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List 3: 7/12
1. Read a book with a tag that starts with "social" (Sociology, society, social psychology, social sciences, social, social- justice, sociable, sociopath, social engineering, social commentary, etc.)
✅ 2. A book set in a cold climate
✅ 3. A book with a family tree
✅ 4. Read a book that is more than 100 years old.
5. Read a book set in a country with a coast on the Mediterranean Sea
✅ 6. Read a book related to espionage
✅ 7. A book that's won an award (of any kind)
✅ 8. A book with a title beginning with U
9. Read a book with a main character who works primarily outdoors
10. A book where the title references a nursery rhyme or fairy tale.
11. A book set in Asia
✅ 12. A book with a verb in the title
List 2: 12/12
✅ 1. Read a book by an author you've been meaning to try, but never have read before
✅ 2. Read a nonfiction book about food and or food culture
✅ 3. A book about a sport
✅ 4. A book with the word "book" in the title
✅ 5. A book published in the 1970s
✅ 6. Read a book with a title that contains all the letters of your first name
✅ 7. The author's first or last name starts with X, Y, or Z
✅ 8. A book set in a 'haunted' house - whether for real or rumored.
✅ 9. A family saga or family drama
✅ 10. A book featuring or featured in a podcast or blog.
✅ 11. A book fully or partially set in the Arctic or Antarctic
✅ 12. Read a book you’ve borrowed from your local library
List 1: 12/12
✅ 1. Read a book that's been included on a celebrity book list.
✅ 2. Read a book about outdoor survival
✅ 3. A book that is a travel essay or memoir
✅ 4. A book related to or featuring the game of baseball
✅ 5. An award winning book from 2024
✅ 6. A book with the word “history” in the title
✅ 7. Read a mystery set in a non-English speaking country
✅ 8. A biography or autobiography
✅ 9. Re-read a favorite book.
✅ 10. A book that is contemporary romance
✅ 11. Read a book written by an author that shares your initials.
✅ 12. Read one of your top ten shortest books on your tbr.

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✔️ 1. Provenance by Ann Leckie
2. Life Underwater by Matthew J. Metzger
3. Hester by Mrs. Oliphant
4. The Craft of Love by E.E. Ottoman
5. Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett
6. Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night by Katherine Fabian and Iona Datt Sharma
7. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
8. The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord
✔️ 9. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
✔️ 10. Petty Treasons by Victoria Goddard
11. Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling
✔️12. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
Also finished:
Kesrith by C.J. Cherryh
Going Long 2025
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✔️ The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons
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1. Write the two overdue ARC reviews
2. Clear off/commit to this pre-TBR TBR!!!!!!! (*Start with Black authors list)
3. Read things you think you'll love:
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Partial series






The Scarlet Pimpernel
Animal Farm
The Best of Everything
Classics
Lorna Doone
The Odd Women by George Gissing
Belinda
John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
East Lynne by Ellen Wood
Hester
Saturday's Child
Fanny Herself
Address Unknown
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Irish
The Colony
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Last September
Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling
Better By Far
Hospital Station (1962)
The Cloud of Desolation (1982)
None of This Is Serious
The Fire Starters
The Tainted
The Dancers Dancing
Guard Your Heart
All Our Hidden Gifts
Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating
The Surface Breaks
Savage Her Reply
Perfectly Preventable Deaths
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Black authors
Secrets and Truths
Bones to the Wind
A Ruin of Shadows
In the Shadow of the Fall
The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes
Suyi Davies Okungbowa
The Duchess's Bodyguard
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On my TBR:
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, 1909
Star Rangers by Andre Norton, 1953
The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham, 1953
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, 1955
Solaris by Stanisław Lem, 1961
Picnic on Paradise by Joanna Russ, 1968
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky, 1972
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke, 1973
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold, 1973
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge, 1992
Farewell, Earth's Bliss by D.G. Compton, 1966
?The Furies by Keith Roberts, 1966 (would have to buy/ebook)
Past Master by R.A. Lafferty, 1968
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner, 1972
The Space Machine by Christopher Priest, 1976
Nor Crystal Tears by Alan Dean Foster, 1979
?The Sea and Summer by George Turner, 1987

Sherri S. Tepper
Raising the Stones
The Family Tree
Tanith Lee -- Electric Forest / Night's Master
The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee, 1981
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, 1950
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, 1950
Roger Zelazny
This Immortal by Roger Zelazny, 1966
Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny, 1976
Lord of Light
The Dream Master
Isle of the Dead
Rogue Queen
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The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge, 1980
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer, 1983
Yukikaze 1984
The Postman by David Brin, 1985
Eon by Greg Bear, 1985
Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1986
The City, Not Long After by Pat Murphy, 1989
Hyperion by Dan Simmons, 1989
Fools by Pat Cadigan, 1992
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, 1996
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes, 2010
Permutation City by Greg Egan, 1994
Diaspora by Greg Egan, 1997
The Martian Race by Gregory Benford, 1999
Ilium by Dan Simmons, 2003
Blindsight by Peter Watts, 2006
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 Terraformers by Annalee Newitz, 2023
The Surviving Sky
Sordidez
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Authors




Murray Constantine
David Brin
Theodore Sturgeon

The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy by Stanisław Lem, 1971
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky, 1972
The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto, 2006
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer, 1983
Ten Planets: Stories
The Last Children of Tokyo













The Slynx
Waste Tide

The Lost Redeemer
A Vermilion Curse
Of Wind and Lightning
Soultaming the Serpent
Elemental
The Dryad's Crown
A Song for Octaven: A Queer Fantasy Romance
Oublié: A Timelessness Novel
Cthoma's Fated
Amiant Soul
The Kiss of the Sky
Fortitude's Prize
Chosen
Glory to the Waxing Sun
SPFBOX winner
By Blood, By Salt
SPFBO 9 finalists
Daughter of the Beast
Master of the Void
The Wickwire Watch
The Fall is All There Is
9 semifinalists
Credible Threats
Heliotrope
Necrotown
If Light Above
Bob the Wizard
The Bleeding Stone
The Dragon's Hide
A Gallery for the Barbarian
A Gamble of Gods
The First and Last Demon: A Sapphic Fantasy Romance
Twicetime
The Previous winners
Orconomics
Small Miracles
Previous finalists
Burn Red Skies
A Touch of Light
Other
Rise of Gods
Dragon Mage
The Dryad's Crown















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Tessa Gratton
Gillian Polack
Michael Moorcock








C.M. Lockhart
L.D. Lewis
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Nisha J. Tuli
K.E. Andrews
Suzy McKee Charnas

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Carol Berg

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Shane
Hondo
The Searchers
Butcher's Crossing
Pamela Ribon
Mimi Matthews
Felicia Grossman
Sapna Bhog
Christina Dudley
Sula Sullivan
R.R. Haywood
AG Riddle
Michael DeForge









































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Would have to purchase physical copy:



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