2025 Bookshelf Rereads [voting is CLOSED till November]

[Meredith]

I am hoping to read Baru and Slaughterhouse 5, so as long as they are in different months, that is good for me.

[Aga]

Is there an option to separate Ubik, The Once and Future King and Slaughterhouse-Five?

[a.g.e. montagner]

Matching all requests so far gives something like...

Option B
(which I'm only suggesting to help the mods, certainly not step on their toes! not as well balanced as option A, but maybe that won't be a problem; meanwhile I'm cheerfully late with my plans and will probably read at my own idiosyncratic pace anyway):

April
Slaughterhouse-Five (215 pgs)
The Diamond Age (499 pgs)

May
The Once and Future King (639 pgs)
China Mountain Zhang (313 pgs)

June
Ubik (288 pgs)
The Traitor Baru Cormorant (399 pgs)

[Aga]

It looks like you have solved this riddle. I would vote for option B.

[Melanie, the neutral party]

I dislike having both fantasy picks in the same month.

PS: Sorry if I'm slow to reply. I'm in tech for my school play and just very IRL busy.

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

Option C
April
Slaughterhouse-Five (215 pgs)
China Mountain Zhang (313 pgs)

May
The Traitor Baru Cormorant (399 pgs)
The Once and Future King (639 pgs)


June
Ubik (288 pgs)
The Diamond Age (499 pgs)

[Melanie, the neutral party]

How about option C??

[Meredith]

Melanie wrote: "How about option C??"

That has both the fantasy picks in the same month, though.

[Olga]

I'm absolutely happy with either B or C, I'm with Aga on separating Ubik, The Once and Future King and Slaughterhouse-Five, as these are the ones I want to read in the first place.

Option B is a liiitle more balanced page-wise, it seems to me.

Do we have 3 fantasy and 3 sci-fi books in the poll? If not, we'll have two of the same genre in some months anyway....

[Aga]

Option C is good 👍

[DivaDiane]

I like both options b and c because my hope is to read Slaughterhouse Five, The Once and Future King and The Traitor Baru Cormorant and would love it if they could be in separate months, but I don’t know if it’s possible with everyone’s requests.

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

Option D

April
Slaughterhouse-Five (215 pgs)
The Traitor Baru Cormorant (399 pgs)

May
China Mountain Zhang (313 pgs)
The Once and Future King (639 pgs)


June
Ubik (288 pgs)
The Diamond Age (499 pgs)

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

Option E

April
Slaughterhouse-Five (215 pgs)
China Mountain Zhang (313 pgs)

May
Ubik (288 pgs)
The Traitor Baru Cormorant (399 pgs)

June
The Diamond Age (499 pgs)
The Once and Future King (639 pgs)

[Melanie, the neutral party]

This feels like one of those logic puzzles, lol.
It *think* Option E does everything except separate the 'big' books.

[Olga]

B and C were good for me )))
B worked for Aga's and my preferences and Diane's as well.
No one seemed opposed to it (unless having two fantasy books in one month is a problem).
Maybe we should stop at that one, as perfection is not possible? ))

[Aga]

I’m ok with any option from B to E XD

[Meredith]

A, B, C, and E are fine for me. :)

[DivaDiane]

B, C or E are fine with me.

[Melanie, the neutral party]

E is my preference.

[a.g.e. montagner]

As I mentioned, my goal for this round is to do more reading and less preferencing!

In the best case scenario I plan to read everything except for Baru and Zhang, so I'm going to have my hands full anyway.

[CBRetriever]

I wasn't very fond of the Baru book myself and I've already read and have no desire to re-read The Once and Future King or Slaughterhouse-Five. I read Diamond age years ago. So, I'm likely out for these three months unless Ubik comes down in price a lot

[Melanie, the neutral party]

Ubik is the only book on the list I have read. The past several reread lists have been full of mostly books I had read already, so I'm going to try to read at least 1 from each month.

[Melanie, the neutral party]

Olga, is list E okay with you. You seem to be the only person right now not favoring it?

[Netanella]

Ubik is available to read at the Internet Archive.

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

March rereads start in a week.

March 15th
Neuromancer >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
White Cat >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More

[Melanie, the neutral party]

Checking in. If y'all are okay with list E, I can make it official.

[a.g.e. montagner]

I was just checking this thread as well...
Option E puts the tomes I want to read in June, so I guess it's fine. Get a move on, future me!

[DivaDiane]

E is good.

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

The next few months of re-reads are set.

April 15th
Slaughterhouse-Five >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
China Mountain Zhang >> First impressions | Final thoughts

May 15th
Ubik >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Traitor Baru Cormorant >> First impressions | Final thoughts

June 15th
The Diamond Age >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Once and Future King >> First impressions | Final thoughts

[CJ]

Oof, I had missed the re-ordering. Well, I'm starting The Once and Future King tonight since I arranged my library hold for it with the idea of reading it in April and now there's like 10 people waiting for it after me, so read it now or never.

