Science Fiction Book Club – Pioneer Memorial Library

Science Fiction Book Club

Meets at 5 p.m. the 1st Sunday of every month
Main sitting area with tables in the Library
Both the East and South Entrances will be open
Reads 1 book per month
If you would like to join, all you have to do is show up or if you have any questions you can contact Katey Schmidt at sfbookclub@colbylibrary.com.

Previous Sci-Fi Book Club Reads

2024

January – Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
February – Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
March – Camp Zero by Michelle Min
April – The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
May – Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
June – Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

2023

January – The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
February – The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
March – Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
April – We are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker
May – Wuthering Heights (Gothic Horror) by Emily Brontë
June – Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
July – Observer by Robert Lanza
August – Lone Woman by Victor LaValle
September – Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
October – Leech by Hiron Ennes
November – Reader’s Choice
December – In the lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune

2022

January – A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
February – Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
March – The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
April – The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
May – Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi
June – Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
July – Reader’s Choice
August – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
September – Machinehood by S.B. Divya
October – To be taught, if fortunate by Becky Chambers
November – On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony
December – Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker by Gregory Maguire

2021

January – The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
February – Ready, Player One by Ernest Cline
March – Reader’s Choice
April – The Left Hand of Darkness by Usula K. Le Guin
May – Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
June The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
July – Exhalation by Ted Chiang
August – I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
September – Kiara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
October – The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
November – This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
December – Dracula by Bram Stoker

2020

January – Recursion by Black Crouch
February – The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
March through May – No meeting of the Book Club
June – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
July –
August – The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
September – The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
October – Goldilocks by Laura Lam
November – The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
December – Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

2019

January – Planetfall by Emma Newman
February – Reader’s Choice
March – 84K by Claire North
April – Before She Sleeps by Bina Shah
May – Reader’s Choice
June – Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
July – Famous Men Who Never Lived by K. Chess
August – None
September – None
October – The Shining by Stephen King
November – The Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
December – None

2018

January – War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
February – The Massacre of Mankind by Stephen Baxter
March – All Our Wrongs Today by Elan Mastai
April – Artemis by Andy Weir
May – None
June – Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
July – American War by Omar El Akkao
August – Children of Blood and Bones by Tomi Adeyemi
September – The Shape of Water by Guillermo Del Toro and Daniel Kraus
October – Carrie by Stephen King
November – Bone Music by Christopher Rice
December – A Wrinkle in Time (movie)

2017

January – Neverwhere by Niel Gaiman
February – When the Wind Blows by James Patterson
March – Dark Matter by Black Crouch
April – Nest by Terry Goodkind
May – Dr. Who: Day of the Doctor (British Sci-fi Television Show)
June – Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
July – Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty
August – The Gunslinger/The Drawing of Three by Stephen King
September – Reader’s Choice
October – New York 2410 by Kim Stanley Robinson
November – Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. Wilson
December – Ready, Player One by Ernest Cline