Your TBRs

[Tom]

Honestly, I MIGHT be able to knock out 1 or 2 at the most with my personal reading habbits, but just from my own shelf of owned but not read TBR that I will wade in the pool with everyone on:

Babylon's Ashes (Expanse #5) - James S.A. Corey

Collapsing Empire - John Scalzi

An Unproven Concept - James Young

Salvation - Peter F Hamilton

maybe, Only Human - Sylvain Neuvel (?? only guessing in space lol)

might buy soon, A Close and Common Orbit (Wayfarers #2) - Becky Chambers

[Tom]

Geoffrey wrote: "Okay, still a work in progress, but here’s a revised list:

The Undefeated by Una McCormack (lock)
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany (lock)
Trading In Danger by Elizabeth Moon (one of the first books in..."

Personally, Abaddan's Gate has been my favorite of the series so far. I am up to #6. I have Salvation on my physical shelf but have not yet cracked it open either.

[Emily]

Here's my TBR! If anyone is planning on reading the same books as I am, maybe we can do a buddy read!

[Shannon (That's So Poe)]

My TBR video is up now too! I've chosen all my books by diverse women, so I'm definitely going for the pirate track:

1. On a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Bodard
2b. A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
3. Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh
4. Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis bindup) by Octavia Butler

[Anne]

Hi, I am new at Sci-Fi reading so I am a little bit unsure if what I have as some of the options for my TBR is Space Opera or only sci-fi. Can you help me with those below?

Foundation (book 1, by Isaac Asimov)
Scarlet (by Marissa Meyer)
The end of Eternity (by Isaac Asimov)
Old Man's war (John Scalzi)
(they don't have crafts on the cover =P)

I already plan on reading: Illuminae, All Sistems Red, A long way to a small angry planet.

[Katy]

Here is a link to my TBR

[K]

My TBR went up this morning!

https://youtu.be/RUN63o9k8ps

[Sergio]

After much thought, I think my TBR is settled:

1.- Binti Home, (challenge 1)
2.- Record of a spaceborn few (challenge 2A, maybe 2b? i dont know)
3.- Foundation (challenge 3)
4- leviathan wakes (challenge 4). If 500 pages prove too much i may switch to The collapsing empire by John Scalzi

[merixien]

1: Read a space opera novella
All Systems Red
All Systems Red - Martha Wells
2A: Read two space operas by women
Rocannon's World
Rocannon’s World -Ursula K. Leguin
Ancillary Justice
Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
3: Read a space opera published before you were born
Solaris
Solaris - Stainslaw Lem
4: Read a space opera 500 pages or longer
Dune
Dune - Frank Herbert

[Anna]

I'm still not entirely sure if this is what I'll end up reading, but it's what I'm starting with:

1: The Undefeated
2A: Gideon the Ninth / Warchild
2B: The Outside / A Different Light
3: The Big Jump
4: The Margarets

[Kaa]

Hi Anna! Ooh, Gideon the Ninth is space opera? I hadn't thought of it but that's very tempting...

[Anna]

Hi Kaa :) I think so? But I have other options in case it's not!

edit: It's on the list Thomas put together, so I'm assuming it is.

[Amanda]

All my books on my TBR are locked down. Space Opera by Anne McCaffrey and various, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi, Remanence by Jennifer Foehner Wells, and Nemesis Games James SA Corey.

[Romy]

I am SO going for all the challenges and the homeworld!!
1+2A+2B: novella / 2 by women / 1 diverse - Ancillary Justice / Binti
3: published before you were born - The Starless World (Star Trek)
4: 500 pages or longer - Pushing Ice
Let's see if Binti will live up to the hype... (edit: It didn't...)
edit: Looks like I'll swap The Starless World with Solaris by Stanislaw Lem~

[Warner]

Here's my TBR:
Challenge 1 (novella) & 2B (diverse author & characters) - On a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Bodard
Challenge 2B (diverse author & characters) - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Challenge 3 (space opera from before I was born) - Nova by Samuel R. Delany
Challenge 4 (over 500 pages) - A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

[Krista]

Here's my (tentative) TBR:
Novella - All Systems Red
Two by women - Beyond the Sentinel Stars and Six Wakes (Actually, all of mine but one are by women so I may drop Six Wakes if I run out of time!)
Written before my birth- Bill, the Galactic Hero
500+ pages - Obsidio
And, if by some miracle I have time for one more...
By a diverse author - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

[Ron]

I think I've got my books picked out, but that may change as reading happens.

