This is a list of books read for the Sword and Laser Book Club. Click on book title for more information about the book club's involvement with that book. This list is in reverse chronological order from most recently read book (at top) to the first book read (at bottom of list). This list is sortable by Title, Author, or Publisher. Refresh the page to return to reverse chronological order.
See also Books Almost Chosen
| Title | Author(s) | Publisher | Month Read | Seq |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akata Witch | Nnedi Okorafor | Viking/Penguin Books | Dec 2024 | 186 |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Penguin Random House | Nov 2024 | 185 |
| A Night in the Lonesome October | Roger Zelazny | Avon Books | Oct 2024 | 184 |
| Some Desperate Glory | Emily Tesh | Tordotcom | Sep 2024 | 183 |
| The Spear Cuts Through Water | Simon Jimenez | Del Rey | Aug 2024 | 182 |
| Cursed Bunny | Bora Chung | Honford Star | Jul 2024 | 181 |
| The Sword of Kaigen | M.L.Wang | Self Published | Jun 2024 | 180 |
| Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries | Heather Fawcett | Del Rey | May 2024 | 179 |
| Cordelia's Honour | Lois McMaster Bujold | Baen | Apr 2024 | 178 |
| Iron Widow | Xiran Jay Zhao | Penguin Teen | Mar 2024 | 177 |
| The Shadow of the Gods | John Gwynne | Orbit | Feb 2024 | 176 |
| The Shining Girls | Lauren Beukes | Mulholland Books | Jan 2024 | 175 |
| Kings of the Wyld | Nicholas Eames | Orbit | Dec 2023 | 174 |
| The Mimicking of Known Successes | Malka Ann Older | Tor Books | Nov 2023 | 173 |
| The Library at Mount Char | Scott Hawkins | Crown Books | Oct 2023 | 172 |
| China Mountain Zhang | Maureen F. McHugh | Orb Books | Sep 2023 | 171 |
| Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo | Flatiron Books | Aug 2023 | 170 |
| Planetfall | Emma Newman | Roc Books | Jul 2023 | 169 |
| Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros | Entangled Publishing | Jun 2023 | 168 |
| Children of Time | Adrian Tchaikovsky | PanMacmillan | May 2023 | 167 |
| Legends & Lattes | Travis Baldree | Tor Books | Apr 2023 | 166 |
| Under Fortunate Stars | Ren Hutchings | Solaris | Mar 2023 | 165 |
| Nettle & Bone | T. Kingfisher | Tor Books | Feb 2023 | 164 |
| Brightness Falls from the Air | James Tiptree Jr. | Orb Books | Jan 2023 | 163 |
| Elric of Melniboné | Michael Moorcock | Ace | Dec 2022 | 162 |
| Six Wakes | Mur Lafferty | Orbit | Nov 2022 | 161 |
| The Jasmine Throne | Tasha Suri | Orbit | Oct 2022 | 160 |
| How High We Go in the Dark | Sequoia Nagamatsu | William Morrow | Sep 2022 | 159 |
| Rivers of London | Ben Aaronovitch | Gollancz | Aug 2022 | 158 |
| Hunt the Stars | Jessie Mihalik | Harper Voyager | Jul 2022 | 157 |
| In Memory of Jenny Guy Colvin | Jun 2022 | 156m | ||
| Machinehood | S.B.Divya | Saga Press | May 2022 | 156 |
| A Master of Djinn | P. Djèlí Clark | Tor Books | Apr 2022 | 155 |
| Pandora's Star | Peter F. Hamilton | Del Rey | Mar 2022 | 154 |
| The Empress of Salt and Fortune | Nghi Vo | Tor Books | Feb 2022 | 153 |
| Light from Uncommon Stars | Ryka Aoki | Tor Books | Jan 2022 | 152 |
| The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina | Zoraida Córdova | Atria Books | Dec 2021 | 151 |
| Aurora Rising | Alastair Reynolds | Gollancz | Nov 2021 | 150 |
| NOS4A2 | Joe Hill | William Morrow | Oct 2021 | 149 |
| Terra Nullius | Claire G. Coleman | Hachette | Sep 2021 | 148 |
| The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry | C.M.Waggoner | Ace | Aug 2021 | 147 |
| Consider Phlebas | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | Jul 2021 | 146 |
| Piranesi | Susanna Clarke | Bloomsbury | Jun 2021 | 145 |
| Network Effect | Martha Wells | Tor Books | May 2021 | 144 |
| The House in the Cerulean Sea | T.J.Klune | Tor Books | Apr 2021 | 143 |
| Elatsoe | Darcie Little Badger | Levine Querido | Mar 2021 | 142 |
