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February - Next Book in a Series - Some Enchanted Éclair
March - Not on Earth - Star Wars: Luke and the Lost Jedi Temple
April - To Lift Your Spirits - Devil's Chew Toy - The Accidental Alchemist - Fair Weather
May - Diaries & Letters - Diary of a Young Naturalist - The Turn of the Key
June - Age 50+ Protagonist - Deacon King Kong
July - Magic - Hide - The Immortalists - Potions and Pastries - Haunt - Shadow and Bone - The Pretenders
August - Should Read/Should Have Read - Piranesi - The Survivors - The Ladies of the Secret Circus - The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness - From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death - The Bone Field - The Conjure-Man Dies - The Candle and the Flame - Malibu Rising - What Moves the Dead
September - Climate Change - Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead
October - Victorian/#Victober - Shadowplay - Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman - Carmilla - The Body Snatchers and Other Stories
November - Where You Want to Visit - The Fountains of Silence - Strega Nona - Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen - Queens of Geek - Much Ado About Nothing
December - African Mystery
Rough plan that will probably end up changing a lot:January - Women in SF: Finder
February - Next Book in a Series Legendary
March - Not on Earth Sisters of the Forsaken Stars
April - To Lift Your Spirits Black Water Sister
May - Diaries & Letters Love and Saffron
June - Age 50+ Protagonist Taste my Life Through food by Stanley Tucci
July - Magic Where the Drowned Girls Go
August - Should Read/Should Have Read Iliad
September - Climate Change Trash Lands
October - Victorian/#Victober The Infidel Stain
November - Where You Want to Visit Sweet Bean Paste
December - African Mystery Recipes for Love and Murder
January - Women in SFStarting with Lear's Daughters
Glimmer
Joanna Russ
CLASS-M EXILE MOUNT TBR
THE APOLLO MURDERS MOUNT TBR OWN 6
JOY TO THE WORLDS NG ARC SF MOUNT TBR
MUNGWORT
The Broken Room Horror Noir & SF.
Devils Desk. Alaska Cryptid Horror/SF. Multiple strong female characters.
Mestiza Blood. Hispanic Speculative Fiction
A Dead Ship in the Deep Black. Female SF, multiple strong female characters.
I forgot until Jan. 24 that January is Vintage SF Month; and February is Women in Horror Month. So January 24-Feb. 28 I'm reading Women Vintage SF Authors!:) So I'll be adding to this portion throughout February.
February - Next Book in a Series
Eyes of the Void (if I'm approved for the ARC)
A Kingdom In Shards
Do Not Weep For Me (sequel to The Moore House)
Cackles and Cauldrons
No link for this ARC yet:
The Hidden Graveyard: The Whisper Investigations Trilogy
Class Clown--2nd in Series
Any Which Way but South Wales
Violet Eyes (following Violet Lagoon)
March - Not on Earth
Hotel Fen (Earth plus Norse Nine Worlds)
The Wicked Rex of the West
The Adversary
Polar Night
Tweep Horror/Speculative
The Shadow Chaser SF
Hunger: The Abarath Trilogy, Book Two Horror SF
When it Rains SF Contemporary
Secret Santa
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The Night They Vanished
Sheep Dreams: A Bedtime Story
Eyes of the Dead
Dead Silence
Proxima
Ultima
Proxima Dreaming: Hard Science Fiction
Proxima Logfiles Series by Brandon Q. Morris (= 7)
American Elsewhere
April - To Lift Your Spirits
A Starlit Trip to the Library
Bubble Trouble
Black Tide
Malignant Summer
The Caiman
Tarsier Sings His Song
Adventures Into the Heart: Playful Stories About Family Love for Kids Ages 3-5
Easter with Snowman Paul
Crickets
The Dolphin House
The Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova
The Keeper of Lost Things
May - Diaries & Letters
The Letters of Shirley Jackson
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the Worlds Most Notorious Diaries
The Truth About Alice
Go Ask Alice
Jay's Journal
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1: 1940-1956
The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography--1949-1962
June - Age 50+ Protagonist
The Marlow Murder Club, protagonist is 77
Going Through the Change (series, so far 4)
Glad One: Crazy is a Relative Term
*Aurora. Multiple protagonists: one is 88
Tell Us No Secrets. 2 characters at Retirement age
Echogenesis, a character is over 50
State of Emergency, Villain is 50's or 60's, US President is 58
Ghosts: a protagonist is 55
Deliverance the protagonist is 55
The Day We Died. 2 secondary characters 50+
Renovated to Death, protagonists are in 30's but two of major characters are twins age 50 and another major is 50
Smoke and Other Storms one man and one secondary are definitely in the "older" category
Clown in the Dark: Supernatural Suspense Thriller with Ghosts one protagonist is 70's or older
Evasive Species, some older important and secondary characters
Möbius one protagonist is 50+
Extinction Island
Deadly Declarations. Retirees
July - Magic.