Killing Gravity by Corey J. White, a novella which has been sitting in my reader way too long, so this is a good excuse to get to it.

The Star Soldiers by Andre Norton, authored by a woman and from before I was born (I am not young).

Velocity Weapon by Megan E. O'Keefe for a second female authored book. I just bought it last week and have seen exciting reviews for it.

The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson, a 500+ page book that I got at a library book sale back about what seems like a million years ago.

I also have an inter-library loan out for Noumenon by Marina J. Lostetter, so that may be added or substituted in for one of the above based on how it fits into the challenge if it arrives during the reading window.

[Delitealex]

TBR

Binti
The Ship Who Sang
Stardoc and/or Killbox
Leviathan Wakes

[Hazel]

So I think I’ve finalised my tbr....
1. To be taught if fortunate by Becky Chambers
2. a) Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
3. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke
4. Revelation space by Alastair Reynolds

[Gwendama]

Hi, here is my tbr:
Binti (1, 2a, 2b)
Falling free (2a, 3)
The Killing machine (3)
Les guerriers du silence (4)
Bonus: Abbadon's gate (4)

[[deleted user]]

I finally posted my TBR video!
If you have any suggestions for a Space opera tome (500 pages or more), as that is the only challenge I've yet to cover, please recommend me some.
If the author is a woman or from a gender minority, even better.

Here's my tbr:
https://youtu.be/nG3wtDSCaeE

[Hannah]

Exit strategy by Martha Wells: novella and book by a woman
Space Opera by Catherine Valenti: book by a woman
Death's End by Cixin Liu: diverse author
and over 500 pages
Dune by Frank Herbert: book written before I was born.

I'm so excited!!!

[Mosher]

I have my first 3 books picked out.
1. Leigh Brackett's Black Amazon of Mars. I had not heard of her before but the title sounds fun and she wrote the screenplays for The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye both of which I really enjot. It qualifies for as a novella and was published before I was born.

2. Samuel Delany's Babel 17. Diverse author/protagonist and before I was born. I have been meaning to read more Delany as well.

3. Space Opera by Catheryne Valente. 2nd book by a female author.

4. for the book that is 500+ pages I am looking at Vernon Vinge's Fire Upon The Deep, Alistair Reynolds' Revalation Space and CJ Cherryh's Cyteen.

[°~Amy~°]

This is what I have lined up so far:

To Be Taught, If Fortunate - Becky Chambers (which seems to fit 3 prompts on it's own)

The Space Between the Stars - Anne Corlett

The Skylark of Space - E.E. "Doc" Smith (might as well go back to the beginning of the genre)

Starcrasher - Rock Forsberg (536 pgs)

[Robin]

My TBR is finally up!
https://youtu.be/mI38EV76KIk

[David]

Okay here are some of the choices from what I have access to:
Saturn's Children by Charles Stross
Pure Chocolate by Amber Royer
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
Consider Phlebas by Iain M.Banks
Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone
Dune by Frank Herbert
Bloodchild by Octavia Butler
Earth Girl by Janet Edwards
Long way to a small Angrey Planet
Binti by Nnedi Okarga
The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley
Star Wars: Phasma by Deliah S Dawson

[Kelsey]

My joint TBR for this readathon and Tome Infinity and Beyond:
https://youtu.be/LmNOYhBNwIk

[Eva]

Wow, what a lovely challenge, I love the inventiveness of the video and rewards and how much love you've put into thinking this up!
My tentative TBR:
- To Be Taught If Fortunate (Becky Chambers)
- Ancillary Justice (Ann Leckie)
- The Dispossessed (Ursula K. LeGuin)
- House of Suns (Alastair Reynolds)
Looking forward to September! :)

[Julián]

OK, after watching all TBRs, and checking most of the books, I changed my mind, and I decided to check new books that I haven't thought about in first place.

So, my TBR would be like this:

1. Novella and woman writer: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor.
2a. Second woman writer: Bright of the Sky by Kay Kenyon
3. Before I was born: Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
4. Longer than 500 pages: Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks (Although, some versions have more than 500 pages, other versions have less than 500 pages... so I don't know if it works. If not, then I will think about going back to Leviathan wakes)

Wish me luck!!

[infinite]

Hi! I am excited for SOS to start. Here's my TBR and I am not sure which track I will be on, but I will ensure I finish 4 books. Happy reading to everyone!

1) All Systems Red - Martha Wells (novella and book by a woman)

2) The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers or An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon (space opera by a diverse author)

3) Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (space opera written before I was born)

4) Pandora's Star or The Reality Dysfunction- Peter F. Hamilton (space opera - tome edition! [> 500 pages])

Hope to have these knocked out.

