The Name of the Book discussion

Welcome to The Name of the Book (club)! We look forward to reading some (hopefully) epic fantasy & sci-fi novels and discussing them each month with you.

We would love to get to know you! Please comment introducing yourself, where we can find you on social media/on your blog, and what your favourite sci-fi/fantasy novels are!

Hello, I'm Catriona! You can find me practically everywhere on social media @littlebookowl. My fave fantasy & sci-fi novels/series include:
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
- Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

Hi, I'm Theresa from Hobart AU.
On social media teebranch93 (Instagram) and @angelmuse93 (twitter).

My favourite fantasy/scifi novels/series include
- The Shades of Magic series by V.E Schwab
- Kings of the Wyld series by Nicholas Eames
- Gentleman Bastard series by Scott Lynch
- Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey

Hi everyone! I'm Jasmine from Sydney AU.
I have social media however its boring and not worth anyone's time lol.
HOWEVER, I have started to use twitter more (@jasminesahade) if you would like to hear some random stuff there!

My favourite fantasy/science fiction books/novels would have to be:
- Gemina by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman
- The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainai
- The ACOTAR series by Sarah J Maas
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- Warcross by Marie Lu
- The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Hey everyone! My name is Nikita (even though it says Maria on good reads)! I am freya_artz on instagram but it is an art page that I have to redo badly. However in the future I do want to create a bookstagram.

My favourite fantasy/sci-fi/books in general include:
-The Monsters Verity duology by V.E Schwab
-The Bone Season series by Samantha Shannon
-The Diabolic by S.J Kincaid
-Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
-The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

Hi everyone! My name is Katie and I run a bookstagram and blog called Melting Pages! You can find me on instagram @melting_pages, twitter is @meltingpages, and my blog is meltingpages.wordpress.com.

Some of my favorite books are:
-Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
-The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
-Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas
-The Last Namsara by Kristin Ciccarelli
And pretty much anything by Brandon Sanderson!

Hiya everyone!
My name is Yasmin and I love books, mostly literary fiction but recently fantasy!

I have a blog: halfbookprince.wordpress.com where I’ll be updating about this book club, the book selections are already slaying!

My 5 favourite fantasy books are:
- The entire Mistborn trilogy
- ASOIAF series (ACOK being my fav)
- Harry Potter (HBP being my fav)
- Six of Crows
- The Tearling Trilogy (even tho I haven’t finished the series :/ )

Hi ! My name es Yaredi. I’m from México. My Fave fantasy & csi-fi novels/ series incluye:
- The name of the wind
- mistborn
- the series of Darkfever
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Hello Everyone!

My name is Katherine and I'm currently living in Sydney Australia, although I've lived in most corners of Australia at some point or another :)

Some of my favourite books (jeeze guys, no pressure!):
Sabriel/Lirael/Abhorsen by Garth Nix
ACOMAF by Sarah J Maas
The Trickster Duology by Tamora Pierce
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

I'm excited to meet some new people who will understand when I start pointing and squealing at a new release!

My name is Yaredi, I’m from México, My fave fantasy, scic-fi novels/ series
- The name of the wind.
- Mistborn
- The series of Darkfever
-Penryn & the End of Days (angelfall series)
- Game of thrones.

My IG and Twitter @yaredimpp
🤗

Hi everyone!

My name is Becky and I’m from Leeds, UK. I mainly use GR for all my book related updates.
I recently only got back into reading after a few years of just not having the time to sink into a good book due to other commitments! I’m happy to be able to now though and look forward to sharing this reading experience with you all 😁

Some of my favourite fantasy series are:
- The Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson
- The World of Linaria series by L.L. McNeil (even though there’s only one book out so far!)
- The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
- The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis

Hi guys :) My name is Juliette and I'm from France.

My favourites include :

- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (not nearly enough people know it. I highly recommend it!)
- Harry Potter
- The name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- The Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson
- The Chronciles of Amber by Zelazny
- Most Terry Pratchett books
- The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams

and probably many more that I'm forgetting. I'm currently reading and really enjoying the Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater.

Hi everyone! I am Petra from Hungary! You can find me on Instagram at @blackand.grey
I am not so into fantasy and sci-fi, but that is why I joined, as I would like to get to know more books and people! So I hope I will find some awesome books to read! :)

Hi! I'm Marianna and I'm from Italy.
I have instagram and twitter, but I don't post much bookish stuff on there.

