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Group Book Discussions 2008-2025

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2008


Slaughterhouse-Five >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
A Wizard of Earthsea >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Series
Snow Crash >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Childhood's End | Final thoughts (No first impressions thread)
Neverwhere >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Ender's Game >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
A Game of Thrones >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Series
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep >> First | Final & More
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom >> First | Final & More (First has some spoilers)
The Color of Magic >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Dune >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Series
Storm Front >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Stranger in a Strange Land >> First | Final & More (First has some spoilers)
A Night in the Lonesome October >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Anubis Gates >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Gunslinger >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Neuromancer >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
His Majesty's Dragon >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More

2009


A Fire Upon the Deep >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Wizard's First Rule >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Road >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Watchmen >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Suicide Collectors >> First | Final & More & Q&A
Alphabet of Thorn >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
I, Robot >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Crown Conspiracy >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Q&A
To Say Nothing of the Dog >> First | Final & More & Series
Tigana >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Accidental Time Machine >> First | Final & More
Dragonflight >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Left Hand of Darkness >> First | Final & More & Series
Good Omens >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Martian Chronicles >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Graveyard Book >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Zodiac >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Briar King >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The War of the Worlds >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Those Who Hunt the Night >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Handmaid's Tale >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Series
The Tombs of Atuan >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Series
The Algebraist >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Nine Princes in Amber >> First impressions | Final thoughts

2010


The Speed of Dark >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Fellowship of the Ring >> First | Final & More & Series
The Time Machine >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Perdido Street Station >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Windup Girl >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Assassin's Apprentice >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Series
A Canticle for Leibowitz >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Preludes & Nocturnes (Sandman Vol. 1) >> First | Final & More
The Man in the High Castle >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Kushiel's Dart >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Dispossessed >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Series
American Gods >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Series
Altered Carbon >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Furies of Calderon >> First | Final & More (First has some spoilers)
Fahrenheit 451 >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Final Empire (Mistborn #1) >> First | Final & More & Series
Boneshaker >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Q&A
Swords and Deviltry >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
War for the Oaks >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Haze >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Q&A
The Magic of Recluce >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Q&A
The Word for World is Forest >> First | Final & More & Series
Ship of Magic >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Series

2011


Doctor Who The Coming of the Terraphiles >> First | Final & More
Lions of Al-Rassan >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Hyperion >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Cold Magic >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Q&A
Doomsday Book >> First | Final & More & Series
Gardens of the Moon >> First | Final & More & Series
Foundation >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn >> First | Final & More
Opening Atlantis >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Blade Itself >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Series
Consider Phlebas >> First | Final & More & Series
The Summer Tree >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Snow Queen >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Charmed Life >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Homeland >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Red Mars >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Series
White Cat >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Leviathan Wakes >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
A Clash of Kings >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
Machine Man >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Player of Games >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
Shadow's Son >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Q&A
The City & the City >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Oryx and Crake >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Anansi Boys >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Ready Player One >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
World War Z >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Across the Nightingale Floor >> First | Final & More

2012


The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack >> First | Final & More
The Master and Margarita >> First | Final & More
Soulless >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Forever War >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
When Gravity Fails >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Terror >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency >> First | Final & More
John Dies at the End >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Watership Down >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Blackout >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Series
The Sword-Edged Blonde >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Wild Seed >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Yiddish Policeman's Union >> First | Final & More
The Native Star >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Weaveworld >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Regarding Ducks and Universes >> First | Final & More
A Scanner Darkly >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Deathless >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Island in the Sea of Time >> First | Final & More (First has some spoilers)
The Silent Tower >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Q&A
Under Heaven >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Against the Tide of Years >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Old Man's War >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Series
The Rook >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Frankenstein >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
On the Oceans of Eternity (No discussions)
Prince of Thorns >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Q&A
Pandora's Star >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Rivers of London (Midnight Riot) >> First | Final & More
1Q84 >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Lies of Locke Lamora >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Diamond Age >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Princess Bride >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More

