Books that have been #SFFBookClub reads
SFFBookClub Picks Public
Created and curated by Tak!
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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
4 stars
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to …
Tak! says: February 2024
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Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
4 stars
From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes this reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel, a story …
Tak! says: May 2023
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The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo, Nghi Vo (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
4 stars
With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo's The Empress …
Tak! says: November 2022
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Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)
4 stars
"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would …
Tak! says: June 2023
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #1)
4 stars
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en …
Tak! says: April 2023
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Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
4 stars
"The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more …
Tak! says: August 2022
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A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
4 stars
On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. …
Tak! says: September 2023
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The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
4 stars
A bandit walks into a coffeehouse, and it all goes downhill from there. Guet Imm, a young votary of the …
Tak! says: March 2023
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She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
4 stars
To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything
Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in …
Tak! says: September 2022
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What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
4 stars
From T. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling …
Tak! says: January 2023
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Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts
4 stars
It's been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens …
Tak! says: October 2021
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City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty
4 stars
"Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty--an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the …
Tak! says: June 2022
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4 stars
When a massive object crashes into the ocean off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous and legendary city, three …
Tak! says: March 2022
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The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo
3 stars
Set in an alternative historical present, in a "eusistocracy"--An extreme welfare state -- that holds public health and social stability …
Tak! says: July 2022
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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
4 stars
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
Tak! says: October 2022