Some of my favourite books are :

- the shadowhunters chronicles
- the red winter trilogy
- the camp half-blood chronicles
- the falling kingdom series
- the captive prince trilogy

Hey everyone! I'm Sabrina and I'm from Uruguay. You can find me on my booktube channel, which is basically the only social media I'm on haha
My favourite fantasy/scifi books include:
♥practically anything by neil gaiman
♥kings of the wyld by nicholas eames
♥temeraire series by naomi novik
♥the broken earth trilogy by n.k. jemisin
♥six of crows by leigh bardugo
♥illuminae files by amy kaufman and jay kristoff

Hi, I’m Mary. I’m @boydgirl0 on Twitter, though I use it for mainly following read-a-thons & retweeting cute animal posts.

My favorite Fantasy/SciFi books:
-Harry Potter
-Percy Jackson
-Artemis Fowl
-This Savage Song
-Illuminae
-The Diviners

Hi. I am Himanshu from India. my twitter is @himanshusaliya. I have currently started to read .

currently fav novel are
1) The perks of being a wallflower
2) Looking for Alaska

Hi everyone! My name is Merin. I'm from India. You can find me on my blog or on twitter (@laughandbemeri).

My favourite sci-fi/fantasy books include (in no order):
1. Ruby Red Series by Kerstin Gier
2. The Dark Days Club Alison Goodman
3. Akarnae by Lynette Noni
4. Harry Potter by J K Rowling

Hello Everyone! I am Aislin from Canada. Nice to meet you all. I can be found mostly here on Goodreads and occasionally on twitter at @AislinRose1

Currently my favorite sci-fi/fantasy novels are:
-Just about everything written by RA Salvatore and Brent Weeks
- The Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne
-Harry Potter
- Throne of Glass series
- Shades of Magic series

Currently planning to pick up Name of the Wind as it looked amazing so I went out and got it.

Hi!
I'm Karolina and I'm from Poland.
You can find me on instagram @hidankeke (I try to make it a cool bookstagram account, key word here being "try") and on twitter @TheChaoticNeu.

My fave books include:
- The Shadow of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Harry Potter 🐍💚
- The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
- Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

I'm excited about this book club and I hope that all the books we read will be great :3

Hello everyone! I'm Lynette and I'm from the United States. My Twitter handle is: @thecharminglib!

Currently my favorite sci-fi/fantasy novels are:
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- Grace of Kings by Ken Lu
- Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
-The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman

Many....many more but getting too lazy to name them all.

Hey everyone! I'm Marina and I'm from Bulgaria, but I live in Berlin, Germany. I have an instagram (@marinachom) and I only joined Twitter, so I'll be able to vote for the April book pick.. so no very activ social media person..
My favourites are:
The RED RISING Saga
The Broken Empire Trilogy
Themis Files
Game of Thrones
The graveyard book
Mistborn
...and so much more
P.S.: I'm so excited about this book club :):):)

Hi! I'm Kirin.
I have an instagram @meanderthestacks
(Though, I don't post to often as of yet...)

Some of my favourite sci-fi/fantasy are:
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Stranger the Dreamer by Liani Taylor
Basically everything by VE Schwab
The Illuminae Files by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

I'm looking forward to discovering more! :)

Hello, I'm Frankie and I'm from the US. I don't have social media half because my phone is dumb and half because I don't care enough.

Fantasy/Sci-Fi Favorites:
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Hi, I'm Emma. I'm from the US. I'm @emmareadsthings on instagram and twitter.

Some of my favorite Sci-fi and fantasy are:

The Starbound Trilogy by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst
Harry Potter
The Books of Bayern series by Shannon Hale
Crimson Bound by Rosamund Hodge
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Hi everyone I’m Erica and you can find me at @obsessive.reading on Instagram. My favorite fantasy/sci-fy are
-The Sword Of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
-Red Rising by Pierce Brown
-The Nevernight Chronicles by Jay Kristoff
-The Young Elites Trilogy by Marie-Lu
- Anything set in the Grishaverse by Leigh Bardugo.

Hi! My name is Desi and I'm from the US. I have all the social media accounts but rarely post anything (i mostly re-post/retweet what i think is funny or interesting :D ) I really needed a place where I could talk about books because EVERYONE I know hates reading, no matter how hard I try to get them to read!! :(

Some of my fave fantasy/sci-fy series are:
Percy Jackson
anything by Sarah J. Mass
Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
anything by Cassandra Clare
the Grishaverse books by Leigh Bardugo
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
Maximum Ride (childhood fave) by James Patterson
Vampire Academy (middle-grade fave) by Richelle Mead
The Lorien Legacies by Pittacus Lore

I am currently making my way through the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown. (this is your fault Piera.... but its ok)

Hi. My name is Dana and I am from Brisbane, Australia. Goodreads is the place to find me for all book related things.

