2023 Bookshelf Rereads

[DivaDiane]

Can we separate the Snow Queen from Nine Fox Gambit and per haps put on of them in July, please? Thanks!

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

Sure!

Option 2

July:
The Snow Queen (448 pgs)
The Anubis Gates (387 pgs)

August:
Red Mars (572 pgs)
Brown Girl in the Ring (250 pgs)

September:
Foreigner (428 pgs)
Ninefox Gambit (384 pgs)

[DivaDiane]

thanks!

[a.g.e. montagner]

I will have to join for Nalo Hopkinson.
Any recommendations about the others?

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

I haven't red Snow Queen or Foreigner. I know a lot of folks really like Foreigner. And, I really love Ninefox. A super interesting trans-corporal book with math magic.

[Aga]

I prefer the option 1.

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

Aga, is there something I can move around that would make it suit both you and Diane?

Currently we have one vote for each option, so we need a third option or more votes :)

[Aga]

Hmm… if we could switch Foreigner with The Anubis Gates it would be perfect.

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

Like this?

Option 3

July:
The Snow Queen (448 pgs)
Foreigner (428 pgs)

August:
Red Mars (572 pgs)
Brown Girl in the Ring (250 pgs)

September:
The Anubis Gates (387 pgs)
Ninefox Gambit (384 pgs)

[Aga]

Exactly. This is perfect for me.

[Anna]

OK, option 3 is the one we'll go with unless someone objects!

[Aga]

Nice.

[Meredith]

This sounds good to me! I only have Foreigner remaining for the (unofficial) SFFBC logo challenge, so this will help push me to read it.

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

And here we go, finalized schedule for Q3! As always, you can find the schedule at the start of this thread, Current Events, and the buddy read thread.

July 15th:
The Snow Queen >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Foreigner >> First impressions | Final thoughts

August 15th:
Red Mars >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Series
Brown Girl in the Ring >> First impressions | Final thoughts

September 15th:
The Anubis Gates >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Ninefox Gambit >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series

[a.g.e. montagner]

The managing of this group slays.

Thanks Allison.
Red Mars also seems interesting, and after all it was the most voted.

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

New rereads starting soon!


June 15th:
The Bone Shard Daughter >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Leviathan Wakes >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series

[Meredith]

I'm planning to read Bone Shard Daughter, hope to see some folks in the discussion.

[Kaia]

Meredith wrote: "I'm planning to read Bone Shard Daughter, hope to see some folks in the discussion."

I'll be reading it too, Meredith! (It will be a first-time read for me, though, not a re-read.)

[Meredith]

Kaia wrote: "Meredith wrote: "I'm planning to read Bone Shard Daughter, hope to see some folks in the discussion."

I'll be reading it too, Meredith! (It will be a first-time read for me, though, not a re-read.)"

It's the first time for me as well.

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

Rereads time!


July 15th:
The Snow Queen >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Foreigner >> First impressions | Final thoughts

[Meredith]

SFFBC wrote: "Rereads time!


July 15th:
The Snow Queen >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Foreigner >> First impressions | Final thoughts"

I'm planning on reading Foreigner.

[Aga]

I’m going to srart Foreginer as soon as I finish The Thief.

[Meredith]

I'm probably going to read Space Between Worlds first. My library hold for that just came through.

[Kaia]

I’m planning to read Foreigner as well - my library copy just came in - but I need to finish the other book I have going first.

[Aga]

I’m starting Foreginer today. See you in the first impressions thread.

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

Vote here: https://goo.gl/forms/joASo8yDfm9oGvDm2
Live results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Voting ends: August 25th

Voting is open for October-December 2023 rereads!

