Where We’ve been Before . . . more than 225 books read and counting
2025
25-1 Day Zero – C. Robert Cargill
25-2 The Summer Tree – Guy Gavriel Kay
25-3 Cold Water – Dave Hutchison
2024
24-11 The Black Company – Glen Cook
24-10 The Nameless Restaurant – Tao Wong
24-9 Annihilation – Jeff Vandermeer
24-8 Atlas Six – Olivie Blake
24-7 Jack of Kinrowan – Charles DeLint
24-6 Warbreaker – Brandon Sanderson
24-5 Foundryside – Robert Jackson Bennett
24-4 The Body Scout – Lincoln Michel
24-3 Lefthanded Booksellers of London – Garth Nix
24-2 The Wanderers – Chuck Wendig
24-1 The Boneshard Daughter – Andrea Stewart
2023
23.11 Roadside Picnic – Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
23.10 The Kajiu Preservation Society – John Scalzi
23.9 Victories Greater Than Death – Charlie Jane Anders
23.8 The Pardox Hotel- Rob Hart
23.7 Shadows of the Short Days – Alexander Dan Vilhjalmsson
23.6 Legends and Lattes – Travis Baldree
23.5 Bluebird – Cier Pierlot
23.4 Light from Uncommon Stars – Rya Aoki
23.3 The City We Became – N.K. Jemisin
23.2 The Love Hypothesis – Ali Hazelwood
23.1 Planetside – Michael Mammay
2022
22.11 Projct Hail Mary – Andy Weir
22.10 Mistborn : The Final Empire – Brandon Sanderson
22.9 Goddess of the North – Georgina Kamiska
22.8 The Goblin Emperor – Katherine Addison
22.7 Shadow and Bone – Leigh Bardugo
22.6 Three Body Problem – Cixin Liu
22.5 The Last Wish – Andrzej Sapkowski
22.4 The Haunting of Tram Car 015 – P. Djeli Clark
22.3 The House in the Cerulean Sea – T.J. Klune
22.2 Spinning Silver – Naomi Novik
22.1 Children of Blood and Bone -Tomi Adeyemi
2021
21.11 Gaslight and Grimm – ed. Danielle Ackley-McPhail & Diana Bastine
21.10 Kindred – Octavia Butler
21.9 Nine Princes of Amber – Roger Zelazny
21.8 The Secret Life of Addie Larue – V.E. Schwab
21.7 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs
21.6 Written in Red – Anne Bishop
21.5 The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
21.4 The Library at Mount Char – Scott Hawkins
21.3 Elantris – Brandon Sanderson
21.2 The Turn – Kim Harrison
21.1 Preternatural – Margaret Wander Bonnano
2020
20.11 Dread Nation – Justina Ireland
20.10 Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
20.9 Magic for Liars – Sarah Gailey
20.8 Time Tourist Outfitters, LTD – Christy Nicholas
20.7 The Power – Naomi Alderman
20.6 A Key, An Egg, An Unfortunate Remark – Harry Connolly
20.5 All the Birds in the Sky – Charlie Jane Anders
20.3 & 20.4 Semiosis – Susan Burke
20.2 The Silent Corner – Dean Koontz
20.1 The Fifth Season – N.K. Jemisin
2019
19.11 Kill the Farm Boy – Delilah Dawson and Kevin Hearne
19.10 The Poppy War – R. F. Kuang
19.9 Collapsing Empire – John Scalzi
19.8 Terminal Alliance – Jim C. Hines
19.7 Maria Snyder visit – Navigating the Stars
19.6 City of Brass – S.A. Chakraborty
19.5 Jade City – Fonda Lee
19.4 Gun with Occasional Music – Jonathan Lethem
19.3 Reincarnation Blues – Michael Poore
19.2 Deadly Curiosities – Gail Z. Martin
19.1 Blue Coyote – Christopher Moore
2018
18.11 Trail of Lightning – Rebecca Roan Horse
18.10 Armored Saint – Myke Cole
