Book of the Month Nominations — March 2022

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

Let's get ready for March!

– Books must be published by the first, be available internationally, and available in print form.
– After 24-48 hours, 8 books from each genre will be chosen at random from the selection, using a random generator online.
– Only ONE nomination per person (EITHER sci-fi OR fantasy).
– If books are part of a series, they must be the first, unless the group has already read the previous book(s). (you can see our previous group reads here)
– No authors nominating their own works.
– No self-published or ebook-only books — we want our BotM to be accessible to as many members as possible!


SCI FI
1. The Last Watch
2. A Psalm for the Wild-Built
3. Cytonic
4. Shards of Earth
5. Doomsday Book
6. Aurora's End
7. Master and Apprentice
8. Exhalation



FANTASY
1. Child of a Mad God
2. Howl’s Moving Castle
3. The Vorrh
4. The Pariah
5. The Gutter Prayer
6. The Throne of the Five Winds
7. 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear
8. The Cat Who Saved Books
9. The Light Fantastic

[Melanie]

fantasy The Wizard's Butler by Nathan Lowell

[Lel]

Child of a Mad God for fantasy please

[Shawnie]

The Last Watch for SF please

[Mary]

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones Fantasy

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

The Vorrh for fantasy please

[Dawn]

The Pariah by Anthony Ryan for Fantasy please.

[N.E.C.C.]

Ahren for fantasy.

[Steve]

Shards of Earth for SF

[Christine]

SF: A Psalm for the Wild Built

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

Melanie wrote: "fantasy The Wizard's Butler by Nathan Lowell"

I think this is self-published.

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

I'm going to nominate Cytonic for myself.

[Melanie]

How do tell if something is self-published? I got the book on audible and it won an audiobook award. I don't see anything in the description that tells me who/how the book was published.

*I'm not complaining; I honestly don't know how to determine this.

[Lel]

Melanie wrote: "How do tell if something is self-published? I got the book on audible and it won an audiobook award. I don't see anything in the description that tells me who/how the book was published.

*I'm not..."
I’m glad you asked, cause I don’t have a clue either.

[Laura]

The Gutter Prayer for fantasy, please

[Al]

Laura wrote: "The Gutter Prayer for fantasy, please"

One of my favourite books from the last few years.

[Al]

for fantasy, please.

[Roger, Knight Radiant]

Lel wrote: "Melanie wrote: "How do tell if something is self-published? I got the book on audible and it won an audiobook award. I don't see anything in the description that tells me who/how the book was publi..."

You have to find out who published it then just google it, most are pretty easy to tell as they will call out they self publish things or they will be owned/run by the author. Some times it can be tough to tell even doing that.

[Scott]

The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa. Cats And books, a clear winner!

[Scott]

*for fantasy, forgot that part

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

Melanie wrote: "How do tell if something is self-published? I got the book on audible and it won an audiobook award. I don't see anything in the description that tells me who/how the book was published.

*I'm not..."

It's tricky. If I don't recognize the publisher, I Google it. In this case I found an author bio that described him as a full-time indie author. The cover looked very indie as well. I could be wrong, so let me know if you learn otherwise.

[Laura]

Al wrote: "Laura wrote: "The Gutter Prayer for fantasy, please"

One of my favourite books from the last few years."

Yay! Makes me even more excited to read it :)

[Melanie]

13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear (fantasy)

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

N.E.C.C. wrote: "Ahren for fantasy."

I think this is self-published.

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

Christine wrote: "SF: A Psalm for the Wild Built"

We already got that up. Do you want to nominate another one?

[Eric]

Doomsday Book for sci-fi.

[N.E.C.C.]

Audrey wrote: "N.E.C.C. wrote: "Ahren for fantasy."

I think this is self-published."

Shite!

The Light Fantastic for fantasy.

[Amy]

Aurora's End (Jay Krisstoff) for sci-fi please.

[Shawnie]

Can you read the Skyward series as a standalone without the other books in that Sanderson world?

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

Skyward isn't connected to any other series, but I do recommend reading each book in that series in order.

[Freya, Dragon Rider]

Master and Apprentice by Claudia Gray for sci-fi please

[Littlebookterror]

Exhalation for Scifi please

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

Any more?