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Nominations Thread - Tildes Book Club
This is the third nominations thread for Tildes book club.
If you think you might be interested to read with us, please name between one and five books you find intriguing and think others might enjoy. We will later have a voting thread so that each nomination gets an equal shot to win votes with no early nomination advantage. After we finish discussing Kindred this month and the City We Became at the end of November, we will move on to read the new titles.
Please feel free to nominate both fiction and nonfiction and consider nominating a diverse selection of books and authors. Books should be 600 pages or shorter. The first books in series are fair game for nominations if they tell a complete story.
@boxerdogsdance, thanks for setting this up. I kept an eye on my page numbers this time :)
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson -- I haven't actually read it, but it looks good. I wanted to nominate The Years of Rice and Salt, but that one is over the page limit.
Carbide Tipped Pens - a hard SF anthology edited by Ben Bova and Eric Choi.
Witch King - Martha Wells - Locus best Fantasy, nominated for Hugo and Nebula. Fantasy world building that's different from the usual stock, and an enjoyable story.
The Pariah - Anthony Ryan - first of a series of three fantasy novels revolving around a character who reinvents himself through a series of life changing brushes with destiny. Note the paperback is 608 pages, but the hardback is 576, so I'm nominating the hardback :)
The Merciful Crow - Margaret Own - YA fantasy, innovative magical system, really interesting protagonist, enjoyable story. First of two, but stands alone as far as I can remember.
I'm pretty sure that the 600 page limit can be fuzzy/ approximate by mutual consent, but thanks for finding the numbers.
I am being a little cheeky about it. (Hopefully not too much so). I mainly tried not to blow the limit away with a thousand pager this time.
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I nominate Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon, (A personal favorite, science fiction featuring an older working class woman who gets fed up with her life. She makes changes and adventure finds her.)
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Backman, (An imaginative child and her socially rebellious grandmother interact with family, friends and natures in a fascinating beautiful story with a tinge of fantasy)
Lions of Al Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay, (Three main characters from different cultures interact in a fantasy inspired by Spain. A doctor and two warriors navigate politics and war in a beautiful novel.)
Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong, (A chinese man is exiled to Mongolia in this novel inspired by a true story. Low key adventure and ecological story)
The Thief by Megan Turner A dungeon crawling heist adventure.
I really enjoyed The Thief and sequels. They were pretty upbeat, which was what I needed at the time.
It seems I’m not good at reading books according to someone else’s schedule, so I’m not really book club material and haven’t been participating. But I will nominate Polostan by Neal Stephenson, because I just finished it and it’s pretty good.
The setting is 1930’s US and Soviet Union history. The main character is the daughter of Communist revolutionaries and has a rather unusual life story. As is often the case in Stephenson’s books, this is for plot reasons - certain skills are needed for the action. Chekhov’s gun definitely applies here, or in this case Chekhov’s machine gun.
Reasons against: it’s part 1 of a trilogy and the rest isn’t out yet. Content warning: murder, torture, crazy revolutionaries, Communist propaganda.