18.9 The Clockwork Witch – Michelle D. Sonnier
18.8 Magic and the Shinagami Detective – Honor Raconteur
18.7 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress – Robert Heinlein
18.6 Just One Damned Thing After Another – Jodi Taylor (#188)
18.4/5 A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
18.3 The Bear and the Nightingale – Katherine Arden
18.2 Illuminae – by Annie Kauffman and Jay Kristoff
18.1 Clade – Mark Budz
2017
17.11 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – Philip K. Dick
17.10 City of Stairs – Robert Jackson Bennett
17.8 & 17.9 Quite Contrary – Richard Roberts
17.7 Ancillary Justice – Anne Leckie
17.6 Space Tripping – Patrick Edwards
17.5 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
17.4 The Parable of the Sower – Octavia Butler
17.3 The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
17.2 The Bone Season – Samantha Shannon
17.1 Oddjobs – Heide Goody and Iain Grant
2016
16.11 Master Sergeant – Mel Odom (one more time)
16.10 -Andi O’Connor
16.9 Trampling in the Land of Woe – William Galaini
16.8 Master Sergeant – Mel Odom
16.7 The Chaplain’s War – Brad Torgersen
16.6 Wool – Hugh Howey
16.5 The Last Unicorn – Peter S. Beagle
16.4 The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
16.3 The Lies of Locke Lamora – Scott Lynch
16.2 Sandman Slim – Richard Kadrey
16.1 Night Watch – Sergei Lukyanenko
2015
15.1 Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
15.2 Spin State – Chris Moriarty
15.3 The Magicians – Lev Grossman
15.4 ReDeus – Aaron Rosenburg, et al
15.5 Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
15.6 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August – Claire North
15.7 Blood and Iron – Jon Sprunk
15.8 The Martian – Andy Weir
15.9 Red Rising – Pierce Brown
15.10 Nobody Get the Girl – James Maxey
15.11 Chasing the Moon – A. Lee Martinez
2014
14.1 Throne of the Crescent Moon – Saladin Ahmed
14.2 Midnight Riot – Ben Aaronovitch
14.3 Unseemly Things – Mark Del Franco
14.4 Visit with Jon Sprunk -author of Blood and Iron
14.5 World War Z – Max Brooks
14.6 Hounded – Kevin Hearne
14.7 Walter Hunt visit
14.8 Red Shirts – John Scalzi
14.9 TV GODS Signing – local authors, local artists – mayhem!
14.10 Discovery of Witches – Deborah Harkness
14.11 The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
2013
13.1 Nekropolis – Tim Waggoner
13.2 1632 – Eric Flint
13.3 The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
13.4 The Best Laid Plans – Launch Party
13.5 Bimbos of the Death Sun – Sharyn McCrumb
13.6 The Affinity Bridge – George Mann
13.7 The Stars My Destination – Alfred Bester
13.8 The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
13.9 Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
13.10 Hallowed Ground – Steven Savile & David Niall Wilson
13.11 Divergent – Veronica Roth
2012
12.1 Monster Hunter International – Larry Correia
12.2 Kings of Eternity – Eric Brown
12.3 The Warded Man – Peter V. Brett
12.4 Germline – T.C. McCarthy
12.5 Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter – Seth Grahame-Smith