2013


Wool >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Mort >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Warrior's Apprentice >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Black Prism >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Spin >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Warded Man >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Infernal Devices >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Shadow of the Torturer >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Cat's Cradle >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Magician (Riftwar Saga) >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Day of the Triffids >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Little, Big >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Caves of Steel >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Black Company >> First impressions | Final thoughts
I Am Legend >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales >> First | Final & More
Brave New World >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Night Watch >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Ubik >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Embassytown >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Rendezvous with Rama >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Zoo City >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Q&A
The Long Earth >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Warbreaker >> First impressions | Final thoughts

2014


Fuzzy Nation >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Ocean at the End of the Lane >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Pump Six and Other Stories >> First | Final & Q&A (Final in sets of 3)
The Last Unicorn >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Ancillary Justice >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Series
The Name of the Wind >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
The Island of Dr. Moreau >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Legend >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Mote in God's Eye >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Last Wish >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
Dawn >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Dragon's Path >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Lathe of Heaven >> First | Final & Series (First has some spoilers)
Red Country >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Gun, with Occasional Music >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Promise of Blood >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Q&A
The Martian >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Q&A
The Way of Shadows >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Q&A
The Sparrow >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Q&A
Alif the Unseen >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Annihilation >> First | Final & Q&A (First has mild spoilers)
Hounded >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy >> First | Final & More
The Killing Moon >> First impressions | Final thoughts

2015


The Carpet Makers >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Hobbit >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Sheep Look Up >> First impressions | Final thoughts
City of Stairs >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Station Eleven >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Q&A
The Golem and the Jinni >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Flowers for Algernon >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Blood Song >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Q&A
The Quantum Thief >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Eye of the World >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
Cloud Atlas >> First impressions | Final thoughts
In the Night Garden >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Three-Body Problem >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
The Wise Man's Fear >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
Ancillary Sword >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
Guards! Guards! >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Armada >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Neverending Story >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Girl with All the Gifts >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Stand >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Red Rising >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Elantris >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Redshirts >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Goblin Emperor >> First impressions | Final thoughts

2016


Seveneves >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Fifth Season >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
Leviathan >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Kindred >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Uprooted >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Three Parts Dead >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
Starship Troopers >> First impressions | Final thoughts
City of Bones >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Eyre Affair >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Library at Mount Char >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Q&A
Nexus >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
A Natural History of Dragons >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Passage >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Aeronaut's Windlass >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Sphere >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Well of Ascension >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet >> First | Final & Series
Broken Monsters >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Caliban's War >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
Pawn of Prophecy >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Children of Time >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
The Grace of Kings >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series

2017


Karen Memory >> First impressions | Final thoughts
A Darker Shade of Magic >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Lock In >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
Sabriel >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Memory of Water >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms >> First | Final
Foreigner >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Thousand Names >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Grass >> First impressions | Final thoughts
All the Birds in the Sky >> First impressions | Final thoughts
A Closed and Common Orbit >> First | Final & Series
The Book of Phoenix >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
Too Like the Lightning >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
The Obelisk Gate >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
The Stars My Destination >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Night Circus >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Pushing Ice >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Arcadia >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Last Policeman >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Bear and the Nightingale >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Six Wakes >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Six of Crows >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Stars Are Legion >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Red Sister >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Q&A

2018


Ninefox Gambit >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
Touch >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Artemis >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Winter Tide >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Power >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Invisible Library >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Lord of Light >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Among Others >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Underground Railroad >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Nimona >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Ancillary Mercy >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
Into the Drowning Deep >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Sea of Rust >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Farthest Shore >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
Parable of the Sower >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
The Changeling >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Calculating Stars >> First | Final & More & Q&A & Series
The Poppy War >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Babel-17 >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Traitor Baru Cormorant >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Rosewater >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
The Song of Achilles >> First impressions | Final thoughts
China Mountain Zhang >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Jade City >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series

2019


Catseye >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Gospel of Loki >> First impressions | Final thoughts
A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe >> First | Final
Brown Girl in the Ring >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Planetfall >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
Early Riser >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Here and Now and Then >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Bone Witch >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Semiosis >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Spinning Silver >> First impressions | Final thoughts
A Memory Called Empire >> First | Final & Series
Witchmark >> First impressions | Final thoughts
All You Need Is Kill >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Once and Future King >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Elysium >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Way of Kings >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
Warchild >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Wolf in the Whale >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Outside >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Mere Wife >> First impressions | Final thoughts
An Unkindness of Ghosts >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Gods of Jade and Shadow >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Remnant Population >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Raven and the Reindeer >> First | Final & More