| The Fold | Peter Clines | Crown | Feb 2021 | 141 |
| The Marrow Thieves | Cherie Dimaline | Dancing Cat Books | Jan 2021 | 140 |
| Finding Baba Yaga (Alternate Pick) | Jane Yolen | Tor Books | Dec 2020 | 139a |
| Parable of the Sower | Octavia E. Butler | Grand Central Publishing | Dec 2020 | 139 |
| Howl's Moving Castle | Diana Wynne Jones | HarperCollins | Nov 2020 | 138 |
| Finder | Suzanne Palmer | Daw | Oct 2020 | 137 |
| The Ten Thousand Doors of January | Alix E. Harrow | Redhook | Sep 2020 | 136 |
| Elysium | Jennifer Marie Brissett | Aqueduct Press | Aug 2020 | 135 |
| Black Leopard, Red Wolf | Marlon James | Riverhead Books | Jul 2020 | 134 |
| A Memory Called Empire | Arkady Martine | Tor Books | Jun 2020 | 133 |
| Magician: Apprentice | Raymond E. Feist | Bantam | May 2020 | 132 |
| This is How You Lose the Time War | Amal El-Mohtar Max Gladstone | Saga Press | Apr 2020 | 131 |
| The Light Brigade | Kameron Hurley | Saga Press | Mar 2020 | 130 |
| Gideon the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir | Tor | Feb 2020 | 129 |
| In the Company of Others | Julie E. Czerneda | DAW | Jan 2020 | 128 |
| Hogfather | Terry Pratchett | Harper | Dec 2019 | 127 |
| The Snow Queen | Joan D. Vinge | Tor | Nov 2019 | 126 |
| Seven Blades in Black | Sam Sykes | Orbit | Oct 2019 | 125 |
| Trail of Lightning | Rebecca Roanhorse | Saga Press | Sep 2019 | 124 |
| The Poppy War | R.F.Kuang | Harper Voyager | Aug 2019 | 123 |
| Vessel | Lisa A. Nichols | Atria | Jul 2019 | 122 |
| The Last Unicorn | Peter S. Beagle | Penguin Roc | Jun 2019 | 121 |
| The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury | Doubleday | May 2019 | 120 |
| Theft of Swords | Michael J. Sullivan | Orbit | Apr 2019 | 119 |
| Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | J.K.Rowling | Scholastic | Mar 2019 | 118 |
| The Calculating Stars | Mary Robinette Kowal | Tor Books | Feb 2019 | 117 |
| Ninefox Gambit | Yoon Ha Lee | Solaris Books | Jan 2019 | 116 |
| Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr | John Crowley | Saga Press | Dec 2018 | 115 |
| Zeroes | Chuck Wendig | Harper Voyager | Nov 2018 | 114 |
| Lovecraft Country | Matt Ruff | Harper | Oct 2018 | 113 |
| Slan | A.E. van Vogt | Orb Books | Sep 2018 | 112 |
| Jade City | Fonda Lee | Orbit | Aug 2018 | 111 |
| Mortal Engines | Philip Reeve | Harper Collins | Jul 2018 | 110 |
| Circe | Madeline Miller | Lee Boudreaux Books | Jun 2018 | 109 |
| Night's Master | Tanith Lee | DAW Books | May 2018 | 108 |
| Soulless (Alternate Pick) | Gail Carriger | Orbit | Apr 2018 | 107a |
| We are Legion We are Bob | Dennis E. Taylor | Worldbuilders Press | Apr 2018 | 107 |
| An Unkindness of Ghosts | Rivers Solomon | Akashic Books | Mar 2018 | 106 |
| A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Feb 2018 | 105 |
| Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | Public Domain | Jan 2018 | 104 |
| California Bones | Greg van Eekhout | Tor Books | Dec 2017 | 103 |
| Doomsday Book | Connie Willis | Bantam Spectra | Nov 2017 | 102 |
| The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter | Theodora Goss | Saga Press | Oct 2017 | 101 |
| Helliconia Spring | Brian Aldiss | iBooks | Sep 2017 | 100 |
| The Gunslinger | Stephen King | Grant | Aug 2017 | 99 |
| The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | Ace Books | Jul 2017 | 98 |
| The Hum and the Shiver | Alex Bledsoe | Tor Books | Jun 2017 | 97 |
| The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet | Becky Chambers | Harper Voyager | May 2017 | 96 |
| The Invisible Library | Genevieve Cogman | Ace Books | Apr 2017 | 95 |
| Gateway | Frederik Pohl | St. Martin's Press | Mar 2017 | 94 |
| The Salt Roads | Nalo Hopkinson | Grand Central Publishing | Feb 2017 | 93 |
| The Three-Body Problem | Liu Cixin | Tor Books | Jan 2017 | 92 |
| The Rook | Daniel O'Malley | Little, Brown and Company | Dec 2016 | 91 |
| Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits | David Wong | Thomas Dunne Books | Nov 2016 | 90 |
| The Golem and the Jinni | Helene Wecker | Harper | Oct 2016 | 89 |
| A Fire Upon The Deep | Vernor Vinge | Tor Books | Sep 2016 | 88 |
| The Last Wish | Andrzej Sapkowski | Gollancz | Aug 2016 | 87 |
| The Time Traders | Andre Norton | World Publishing Co. | Jul 2016 | 86 |
| Updraft | Fran Wilde | Tor Books | Jun 2016 | 85 |
| Aurora | Kim Stanley Robinson | Orbit | May 2016 | 84 |
| A Darker Shade of Magic | V.E.Schwab | Tor Books | Apr 2016 | 83 |
| The Fifth Season (Alternate Pick) | N.K.Jemisin | Orbit | Apr 2016 | 83a |
| All the Birds in the Sky | Charlie Jane Anders | Tor Books | Mar 2016 | 82 |
| The Sword of Shannara | Terry Brooks | Del Rey | Feb 2016 | 81 |
| Radiance | Catherynne M.Valente | Tor Books | Jan 2016 | 80 |
| Arrows of the Queen | Mercedes Lackey | DAW Books | Dec 2015 | 79 |
| Time and Again | Jack Finney | Orion Publishing | Nov 2015 | 78 |
| The Traitor Baru Cormorant | Seth Dickinson | Tor | Oct 2015 | 77 |
| A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. Miller Jr | HarperCollins EOS | Sep 2015 | 76 |
| Uprooted | Naomi Novik | Del Rey | Aug 2015 | 75 |
| Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel | Knopf | Jul 2015 | 74 |
| City of Stairs | Robert Jackson Bennett | Broadway Books | Jun 2015 | 73 |
| The Sword of Rhiannon | Leigh Brackett | Ace Books | May 2015 | 72 |
| Wyrd Sisters | Terry Pratchett | Hartorch | Apr 2015 | 71 |
| The Goblin Emperor | Katherine Addison | Tor Books | Mar 2015 | 70 |
| Annihilation | Jeff VanderMeer | FSG Originals | Feb 2015 | 69 |
| The Sparrow | Mary Doria Russell | Ballantine Books | Jan 2015 | 68 |
| The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern | Doubleday | Dec 2014 | 67 |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep | Philip K. Dick | Del Rey | Nov 2014 | 66 |
| Alif the Unseen | G. Willow Wilson | Grove Press | Oct 2014 | 65 |
| Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang | Small Beer Press | Sep 2014 | 64 |
| The Name of the Wind | Patrick Rothfuss | DAW (Penguin Group) | Aug 2014 | 63 |
| Dawn | Octavia E. Butler | Warner Books | Jul 2014 | 62 |
| Promise of Blood | Brian McClellan | Orbit (Hachette) | Jun 2014 | 61 |
| The Martian | Andy Weir | Broadway Books (Random House) | May 2014 | 60 |
| A Dance of Cloaks | David Dalglish | Orbit (Hachette) | Apr 2014 | 59 |
| The Brand (Alternate Pick) | Bryan Alexander Benson | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | Apr 2014 | 59a |
| Altered Carbon | Richard K. Morgan | Del Rey (Random House) | Mar 2014 | 58 |
| A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin | Parnassus Press (Hachette) | Feb 2014 | 57 |
| The Einstein Intersection | Samuel R. Delaney | Ace Books (Penguin Random House) | Jan 2014 | 56 |
| His Majesty's Dragon (Alternate Pick) | Naomi Novik | Del Rey (Penguin Random House) | Dec 2013 | 55a |
| A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent | Marie Brennan | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Dec 2013 | 55 |
| Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie | Orbit (Hachette) | Nov 2013 | 54 |
| Boneshaker | Cherie Priest | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Oct 2013 | 53 |
| The Demolished Man | Alfred Bester | Shasta Publishers [1947-1957] | Sep 2013 | 52 |
| The Curse of Chalion | Lois McMaster Bujold | Eos (Harper Collins) | Aug 2013 | 51 |
| Ringworld | Larry Niven | Ballantine Books (Penguin Random House) | Jul 2013 | 50 |
| RedShirts (Alternate Pick) | John Scalzi | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Jul 2013 | 49a |
| Among Others | Jo Walton | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Jun 2013 | 49 |
| Wool | Hugh Howey | Kindle Direct Publishing | May 2013 | 48 |