12.6 Feed – Mira Grant
12.7 The Strange Case of Spring Heeled Jack – Mark Hodder
12.8 STEAMPUNK EXTRAVAGANZA EVENT!
12.9 The Lost Fleet : Dauntless – Jack Campbell
12.10 A Kiss Before the Apocalypse – Thomas Sniegoski
12.11 Up Against It – M.J. Locke
2011
11.1 The Atrocity Archive –Charles Stross
11.2 Necroscope – Brian Lumley
11.3 Mutineer – Kris Longknife #1 – Mike Shepherd
11.4 The Deed of Paksenarrion – by Elizabeth Moon
11.5 Leviathan – by Scott Westerfeld
11.6 On Stranger Tides – Tim Powers
11.7 The Song of Scarabaeus – Sara Creasy
11.8 Scar Night – Alan Campbell
11.9 Supernatural Noir – Ellen Datlow
11.10 The Stepsister Scheme – Jim C. Hines
11.11 Southern Gods – John Jacob Horner
2010
10.1 Taking the month off – we deserve a break!
10.2 The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
10.3 One Jump Ahead – Mark L. Van Name
10.4 Peacekeeper – Laura Reeve
10.5 InsideOUT – Maria V. Snyder
10.6 Soulless – Gail Carriger
10.7 Emissaries From the Dead – Adam-Troy Castro
10.8 Odd Thomas – Dean Koontz
10.9 The Windup Girl – Paolo Bacilagupi
10.10 The Unincorporated Man – Eytan Kollin & Dani Kollin
10.11 The Skinner – Neal Asher
2009
9.1 Infoquake – David Louis Edeleman
9.2 Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Leguin
9.3 Revelation Space – Alastair Reynolds
9.4 The Furies of Calderon – Jim Butcher
9.5 Sunshine – Robin McKinley
9.6 Bone Song – John Meaney
9.7 Mainspring – Jay Lake
9.8 The Speed of Dark – Elizabeth Moon
9.9 Titan – John Varley
9.10 Old Man’s War – John Scalzi
9.11 Wicked Game – Jeri Smith-Ready
2008
8.1 His Majesty’s Dragon – Naomi Novik
8.2 At The Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
8.3 Altered Carbon – Richard K. Morgan
8.4 The Way of the Wolf – E.E. Knight
8.5 Glass House – Charles Stross
8.6 Ill Wind – Rachel Caine
8.7 Declare – Tim Powers
8.8 Good Omens– Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
8.9 Hood – Stephen Lawhead
8.10 City of Pearl – Karen Traviss
8.11 Uplift War – David Brin
2007
7.1 Armor – John Steakley
7.2 Learning the World – Ken MacLeod
7.3 Eon – Greg Bear
7.4 Three Hands of Scorpio – Andre Norton
7.5 Phobos – Ty Drago
7.6 Hominids – Robert Sawyer
7.7 Dead Witch Walking – Kim Harrison
7.8 Farnham’s Freehold – Robert A. Heinlein
7.9 Polaris – Jack McDevitt
7.10 The Scar – China Mieville
7.11 The Necessary Beggar – Susan Palwick
2006
6.1 Gust Front–John Ringo
6.2 Otherland:The City of Golden Shadow–Tad Williams
6.3 Gridlinked – Neil Asher
6.4 Gray Matter – Gary Braver
6.5 Wizard Knight – Gene Wolfe
6.6 This Alien Shore – C.S. Friedman
6.7 The Dosadi Experiment – Frank Herbert
6.8 Heroes Die – Matthew Woodring Stover
6.9 The Stonehenge Gate – Jack Williamson
6.10 Idoru – William Gibson
6.11 Very Bad Deaths – Spider Robinson
2005
5.1 Perdido Street Station – China Mieville
5.2 Guns of the South – Harry Turtledove
5.3 Red Mars – Kim Stanley Robinson
5.4 Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris
5.5 Evolution – Stephen Baxter
5.6 Something Wicked This Way Comes–Ray Bradbury
5.7 Coyote – Allen Steele
5.8 The Mote in God’s Eye – Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
5.9 In the Company of Strangers – Julie Czerneda
5.10 Einstein’s Bridge–John Cramer
5.11 Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse–Robert Rankin
2004
4.1 Calculating God – Robert Sawyer
4.2 Kiln People – David Brin
4.3 Guilty Pleasures – Laurel K. Hamilton
4.4 Storm Front – Jim Butcher
4.5 The Dragon DelaSangre – Alan F. Troop
4.6 Bellwether – Connie Willis
4.7 The Eight – Catherine Neville
4.8 The Once and Future King – T.H.White
4.9 I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
4.10 Deathstalker– Simon R. Green
4.11 The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin
2003
3.1 The Depths of Time – Roger McBride Allen
3.2 St. Patrick’s Gargoyle – Katherine Kurtz
3.3 Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer
3.4 Warchild – Karin Lowachee
3.5 Darwin’s Radio – Greg Bear
3.6 Demontech : Onslaught – David Sherman
3.7 Island in the Sea of Time – S.M. Stirling
3.8 Childhood’s End – Arthur C. Clarke
3.9 Lord of Light – Roger Zelazny
3.10 Souls in the Great Machine – Sean McMullen
3.11 American Gods – Neil Gaiman
3.12 Return of the King field trip {be sure to have your permission slips in}
2002
2.1 Archangel Protocol–Lyda Morehouse
2.2 Elric of Melnibone–Michael Moorcock
2.3 Journey to the Center of the Earth–Jules Verne
2.4 The Wayfarer Redemption–Sara Douglass
2.5 Green Rider–Kristen Britain
2.6 Starfist–Dave Sherman & Dan Cragg
2.7 Software–Rudy Rucker
2.8 The Silk Code–Paul Levinson
2.9 The Garden of Iden–Kage Baker
2.10 The Thief of Time – Terry Pratchett
2.11 The Foundation – Isaac Asimov
2001
1.1 (we set the rules)
1.2 Black Sun Rising–C.S. Friedman
1.3 Her Majesty’s Wizard–Christopher Stasheff
1.4 general discussion about FTL travel
1.5 Red Moon–David S. Michaels
1.6 Reality Dysfunction–Peter F.Hamilton
1.7 Seventh Son–Orson Scott Card
1.8 Timeline–Michael Crichton
1.9 The Warrior’s Apprentice–Lois McMaster-Bujold
1.9 Faerie Tale–Raymond Feist
1.10 The Light of Other Days–Arthur C. Clarke &