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message 1: by Pam (last edited Oct 06, 2025 10:31AM) (new)

Pam | 496 comments 2024 thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Catch Us When We Fall by Juliette Fay Feeding Ghosts A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham Maus I A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) by Art Spiegelman Provenance (Imperial Radch) by Ann Leckie Cold People by Tom Rob Smith Lord of the White Hell, Book 1 (The Cadeleonian Series, #1) by Ginn Hale 1222 (Hanne Wilhelmsen, #8) by Anne Holt Washington's Gay General The Legends and Loves of Baron von Steuben by Josh Trujillo One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1) by Seanan McGuire The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date, #1) by Jasmine Guillory Roland Rogers Isn't Dead Yet by Samantha Allen Necessary Medicine by M.K. York What I Know About You by Éric Chacour Blood Sweat Glitter by Iona Datt Sharma Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1) by Waubgeshig Rice The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip Family Style Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater

January: Canada
The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts The Fall (The Fall #1) by Kate Sherwood A Little Village Blend by 'Nathan Burgoine

February: Science
The Book of Koli (Rampart Trilogy, #1) by M.R. Carey

March: Thriller
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1) by Jeff VanderMeer

April: Fun
Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1) by Jodi Taylor

May: Strong Women
Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon

June: Summer
Proper English (England World, #1) by K.J. Charles

July: Speculative Fiction
Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell

August: Family Drama


Fire Spells Between Friends (Fae & Human Relations, #2) by Sarah Wallace

September: Around the World


A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon Euphoria by Lily King Twinkle Twinkle by Kaori Ekuni

Hester by Mrs. Oliphant Persepolis 2 The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2) by Marjane Satrapi




Jane Austen July

Northranger A Modern Graphic Novel Retelling of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey by Rey Terciero Jane of Austin by Hillary Manton Lodge Relative Strangers by A.H. Kim What Will People Think? by Vedashree Khambete-Sharma Belinda by Maria Edgeworth


Trim #3, 5, 7, 8, and 11
Hester by Mrs. Oliphant The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord Luck in the Shadows (Nightrunner, #1) by Lynn Flewelling Persepolis 2 The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2) by Marjane Satrapi Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett



Roadside Picnic is halfway point on NonMM-TBR (as of April 10)
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion is halfway point as of May 13
The Story of the Hundred Promises as of June 28
The Pomegranate Gate as of August 25 (17 15 of 66 available/owned physically)
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1) by Helene Wecker Twinkle Twinkle by Kaori Ekuni The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (The Carls, #1) by Hank Green Piranesi by Susanna Clarke The Pomegranate Gate (The Mirror Realm Cycle, #1) by Ariel Kaplan

The Godmother by Carrie Adams My Boyfriend Is a Bear by Pamela Ribon SLAM! Vol. 1 by Pamela Ribon HappyHead (HappyHead, #1) by Josh Silver The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Little, Big by John Crowley The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1) by Connie Willis
Belinda by Maria Edgeworth Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore Animal Farm by George Orwell True Grit by Charles Portis The Wall by Marlen Haushofer


message 2: by Pam (last edited Sep 11, 2025 04:40PM) (new)

Pam | 496 comments Play Harder
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List 3: 8/12
1. Read a book with a tag that starts with "social" (Sociology, society, social psychology, social sciences, social, social- justice, sociable, sociopath, social engineering, social commentary, etc.)
✅ 2. A book set in a cold climate
✅ 3. A book with a family tree
✅ 4. Read a book that is more than 100 years old.
5. Read a book set in a country with a coast on the Mediterranean Sea
✅ 6. Read a book related to espionage
✅ 7. A book that's won an award (of any kind)
✅ 8. A book with a title beginning with U
9. Read a book with a main character who works primarily outdoors
✅ 10. A book where the title references a nursery rhyme or fairy tale.
11. A book set in Asia
✅ 12. A book with a verb in the title


List 2: 12/12
✅ 1. Read a book by an author you've been meaning to try, but never have read before
✅ 2. Read a nonfiction book about food and or food culture
✅ 3. A book about a sport
✅ 4. A book with the word "book" in the title
✅ 5. A book published in the 1970s
✅ 6. Read a book with a title that contains all the letters of your first name
✅ 7. The author's first or last name starts with X, Y, or Z
✅ 8. A book set in a 'haunted' house - whether for real or rumored.
✅ 9. A family saga or family drama
✅ 10. A book featuring or featured in a podcast or blog.
✅ 11. A book fully or partially set in the Arctic or Antarctic
✅ 12. Read a book you’ve borrowed from your local library