Some alternatives to ensure the 4 book challenge is completed
* The God Engines - John Scalzi
* Six Wakes - Mur Lafferty
* A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine

[Klang]

Hi!
This will be my first readathon, who can pass up "Space Opera September"?

My TBR:
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor - Challenges 1, 2A, 2B
Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty - Challenge 2A
Bill, the Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison - Challenge 3
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky - Challenge 4

The (Swedish) Rebel track is set...

Update:
And today my TBR lost the T and B, so I'm adding
Semiosis by Sue Burke

[Roni]

1: Binti Home Nnedi Okorafor
2A: Binti Home Nnedi Okorafor And To be taught if fortunate By Becky chambers
2B: Binti Home Nnedi Okorafor
3: Forever War Joe Halden
4: Leviathan Wakes James S. A. Corey
Extra book, Red Shirts John Scalzi

[Roseann]

I am so excited to begin this challenge and here is my list:

Challenge 1: A Distant Sun Done 9/1

Challenge 2a: Vast Done 9/7
and Falling Free Done 9/3

Challenge 2b: Dawn Done 9/6

Challenge 3: Solaris Done 9/8

Challenge 4: A Fire Upon the Deep

[Jess (Iorelyn)]

Took me forever to settle for what books I'll be reading. Might end up reading a lot more than just the required challenges though, as I might have went on a small Sci Fi book buying spree. But for my TBR I have the following.

Challenge 1: All Systems Red - Martha Wells.
Challenge 2a: The Stars Are Legion - Kameron Hurley
A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
2b: Barbary Station - R.E. Stearns (LGBT main characters With one of them being PoC)
Challenge 3: Dune - Frank Herbert (I might switch it for Foundation instead)
Challenge 3: Abaddon's Gate - James S.A. Corey

I have quite a few other's on my list but are just extra books I'm hoping to read this coming month.

Provenance - Ann Leckie
A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe - Alex White
A long way to a small angry planet - Becky Chambers
Mutiny at Vesta - R.E Stearns
Old Man's War - John Scalzi

[isa]

Hola a todos!
Hi! I just can't wait to change my mind and make a mess of my TBR -so many choices!- but for today:

novella: Sagrada de Elia Barcelo (spanish female author, scifi en español!)
two female authors: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers & The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley (Space Pirate)
before I was born: Children of Dune by Frank Herbert (finally)
500 or more: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (alien things!!)

...and just because the cover has a space ship The Sunless Countries by Karl Schroeder (bonus book)

[Jacqueline]

My final choices! Took me a while!
https://youtu.be/iTRIdvflKB0

[Charlotte]

Hey everyone!

I'm super excited to participate and as many of you had a hard time deciding on what to read:

1. To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
2a An Accidental Goddess by Linnea Sinclair (Linnea mentioned in her TBR video that it reminds her of Babylon 5, so I was immediately hooked)
3. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
4. Cibola Burn by James S. A. Corey

Hopefully I'll stick to my TBR as I'm such a mood reader. Either way, I'm very looking forward to this readathon.

[Mandy | books, tea, and owls]

[ ] Binti by Nnedi Okorafor - novella/ woman
[ ] The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers - second book by a woman
[ ] Nova by Samuel R. Delany- pub 1968
[ ] The Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov - 500+ pages

Extra: The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

[Llyren]

I'm not even trying to finalize a TBR but so far that is the most promising combination:

1) Novella: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
2) Diverse read: The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley or Failure to Communicate by Kaia Sønderby
3) Before I was born: Serpent's Reach or Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh
4) More than 500 pages: Zero - Kadett der Sterne (Forging Zero) by Sara King - I would have loved to double up on Downbelow Station there but unfortunately, my edition has less than 500 pages...

There are quite a few other very interesting books I could choose from, e.g. A Memory Called Empire, Noumenon, Command Decision, Semiosis, Medusa Uploaded, Planetfall, A Thousand Words for Stranger, Foreigner,... you get the point.
And I haven't even started with male authors - looking at you, Children of Time ;-)

[Chris]

My first readathon, hoping it will keep me a bit more motivated than I have been recently. Plus it's Space Opera what's not to love?

1: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
2a: Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie & Musketeer Space by Tansy Rayner Roberts
2b: Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
3: The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
4: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

These are mostly books I was wanting to read anyway, just hope they meet the challenges. There's also a few others I may try to fit in too depending how I fare.