My favourite fantasy/sci-fi series are:
The Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks
The Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray
The Lorien Legacies by Pittacus Lore
The Assassin's Curse Duology by Cassandra Rose Clarke
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
Obviously Harry Potter

Heloooo! My name is Daniela and I'm from Portugal. My twitter is @Danniellass.

My favorite fantasy/sci-fi series are:
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (absolute favorite)
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling (2nd absolute favorite)
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R R Martin
Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Throne of Glass and A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Mass

Hi! My name is Kelsey (or Kels) and I am from Canada (specifically, I currently live in Prince Edward Island which is a point of bookish pride for me). You can find me on twitter/instagram/tumblr as islanderscaper.

I read a lot of different genres of books, but some of my favourite fantasy novels and series include:

The Princess Bride by William Goldman (my favourite book of all time, honestly)
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
War of the Worlds by HG Wells
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Most Star Wars books
and a lot of science fiction short stories, honestly.

Hi friends! My name is Maria and I am from Niagara Falls, NY, USA. My twitter/instagram for my book blog is @booksteaandcats. In the past, I'm not always good about keeping up with book clubs, but they definitely get new books on my radar that I would not have otherwise known about.

Some of my favorite fantasy/sci-fi books/series include:

-The Lunar Chronicles
-Six of Crows
-The Hobbit
-The Winner's Trilogy
-The Mistborn series (I only like the first three)
-Harry Potter (of course!)

Hello, my name is Lesya and I'm from all over but currently living in Moldova.
My Instagram/twitter is @lesyablackbird and often full of fan art for the books I read.

Some of my faves are:
-The Discworld by Terry Pratchett
-Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
-Red Rising trilogy by Pierce Brown
-The Lumatere Chronicles by Melina Marchetta
-The Deepgate Codex by Alan Campbell
-The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater
- Abarat by Clive Barker

Hey, my name is Hannah. I’m from Ireland and am @luminous_monkey on Twitter, not that I use it much.

My favourite fantasy books are:
-Harry Potter
-The Name of the Wind
-The Lightbringer Series
-and anything by Brandon Sanderson.

Hey fam! ♥️

I’m Chloe (19), from Sydney

I’ll pretty much read anything from any genre if the mood strikes, but I’d say fantasy is my favourite. I’m a bit of a sporadic reader and will have about 10 books going at the same time, mostly from the library (student life), so I’m always lowkey bitter about return deadlines 😂. ANYWAYS, you all look like a lovely bunch of reading buddies and I’m excited to get bookish with everyone 🧐. Thanks to the girls who organised this (and please choose AA ppl hahahaha).

Hi all! I’m Lauren. I live in Georgia, USA. I’m @_l4rn_ on Instagram and Twitter (nothing too interesting there though). I adore Catriona! 😍

I haven’t read much fantasy/sci-fi but that’s why I’m here!

My small list of favorites:
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Martian by Andy Weir

I’m so excited to read more with you all!

Hey Guys!
My name's Maddi and I'm from Sydney.
I love Ya/Adult Fantasy and Sci Fi.
Some of my favourites are
Nevernight - Jay Kristoff
Red Rising Saga - Pierce Brown
Diviners - Libba Bray
Sleeping Giants - Sylvain Nuevel
ACOMAF Series - Sarah J Maas
I can't wait to read some great books and make some new bookish friends!

WHAT IS Up YOU GUYS, yes, tis i, izzy rizzo, but most people just call me rizinator ( by most people i mean myself )
IM from SYD aUSTRALIA, and ed sheeran is my lifeblood.

I love books of all kinds, my top 5 being
ACOMAF by the one, the only, SJmaas
the entire illuminae series by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff ( yes, this counts as one )
PETER PAN BY JM BARRIE ( dont @ me , its a classic ;) )
Crooked Kingdom by leigh
AND
girl online by zoe sugg
HAHAHAHAHHA SIKE , never i got you all so hard, i would nEvER
Okay
The hate you give angie thomas .
xoxoxoxoxoxooxxoxo love you all happy reading

Hey! I'm Hayley and I live in Brisbane. My insta is @haylarious

I love fantasy and am slowly getting into sci-fi too! I enjoy both adult and YA.

