2024 Bookshelf Rereads

[Ryan, Your favourite moderators favourite moderator]

There's been a distinct lack of campaigning this month...

[a.g.e. montagner]

Having cleared some of the backlog (Le Guin, Jemisin, the lone Delany on the shelf) I like the current results...

[Olga]

I’d very much like His Magesty’s Dragon to get into the selection, as 2008 read are on my list this year :)

[DivaDiane]

Added, Olga

[a.g.e. montagner]

Idem!
I'll put in a request for Anansi Boys and/or The Raven Tower.

[Olga]

DivaDiane wrote: "Added, Olga"

Thanks, Diane! :)
I’m very curious about exploring more of Novik after Spinning Silver and Uprooted.

[Ryan, Your favourite moderators favourite moderator]

Okay, SFFBooCers! The Top 6 has been decided and it's looking like the Ann Leckie quarter XD

Option 1

July 15th
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie (356 pgs)
Infernal Devices by K.W. Jeter (384 pgs)

August 15th
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (480 pgs)
Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie (330 pgs)

September 15th
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik (353 pgs)
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie (416 pgs)

[Olga]

May I suggest putting The Raven Tower before the Ancillaries to give time to catch up with Ancillary Justice to those who haven’t read it before (like me)?

[Ryan, Your favourite moderators favourite moderator]

Option 2

July 15th
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie (416 pgs)
Infernal Devices by K.W. Jeter (384 pgs)

August 15th
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (480 pgs)
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie (356 pgs)

September 15th
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik (353 pgs)
Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie (330 pgs)

[Aga]

I vote for option two.

[a.g.e. montagner]

I want to read most of these (including Ancillary Justice!) so I suppose most options should be fine by me.

Again, after having cleared Jemisin and Le Guin in recent rounds, I like the idea of moving on to Leckie. The Imperial Radch is high on my list and... will probably spawn an Imperial Radch VBC?

[Aga]

I’m in for Leckie and Novik.

[Ryan, Your favourite moderators favourite moderator]

I wouldn't be able to host a VBC for The Imperial Radch series and hope that my participation isn't necessary for you all to discuss the series. XD

It does make sense to have one though. (How we got all those books on the shelf, but not The Outskirters Secret, The Lost Steerswoman, or After Atlas is a wonder to me)

[DivaDiane]

I like Option 2 best. If I read any of them, it would be the Wells and the Raven Tower (I’ve read the others by Leckie). I don’t want to “have to” read both of them in one month. That’s a recipe for failure.

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

We're one week out from the offical start of this months rereads! Here are the group threads for the books for those of you that have got an early start.

June 15th
Parable of the Sower >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
Babel-17 >> First impressions | Final thoughts

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

We're locking in Option 2 on the Rereads calendar!

Option 2

July 15th
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie (416 pgs)
Infernal Devices by K.W. Jeter (384 pgs)

August 15th
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (480 pgs)
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie (356 pgs)

September 15th
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik (353 pgs)
Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie (330 pgs)

[a.g.e. montagner]

SFFBC wrote: "We're one week out from the offical start of this months rereads! Here are the group threads for the books for those of you that have got an early start."

I might for once be able to join on time!
This is becoming the year in which I tick a lot of SFF boxes: Jemisin, Le Guin, Delany next and Leckie over the summer.

[Bonnie]

Samuel Delany coming up for me. All these years and I have still not read any.
(Bow of reverence)
🙇‍♀️

[Sarah]

Bonnie wrote: "Samuel Delany coming up for me. All these years and I have still not read any.
(Bow of reverence)
🙇‍♀️"

I just started reading my first Delany book as well! Babel-17

[CBRetriever]

I've read the two June 15th books recently. I just read through the threads for them and I don't think there's anything more I can add to them, so I won't unless someone makes a comment that makes me want to respond (I will be eagerly reading your comments though).

[a.g.e. montagner]

See you all in the threads!
Personally, I'll be preparing for the VBC on Le Guin later today and then there's at least one book in my queue before Delany.

[Cheryl L]

a.g.e. montagner wrote: "I want to read most of these (including Ancillary Justice!) so I suppose most options should be fine by me.

Again, after having cleared Jemisin and Le Guin in recent rounds, I lik..."

I will absolutely be up for an Imperial Radch VBC! I loved Ancillary Justice and am looking forward to the rest of the series.

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

Current batch of rereads, starting tomorrow!


July 15th
Infernal Devices >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Raven Tower >> First impressions | Final thoughts

[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 2024 rereads!