[ReadBecca]

I have too many things I want to read to lock in more than the first half of the month so far, we'll see what I stumble my way into for the second half.

I think I've nailed down Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor (1 & 2A), City of Illusions by Ursula K Le Guin (2A & 3) for challenge reads. I also will definitely be reading Rejoice: A Knife to the Heart in the next couple weeks, which sadly doesn't count to any challenges, but may get me to 4 books - so close to 500 pages it hurts tho :(

I do also have The Dark Forest by Cixiun Liu on my physical TBR shelf, that is just over 500, but I'm not sure if that might be a too ambitious undertaking for my month.

[Seema]

My very first readathon...Thanks Thomas Warner. Since I genetally read a lot of scifi, I want to try to complete both the federation and rebel challenges. i also chose more thsn one option so hopefully there is enough time to finish all this month but ill start with at least one under each challenge first. my tbr is as follows:

Nouvellas
A hunger for the infinite - Gregory Benford
Starfall - Stephen Baxter
Gravity Dreams - Stephen Baxter

Novels by women
Ancillary Justice - Anne Leckie
Blue shift - Jane O Reilly
Semiosis -Sue Burke


Novels before I was born
2001 space odessy -Arthur C Clarke
Solaris - Stanislaw Lem


Novels written by a diverse author with diverse characters
Babel 17 - Samuel R Delany
Nova - Samuel R Delany

Novels over 500 pages long
House of suns - Alastair Reynolds
Hidden Empire - Kevin J Anderson
Leviathan wakes - James S A Corey

I hope these books fit the criteria correctly for each challenge. Let me know which ones don't count?

so excited to start :)

[Gabriel]

Here is my TBR everyone:

Novella: All Systems Red by Martha Wells

By a woman: Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear

Before I was born: Way Station by Clifford D. Simak

Over 500 pages: Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton

[ECH]

so i am probably doing
tea master and the detective
2nd murderbot
something by samuel delany

annd erm I don't know. would love to find something over 500 pages by a latinix author that my library mysteriously has but that may be too hard a combo

[Bret]

My TBR:

Novella: All Systems Red by Martha Wells

(Another) By a woman: Cold Welcome by Elizabeth Moon

Before I was born: Sargasso Of Space by Andre Norton
(I think I may be older than most BookTube viewers)

Over 500 pages: Finity's End by C.J. Cherryh

[Tea]

TBR, just discovered this today so Still figuring out my TBR, but based on what I have already in my library this is my current thinking
Challenge 1/4

Binti(novella +women +diverse)
Consider Phlebas
Children of Ruin (>500 pages)
The Three-Body Problem(diverse)


need to find a book published before 1980. Solaris is available on prime unltd so will probably read that

[StephanieNicole]

I am only considering books that I already own but haven't read:

Defy the Fates by Claudia Gray (woman author)

Velocity Weapon by Megan O'Keefe (500+ pages, woman author)

"Glass Canon" from Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee (novella, diverse author)

Stargate by Andre Norton (published before I was born, woman author)

Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh (published before I was born, 500+ pages, woman author)

[Jenny]

Hello! This readathon will be so much fun, I’m so looking forward to dive into my unread SF books.

Here’s my TBR for Space Opera September:

1. Read a space opera novella: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (I have the Binti – the complete trilogy and I might read the whole book.)

2. 2A. Read two space operas by women: Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente and Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers. 2B. Read a Space Opera by a diverse author featuring a diverse protagonist and/or major characters: Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee.

3. Read a space opera published before you were born: Aniara, A Review of Man in Time and Space by Harry Martinson (a Swedish science fiction poem published back in 1956, way before I was born).

4. Read a space opera 500 pages or longer. Illuminae by Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman.

I also have a few more books to choose among. For example, The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi and Arabella of Mars by David D. Levine.

[Literary Multitudes]

Here's my TBR! 📚 I don't (yet) have physical copies of all books. And I'll be reading at least one as audio book.

• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
• Nova by Samuel R. Delany
• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
• Leviathan Wakes by James S.A.Corey

On the optional list are
• The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey
• Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear
• The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

[ONYX]

Still working on my TBR and need some help:

1. Would you consider Prime Meridian by Silvia Moreno Garcia a space opera. I think the answer is no, but I want it to be yes. So, if there's a chance, I'd like to know!

2. SEEKING RECOMMENDATION for a space opera novella written by an African-descended author. I'm aware of the Binti trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor. But not sure of anything else off the top of my head.

Thanks for your thoughts!