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I hoped to do better, but I might end up just shy of 11.

I read 18 of my goal of 17 for the year. I didn't plan it, but half were 2024 group selections and half were from previous years.

Quantum Magician
Brown Girl in the Ring
The Word for World is Forest
The Adventures of Amina al Sirafi
Way Station
Jinn-bot of Shantiport
Djinn City
Tusks of Extinction
The Fox Wife
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Mickey7
White Cat
Path of Thorns
I, Robot
Ninth Rain
The Spellshop
Lord of Light

great work!!

Meredith wrote: "I read 18 of my goal of 17 for the year. I didn't plan it, but half were 2024 group selections and half were from previous years.

Quantum Magician
Brown Girl in the Ring
The Word for World is Fo..."

Congratulations, Meredith!

I dunno when next year's list will be released, but I went through the existing list, and know I'll be reading these books (* means read):
1) we are legion - dennis taylor
2) collapsing empire - john scalzi
3) the stars my destination - Alfred Bester
4) a closed and common orbit - Becky Chambers *
5) hundred thousand kingdoms - NK Jemison *
6) mistborn - brandon sanderson
7) well of ascension - brandon sanderson
8) kindred - octavia butler
9) goblin emperor - katherine addison *
10) into the drowning deep - mira grant

Marc wrote: "the stars my destination - Alfred Bester."

The beginning of this book was fantastic. Something so horrifying about being shipwrecked out in space.

@ Marc,

There's not really a new 'list'. The list is all the books on our bookshelf. Next year's challenge is set up already though. You can check it out here: /topic/show/....

Marc wrote: "I dunno when next year's list will be released, but I went through the existing list, and know I'll be reading these books:
we are legion - dennis taylor
collapsing empire - john scalzi
the stars m..."

Some great reads ahead for you, Marc!

Marc, we don't post any lists here. You can access the bookshelf here:

/group/books...

or our Google Spreadsheet here:

/topic/show/...

And then you are free to pick as many as you'd like! The only caveat for the RATB series is that it be a book from the backlist or the current year's winners

We do pick re-reads together, the schedule for that is here:

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This is member-generated three months at a time, so please help us pick!

Try as I might, I was not able to end on a prime number, but I did exceed my goal of 17 books by quite a few - I ended up reading 30 in total! My favorites were (in no particular order):

A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K Le Guin
The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
Among Others by Jo Walton
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre
Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia McKillip
Dawn by Octavia Butler
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord

I’m calling it for the year. I achieved my low-bar goal of 11, quite by accident. I read only one of the books I had declared I would. Here’s the list of the ones I did read:


1. The Terraformers
2. My Real Children
3. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
4. Ship of Magic (reread)
5. Gideon the Ninth
6. The Path of Thorns
7. Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach
8. The Tusks of Extinction
9. Strange the Dreamer
10. Lonely Castle in the Mirror
11. Remarkably Bright Creatures

Allison wrote: "Marc, we don't post any lists here. You can access the bookshelf here:

/group/books...

or our Google Spreadsheet here:

..."
I periodically look at that list (not the spreadsheet, I should check that out!), mainly to see if I inadvertently read something mid-year that turned out to also be on the list. I must have seen the newly added books and didn't realize it!

I'll undoubtedly do that again, but I guess right now, it's those 10 books I listed earlier!

Oop, only read 5 out of 10 of the bookshelf books this year (and 16 out of 20 of the main challenge) - though have already put the others I've not read on the shelf I've earmarked for the 2025 challenge. Here's what I did read from the group bookshelf this year:

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (a re-read)
Nettle & Bone by T Kingfisher
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

Whether I manage to complete Ancillary Mercy before midnight (unlikely) or not, I'll finish the year with either 9 or 10 books from the group shelf. So the challenge is nearly but not quite complete.

I read 48 books out of my goal of 30 and I feel very proud of myself :)
Looking forward to the new 2025 with SFFBC Shelf!

Well I did not hit my 25, I am on the 20th right now, A Natural History of Dragons. But 20 is not a *tragedy.* :).
I will blame the shortfall on Nicholas Nickleby, which took up much more time than I expected, and also my IRL group changed from 1 to 2 books per month. So I ended up re-reading some titles so I would be able to discuss them with group. Not that I really mind re-reading Ursula K Le Guin or James Tiptree Jr.

I have several of the recent group picks ready to go.

I didn't think I had read that many books off of the shelf this year, but I hit 24 first-time reads and 4 rereads. I am also sad it's not a prime number, but it's unlikely I will finish another book before midnight.

My favorites from the shelf in 2024 in no particular order:
Semiosis
Piranesi
The Word for World Is Forest
Too Like the Lightning
Annihilation

If I counted Re-reads I would have hit 25, but

I don't (personally) for this challenge, because I am trying to Read All the Books!
It was interesting though to experience again

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Dune
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Martian Chronicles
An Unkindness of Ghosts
The Word for World Is Forest

Also, Thank You to Anna and other moderators who do extra work to run the Re-read program. Because that's how I managed
A Scanner Darkly
Infernal Devices
His Majesty's Dragon
A Natural History of Dragons

Starting my first book for 2025. Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison!

Marc wrote: "Starting my first book for 2025. Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison!"

there's a new challenge for 2025 here:

/topic/show/...

Last year, I managed to read all books, but it was a close call. I fell behind with the rereads, maybe I should do a challenge with them too. I also ended 2024 with a flu, so it was intense.

My favorites were Lonely Castle in the Mirror and and Shards of the Earth.

Full list:
Shards of Earth
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
The Fox Wife
Mickey 7
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
These Burning Stars
The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
The Bone Ships
The Wings Upon Her Back
The Tusks of Extinction
Strange the Dreamer
Thistlefoot
An Inheritance of Magic
How High We Go in the Dark
The Path of Thorns
Empire of Silence
I Who Have Never Known Men
This Is How You Lose the Time War
The Will of the Many
The Spellshop
The Ninth Rain
My Real Children
Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach
The Afterlife of Mal Caldera

book 1 off crossed off!
Just finished Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor!

now on to book 2
Becky Chambers' A Closed and Common Orbit.

I'll slow down after that, got other books not on this challenge to complete!

I did finish both Becky Chambers' A Closed and Common Orbit and NK Jemison's One hundred thousand kingdoms.

Finished Becky's entire series, and on book 3 of NK Jemison's inheritance trilogy.

Amazing Mihai!!

Mihai wrote: "Last year, I managed to read all books, but it was a close call. I fell behind with the rereads, maybe I should do a challenge with them too. I also ended 2024 with a flu, so it was intense.

My f..."

I didn't know about Shards of Earth but it's on my TBR now, thanks for recommending it!