Some of my favourite books are:
- The Name of the Wind (how fitting :D)
- Leviathan Wakes
- The Mistborn Trilogy
- Half a King
and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Super keen for this bookclub! :D Especially the Brisbane events

Hey I’m joanne! My instagram is @infuckingvalid and fantasy and sci-fi are by far my favourite genres. My favourite fantasy includes:

- The Study Series / Chronicles Of Ixia by Maria V Snyder
- Deltora Quest series by Emily Rodda
- Eragon by Christopher Paolini
- Shades of Magic Series by V E Schwab
- Nevernight Series by Jay Kristoff
- The Throne of Glass series, and A Court of Thorns and Roses Series by Sarah J Maas
- Way of Kings Series by Brandon Sanderson

And my favourite sci-fi:

- The Martian and Artemis by Andy Weir
- The Host by Stephanie Meyer
- The Illuminate files by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Watchmen (the graphic novel)

Hi! I'm Aprille and I'm from the Philippines! :) My instagram is @kathaprille and twitter is @kathleenaprille. This is my first time joining a book club and I'm really excited for this.

Fantasy is definitely my go-to for books. I was also into sci-fi when I was younger and am currently trying to get back on reading sci-fi novels.

Some of my favorite books are:
- Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling (of course)
- Throne of Glass Series by Sarah J. Maas
- A Court of Thorns and Roses Series by Sarah J. Maas
- Shades of Magic Series by V.E. Schwab
- Six of Crows Duology by Leigh Bardugo

Hiya, My name is Tania and live in Ireland. I’m 41 and haven’t read many fantasy and sci-fi books. So I’m quite new to this. My favourite fantasy books that I’ve read are

The Mayfair witches series by Anne rice
Caraval by Stephanie Garner

I never know which sci fi books to read so I’m so excited to join this and get some ideas.

Hey everyone! I’m Michael(24) and I’m from Kentucky, USA. I have to say I’m SUPER excited for this book club! Fantasy and Sci-Fi have always been my favorite genres. I have an Instagram but I’m really only active on Facebook.

Some of my favorite series are:

Name of the Wind series by Patrick Rothfuss
The Way of Kings series by Brandon Sanderson
Game of Thrones series by George R R Martin
Harry Potter series by J K Rowling
Daughter of Smoke and Bones series by Laini Taylor
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (I wasn’t a huge fan of Gemina)
Ender’s Game series by Orson Scott Card
Scythe series by Neal Shusterman

Also I know they’re not Fantasy or Sci-Fi, but I also really enjoy
The Naturals series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Sherlock Holmes series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Hi everybody :) I am lil, short for lil heartling

It is a nickname that I created. My twitter is lilheart12 and lilbookgramer (for mostly books)

I love Alice in Wonderland, also anything with tome travwling, Harry Potter Series, etc.

Hi everyone my name is Scott & i live in Scotland (yes honestly i do) you can follow me on social media (twitter & instagram) @scottw1985 for both.

My favourite Sci Fi/Fantasy Novels are;

The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
Nevernight Chronicle - Jay Christoff
His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman
Nevermoor - Jennifer Townsend
The Ocean at the end of the Lane - Neil Gaiman.

I also love anything by Robin Hobb, the whole Harry Potter series by JK Rowling & most of Brandon Sanderson’s novels, particularly the Mistborn series.

Hi! I'm Stefanie from Sweden. Got back to Reading this summer with the Discovery of Booktube. Am way behind when it gets to fantasy and want to branch out to sci-fi. You can find me on Twitter, @AbsintheReader

Favorite books:
All systems red by Martha Wells
All Harry Potter books (duh)
Everything by David Eddings

Hi everyone! I'm Hannah and I'm from Hobart AU :) I primarily read fantasy but I want to branch out into more scifi (I mean aside from The Illuminae Files of course). My instagram is Hannahjanestack I post about books, writing, and Bujo stuff.

Favourite books:
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (anything by him really).
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
Howl's Moving Castle trilogy by Diana Wynne Jones.
Shades of Magic by V.E. Schwab (anything by her really).

Hi, I'm Erin and I'm from Brisbane, AU. I read a pretty wide variety of things, including but definitely not limited to spec fic. I'm on twitter as @kotabuck and I have an instagram under that name as well but the only one that matters is my dog's insta: @shibaonfleek.

My favourite spec fic books are:
Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Grave Mercy and the rest of the His Fair Assassin series by Robin LaFevers
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee
and probably others I'm failing to think of.

My name's Mel. I'm from Wales in the UK. Big Marissa Meyer and Maggie Stiefvater fan.

Hey! I'm Mikayla and I'm from Vancouver island in Canada. Some of my favorite sci-fi and fantasy include The Bone season, the Rook, and Nevernight!

Hi my name is Maddyson and I am from Brisbane. I am so excited to have a book club kinda near me that I can join in with as I know most of my friends dont read.
I currently work with books at big w and enjoy it so much. my Instagram is @maddhatterbooks

Some of my favourite books are:
- Poison Study Series
- Illuminae Series
- Vampire Academy Series
- ACOTAR Series