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8. Watership Down by Richard Adams*
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17. Documenting Light by E.E. Ottoman
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20. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
21. Everfair by Nisi Shawl
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23. Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre
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Non-MM Sweep the Shelf goals:
(Pink Trucks and Bow Ties /
Novellas: 2
>Classics
>Scifi
Read two NTM authors from pre-1970
Read additional
Read one translated scifi
>Black authors
Find two NTM black romance authors that I'm excited to read more from
One NTM MM author
One NTM urban fantasy/paranormal author
One NTM fantasy author
Two graphic novels
>Physically owned
Cold People
Get reading glasses
The Remains of the Day
Read two Top 100 books
Read
Read one translated Japanese spec fic novel
Read
Sweep the Shelf goals
Documenting Light by E.E. Ottoman
New Release MM goals
Corruption series by Kim Fielding
>F/F
Read one historical F/F
Read one other F/F
>Self-published fantasy
Read: 3
Tried: 8


The Element of Fire by Martha Wells
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
A Closed and Common Orbit
This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender
12 graphic novels
Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the BrontësAbbott
Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre

Middlemarch
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Emma
Excellent Women
Some Tame Gazelle
The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
A Struggle for Fame
Hester
Saturday's Child
The Pursuit of Love
The Diary of a Provincial Lady
Wild Strawberries
Pomfret Towers



Augustus
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Irish
The Happy Couple
The Colony
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Last September
Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling
Better By Far
Hospital Station (1962)
The Cloud of Desolation (1982)
Guard Your Heart
None of This Is Serious
All Our Hidden Gifts
Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating
The Surface Breaks
Savage Her Reply
Perfectly Preventable Deaths
The Fire Starters
The Wren Hunt
The Tainted
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Black authors


Pride
Secrets and Truths
The Splinter in the Sky
Bones to the Wind
A Ruin of Shadows
In the Shadow of the Fall
The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes
The Ballad of Perilous Graves
Suyi Davies Okungbowa
The Break She Needed
Bitter
Scarlet Odyssey
The God of Good Looks
The Duchess's Bodyguard
Heated
Goddess Crown
I Am King
The Upper World
L. Penelope
Beasts of Prey
We Are the Origin
The Weight of the Stars
The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
Brown Girl in the Ring
Mama Day
Abiola Bello
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The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks, 1988
The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto, 2006
Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett, 2014
The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord, 2023
Planetfall by Emma Newman, 2015
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers, 2016
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden, 2018
The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull, 2019
Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi, 2022
Under Fortunate Stars by Ren Hutchings, 2022
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge, 1980
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer, 1983
Yukikaze 1984
The Sea and Summer by George Turner, 1987
Hyperion by Dan Simmons, 1989
Fools by Pat Cadigan, 1992
Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon, 1996
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, 1996
The Risen Empire by Scott Westerfeld, 2003
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes, 2010
Embassytown by China Miéville, 2011
Clean by Alex Hughes, 2012
Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill, 2017
The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts, 2018
The Outside by Ada Hoffmann, 2019
The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley, 2019
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, 2022
The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz, 2023
The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee, 1981
Diaspora by Greg Egan, 1997
The Martian Race by Gregory Benford, 1999
Blindsight by Peter Watts, 2006
Dauntless by Jack Campbell, 2006
Our Blue Orange by A.R. Merrydew, 2015
Iron Truth by S.A. Tholin, 2018
The Rig by Roger Levy, 2018
The Quantum Magician by Derek Künsken, 2018
Delta-v by Daniel Suarez, 2019
Out Among the Ice Beacons by Gareth Howells, 2019
The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach, 2019
The House of Styx by Derek Künsken, 2020
Aestus: Book 1: The City by S.Z. Attwell, 2020
Melody: A First Contact Techno-Thriller by David Hoffer, 2020
Refraction by Wick Welker, 2021
The Automaton by Ian Young, 2022
These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs, 2023
Moths by Jane Hennigan, 2023
The Surviving Sky
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On my TBR:
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, 1909
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, 1951
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky, 1972
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, 1968
Picnic on Paradise by Joanna Russ, 1968
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
The Ginger Star by Leigh Brackett
Philip K. Dick
Ubik
Joanna Russ
The Adventures of Alyx (short stories)
Leigh Brackett
The Secret of Sinharat / People of the Talisman
The Long Tomorrow, 1955
Jack Vance
The Star King
Wyst: Alastor 1716
Clifford D. Simak
Destiny Doll, 1972




Naomi Mitcheson
Memoirs of a Spacewoman
Travel Light
CL Moore Northwest of Earth: The Complete Northwest Smith