Links to all books on the form (continues in next message):

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1Q84 (925 pgs)
The Accidental Time Machine (278 pgs)
The Aeronaut's Windlass (630 pgs)
Against the Tide of Years (454 pgs)
The Algebraist (434 pgs)
Alif the Unseen (433 pgs)
All the Birds in the Sky (320 pgs)
All You Need Is Kill (200 pgs)
Alphabet of Thorn (291 pgs)
Altered Carbon (526 pgs)
American Gods (480 pgs)
Among Others (304 pgs)
Anansi Boys (384 pgs)
Ancillary Mercy (330 pgs)
Ancillary Sword (356 pgs)
Annihilation (195 pgs)
Arcadia (608 pgs)
Armada (349 pgs)
Assassin's Apprentice (480 pgs)
Babel-17 (192 pgs)
The Best of All Possible Worlds (308 pgs)
A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe (480 pgs)
The Black Company (319 pgs)
The Black Prism (629 pgs)
Blackout (610 pgs)
Blindsight (384 pgs)
Blood Song (591 pgs)
The Bone Witch (432 pgs)
Boneshaker (416 pgs)
The Book of Koli (416 pgs)
The Book of Phoenix (232 pgs)
Brave New World (268 pgs)
The Briar King (553 pgs)
Broken Monsters (464 pgs)
Cage of Souls (560 pgs)
The Calculating Stars (431 pgs)
Caliban's War (595 pgs)
The Carpet Makers (297 pgs)
Cat's Cradle (179 pgs)
Catfishing on CatNet (288 pgs)
Catseye (224 pgs)
The Caves of Steel (206 pgs)
The Changeling (431 pgs)
Charmed Life (252 pgs)
Childhood's End (224 pgs)
The City & the City (312 pgs)
City of Bones (488 pgs)
The City of Dreaming Books (461 pgs)
City of Stairs (452 pgs)
The City We Became (437 pgs)
A Clash of Kings (761 pgs)
A Closed and Common Orbit (365 pgs)
Cloud Atlas (509 pgs)
Cold Magic (528 pgs)
The Collapsing Empire (336 pgs)
The Color of Magic (228 pgs)
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (500 pgs)
Dawn (248 pgs)
The Dawnhounds (259 pgs)
The Day of the Triffids (228 pgs)
Deathless (352 pgs)
Deeplight (416 pgs)
The Diamond Age (499 pgs)
The Dispossessed (387 pgs)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (256 pgs)
Doctor Who The Coming of the Terraphiles (343 pgs)
Doomsday Book (578 pgs)
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (208 pgs)
The Dragon's Path (555 pgs)
Dragonbone Chair (672 pgs)
Dragonflight (299 pgs)
Dreamsnake (312 pgs)
Early Riser (403 pgs)
Elysium (199 pgs)
Embassytown (345 pgs)
Ender's Game (324 pgs)
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn (531 pgs)
Everfair (381 pgs)
The Eye of the World (814 pgs)
The Eyre Affair (374 pgs)
Fahrenheit 451 (238 pgs)
The Farthest Shore (259 pgs)
Fate of the Fallen (400 pgs)
The Fellowship of the Ring (398 pgs)
The Fifth Season (468 pgs)
A Fire Upon the Deep (613 pgs)
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (417 pgs)
Flowers for Algernon (311 pgs)
The Forever War (278 pgs)
Forty Thousand in Gehenna (445 pgs)
Frankenstein (273 pgs)
Furies of Calderon (503 pgs)
Fuzzy Nation (303 pgs)
A Game of Thrones (835 pgs)
Gardens of the Moon (666 pgs)
The Ghost Bride (368 pgs)
The Girl with All the Gifts (460 pgs)
The Golem and the Jinni (486 pgs)
Good Omens (430 pgs)
The Gospel of Loki (302 pgs)
The Grace of Kings (623 pgs)
Grass (544 pgs)
The Graveyard Book (312 pgs)
Guards! Guards! (376 pgs)
Gun, with Occasional Music (271 pgs)
The Gunslinger (231 pgs)
The Handmaid's Tale (311 pgs)
Haze (352 pgs)
Hench (416 pgs)
Here and Now and Then (336 pgs)
His Majesty's Dragon (353 pgs)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (216 pgs)
The Hobbit (366 pgs)
Hollow Kingdom (308 pgs)
Homeland (343 pgs)
Hounded (292 pgs)
The House in the Cerulean Sea (394 pgs)
The House of the Spirits (448 pgs)
The Humans (285 pgs)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (427 pgs)
Hyperion (483 pgs)
I Am Legend (160 pgs)
I, Robot (225 pgs)
In the Night Garden (483 pgs)
Infernal Devices (384 pgs)
Into the Drowning Deep (440 pgs)
The Invisible Library (329 pgs)
Island in the Sea of Time (608 pgs)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (160 pgs)
Jade City (498 pgs)
John Dies at the End (469 pgs)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (1006 pgs)
The Just City (368 pgs)
Karen Memory (350 pgs)
The Killing Moon (418 pgs)
Kushiel's Dart (1015 pgs)
The Last Policeman (322 pgs)
The Last Unicorn (294 pgs)
The Lathe of Heaven (176 pgs)
The Left Hand of Darkness (304 pgs)
Legend (345 pgs)
Leviathan (440 pgs)
The Library at Mount Char (388 pgs)
The Library of the Unwritten (384 pgs)
The Lies of Locke Lamora (722 pgs)
Lions of Al-Rassan (528 pgs)
Little, Big (538 pgs)
Lock In (336 pgs)
The Long Earth (336 pgs)
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (512 pgs)
Lord of Light (296 pgs)
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[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