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

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1Q84 (925 pgs)
The Accidental Time Machine (278 pgs)
Across the Nightingale Floor (305 pgs)
The Actual Star (624 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)
Among Others (304 pgs)
Anansi Boys (384 pgs)
Annihilation (195 pgs)
Arcadia (608 pgs)
Ariadne (308 pgs)
Armada (349 pgs)
Artemis (305 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)
Black Sun (454 pgs)
Blackfish City (336 pgs)
Blackout (610 pgs)
The Blade Itself (517 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)
China Mountain Zhang (313 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)
Compass Rose (375 pgs)
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (500 pgs)
The Crown Conspiracy (296 pgs)
A Darker Shade of Magic (398 pgs)
Daughter of the Forest (554 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)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (306 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)
The Echo Wife (256 pgs)
Elantris (638 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 Final Empire (Mistborn #1) (541 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)
Foundation (256 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 Gate to Women's Country (315 pgs)
The Ghost Bride (368 pgs)
The Girl with All the Gifts (460 pgs)
Gods of Jade and Shadow (338 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)
(hide spoiler)]

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

Links to all books on the form (continued):

(view spoiler)[
The Handmaid's Tale (311 pgs)
Haze (352 pgs)
Hench (416 pgs)
Here and Now and Then (336 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)
Howl's Moving Castle (329 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)
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)
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)
Kindred (264 pgs)
Klara and the Sun (303 pgs)
Kushiel's Dart (1015 pgs)
The Last Policeman (322 pgs)
The Last Unicorn (294 pgs)
The Last Wish (384 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)
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)
A Master of Djinn (396 pgs)
A Memory Called Empire (462 pgs)
Memory of Water (263 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)
Nettle & Bone (245 pgs)
Neuromancer (271 pgs)
The Neverending Story (396 pgs)
Neverwhere (370 pgs)
Nexus (460 pgs)
The Night Circus (400 pgs)
A Night in the Lonesome October (280 pgs)
Night Watch (455 pgs)
Nimona (272 pgs)
Nine Princes in Amber (175 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)
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)
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)
Reap the Wild Wind (454 pgs)
Recursion (336 pgs)
Red Country (469 pgs)
Red Sister (469 pgs)
Redshirts (320 pgs)
Regarding Ducks and Universes (344 pgs)
Remnant Population (336 pgs)
Rendezvous with Rama (252 pgs)
The Road (241 pgs)
The Rook (486 pgs)
Sabriel (491 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 of Crows (462 pgs)
Six Wakes (364 pgs)
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (350 pgs)
Slaughterhouse-Five (215 pgs)
Snow Crash (470 pgs)
Solaris (204 pgs)
The Song of Achilles (352 pgs)
The Songs of Distant Earth (256 pgs)
Sorrowland (355 pgs)
Soulless (365 pgs)
The Sparrow (431 pgs)
The Speed of Dark (369 pgs)
Sphere (371 pgs)
Spin (458 pgs)
Spinning Silver (480 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)
Sunshine (405 pgs)
The Sword-Edged Blonde (256 pgs)
Swords and Deviltry (224 pgs)
(hide spoiler)]

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

Links to all books on the form (continued):

(view spoiler)[
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (374 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)
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (878 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)
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)
We Are Satellites (378 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)
Wild Seed (320 pgs)
The Windup Girl (359 pgs)
Winter Tide (366 pgs)
Winter's Orbit (432 pgs)
The Wise Man's Fear (994 pgs)
The Witch's Heart (359 pgs)
Witchmark (318 pgs)
A Wizard of Earthsea (183 pgs)
Wizard's First Rule (836 pgs)
The Wolf in the Whale (544 pgs)
Wool (509 pgs)
World War Z (342 pgs)
The Yiddish Policeman's Union (414 pgs)
Zodiac (308 pgs)
Zoo City (416 pgs)
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[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

This is the last round of rereads voting for this year. Would you like us to continue doing this next year? If yes, anything you'd like to change?

And most importantly, does anyone use that list of book links, or should we stop posting it? It's a monster! The links have now been added to the results spreadsheet. Does that look like a good solution going forward, can we stop adding the links here? (Sheet 'A-Z by title' is in alphabetical order.)

[Aga]

I hope we’ll continue next year. RRs give more books to choose from every month. We had some really nice bigger RR projects this year, like 3 of LeGuin’s books. We have Imperial Radch project incoming. It is one of my favorite activities in the book club.

[Kaia]

I also hope we continue the re-reads. For me, a lot of them are first-time reads. Being able to read them with others and have more discussion has been great. I’ve also tried some great books that I might not have chosen otherwise, based on what is selected.

I personally don’t use the book links in the post, though, so I would be okay with dropping that. Usually, I just open another browser tab and go back and forth to look up the books I’m not sure about while I’m in the Google form. It’s easier to do that than go back and forth between the form and the book group thread.