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

Upcoming rereads...

April 15th
Slaughterhouse-Five >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
China Mountain Zhang >> First impressions | Final thoughts

[Cathy]

SFFBC wrote: "Upcoming rereads...

April 15th
China Mountain Zhang >> First impressions | Final thoughts"

Is this still correct? Nobody has posted anything… just fyi, I started and posted here and on StoryGraph.

[a.g.e. montagner]

Hi Cathy.

The rereads, and indeed even the books of the month, don't always have a strong following. This is often due to extra-literary reasons, as you can imagine. Kickstarting the discussion is usually a good method.

I'd be curious to read it, but I've already signed up for more than I can currently keep up with.

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

Upcoming rereads...

May 15th
Ubik >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Traitor Baru Cormorant >> First impressions | Final thoughts

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

Open voting
It's time to start planning the next round of rereads!

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

Voting is OPEN for July - September 2025 rereads!

[CBRetriever]

SFFBC wrote: "Upcoming rereads...

May 15th
Ubik >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Traitor Baru Cormorant >> First impressions | Final thoughts"

I just posted in the Ubik thread if anyone else plans to read this book.

[Melanie, the neutral party]

I'm listening to The Traitor Baru Cormorant. It's long.

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

Did you vote yet?

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

Help choose the July - September 2025 rereads!

Current top standings.
5 Zodiac (308 pgs)
4 The Crown Conspiracy (296 pgs)
4 Lions of Al-Rassan (528 pgs)
3 The Aeronaut's Windlass (630 pgs)
3 Assassin's Apprentice (480 pgs)
3 The Blade Itself (517 pgs)
3 The Calculating Stars (431 pgs)
3 The City We Became (437 pgs)
3 Doctor Who The Coming of the Terraphiles (343 pgs)
3 Guards! Guards! (376 pgs)
3 Haze (352 pgs)
3 Lock In (336 pgs)
3 The Long Earth (336 pgs)
3 Wizard's First Rule (836 pgs)
3 Wool (509 pgs)

[CBRetriever]

Melanie wrote: "I'm listening to The Traitor Baru Cormorant. It's long."

I won't be re-reading that one as I wasn't a big fan the first time around

[Meredith]

CBRetriever wrote: "Melanie wrote: "I'm listening to The Traitor Baru Cormorant. It's long."

I won't be re-reading that one as I wasn't a big fan the first time around"

I am planning to read Baru, but have to clear the decks of a couple other books first.

[DivaDiane]

I was planning to read Baru as well, Meredith, but I’m behind in all things! When do you think you might get to it?

[CJ]

I want to get to Baru, and the most of the current top votes for the next batch aren't appealing to me unless there's a big shift in the votes, so that will likely take some pressure for me and allow me to get to Baru a bit later on, most likely July (I'm making a tentative June TBR at the moment and I don't think I can fit it in). I still need to read Ubik and China Mountain Zhang too, and hope I can squeeze one of those in this month.

[a.g.e. montagner]

It's actually relatively easy to swing the vote at this point.
What titles do you favour? We'll give 'em a bump.

I'm set on the rather improbable feat of digging out some rereads that slipped through my personal schedule in recent months, such as Piranesi, Alphabet of Thorn, The Last Unicorn, even The Raven Tower. maybe I should just just wait for the next cycle when they can be voted as official rereads again.

[CJ]

The ones I'm rooting for are The Calculating Stars, Doomsday Book, The Quantum Thief, Grass, and anything by Iain M. Banks, but don't feel you need to vote for any of those if they're not of interest to you.

[a.g.e. montagner]

I can tell you I've got my eyes on Banks' Culture novels for years, but it's going to be a long-term project. I'm not familiar with the other titles.

[CBRetriever]

CJ wrote: "The ones I'm rooting for are The Calculating Stars, Doomsday Book, The Quantum Thief, Grass, and anything by Iain M. Banks, but don't feel you need to vote for any of those if they're not of intere..."

I just put a vote on Doomsday book for you, but I pretty much vote for books on my TBR pile or if they're really cheap ($2.99 or less).

[Meredith]

DivaDiane wrote: "I was planning to read Baru as well, Meredith, but I’m behind in all things! When do you think you might get to it?"

I'll be out of town all next week, so I probably won't get to it until the start of June.

[CBRetriever]

that's fine and maybe we could move the next story to June 10th?

[a.g.e. montagner]

Can I get a bump for any of these: Solaris, Alif the Unseen, The Princess Bride, plus Solomon Rivers.

[Silvana]

City of Stairs please! People are just finding out Robert Jackson Bennett after The Tainted Cup but his first trilogy was also awesome.