My book club needs a book! We are 3 dudes in our early 40s who go on a boat smoke a joint and talk about a book every month. It’s, honestly, the shit. It’s the best. We have very loose rules for books and we rotate every month
So far We’ve read :
– the blade itself – meh
– the white road – meh
– last murder at the end of the universe – pretty good
– house of bone and rain – liked it!
– between two fires – incredible all parties enthused greatly
– the postmortal – lots of fun
-project hail mary- big fan
– the body scout – fun but limited noir
– black tongue thief & daughters war as a set- we are officially buelheads now
Honestly we usually lean towards shorter books that have something fun to talk about. Would appreciate any recommendations. Thanks all!
Our last rule is 2 out of 3 of us can’t have read it before so they has ruled out some bigger ones.
by derrymertin
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Riddlemaster series by Patricia McKillip
The Employees by Olga Ravn—I can’t recommend this enough. Very different than what you guys normally read but it’s very short. It’s written in epistolary format. Takes place on a spaceship far from Earth. The ship is near an Earth-like planet and its recovered artifacts from this planet and put them on display in a gallery on the ship. Each interview in the book is from management interviewing various AI robots and humans alike to capture how these objects make them feel. It’s tremendous and very human imo. As the book carries on it becomes harder to discern which interviewees are human and which are AI.
The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
Ubik by PKD
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
After World by Urbanski
A Canticle for Leibowitz
The Left Hand of Darkness by Le Guin
Also look into Octavia Butler
To Be Taught if Fortunate by Becky Chambers
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
Moonbound by Robin Sloan
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare
Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
The Sword of Kaigen by ML Wang
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
The Obsidian Tower by Melissa Caruso
Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal el-Mohtar
Leviathan Wakes by James SA Corey
Babel by RF Kuang
Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton
Interstellar Megachef by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winters
Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
The Water Outlaws by SF Huang
Cat’s Cradle by Vonnegut
Legend by Gemmell
Kings of the Wyld by Eames
On Stranger Tides by Powers
Glory Road by Heinlein
The Plague Dogs by Adams