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For November, we'll be reading The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut.Upcoming books:
December: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
January: Nonesuch by Francis Spufford
As always, you can come in person or via Zoom, and there'll be frozen pizza and snacks.
Link to (BRAND NEW AND UPDATED thanks to book club member Joe) Google spreadsheet with suggested books and previously read books. Feel free to add books to this list at any time; everyone should have edit permissions.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UXGw2Uy2Yv1P8q1Ccp0C-iAa57SgzIarGowUbM7wls4/edit?usp=sharing
As a reminder, we take turns picking books for book club. Here are the requirements for a book:
1. Must be at least vaguely sci fi or fantasy. We've been pretty loose with this definition, so likely if you're wondering if the book qualifies, it probably does.
2. Must be available in physical and audio formats.
3. Must be under 500 pages (ideally). We've also made a few exceptions to this, so if it's not too much over, feel free to suggest it.
4. Must not be a book we've already done. See the bottom of this event description for the list of books we've already read.
5. Generally, if it's in a series, it must be the first book. For books that are in the same universe but book order doesn't really matter, we've made exceptions for this. For example, Becky Chambers' Wayfarers series.
My number: 612-270-7111
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Mary Thrall is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: November Sci Fi Book Club
Time: Nov 17, 2026 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
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General book club info (this info doesn't change from month to month):
The Sci Fi book club is held both in person and online. We have cats, so if you have an allergy contact me if there is anything (vaccuming, etc) I can do to help before the book club.
Note: The science fiction book club is inclusive and a safe place. Please no racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, etc. Sometimes discussions lead to these topics and that is wonderful, but please be respectful or do not come. There will be an effort to include books by women and people of color.
This club is no-commitment, meaning you have no obligation or pressure to come. Come occasionally or never, that’s fine. You may come if you have not finished the book, but you will hear spoilers!
The club meets approximately once a month around 7 pm, at least four weeks after the previous meeting. If 7 is too early, feel free to show up later. We meet until 9 or so.
Spoiler policy:
You agree to spoilers of the book we read for the specific meeting. All other spoilers are not allowed. I don't care if Star Wars came out 40+ years ago. Ask if anyone hasn't seen it before revealing spoilers. In the age of digital media, we can all watch shows and movies at our own pace, and we deserve the same awesome surprises as the people who watched decades ago.
Below is the list of what the club has read:
1. February 2015: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
2. March 2015: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
3. April 2015: 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
4. May 2015: Children of Men by P.D. James
5. June 2015: The City & the City by China Mieville
6. July 2015: Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
7. August 2015: Redshirts by John Scalzi
8. October 2015: Light by M. John Harrison
9. November/December 2015: Neuromancer by William Gibson
10. January 2016: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
11. February 2016: The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
12: March 2016: Babel-17 by Samuel Delany
13: April 2016: Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson
14: June 2016: Kindred by Octavia Butler
15: July 2016: Short stories by Ryan McClanahan, Isaac Asimov, and Kurt Vonnegut.
16: August 2016: Corsair by James L. Cambias
17: September 2016: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
18: October 2016: Spooky short stories
19: Nov/Dec 2016: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1st half)
20. January 2017: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (2nd half)
21. February 2017: Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
22. March 2017: The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
23. May 2017: Star Wars: Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn
24. June 2017: Afrofuturism short stories
25. August 2017: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
26. November 2017: Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling
27. January 2018: Foundation by Isaac Asimov
28. February 2018: Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie
29. March 2018: Rayla 2212 by Ytasha Womack
30. April 2018: Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
31. May 2018: Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
32. June 2018: The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
33. July 2018: Watchmen by Alan Moore
34. August 2018: Neil Gaiman short stories from Fragile Things
35. September 2018: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
36. April 2019: The Android's Dream by John Scalzi
37. June 2019: Daughter of Athena by A. Rose
38. July 2019: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
39. August 2019: Circe by Madeline Miller
40. September 2019: Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
41. October 2019: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
42. Nov/Dec 2019: Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
43. January 2020: The Dracula Tape by Fred Saberhagen
44. Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Correy
45. March 2020: The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
46. April 2020: Dune by Frank Herbert (this didn't really end up happening because COVID)
47. June 2020: Skinned by Lesley Nneka Arimah
48. July 2020: Valedictorian and Non-Zero Probabilties by N.K. Jemisin
49. August 2020: Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
50. September 2020: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor
51. October 2020: The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
52. November 2020: Ubik by Phillip K. Dick
53. December 2020: Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
54. January 2021: The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington
55. February 2021: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
56. March 2021: Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
57. May 2021: Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
58. June 2021: All Systems Red & Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
59. June #2, 2021: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
60. July 2021: The Martian by Andy Weir
61. Starless by Jacqueline Carey
62. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
63. Dune by Frank Herbert
64. A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
65. February 2022: Remote Control & Mother of Invention by Dr. Nnedi Okorafor
66. March 2022: Quarantine by Greg Egan
67. April 2022: Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer
68. May 2022: Ink & Sigil by Keven Hearne
69. June 2022: Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
70. July 2022: Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone
71. August 2022: Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
72. September 2022: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
73. October 2022: The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
74. November 2022: Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillian by Richard Roberts
75. December 2022: The Circle by Dave Eggers
76. January 2023: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
77. February 2023: The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
78. March 2023: Hounded by Kevin Hearne
79. April 2023: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
80. May 2023: Metatropolis, edited by John Scalzi
81. July 2023: Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
82. August 2023: Barbary Station by R. E. Stearns
83. September 2023: The Mountain In the Sea by Ray Nayler
84. November 2023: Short stories from Never Whistle at Night, edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
85. December 2023: When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb
86. January 2024: The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel
87. February 2024: Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
88. April 2024: Machinehood by S.B. Divya
89. May 2024: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
90. June 2024: Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang
91. July 2024: At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
92. August 2024: Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
93. Sept 2024: Primary Inversion by Catherine Asaro
94. October 2024: Episodes 29, 34, 36, 65 of The Magnus Archives
95. November 2024: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
96. December 2024: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
97. January 2025: March Upcountry by David Weber and John Ringo
98. February 2025: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
99. March 2025: A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
100. May 2025: Excession by Iain M. Banks
101. June 2025: Starter Villain by John Scalzi
102. July 2025: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
103. Sept 2025: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
104. Oct 2025: Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims
105. Nov 2025: The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner
106. Dec 2025: Feed by Mira Grant
107. Jan 2026: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinneman
108. Feb 2026: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner
109. March 2026: Translation State by Anne Leckie
110. May 2026: The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
111. June 2026: Psalm of the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
112. July 2026: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
113. Sept 2026: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
114. Oct 2026: M.R. James short stories
115. Nov 2026: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
We have an email list. Increasingly, people are on Facebook less. Reach out to me via messenger, email ([email protected]), or phone (612-270-7111) to let me know if you'd like to be added to (or removed from) the email list.
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