Dreamsnake -- Vonda N. McIntyre
Sherri S. Tepper
Tanith Lee
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke, 1973
The Inverted World by Christopher Priest, 1974
Stanisław Lem -- The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy, 1971
We All Died at Breakaway Station











S tier
The Doomed City
Downward to the Earth





A tier
Past Master
The Invincible
The Final Circle of Paradise

B tier


























I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, 1950
The Stars are Ours by Andre Norton/Alice Mary Norton, 1954
This Immortal by Roger Zelazny, 1966
Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny, 1976
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon, 1953
A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke, 1961
The Last Castle by Jack Vance, 1966
Inherit the Stars by James P. Hogan, 1977

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924
The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy by Stanisław Lem, 1971
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky, 1972
The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto, 2006
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer, 1983
Yukikaze 1984
Orbital Cloud by Taiyo Fujii, 2014
Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang, 2016
Ten Planets: Stories









The Slynx
The Swarm
Waste Tide
Harmony

Cursed Cocktails
Molten Flux
Dragon Thief
Stone & Sky
The Grand Game
Runelight
The Lost Redeemer
The Sunset Sovereign: A Dragon's Memoir
A Heart of Bones
The Stars Would Curse Us
Of Shadows and Death
A Vermilion Curse
Of Wind and Lightning
Soultaming the Serpent
Elemental
The Dryad's Crown
By Blood, By Salt
A Song for Octaven: A Queer Fantasy Romance
Oublié: A Timelessness Novel
Cthoma's Fated
Amiant Soul
The Kiss of the Sky
Fortitude's Prize
Chosen
Glory to the Waxing Sun
Spfno
SPFBO 9 finalists
Daughter of the Beast
Master of the Void
The Wickwire Watch
The Fall is All There Is
9 semifinalists
Credible Threats
Heliotrope
Necrotown
If Light Above
Bob the Wizard
The Bleeding Stone
The Dragon's Hide
A Gallery for the Barbarian
A Gamble of Gods
The First and Last Demon: A Sapphic Fantasy Romance
Twicetime
The Previous winners
Orconomics
Small Miracles
Previous finalists
Burn Red Skies
A Touch of Light
Other
Rise of Gods
Dragon Mage
Small Town Problems: A Sci-Fi Novella
The Dryad's Crown

Artek
Yellow Sky Revolt
A Wind From the Wilderness
YA
Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro
Albatross
Shade's Children
Gemsigns
Little Thieves
Only a Monster
The Tiger at Midnight
The Seventh Year Trials
Jade Fire Gold
Song of Silver, Flame Like Night
Spice Road











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Shane
True Grit
Hondo
The Searchers
Butcher's Crossing
Greek Lessons by Han Kang
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth
Pamela Ribon
The Duke in Question by Amalie Howard
Mimi Matthews
Isabelle and Alexander
Until the Dawn
The Captive Imposter
Felicia Grossman
Stranger at the Dower House
Sapna Bhog
Unequal Affections: A Pride and Prejudice Retelling
The Rose Garden
Christina Dudley
Sula Sullivan
A Magical Inheritance
R.R. Haywood
AG Riddle
Michael DeForge
Roomies
When Autumn Leaves




























Sherrilyn Kenyon





































F/F











1. Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett / Provenance by Ann Leckie
2. A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
3. Middlemarch by George Eliot / Hester by Mrs. Oliphant
4. The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang
5. The Survivalists by Kashana Cauley
6. Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night by Katherine Fabian and Iona Datt Sharma
7. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick / Picnic on Paradise by Joanna Russ / The Ginger Star by Leigh Brackett / The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
8. The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord
9. Life Underwater by Matthew J. Metzger / The Craft of Love by E.E. Ottoman
10. Kesrith by C.J. Cherryh / Petty Treasons by Victoria Goddard
11. Love from A to Z by S.K. Ali
12. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History / Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
21. The Long Tomorrow Leigh Brackett
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Housekeeper and the Professor
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7. Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling
23. The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells
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24. The Last Children of Tokyo by Yōko Tawada / The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto / The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa / Orbital Cloud by Taiyo Fujii, 2014 / Yukikaze by Chōhei Kambayashi / Harmony by Project Itoh / The Next Continent by Issui Ogawa / Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang
8. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
17. The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory / Work for It by Talia Hibbert
3. The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
13. That Self-Same Metal by Brittany N. Williams / One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy
The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan
A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon / The Swarm by Frank Schätzing
The Grand Sophy / Sylvester or The Wicked Uncle / The Foundling / Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer
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