Books of the Month - January 2016 Suggestions

[Nic, Wormhole Technician]

Suggestions are now open for the January Books of the Month. These suggestions will be open until each genre has 8 books.

Please read the rules before nominating!

- ONE nomination per person (EITHER sci-fi OR fantasy)
- No books nominated last month may be renominated for January, instead you must wait until February to nominate them again.
- If books are part of a series, they must be the first, unless the group has already read the previous book(s)
- No authors nominating their own works
- No self-published or ebook only books
- Here are our previous group reads if you're unsure!

SCIENCE FICTION
1. Use of Weapons (Nominated by Nic)
2. Just One Damned Thing After Another (Nominated by Dawn)
3. Apocalypse Cow (Nominated by Mark)
4. The Man in the High Castle (Nominated by Lel)
5. Lexicon (Nominated by Tom)
6. VALIS (Nominated by Kirsty)
7. Feersum Endjinn (Nominated by Paul)
8. The Long Earth (Nominated by Milou)
CLOSED

FANTASY
1. Twelve Kings in Sharakhai (Nominated by Paul)
2. Gardens of the Moon (Nominated by Ryan)
3. The Legend of Huma (Nominated by Melanie)
4. A Malady Of Magicks (Nominated by Mary)
5. The Shambling Guide to New York City (Nominated by Freya)
6. The Queen's Necklace (Nominated by Mary)
7. Hounded (Nominated by Pat)
8.The Magicians (Nominated by Rebecca)
CLOSED

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Might want to change the year ;-)I nominate Twelve Kings in Sharakhaifor fantasy

[Nic, Wormhole Technician]

Haha, thanks for pointing that out! I'm sure that will be the first of many! Always end up using the wrong year till about the middle of march!

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Easily done :-)

[Ryan]

This is an off month for nominating Retribution Falls isn't it? In that case I nominate Gardens of the Moon for fantasy. We'll never get to book ten of the Malazan Book of the Fallen if we don't read book one.

[Becky]

I nominate Lexicon by Max Barry for science fiction, and The Magicians by Lev Grossman for fantasy.

[Dawn]

I would like to nominate 'Just One Damn Thing After Another' by Jodi Taylor in Sci-fi. I read it last month but it was so much fun to read I'm feeling the need to share :-)

[Mark]

I'll nominate Apocalypse Cow by Michael Logan for Science-Fiction.

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

I quite enjoyed Apocalypse cow and World War Moo. Weird concept but great fun .

[Lel]

The Man in the High Castle for sci-fi please.

[Melanie]

fantasy. It is an older book that has been re-released.

[Mary]

A Malady Of Magicks For Fantasy

[Freya, Dragon Rider]

A Shambling Guide to New York for fantasy please :) (saw it in Waterstones last week and thought it looked amusing!)

[Freya, Dragon Rider]

Rebecca, you can only nominate once, either sci fi or fantasy, so more people can nominate each month :)

[Mary]

The Queen's Necklace by Teresa Edgerton for fantasy

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Hounded by Kevin Hearne for fantasy

[Nic, Wormhole Technician]

Rebecca wrote: "I nominate Lexicon by Max Barry for science fiction, and The Magicians by Lev Grossman for fantasy."

As Freya pointed out, Rebecca, you can only nominate one book. Let me know which of the two you would like to put forward.

[Tom]

I'll nominate lexicon if it makes things easier, just bought it for my kindle anyway

[Nic, Wormhole Technician]

Okay, thanks Tom, I'll just just set your nomination as The Magicians, Rebecca.

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

That was a quick fill on Fantasy this month

[Nic, Wormhole Technician]

Well, that's it for Fantasy next month, three slots left for Sci-Fi

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

Can i nominate VALIS :)

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Valis getting licked might lush me to finish the trilogy. I've still to read the Transmigration of Timothy Archer

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

Just as a question, because I don't know the answer - The Culture novels... do they not need to be read in order? or are they stand alone in the same kind of universe?

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

The ones I've read were out of sequence and still worked but I'm no expert .

[Paul]

It is more of a disorder Kirsty... Can I nominate Feersum Endjinn for SF?

[Milou]

Could I nominate 'The long earth' by Terry Pratchett and Stephan Baxter?

[Nic, Wormhole Technician]

Yeah, the culture novels are just set in the same universe, but they are pretty much all unique characters that aren't repeated.

[Nic, Wormhole Technician]

Okay, nominations closed, polls will be up soon!

[Sarah]

Wow, this didn't take long at all!

[Rinn, Captain of the SSV Normandy]

Away for one day and I missed it all :P Speedy work everyone!