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message 1: by Pam (last edited Aug 13, 2026 11:53AM) (new)
Dec 15, 2025 10:25AM

Pam | 573 comments 2025 thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Dark Horse (Dark Horse, #1) by Kate Sherwood Where Death Meets the Devil (Death and the Devil, #1) by L.J. Hayward Small Joys by Elvin James Mensah Ice Ice Babygirl by Ashlyn Kane Carry On (Simon Snow, #1) by Rainbow Rowell Resenting the Hero (Hero, #1) by Moira J. Moore Fatal Shadows (The Adrien English Mysteries, #1) by Josh Lanyon A Dangerous Thing (The Adrien English Mysteries, #2) by Josh Lanyon The Hell You Say (The Adrien English Mysteries, #3) by Josh Lanyon Death of a Pirate King (The Adrien English Mysteries, #4) by Josh Lanyon Dreamer's Pool (Blackthorn & Grim, #1) by Juliet Marillier Galatea by Madeline Miller Beach Read by Emily Henry Exiles by Mason Coile Rogue & Gambit Ring of Fire by Kelly Thompson How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates by Shailee Thompson The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham Mexikid A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín Tournament of Losers (Legacy of Charlet, #1) by Megan Derr The Last Kiss by Sally Malcolm Death in the Spires by K.J. Charles The Paris Match by Kate Clayborn

January: History
You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian

February: Love
Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck Looking for Group by Alexis Hall An Academic Affair (Love Notes, #1) by Jodi McAlister Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

March: Diversity
Audrey Lane Stirs the Pot (Winner Bakes All, #3) by Alexis Hall Trouble by Lex Croucher The Talk by Darrin Bell

April: Nature

May: Sports

June: Secrets


message 2: by Pam (last edited Sep 02, 2026 09:06AM) (new)
Dec 15, 2025 10:26AM

Pam | 573 comments My GrabTag tracker: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Link to Google doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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message 3: by Pam (last edited Sep 24, 2026 03:17PM) (new)
Dec 15, 2025 10:27AM

Pam | 573 comments 2026 new releases

J/F/M/A: The Younger Gods by Katie Shepard Love Is an Algorithm by Laura Brooke Robson The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances by Glenn Dixon What We Are Seeking by Cameron Reed Your Behavior Will Be Monitored by Justin Feinstein The Art of Loving You (The Forever Falling, #2) by Natasha Bishop


M: Absence by Andrew Dana Hudson Radiant Star by Ann Leckie Ignore All Previous Instructions by Ada Hoffmann Queer and How We Got Here A (Personal) History by Hazel Newlevant Soon by You by Dahlia Adler The Redemption Center is Closed on Sundays by Andrea Hairston Wonders Never Cease by Lexy Hudson And Side by Side They Wander by Molly Tanzer Multitude by Marie Vibbert
J: Valet by J.P. Lacrampe The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden Off the Record by Sara Goodman Confino The Reimagining of Thornwood House (The Magic of Iskendra, #1) by Jaleigh Johnson Field Guide for the Formerly Villainous (Everyday Magic, #1) by Autumn K. England Voyagers by Meg Charlton If Books Could Kill by Kate Eberle The Tinder Box The enchanting tale of spellcraft and devilry, witchcraft and trickery by M.R. Carey
J: Misery's Wife by Joan Tierney The Dragon Has Some Complaints by John Wiswell Not with a Bang by Temi Oh A Snake Among Swans (The Wing and the Ways #1) by Hannah Kaner Fishbone Cinderella by Elizabeth Lim
A: Heir of Prophecy by Analeigh Sbrana The Infinite State (The Decurion Saga, #1) by Richard Swan Time to Burn by Ellery Lloyd Appetite by P. Paramita
S: Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel Mestra A Short Story by Madeline Miller Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison Scion by James Islington A Study in Sparkling (Love Notes, #2) by Jodi McAlister Strange Is the Light by Sarah Maria Griffin Ply by Hernan Diaz The Only Way Out Is Up (The Sigilist, #1) by Django Wexler Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske The Rouse by China Miéville The Court of Venus by Bel Banta Massif by Garth Nix Eden at Dawn by Karim Kattan
O: Bad Words by Rioghnach Robinson As You Wake, Break the Shell by Becky Chambers A Wall Is Also a Road by Annalee Newitz Call Me Traitor by Everina Maxwell Code and Codex by Yoon Ha Lee As We Fall Through Time The extraordinary tale of time travel, betrayal and a love that can't be erased by Claire North Chateau Reverie by Natasha Siegel To Dream in Darkness by Ann Liang Hollywood, Ending by John Green Horde of the Counterwind An Epic Voyage to the Upper Reaches by Alain Damasio The Killing of a Chestnut Tree (Havelock Harper Mysteries #1) by Oliver K. Langmead The Fist of Memory by Wole Talabi
N: The Trial of Magdalena Overmorrow by Caitríona Moran
D: My Unfamiliar by Mara Rutherford Til Quest Do Us Part by Ivelisse Housman A Magical Girl Rehired by Park Seolyeon God of Thieves by Katie Shepard