List 1: 12/12
✅ 1. Read a book that's been included on a celebrity book list.
✅ 2. Read a book about outdoor survival
✅ 3. A book that is a travel essay or memoir
✅ 4. A book related to or featuring the game of baseball
✅ 5. An award winning book from 2024
✅ 6. A book with the word “history” in the title
✅ 7. Read a mystery set in a non-English speaking country
✅ 8. A biography or autobiography
✅ 9. Re-read a favorite book.
✅ 10. A book that is contemporary romance
✅ 11. Read a book written by an author that shares your initials.
✅ 12. Read one of your top ten shortest books on your tbr.


message 3: by Pam (last edited Sep 18, 2025 09:54AM) (new)

Pam | 496 comments Trim
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✔️ 1. Provenance by Ann Leckie
2. Life Underwater by Matthew J. Metzger
3. Hester by Mrs. Oliphant
4. The Craft of Love by E.E. Ottoman
5. Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett
6. Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night by Katherine Fabian and Iona Datt Sharma
7. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
8. The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord
✔️ 9. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
✔️ 10. Petty Treasons by Victoria Goddard
11. Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling
✔️12. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

Also finished:
Kesrith by C.J. Cherryh



Going Long 2025
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✔️ The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons




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message 4: by Pam (last edited Oct 06, 2025 10:41AM) (new)

Pam | 496 comments Personal Goals

1. Write the two overdue ARC reviews

2. Clear off/commit to this pre-TBR TBR!!!!!!! (*Start with Black authors list)

3. Read things you think you'll love:



Books at the library:

Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz The Summer War by Naomi Novik Sweet Heat by Bolu Babalola The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi Queen Demon (The Rising World, #2) by Martha Wells All That We See or Seem (Julia Z, #1) by Ken Liu Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley No Gods, No Monsters (Convergence Saga, #1) by Cadwell Turnbull The Sleepless (Sleepless Duology, #1) by Jen Williams Moonrising by Claire Barner We Had a Hunch A Mystery by Tom Ryan

The Enchanted Hacienda by J.C. Cervantes The Impossible Us by Sarah Lotz The Wedding Season by Katy Birchall The No-Show by Beth O'Leary One-Star Romance by Laura Hankin The King's Messenger by Susanna Kearsley A Fire in the Sky (A Fire in the Sky, #1) by Sophie Jordan Broken Souls and Bones (Stonegate, #1) by L.J. Andrews A Most Agreeable Murder (Beatrice Steele, #1) by Julia Seales We Met Like This by Kasie West The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton Ella Minnow Pea A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko Songs in Ursa Major by Emma Brodie Victory City by Salman Rushdie The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara A Spy in the Struggle by Aya de León

True Grit by Charles Portis Animal Farm by George Orwell Persuasion by Jane Austen The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë Excellent Women by Barbara Pym Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Dazzling by Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee The Councillor (The Councillor, #1) by E.J. Beaton The Wood Wife by Terri Windling Shield Maiden by Sharon Emmerichs The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang The Just City (Thessaly, #1) by Jo Walton Dragon Rider (The Soulbound Saga #1) by Taran Matharu Hench (Hench, #1) by Natalie Zina Walschots The West Passage by Jared Pechaček Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang Driftwood by Marie Brennan The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings Master of Poisons by Andrea Hairston The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind (The Frost Files, #1) by Jackson Ford The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library, #1) by Genevieve Cogman Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones Cello's Gate (The Sky Pirates of Imperia, #1) by Maurice Africh Dreamer's Pool (Blackthorn & Grim, #1) by Juliet Marillier The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5) by T.H. White

The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1) by Maja Lunde The Moon and the Other by John Kessel The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros The Failures (The Wanderlands, #1) by Benjamin Liar The Humans by Matt Haig The Great When by Alan Moore Denial by Jon Raymond The Quantum Magician (The Quantum Evolution, #1) by Derek Künsken Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1) by C. Robert Cargill Bluebird by Ciel Pierlot Bridge by Lauren Beukes On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle Appleseed by Matt Bell Voyage (NASA Trilogy, #1) by Stephen Baxter The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa The Seep by Chana Porter One Second After (After, #1) by William R. Forstchen The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1) by Chris Hadfield Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1) by Dan Simmons The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart Severance by Ling Ma Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1) by Connie Willis Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1) by Hannu Rajaniemi The Moonday Letters by Emmi Itäranta

