (Dune #1) Frank Herbert 1965 Science Fiction Wednesday, January 03, 2018 The Warded Man (Demon Cycle #1) Peter V. Brett 2008 Fantasy Wednesday, February 7, 2018 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Claire North 2014 Science Fiction Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Tigana Guy Gavriel Kay 1999 Fantasy Wednesday, April 4, 2018 The Player Of Games (Culture #2) Iain M. Banks 1988 Science Fiction Wednesday, May 2, 2018 The Riddle-Master of Hed (Riddle-Master #1) Patricia A. McKillip 1976 Fantasy Wednesday, June 7, 2018 Six Wakes Mur Lafferty 2017 Science Fiction Wednesday, July 22, 2018 Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Robin Sloan 2012 Fantasy.
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