Raventree Hollow. Folk Horror/Magic
Twistor Science vs. Magic
They Drown Our Daughters, Magic
The Devil Took Her: Tales of Horror
We Will Rise
The Big Dark Sky
The Curse of Pine Ridge: A Tansy & Hank Pet Psychic Cozy Mystery
Death Hunt: Supernatural Suspense with Scary & Horrifying Monsters
August - Should Read/Should Have Read
On the Beach
Earth Abides
September - Climate Change
The Ministry for the Future
The Ministry for Ignoring Climate Change: A Political Satire
The High Sierra: A Love Story
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
The Dome
October - Victorian/#Victober
Countess Harleigh Mysteries by Dianne Freeman (5)
November - Where You Want to Visit
Proxima
Ultima
A Thousand Earths, Stephen Baxter
Proxima Trilogy
Marchenko's Children and more in the seriesThe DollHouse: a Halloween Haunting
Very Haunted old house
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December - African Mystery
Kwei Quartey
Oyinkan Braithwaite
Alexander McCall Smith
This list is just to help me brainstorm as I am temporarily out of town and don't have ready access to my bookshelvesJanuary - Women in SF
Down the Rabbit Hole
SpookyGirl: Paranormal Investigator
The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
February - Next Book in a Series
So many series that I am reading -- Donna Leon's Guido Brunetti mysteries, Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next Series, Patrick Taylor's Irish Country Series, So You Want to Be a Wizard, etc.
Death at Epsom Downs
Thrice the Brindled Cat hath Mewed
Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor
Aunt Dimity's Good Deed
March - Not on Earth
What if the Moon Did not Exist? since it is about the moon
Also there is a John Scalzi on Mt TBR
April - To Lift Your Spirits
Probably a travel book or a Patrick Taylor or a Frederick Backmann
May - Diaries & Letters
??? not sure if I have anything on the shelf that works for this
June - Age 50+ Protagonist
?? not sure what I have for this one, but it appeals since I just hit the big 5-0 myself
July - Magic
Big Magic
August - Should Read/Should Have Read
any of the classics on my TBR shelf or any of the books on psychology -- maybe even The Handmaid's Tale, since we seem to be living it
September - Climate Change
?? not sure if I have anything for this at present
October - Victorian/#Victober
I think I have at least one Gaslight mystery. If not, there are several of Dickens' books that I haven't read yet
November - Where You Want to Visit
I wonder if I can wait to read Botswana Time until November? If not, there are plenty of other books set in foreign countries I haven't visited yet on my shelves
December - African Mystery
Alexander McCall Smith always works here. I may also go with My Sister the Serial Killer
January - Women in SF The Blind Contessa's New Machine so, I didn't get it finished until Feb, and it just barely meets Women in SF (there is some science - one of the male characters is an inventor - and the main character is the Contessa - and its written by a woman)
February - Next Book in a Series
Tough Cookie - number 9 in the Goldy series. Though, I am reading it now, and started it in March.
March - Not on Earth
Red Rising I won't have this done by the end of the month, but it is pretty good and I recommend it. Takes place sometime in the distant future, on Mars. Another in the many dystopian young adult novels that surfaced around the same time as Hunger Games and Divergent - but this is really quite different.
April - To Lift Your Spirits
Bitten by Cupid - ended up with cheesy romance, but they do tend to be spirit lifting type books.
May - Diaries & Letters
Griffin & Sabine Trilogy
June - Age 50+ Protagonist
Book by Whoopi Goldberg ?
July - Magic
August - Should Read/Should Have Read
Moby Dick ?
September - Climate Change
The End is Nigh - guessing there are some of the stories in here that deal with Climate Change - so this is a maybe
October - Victorian/#Victober
Anatomy ??
November - Where You Want to Visit
December - African Mystery
January - Women in SF - The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
February - Next Book in a Series
- Doors of Gold and Rust by An. N. Willis, Book 2 in the Byrne House series (Set in Colorado, gothic, paranormal suspense)
March - Not on Earth
- Circe, by Madeline Miller
April - To Lift Your Spirits
- The Midnight Library, by Matt Hague
May - Diaries & Letters
- John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel
June - Age 50+ Protagonist
- Our Souls at Night, by Kent Haruf
July - Magic
- The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
August - Should Read/Should Have Read
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
September - Climate Change
- The High House, by Jesse Greengrass
October - Victorian/#Victober
- The Essex Serpent, by Sara Perry
- Otherwise Engaged, by Amanda Quick
November - Where You Want to Visit
- Here Be Dragons, by Sharon Key Penman
December - African Mystery
- The Carnivorous City by Toni Kan
- Red Ink by Angela Makhowa
January- Women in Sci-Fi:The Best of C.L. Moore (Collection)
& Catseye by Andre (Alice) Norton.