I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner Open Borders The Science and Ethics of Immigration by Bryan Caplan Finder Library Volume 1 by Carla Speed McNeil Daytripper by Fábio Moon The Trojan Women by Anne Carson Spinning by Tillie Walden No Rules Tonight A Graphic Novel by Kim Hyun Sook Embroideries (Pantheon Graphic Library) by Marjane Satrapi Bitter Root, Vol. 1 Family Business by David F. Walker Nubia Real One by L.L. McKinney

Partial series
The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1) by Hadeer Elsbai Little Thieves (Little Thieves, #1) by Margaret Owen The Judas Blossom (The Nightingale and the Falcon, #1) by Stephen Aryan The Library of the Dead (Edinburgh Nights, #1) by T.L. Huchu The Immortality Thief (The Kystrom Chronicles, #1) by Taran Hunt


message 5: by Pam (last edited Oct 06, 2025 10:42AM) (new)


message 6: by Pam (last edited Oct 01, 2025 11:47AM) (new)

Pam | 496 comments Classics

Fanny Herself
Address Unknown
Animal Farm
The Best of Everything
Crossriggs

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Irish

The Colony
The Last September
Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling
Better By Far
Hospital Station (1962)
The Cloud of Desolation (1982)
None of This Is Serious
The Fire Starters
The Tainted
The Dancers Dancing

Guard Your Heart
All Our Hidden Gifts
Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating
The Surface Breaks
Savage Her Reply
Perfectly Preventable Deaths
The Wren Hunt


message 8: by Pam (last edited Oct 08, 2025 11:05AM) (new)

Pam | 496 comments 12 sci-fi classics project

On my TBR:
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, 1909
The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham, 1953
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, 1955
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, 1967
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky, 1972
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold, 1973
The Postman by David Brin, 1985
Hyperion by Dan Simmons, 1989
Raising the Stones by Sheri S. Tepper, 1990
Mars by Ben Bova, 1992
Permutation City by Greg Egan, 1994


Farewell, Earth's Bliss by D.G. Compton, 1966
?The Furies by Keith Roberts, 1966 (would have to buy/ebook)
Past Master by R.A. Lafferty, 1968
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner, 1972
The Space Machine by Christopher Priest, 1976
Nor Crystal Tears by Alan Dean Foster, 1979
The Family Tree by Sheri S. Tepper, 1997


Tanith Lee -- Electric Forest / Night's Master
The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee, 1981

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, 1950

Lord Valentine's Castle (Lord Valentine, #1) by Robert Silverberg

Rogue Queen
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K. LeGuin

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message 9: by Pam (last edited Oct 08, 2025 11:04AM) (new)

Pam | 496 comments Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward, 1980
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer, 1983
Yukikaze 1984
Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1986
The City, Not Long After by Pat Murphy, 1989
Fools by Pat Cadigan, 1992
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, 1996
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes, 2010


?The Sea and Summer by George Turner, 1987
Diaspora by Greg Egan, 1997
The Martian Race by Gregory Benford, 1999
Ilium by Dan Simmons, 2003
Blindsight by Peter Watts, 2006
Clean by Alex Hughes, 2012
Our Blue Orange by A.R. Merrydew, 2015
Iron Truth by S.A. Tholin, 2018
The Rig by Roger Levy, 2018
Delta-v by Daniel Suarez, 2019
Out Among the Ice Beacons by Gareth Howells, 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
Moths by Jane Hennigan, 2023
The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz, 2023
The Surviving Sky by Kritika H. Rao
Sordidez by E.G. Conde

https://www.locusmag.com/1998/Books/8...
https://www.worldswithoutend.com/list...


Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz I Still Dream by James Smythe The Stars Undying (Empire Without End, #1) by Emery Robin Nebula Vibrations by Annie Carl Small Town Problems A Sci-Fi Novella by Chris Ritchey Triangulum by Masande Ntshanga The Heaviness of Knowing (Conscious Dreamer #1) by Sharolyn G. Brown Neom by Lavie Tidhar Gunmetal Gods (Gunmetal Gods, #1) by Zamil Akhtar The Myriad (Tour of the Merrimack, #1) by R.M. Meluch This Is The Way The World Ends by James K. Morrow

Wayward Galaxy (Wayward Galaxy, #1) by Jason Anspach Cry Pilot (Cry Pilot, #1) by Joel Dane Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force, #1) by Craig Alanson Daemon (Daemon, #1) by Daniel Suarez