Links to all books on the form (continued):

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Machine Man (185 pgs)
The Magic of Recluce (501 pgs)
Magician (Riftwar Saga) (681 pgs)
The Man in the High Castle (259 pgs)
The Many-Colored Land (415 pgs)
The Martian Chronicles (182 pgs)
The Master and Margarita (407 pgs)
Memory of Water (263 pgs)
The Mere Wife (308 pgs)
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (382 pgs)
Moon of the Crusted Snow (213 pgs)
More Than Human (186 pgs)
Mort (243 pgs)
The Mote in God's Eye (596 pgs)
The Name of the Wind (662 pgs)
The Native Star (387 pgs)
A Natural History of Dragons (334 pgs)
Neuromancer (271 pgs)
The Neverending Story (396 pgs)
Neverwhere (370 pgs)
Nexus (460 pgs)
A Night in the Lonesome October (280 pgs)
Night Watch (455 pgs)
Nimona (272 pgs)
Nine Princes in Amber (175 pgs)
The Obelisk Gate (448 pgs)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (178 pgs)
Old Man's War (362 pgs)
On the Oceans of Eternity (630 pgs)
The Once and Future King (639 pgs)
Opening Atlantis (440 pgs)
Oryx and Crake (400 pgs)
The Outside (401 pgs)
Pandora's Star (988 pgs)
Parable of the Sower (345 pgs)
The Passage (766 pgs)
Pawn of Prophecy (304 pgs)
Perdido Street Station (623 pgs)
Planetfall (336 pgs)
The Player of Games (320 pgs)
The Poppy War (544 pgs)
The Power (341 pgs)
Preludes & Nocturnes (Sandman Vol. 1) (233 pgs)
Prince of Thorns (384 pgs)
The Princess Bride (398 pgs)
Promise of Blood (545 pgs)
Pump Six and Other Stories (239 pgs)
Pushing Ice (458 pgs)
The Quantum Magician (478 pgs)
The Quantum Thief (336 pgs)
The Raven and the Reindeer (226 pgs)
Ready Player One (374 pgs)
Recursion (336 pgs)
Red Country (469 pgs)
Red Sister (469 pgs)
Regarding Ducks and Universes (344 pgs)
Remnant Population (336 pgs)
Rendezvous with Rama (252 pgs)
The Road (241 pgs)
The Rook (486 pgs)
A Scanner Darkly (219 pgs)
Sea of Rust (416 pgs)
Semiosis (336 pgs)
Servant of the Underworld (432 pgs)
Seveneves (881 pgs)
The Shadow of the Torturer (262 pgs)
Shadow's Son (278 pgs)
Shadowshaper (297 pgs)
She Who Became the Sun (416 pgs)
The Sheep Look Up (388 pgs)
Ship of Magic (880 pgs)
The Silent Tower (369 pgs)
Six Wakes (364 pgs)
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (350 pgs)
Slaughterhouse-Five (215 pgs)
Snow Crash (470 pgs)
Soulless (365 pgs)
The Sparrow (431 pgs)
The Speed of Dark (369 pgs)
Sphere (371 pgs)
Spin (458 pgs)
The Stand (1153 pgs)
The Stars Are Legion (400 pgs)
The Stars My Destination (258 pgs)
Starship Troopers (335 pgs)
Station Eleven (336 pgs)
Storm Front (355 pgs)
The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack (510 pgs)
Stranger in a Strange Land (528 pgs)
The Suicide Collectors (304 pgs)
The Summer Tree (383 pgs)
The Sword-Edged Blonde (256 pgs)
Swords and Deviltry (224 pgs)
The Terror (769 pgs)
This Alien Shore (564 pgs)
Those Who Hunt the Night (350 pgs)
The Thousand Names (513 pgs)
Three Parts Dead (336 pgs)
Tigana (771 pgs)
The Time Machine (118 pgs)
To Say Nothing of the Dog (493 pgs)
The Tombs of Atuan (180 pgs)
Too Like the Lightning (432 pgs)
Touch (426 pgs)
The Traitor Baru Cormorant (399 pgs)
Ubik (288 pgs)
Under Heaven (573 pgs)
The Underground Railroad (306 pgs)
An Unkindness of Ghosts (351 pgs)
The Vanished Birds (391 pgs)
Velocity Weapon (544 pgs)
War for the Oaks (336 pgs)
The War of the Worlds (192 pgs)
Warbreaker (688 pgs)
Warchild (451 pgs)
The Warded Man (416 pgs)
The Warrior's Apprentice (372 pgs)
Watchmen (416 pgs)
Watership Down (478 pgs)
The Way of Shadows (645 pgs)
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (383 pgs)
Weaveworld (721 pgs)
The Well of Ascension (590 pgs)
When Gravity Fails (288 pgs)
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (251 pgs)
White Cat (310 pgs)
The Windup Girl (359 pgs)
Winter Tide (366 pgs)
The Wise Man's Fear (994 pgs)
Witchmark (318 pgs)
Wizard's First Rule (836 pgs)
The Wolf in the Whale (544 pgs)
Wool (509 pgs)
The Word for World is Forest (160 pgs)
World War Z (342 pgs)
The Yiddish Policeman's Union (414 pgs)
Zodiac (308 pgs)
Zoo City (416 pgs)
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[Melanie, the neutral party]