2026 GR choice eligible + on GR lists

The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances by Glenn Dixon The Art of Loving You (The Forever Falling, #2) by Natasha Bishop Ignore All Previous Instructions by Ada Hoffmann Radiant Star by Ann Leckie The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden What We Are Seeking by Cameron Reed Your Behavior Will Be Monitored by Justin Feinstein Field Guide for the Formerly Villainous (Everyday Magic, #1) by Autumn K. England The Reimagining of Thornwood House (The Magic of Iskendra, #1) by Jaleigh Johnson Soon by You by Dahlia Adler

The Younger Gods by Katie Shepard An Arcane Inheritance by Kamilah Cole Absence by Andrew Dana Hudson If Books Could Kill by Kate Eberle The Infinite State (The Decurion Saga, #1) by Richard Swan Not with a Bang by Temi Oh Voyagers by Meg Charlton Heir of Prophecy by Analeigh Sbrana Scion by James Islington Multitude by Marie Vibbert Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske As You Wake, Break the Shell by Becky Chambers Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel The Court of Venus by Bel Banta Doomsdate by Laura Piper Lee Call Me Traitor by Everina Maxwell Massif by Garth Nix Bad Words by Rioghnach Robinson Hollywood, Ending by John Green Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison Fishbone Cinderella by Elizabeth Lim A Wall Is Also a Road by Annalee Newitz As We Fall Through Time by Claire North Ply by Hernan Diaz To Dream in Darkness by Ann Liang The Trial of Magdalena Overmorrow by Caitríona Moran The Rouse by China Miéville The Only Way Out Is Up (The Sigilist, #1) by Django Wexler The Fist of Memory by Wole Talabi Code and Codex by Yoon Ha Lee Misery's Wife by Joan Tierney A Magical Girl Rehired by Park Seolyeon Between Meals An Appetite for Paris by A.J. Liebling


2027
Brick Wall by Katie Cotugno
Eternity in Three Acts
Trust Issues by Kasie West
Worship: A Novel by Alice Winn
Eclipse & the Wolf by Akwaeke Emezi
Elodie and The Dark Lord by Ashley Poston

All on GR's halfway list
The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan Weavingshaw (Weavingshaw, #1) by Heba Al-Wasity The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances by Glenn Dixon


message 4: by Pam (last edited Sep 02, 2026 09:07AM) (new)
Dec 15, 2025 10:28AM

Pam | 573 comments Trim

✅ 1. The Kraken Wakes or The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

✅ 14. Documenting Light by E.E. Ottoman

✅ 2. Sheepfarmer's Daughter by Elizabeth Moon

✅ 13. Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling

3. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

8. Raising the Stones by Sheri S. Tepper

18. A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon

19. The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi

20. At the End of the Matinee by Keiichirō Hirano / Twinkle Twinkle by Kaori Ekuni

21. Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell

22. Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett

23. Belinda by Maria Edgeworth

16. Leonard and Hungry Paul

5. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

7. The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord

4. If I Don't Have You by Sareeta Domingo

24. ?

6. Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night by Katherine Fabian and Iona Datt Sharma
9. Outdrawn by Deanna Grey / The Duchess's Bodyguard by Drea C
10. Brothers Across Time by Brad Boney
12. Lord of the Last Heartbeat by May Peterson
17. The History of Bees
11. A Surplus of Light by Chase Connor / HappyHead by Josh Silver
15. Life Underwater by Matthew J. Metzger




The Employees by Olga Ravn
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold


The Hidden Moon by Jeannie Lin
3. Hester by Mrs. Oliphant


Planetfall by Emma Newman
A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy




The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera
Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman


message 5: by Pam (last edited Sep 02, 2026 09:11AM) (new)
Dec 15, 2025 10:31AM

Pam | 573 comments Potential skips: 13/22
james-patterson
nora-roberts
reverse-harem
mafia
billionaire
mc
doctor-who
star-wars
dc
agatha-christie -- The Secret Adversary
finance
design
photography


manga-manhwa -- On or Off 01 / Our Sunny Days Vol. 1

Moon of the Turning Leaves
The Cartoon Introduction to Economics, Volume II: Macroeconomics
John Proctor is the Villain


message 6: by Pam (last edited Aug 27, 2026 06:44AM) (new)
Dec 15, 2025 10:37AM

Pam | 573 comments Scifi Project
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2016
The Last One by Alexandra Oliva Fluency (Confluence, #1) by Jennifer Foehner Wells


message 7: by Pam (new)
Dec 15, 2025 10:37AM

Pam | 573 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)


message 8: by Pam (last edited Sep 02, 2026 09:13AM) (new)
Dec 15, 2025 10:39AM

Pam | 573 comments Next round of PBT Top 100 Fiction TBR

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) by Patrick Rothfuss The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1–5) by T.H. White The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1) by Mary Doria Russell


Indigenous authors

Red Spider White Web by Misha Nogha The Way of Thorn and Thunder The Kynship Chronicles by Daniel Heath Justice The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson Cold by Drew Hayden Taylor

Grea Alexander
Christina Berry

Classics

Fanny Herself
Address Unknown
The Best of Everything
Crossriggs

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12 sci-fi classics project

On my TBR:
Star Man's Son, 2250 A.D by Andre Norton, 1952
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
Electric Forest by Tanith Lee, 1979
The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, 1988
Raising the Stones by Sheri S. Tepper, 1990
Permutation City by Greg Egan, 1994
The Color of Distance by Amy Thomson, 1995
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, 1996
Fool's War by Sarah Zettel. 1997

Made it to Will Look Into list:
Farewell, Earth's Bliss by D.G. Compton, 1966
The Inverted World by Christopher Priest, 1974
Nor Crystal Tears by Alan Dean Foster, 1979
Catspaw by Joan D. Vinge, 1988


The Family Tree by Sheri S. Tepper, 1997
The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee, 1981

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message 11: by Pam (last edited Sep 14, 2026 10:51AM) (new)
Dec 31, 2025 09:54AM

Pam | 573 comments Yukikaze 1984
Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1986
The City, Not Long After by Pat Murphy, 1989
Deathstalker by Simon R. Green
The Ragged World by Judith Moffett

?The Sea and Summer by George Turner, 1987
Diaspora by Greg Egan, 1997
The Martian Race by Gregory Benford, 1999
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 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 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 Leinad Zeraus

Stringers by Chris Panatier Homeworld (The Illuminator Series Book 1) by Philip Ginn The Last Gifts of the Universe by Riley 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

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

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
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
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

Translated

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 The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha Scattered All Over the Earth (Scattered All Over the Earth #1) by Yōko Tawada On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears by Johannes Anyuru You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue

The Slynx
Waste Tide


message 13: by Pam (last edited Sep 21, 2026 06:44PM) (new)
Dec 31, 2025 09:58AM

Pam | 573 comments Murder on the Iditarod Trail (Alex Jensen / Jessie Arnold, #1) by Sue Henry The Master of Go (Vintage International) by Yasunari Kawabata Native Tongue (Native Tongue, #1) by Suzette Haden Elgin The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1) by Agatha Christie Ayala's Angel by Anthony Trollope Miss Mackenzie by Anthony Trollope Daniel Deronda by George Eliot The Rebecca Rioter (Honno's Welsh Women's Classics) by Amy Dillwyn The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte Mary Yonge The Three Brides by Charlotte Mary Yonge Love and Life by Charlotte Mary Yonge The Young Step-Mother by Charlotte Mary Yonge The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge Dynevor Terrace Volume I by Charlotte Mary Yonge Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope Warehouse Dreams by Theresa Halvorsen Where Shadows Lie (The Last Gift, #1) by Allegra Pescatore The Long Way Home (Sequoyah, #1) by Sabrina Chase The Price of the Stars (Mageworlds, #1) by Debra Doyle

The Killer Thing by Kate Wilhelm Star Surgeon by Alan E. Nourse R.U.R. by Karel Čapek Flatland A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott LoveStar by Andri Snær Magnason Counterweight by Djuna Central Station by Lavie Tidhar Red Dust by Yoss Tomorrow's Kin (Yesterday's Kin Trilogy, #1) by Nancy Kress Suldrun's Garden (Lyonesse, #1) by Jack Vance Embers of War (Embers of War, #1) by Gareth L. Powell Lake of Souls The Collected Short Fiction by Ann Leckie The Light Years by R.W.W. Greene Will Save the Galaxy for Food (Jacques McKeown, #1) by Yahtzee Croshaw Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton Phoresis by Greg Egan

Hobberdy Dick by Katharine M. Briggs Sword-Dancer (Tiger and Del, #1) by Jennifer Roberson Lord of Snow and Shadows (Tears of Artamon, #1) by Sarah Ash Under the Earth, Over the Sky by Emily McCosh The Dance of Shadows The Aldiss Award-winning epic fantasy inspired by West African myth and magic (Song of Godhunters) by Rogba Payne City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1) by Tad Williams The Crimes of Rooker Flynn (Locke Institute Trilogy #1) by A.R. Witham Dreamships by Melissa Scott The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1) by Peter S. Beagle Survival Quest (The Way of the Shaman, #1) by Vasily Mahanenko The Burning Land (The Talmont Trilogy #1) by David Hair Freedom's Gate (The Dead Rivers Trilogy, #1) by Naomi Kritzer Sordaneon (The Triempery Revelations, #1) by L.L. Stephens

Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel Three Eight One by Aliya Whiteley The Naming Song by Jedediah Berry The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis M.A.Y.A by Nina Saxena Junkyard Cats (Junkyard Cats, #1) by Faith Hunter The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements Rules of Redemption (The Firebird Chronicles, #1) by T.A. White The Salt Road by Jane Johnson Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Hearing Red by Nicole Maser

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My Boyfriend Is a Bear by Pamela Ribon SLAM! Vol. 1 by Pamela Ribon The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman


2025 new releases

Oh hold (or available) in FL OR on Everand:
Where You're Planted by Melanie Sweeney The Cosmic Color by T.T. Madden If the Ring Fits (Funny Feelings, #2) by Camilla Isley Cover Story by Mhairi McFarlane The Ordeals (Killmarth Trials, #1) by Rachel Greenlaw The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson A Philosophy of Thieves (The Canarvier Files, #1) by Fran Wilde Simultaneous by Eric Heisserer Welcome to the Deep Estate by Kevin Kane The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri Tongues, Vol. 1 by Anders Nilsen Black Salt Queen (Letters from Maynara, #1) by Samantha Bansil Who Knows You by Heart by C.J. Farley The Door on the Sea (The Raven and Eagle, #1) by Caskey Russell The King Must Die by Kemi Ashing-Giwa


Song of Spores by Bogi Takács The Outcast Mage (The Shattered Lands, #1) by Annabel Campbell


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