[a.g.e. montagner]

Oh, It's About That Time!
(cue the Miles Davis masterwork).

I think the rereads are a great way to catch up on the SFFBC catalogue. Personally I tend to approach them in batches, especially for sagas (the Broken Earth, the Imperial Radch...), but that's worked well so far with the current system.

[CBRetriever]

and I tend to pick books on my TBR pile which helps to slightly (very, very slightly) reduce said pile if they get chosen. I'm hoping for:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Neuromancer
I, Robot
Haze
Foundation
Homeland
Oryx and Crake
Ready Player One
Fuzzy Nation
Library at Mount Char
Aeronaut's Windlass
Broken Monsters
Lock In
Song of Achilles
Wolf in the Whale
Klara & the Sun
The Terraformers - reading this as a Buddy Read somewhere else soon

[DivaDiane]

I vote for the books I own that I’d like to have some motivation to read sooner rather than later, or that I could imagine actually rereading.

A lot of the books on the group’s backlist that I have read were read because of these reread selections.

[DivaDiane]

And there are too many that I voted for to list. But many are the same as CBRetriever.

[a.g.e. montagner]

I'm open to recommendations this time.

Ryan suggested Rivers Solomon, so that's one. And I'd like to finally read one of G. Willow Wilson's novels. Maybe time for some classics, like Solaris or The Last Unicorn. One thing I'm not ready for is... another trilogy! I have my hands full with Ann Leckie.

[Michelle]

I kind of like the rereads voting. I'm sorry that it's a pain, though!

[Michelle]

I just realized that Assassin's Apprentice isn't on our bookshelf! I don't know why I'd assumed that it was. I looked for it to pick it since I'm getting due for a reread of it. We all know what happens when we assume 😁

[CBRetriever]

Michelle wrote: "I just realized that Assassin's Apprentice isn't on our bookshelf! I don't know why I'd assumed that it was. I looked for it to pick it since I'm getting due for a reread of it. We all..."

nominate it for a challenge in the future - maybe you'll have better luck than I've had with Brust's Vlad Taltos series

[Meredith]

Michelle wrote: "I just realized that Assassin's Apprentice isn't on our bookshelf! I don't know why I'd assumed that it was. I looked for it to pick it since I'm getting due for a reread of it. We all..."

Assassin's Apprentice is on the shelf, it just must have been a re-read sometime in the last 2 years, which means it's not on the voting list.

[Michelle]

Meredith wrote: "Assassin's Apprentice is on the shelf, it just must have been a re-read sometime in the last 2 years, which means it's not on the voting list.

I thought it was! Then I haven't lost my marbles altogether. That's probably why it wasn't on this list. Thanks, Meredith.

[a.g.e. montagner]

Meredith wrote: "Assassin's Apprentice is on the shelf, it just must have been a re-read sometime in the last 2 years, which means it's not on the voting list."

Here!

[Anna]

Michelle wrote: "I kind of like the rereads voting. I'm sorry that it's a pain, though!"

It’s not a pain! The list of book links kinda is tho, it takes up three posts now and I can only imagine the horror of scrolling past it on the Android app! But since it seems like no one will miss it, problem solved!

[Aga]

I have to say I rarely check the books on the list. My voting strategy is marking everything I think I want to read again, or is on my TBR for ages and I think I need a little kick to finally read it. If a title doesn’t spark a memory I leave it out.

[Anna]

Yeah I think that’s true for most of us who’ve been here for longer, but new members might find it useful. I don’t know, but as of now the list is going away unless people say otherwise.

[Mihai]

I like the rereads. I usually alternate them with current readings. It offers more perspectives.

[CBRetriever]

I like them too

[Melanie, the neutral party]

I go to the rereads list if I'm not crazy about the current BOTM. I do not need the tedious list of book links. Thank you mods.

[Meredith]

I like the rereads. I try to use them to whittle away at my TBR and read some of those books I've been meaning to read for so long. I agree with others, the lists of the book links aren't needed (especially with the links provided on the results spreadsheet).

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Thank you! We're glad that y'all are still finding this a fruitful part of the club. But now that we're over 400 books, I think we'll leave the official eligible list to the poll and not to the predations of the GR app :)

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

Vote here: https://goo.gl/forms/joASo8yDfm9oGvDm2
Live results and book links: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Voting ends: August 25th / GR links to all books here

[a.g.e. montagner]

Looks like we're heading towards some classic fantasy with Alphabet of Thorn and The Last Unicorn (and they're also short novels, for once).

If it's not too much I'd ask to secure a spot for Alif the Unseen. I nominated The Bird King in another group for October and it's haping up to win, so this would be the perfect excuse to read both of her novels at once.