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SciFi and Fantasy Book Club Bookshelf
This is the list of books read by the
SciFi and Fantasy Book Club
until March 2023. This list is no longer updated.
See SFFBC Current Events for links to current group book resources.
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The Lions of Al-Rassan
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 25,671 ratings
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War for the Oaks
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Emma Bull (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 10,615 ratings
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The Speed of Dark
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3.99 avg rating — 11,578 ratings
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Ubik
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4.11 avg rating — 119,792 ratings
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Deathless
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Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 22,595 ratings
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The Summer Tree (The Fionavar Tapestry, #1)
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 26,326 ratings
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The Silent Tower (Windrose Chronicles, #1)
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Barbara Hambly (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 3,537 ratings
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
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3.73 avg rating — 132,452 ratings
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Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 61,279 ratings
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1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
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The Warded Man (The Demon Cycle, #1)
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Peter V. Brett (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 130,200 ratings
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Spin (Spin, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 43,823 ratings
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Homeland (Forgotten Realms: The Dark Elf Trilogy, #1; Legend of Drizzt, #1)
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Charmed Life (Chrestomanci, #1)
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Wild Seed (Patternist, #1)
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The Master and Margarita
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Under Heaven (Under Heaven, #1)
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 16,669 ratings
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Zodiac
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 20,294 ratings
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The Anubis Gates
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3.90 avg rating — 17,507 ratings
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
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4.23 avg rating — 219,681 ratings
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When Gravity Fails (Marîd Audran, #1)
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Eon: Dragoneye Reborn (Eon, #1)
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Alison Goodman (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 62,630 ratings
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The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)
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The Rook (The Checquy Files, #1)
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The Lathe of Heaven
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4.13 avg rating — 85,259 ratings
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The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
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Mary Doria Russell (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 80,683 ratings
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The Magic of Recluce (The Saga of Recluce, #1)
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L.E. Modesitt Jr. (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 25,639 ratings
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Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 180,543 ratings
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Embassytown
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 34,113 ratings
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Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 98,625 ratings
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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3.72 avg rating — 79,506 ratings
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The Native Star (Veneficas Americana, #1)
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M.K. Hobson (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 3,678 ratings
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The Crown Conspiracy (The Riyria Revelations, #1)
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Michael J. Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 25,999 ratings
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A Night in the Lonesome October
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4.16 avg rating — 14,707 ratings
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Night Watch (Watch, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 44,944 ratings
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The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1)
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Brent Weeks (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 175,313 ratings
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Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, #1)
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Alphabet of Thorn
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4.09 avg rating — 6,157 ratings
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Weave World
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Clive Barker (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 33,752 ratings
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The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 61,739 ratings
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Cold Magic (Spiritwalker, #1)
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Kate Elliott (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 9,328 ratings
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John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
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David Wong (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 82,369 ratings
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
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Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 14,042 ratings
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The Briar King (Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, #1)
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3.75 avg rating — 11,401 ratings
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Island in the Sea of Time (Nantucket, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 8,432 ratings
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The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 72,422 ratings
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The Accidental Time Machine
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3.73 avg rating — 10,665 ratings
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The Sword-Edged Blonde (Eddie LaCrosse, #1)
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Alex Bledsoe (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 2,738 ratings
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Alif the Unseen
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G. Willow Wilson (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 17,887 ratings
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The Killing Moon (Dreamblood, #1)
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N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 22,912 ratings
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The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (Burton & Swinburne, #1)
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Mark Hodder (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 7,394 ratings
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Pump Six and Other Stories
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 8,747 ratings
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On the Oceans of Eternity (Nantucket, #3)
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Against the Tide of Years (Nantucket, #2)
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The Terror
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4.09 avg rating — 71,333 ratings
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Flowers for Algernon
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4.23 avg rating — 770,932 ratings
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Station Eleven
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Emily St. John Mandel (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 595,900 ratings
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Infernal Devices (Infernal Devices, #1)
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3.36 avg rating — 2,910 ratings
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Zoo City
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Lauren Beukes (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 11,557 ratings
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The Algebraist
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4.04 avg rating — 24,047 ratings
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The Dragon's Path (The Dagger and the Coin, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 22,780 ratings
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Legend (The Drenai Saga, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 35,164 ratings
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Red Country
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4.31 avg rating — 62,690 ratings
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The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
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Helene Wecker (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 129,954 ratings
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Opening Atlantis (Atlantis, #1)
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3.35 avg rating — 1,695 ratings
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The Suicide Collectors
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David Oppegaard (Goodreads Author)
3.25 avg rating — 867 ratings
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Hounded (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #1)
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Kevin Hearne (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 91,752 ratings
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Shadow's Son (Shadow Saga, #1)
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Jon Sprunk (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 4,499 ratings
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The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
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Katherine Arden (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 226,143 ratings
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Lock In (Lock In, #1)
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 70,751 ratings
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Memory of Water
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Emmi Itäranta (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 10,066 ratings
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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
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Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 286,599 ratings
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City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)
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Robert Jackson Bennett (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 39,207 ratings
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Gun, With Occasional Music
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Little, Big
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Promise of Blood (Powder Mage, #1)
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Brian McClellan (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 62,782 ratings
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The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
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4.19 avg rating — 579,957 ratings
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White Cat (Curse Workers, #1)
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Holly Black (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 50,619 ratings
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City of Bones
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Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 6,612 ratings
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Starship Troopers
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4.01 avg rating — 242,881 ratings
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
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3.84 avg rating — 10,901 ratings
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Three Parts Dead (Craft Sequence, #1)
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Max Gladstone (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 15,334 ratings
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Uprooted
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 258,363 ratings
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Kindred
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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3.87 avg rating — 251,164 ratings
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Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 94,326 ratings
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Machine Man
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Max Barry (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 4,757 ratings
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Seveneves
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 321,624 ratings
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Regarding Ducks and Universes
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Neve Maslakovic (Goodreads Author)
3.41 avg rating — 1,501 ratings
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The Goblin Emperor (The Chronicles of Osreth, #1)
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Katherine Addison (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 52,875 ratings
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Redshirts
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 115,731 ratings
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Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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Pierce Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 683,352 ratings
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Elantris (Elantris, #1)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 334,449 ratings
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The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
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M.R. Carey (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 241,863 ratings
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The Stand
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 819,113 ratings
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The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1)
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The Neverending Story
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Armada
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Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 126,732 ratings
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Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)
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Ann Leckie (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 59,399 ratings
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No, this list is purely for books read by the SciFi and Fantasy Book Club.
This is the wrong book -The Last Unicorn
by Peter Gillis (Adaptation)
and should be replaced by the The Last UnicornPeter S Beagle.
Hmm, I like this list but I can't 'like' it.
I'm really lagging behind in reading books on this list!! I've got a handful of the unread ones on my shelves too. I know what I'm going to be doing this month!
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Nice list, but can you please add the rest of the LOTR series? Thanks:)