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Jan 2026 BOTM: Submit Nominations
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The Stand by Stephen King (1978)
1152 pages
Some people think this is the best sci-fi. Many (those who survived it) say it is Stephen King’s best book. Some say is their favorite book of all-time.
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The Breach by Patrick Lee (2009)
Jed has recommended this a few times. I’m game.
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849 pages
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Techno-Thrillers
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Bering Strait (other topics)11/22/63 (other topics)
The Breach (other topics)
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F.X. Holden (other topics)Stephen King (other topics)
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Stephen King (other topics)
We’ll do two polls, and have two selections for BOTM. I have two separate themes:
- BIG FELLA: OK, let’s go for one of those whales, … a big 700-page minimum behemoth. Something I shied away from in 2025. We’ll give the group like 3 or 4 months to read it. I’ll say a month for every 300 pages. So, I guess this is more like book of the season … WINTER 2026 in the northern hemisphere or Q1 (quarter 1 of the year) more generally.
- TBR: This is the most general theme … any techno-thriller that’s on your To Be Read (TBR) list.
Just post your suggest thread something like this:
(THEME): (TITLE) by (AUTHOR)
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’ll go to a poll as soon as one of the themes has enough nominations. We’ll just do one poll on one category/theme at a time, not two at the same time. Nominees are taken 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. About half the time, 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.