Stringers by Chris Panatier Homeworld (The Illuminator Series Book 1) by Philip Ginn The Last Gifts of the Universe by Rory August Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1) by T.S. Beier Hunger Makes the Wolf (The Ghost Wolves, #1) by Alex Wells Children of the Black (Silver Sights Saga, #1) by W.J. Long III Bisection by Sheila Jenné

Meet Me in Another Life by Catriona Silvey In Universes by Emet North

Adrift on the Sea of Rains by Ian Sales The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1) by Hannu Rajaniemi Amatka by Karin Tidbeck The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy The Stone Wētā by Octavia Cade The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss

Divine Endurance (The Last Days of Ranaganar, #1) by Gwyneth Jones Steal Across the Sky by Nancy Kress Glimmering by Elizabeth Hand In War Times (Dance Family #1) by Kathleen Ann Goonan Light Music (Nanotech, #4) by Kathleen Ann Goonan The Secret City by Carol Emshwiller Natural History by Justina Robson Keeping It Real (Quantum Gravity #1) by Justina Robson A Door Into Ocean (Elysium Cycle, #1) by Joan Slonczewski Brain Plague (Elysium Cycle, #4) by Joan Slonczewski Synners by Pat Cadigan

The Infinite Battle by David Bischoff Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick Artifact Space (Arcana Imperii, #1) by Miles Cameron Uncanny Magazine Issue 32 January/February 2020 by Lynne M. Thomas Sign of the Labrys by Margaret St. Clair Toward Eternity by Anton Hur Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maud Woolf Ark (Forward Collection, #1) by Veronica Roth Passage at Arms (Starfishers, #4) by Glen Cook Shadowline (Starfishers, #1) by Glen Cook Sweet Silver Blues (Garrett P.I., #1) by Glen Cook The Fire in His Hands (Dread Empire, #4) by Glen Cook

Checked library
vN by Madeline Ashby
Unity by Elly Bangs
Dark Eden by Chris Beckett
First Light by Casey E. Berger
Valid: Dystopian Autofiction by Chris Bergeron
The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia
The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne
A Darkling Sea by James L. Cambias
A Calculated Life by Anne Charnock
First Flight by Chris Claremont
Dancer of the Sixth by Michelle Shirey Crean
Song of Scarabaeus by Sara Creasy
Redux: The Lost Patrol: A SciFi Time Travel Novel by Gregg Cunningham
Circular Motion by Alex Foster
Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler
Outpost by W. Michael Gear
Tentacle by Rita Indiana
Emergency Skin by NK Jemisin
Plutoshine by Lucy Kissick
Angel at Apogee by S.N. Lewitt
Alien Earth by Megan Lindholm
Up Against It by Laura J. Mixon
The Unseen World by Liz Moore
Spin State by Chris Moriarty
Vast by Linda Nagata
Limit of Vision by Linda Nagata
Doors of Sleep by Tim Pratt
Chimera by Mary Rosenblum
Those Left Behind by NC Scrimgeour
The Phoenix in Flight by Sherwood Smith
Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson
We Are All Ghosts in the Forest by Lorraine Wilson
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson

Authors
Chris Beckett
Murray Constantine
S.B. Divya
M. John Harrison
Ken MacLeod
Theodore Sturgeon

Translated

The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy by Stanisław Lem, 1971
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer, 1983
Ten Planets: Stories
War with the Newts by Karel Čapek The Next Continent by Issui Ogawa Usurper of the Sun by Housuke Nojiri Shadows of the Short Days (Hrimland Saga #1) by Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson A Winter's Promise (The Mirror Visitor, #1) by Christelle Dabos The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha Scattered All Over the Earth (Trilogy #1) by Yōko Tawada On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov The Wall by Marlen Haushofer They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears by Johannes Anyuru You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue Odin's Child (The Raven Rings, #1) by Siri Pettersen

The Slynx
Waste Tide


message 14: by Pam (last edited Sep 18, 2025 09:59AM) (new)

Pam | 496 comments Scifi Project
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message 15: by Pam (last edited May 10, 2025 05:50PM) (new)

Pam | 496 comments Would have to purchase:

The Outside (The Outside, #1) by Ada Hoffmann


Would have to purchase physical copy:

Albatross by Terry Fallis Harmony by Project Itoh We All Died at Breakaway Station by Richard C. Meredith


Available in Everand+ upgrade:
The Outside (also available ILL)


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