November 2025 BOTM: Post your nominations

[Steve]

Post your nominees in this thread for the November 2025 Book of the Month.

We’ll do two polls, and have two selections for BOTM. I have two separate themes:
- Your TBR: A book from your techno-thriller To Be Read list.
- Something New: A techno-thriller that is not old, something within the last 10 years.

All nominees:
- must be a techno-thriller
- must not be your own book
- must have at least 1,000 ratings, or be by a well-known author defined as having prior techno-thriller books with 100,000+ ratings.

I don’t always impose a “theme” for BOTM. I’m in a bit of a phase here, wanting two selections a month, that are fairly distinct from each other, so there are alternatives to participate with the group. I almost always read both. I do always start both.

I’ll go to a poll as soon as one of the list has enough nominations. We’ll just do one poll on one category/theme at a time, not two at the same time. So you have some time to post your book nominees at least on one of the themes. First come first serve. If more than 5 people nominate, I take the first book (that fits the criteria) from the first five people. If less than 5 people nominate, I take the second nominee from the first person, and so on. Sometimes, no one else nominates a book, so all nominees ended up being mine. I prefer it to be a group effort. Please feel free to suggest books for the group. Please identify which theme or category you are nominating the book for, if it isn’t obvious from the title.

We’re not voting on our favorites and not what we’ve already read. Sometimes I’ll nominate books I’ve already read, but the vote is different. We always vote only for the book we actually want to read, or re-read, for the month. We want actually participation. If you just want to vote for favorites, vote on the Listopia book lists instead for that urge.

[Steve]

Something New:
The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield (2021)


A space thriller from an actual astronaut. A new member Jeff said this was a favorite last month.

[Steve]

From the TBR:
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1992)

[Steve]

Something New:
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks (2020)


He had me at Sasquatch. Sounds entertaining.

[Steve]

From the TBR:
Ubik by Philip K. Dick (1969)


Is this really a technothriller? Don’t know.