February- Next Book in the series:
Path of Daggers, Wheel of Time Series Robert Jordan.
Oathbreaker ;Knights of Radiance series book 3
March- Not on Earth:
Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind
April- To Lift your spirits:
Dead and Hell-bent by Naomi Kramer
May- Diaries and Letters:
After Dark by Wilkie Collins
June- Age 50+ Protagonist:
Aunt Dimity Mysteries Series
July -Magic:
A Discovorie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scott
The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones by Isidore Kosminsky
August- Should read/ Should have read:
TBD
September- Climate Change:
The Fragile Earth; writings from THE NEW YORKER
October- Victorian: TBD
November- Where You Want to visit
December- African Mystery:
Her Name is Knight by Yasmin Angoe
January - women in SF - Jirel of Joiry, by CL Moore. I had wanted to read this early fantasy/SF author for a time and this was a good opportunity. Well written, and a cut above some of her contemporaries. Takes a thoughtful approach to sword and sorcery - Jirel is often seen after a defeat, and rarely resolves matters by swordplay - magic is a cosmic horror, and mortal weapons are not the answer. There's none of Conan's invinicibility here - Jirel is humanly vulnerable, and more impressive because of it. Bonus for Jirel’s choice of sensible armour.February - next book in a series. Khare: Cityport of Traps, by Steve Jackson. I hard a hard time thinking of a series I was currently reading, then remembered I'd re-read the first of these gamebooks last year. Choose your own adventure, with the added twist of memorising spells and finding the artefacts to cast them with.
March - not on Earth. Daughter of Eden, by Chris BEckett. Last of a trilogy exploring the culture and society that evolves among the descendants of a spaceship crash survivors on a truly alien planet.
April - to lift your spirits. Pete Paphides' memoir of growing up and discovering music in the 70s and 80s.
May - Diaries and letters. Memoirs of a poacher, by James Hawker.
June 50+ protagonist. Flashman and the Tiger, by George MacDonald Fraser - tales of a slightly older General Flashman.
July - Magic. Crown of Kings, the last in the Sorcery gamebook series. Very much a magic-based series, and this more than the others is all about your spells and how you use them.
August - Should read/should have read. I read a lot of nature writing, so I felt I should have read Gilbert White's seminal Eighteenth Century work Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. So I did.
September: Climate change. The Easternmost Sky, by Juliet Blaxland. C;limate change is a presence overhead in pretty much every chapter of this month-by-month musing on nature which starts with the loss of Blaxland's east-coast home to coastal erosion.
October: Victorian/Victober. Dracula, by Bram Stoker. Still profoundly creepy, genre-defining work, which is also to my mind a Victorian techno-thriller as the hunters use what was then cutting edge technology from repeating rifles to phonograph recordings against Dracula's ancient supernatural powers.
There is a filk song about Jirel of Joiry and I may actually have a copy or you can find it online.
January - Women in SF - All Cats Are GrayFebruary - Next Book in a Series - Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
March - Not on Earth - The Martian
April - To Lift Your Spirits - Right Ho, Jeeves
May - Diaries & Letters - Hey Harry, Hey Matilda, Dear Committee Members
June - Age 50+ Protagonist: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
July - Magic: Another Fine Myth, Myth Conceptions
August - Should Read/Should Have Read
September - Climate Change
October - Victorian/#Victober: Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
November - Where You Want to Visit
December - African Mystery
January - Women in SF: Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern by Anne McCaffrey February - Next Book in a Series: Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman
March - Not on Earth: Nerilka's Story by Anne McCaffrey
April - To Lift Your Spirits: All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
May - Diaries & Letters: Women's Voices from the Western Frontier by Susan C. Butruille
June - Age 50+ Protagonist
July - Magic
August - Should Read/Should Have Read
September - Climate Change
October - Victorian/#Victober
November - Where You Want to Visit
December - African Mystery
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You can copy this list into a post in this thread and come back and update your progress throughout the year. I will also be posting a discussion thread for each month.
January - Women in SF
February - Next Book in a Series
March - Not on Earth
April - To Lift Your Spirits
May - Diaries & Letters
June - Age 50+ Protagonist
July - Magic
August - Should Read/Should Have Read
September - Climate Change
October - Victorian/#Victober
November - Where You Want to Visit
December - African Mystery