2020


This Alien Shore >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
The House of the Spirits >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Collapsing Empire >> First | Final & Series
The Ten Thousand Doors of January >> First | Final
The Many-Colored Land >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Sword of Kaigen >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August >> First | Final
The Just City >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Catfishing on CatNet >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Hollow Kingdom >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Forty Thousand in Gehenna >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Ghost Bride >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Memory Police >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Servant of the Underworld >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Dreamsnake >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Shadowshaper >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Vanished Birds >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The City We Became >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Recursion >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Dawnhounds >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Moon of the Crusted Snow >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Bone Shard Daughter >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Humans >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Gideon the Ninth >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series

2021


The Best of All Possible Worlds >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Fate of the Fallen >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Book of Koli >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City >> First impressions | Final thoughts
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The House in the Cerulean Sea >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Everfair >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Deeplight >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Cage of Souls >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Hench >> First impressions | Final thoughts
More Than Human >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Dragonbone Chair >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Blindsight >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Library of the Unwritten >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Velocity Weapon >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
The City of Dreaming Books >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Quantum Magician >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
She Who Became the Sun >> First impressions | Final thoughts
We Are Satellites >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Q&A
Black Sun >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Steerswoman >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Q&A & Series
A Master of Djinn >> First impressions | Final thoughts
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Piranesi >> First impressions | Final thoughts

2022


Reap the Wild Wind >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Sunshine >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Echo Wife >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Ariadne >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Actual Star >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Daughter of the Forest >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Series
Sorrowland >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Blackfish City >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Klara and the Sun >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Raven Tower >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Songs of Distant Earth >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Compass Rose >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Solaris >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Howl's Moving Castle >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
The Gate to Women's Country >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Witch's Heart >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Winter's Orbit >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Nettle & Bone >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More & Q&A
Terra Nullius >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Book Eaters >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Persephone Station >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Daughter of the Moon Goddess >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Light From Uncommon Stars >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Vita Nostra >> First impressions | Final thoughts

2023


Amatka >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Legends & Lattes >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Stories of Your Life and Others >> Story by Story | Final thoughts
Spirits Abroad >> Story by Story | Final thoughts & Q&A
Contact >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Spear >> First impressions | Final thoughts
A Half-Built Garden >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Elatsoe >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Marrow Thieves >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Spear Cuts Through Water >> First impressions | Final thoughts & More
Neom >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Remarkably Bright Creatures >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Space Between Worlds >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Thief >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Prey of Gods >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Children of Gods and Fighting Men >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Immortality Thief >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Mexican Gothic >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Severance >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Magicians' Guild >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Terraformers >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Way Station >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Djinn City >> First impressions | Final thoughts

2024


My Real Children >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi >> First impressions | Final thoughts
These Burning Stars >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Thistlefoot >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Bone Ships >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Fox Wife >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Tusks of Extinction >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Strange the Dreamer >> First impressions | Final thoughts
This is How You Lose the Time War >> First impressions | Final thoughts
An Inheritance of Magic >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Wings Upon Her Back >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Lonely Castle in the Mirror >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Mickey7 >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Afterlife of Mal Caldera >> First impressions | Final thoughts
How High We Go in the Dark >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Path of Thorns >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Shards of Earth >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Ninth Rain >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Empire of Silence >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Will of the Many >> First impressions | Final thoughts
I Who Have Never Known Men >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Spellshop >> First impressions | Final thoughts

2025


Our Wives Under the Sea >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Our Share of Night >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Iron Widow >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Masquerade >> First impressions | Final thoughts
We Are All Ghosts in the Forest >> First impressions | Final thoughts & Q&A
The Utterly ... Fred, the Vampire Accountant >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Lost Ark Dreaming >> First impressions | Final thoughts
To Shape a Dragon's Breath >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Annie Bot >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Witch King >> First impressions | Final thoughts
You Sexy Thing >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Pomegranate Gate >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Dead Silence >> First impressions | Final thoughts
One Hundred Years of Solitude >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Venomous Lumpsucker >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Teller of Small Fortunes >> First impressions | Final thoughts