Maybe we vote in a few fantasy picks this time?

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

seconded

[Michelle]

Third

[CBRetriever]

fourth and so forth

[DivaDiane]

Of the 10 or so books I voted for at least 7 are Fantasy. Maybe more.

[Meredith]

My votes were about 50/50.

[CBRetriever]

I stick with books in my TBR pile

[Michelle]

I voted for what would be a re-read for me but well-worth it.

[Meredith]

Mostly ones I actually own, but a couple I want to read that I can get from my library.

[DivaDiane]

I usually vote only for books I already own. It’s a lot of them! This time I voted only for one I’d like to reread (Fahrenheit 451). And I think one book I don’t yet own. Can’t remember now which!

[Meredith]

Do folks have any particular fantasy re-reads they want to campaign for?

[Michelle]

I voted for a happy book: The Princess Bride. It won't win, though, so maybe someone else could lobby for your vote, Meredith!

[Aga]

I voted for The Princess Bride to! I really wish it would get into the rereads.

[DivaDiane]

I just added the Princess Bride. I don’t own it, but I’d like to read it eventually.

[Anna]

As you wish.

(+1 for Princess Bride coming up.)

[Joelle.P.S]

She Who Became the Sun is pretty awesome -- and the sequel comes out soon 😀

[Anna]

Someone is lying, because Princess Bride only has 3 votes :D

(It's not me, I checked that I have a vote on it.)

[Michelle]

Anna wrote: "As you wish.

(+1 for Princess Bride coming up.)"

Have fun storming the castle, Anna :)

[mesal]

Assassin's Apprentice made it to the top 6! Very excited to reread it, since it's been years and I don't recall a single plot point. Hoping it wins :)

[Bonnie]

I vote for all the ones I haven't read
😐

[Michelle]

Holy crap! All of a sudden The Princess Bride is in the lead!

[Stephen]

I haven’t read Steven Erikson at all. Is Gardens of the Moon generally considered good or representative? I see it’s the first in his big series.

[CBRetriever]

Stephen wrote: "I haven’t read Steven Erikson at all. Is Gardens of the Moon generally considered good or representative? I see it’s the first in his big series."

I think it's one of the better ones - the cast increases exponentially as you go through the series (like The Wheel of Time series), so it becomes more and more difficult to keep track of them