| Dragonflight | Anne McCaffrey | Ballantine Books (Penguin Random House) | Apr 2013 | 47 |
| Downbelow Station | C.J. Cherryh | DAW Books (Penguin Random House) | Mar 2013 | 46 |
| Bridge of Birds | Barry Hughart | St. Martin's Press (Macmillan) | Feb 2013 | 45 |
| Old Man's War | John Scalzi | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Jan 2013 | 44 |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R.Tolkien | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Dec 2012 | 43 |
| The Dirty Streets of Heaven | Tad Williams | DAW Books (Penguin Random House) | Nov 2012 | 42 |
| Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | Penguin Random House | Oct 2012 | 41 |
| Foundation | Isaac Asimov | Spectra (Penguin Random House) | Sep 2012 | 40 |
| Assassin's Apprentice | Robin Hobb | Spectra (Penguin Random House) | Aug 2012 | 39 |
| Leviathan Wakes | James S.A. Corey | Orbit Books (Hachette) | Jul 2012 | 38 |
| Tigana | Guy Gavriel Kay | Penguin Random House | Jun 2012 | 37 |
| Hyperion | Dan Simmons | Doubleday (Penguin Random House) | May 2012 | 36 |
| The Magicians | Lev Grossman | Viking Press (Penguin Random House) | Apr 2012 | 35 |
| The Lies of Locke Lamora | Scott Lynch | Spectra (Penguin Random House) | Feb 2012 | 34 |
| Empire State (Alternate Pick) | Adam Christopher | Angry Robot (Harper Collins) | Jan 2012 | 33a |
| Rule 34 | Charles Stross | Ace (Penguin Random House) | Jan 2012 | 33 |
| 1Q84 (Alternate Pick) | Haruki Murakami | Knopf (Penguin Random House) | Nov 2011 | 32a |
| Elantris | Brandon Sanderson | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Nov 2011 | 32 |
| Reamde (Alternate Pick) | Neal Stephenson | William Morrow (Harper Collins) | Oct 2011 | 31a |
| Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | Penguin Random House | Oct 2011 | 31 |
| Flashforward | Robert J. Sawyer | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Aug 2011 | 30 |
| Fuzzy Nation (Alternate Pick) | John Scalzi | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Jul 2011 | 29a |
| A Dance With Dragons | George R. R. Martin | Spectra (Penguin Random House) | Jul 2011 | 29 |
| The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | Scholastic Press | Jun 2011 | 28 |
| The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms | N. K. Jemisin | Orbit Books (Hachette) | May 2011 | 27 |
| Blindsight | Peter Watts | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Apr 2011 | 26 |
| Shadow and Claw | Gene Wolfe | Orb Books (Macmillan) | Feb 2011 | 25 |
| Good Omens | Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett | Workman | Jan 2011 | 24 |
| How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe | Charles Yu | Pantheon (Penguin Random House) | Nov 2010 | 23 |
| The Princess Bride | William Goldman | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Sep 2010 | 22 |
| The Once and Future King | T. H. White | Ace (Penguin Random House) | Sep 2010 | 21 |
| The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | Robert A. Heinlein | Orb Books (Macmillan) | Jul 2010 | 20 |
| The Blade Itself (Alternate Pick) | Joe Abercrombie | St. Martin's Press (Macmillan) | Jun 2010 | 19a |
| World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War | Max Brooks | Crown (Penguin Random House) | Jun 2010 | 19 |
| Bitter Seeds | Ian Tregillis | Tor Books (Macmillan) | May 2010 | 18 |
| The Windup Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi | Night Shade Books (Perseus Books Group) | Mar 2010 | 17 |
| Down and out in the Magic Kingdom | Cory Doctorow | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Jan 2010 | 16 |
| Mists of Avalon | Marion Zimmer Bradley | Knopf (Penguin Random House) | Oct 2009 | 15 |
| The Forever War | Joe Haldeman | St. Martin's Press (Macmillan) | Aug 2009 | 14 |
| A Game of Thrones | George R. R. Martin | Spectra (Penguin Random House) | Jun 2009 | 13 |
| Daemon | Daniel Suarez | Signet (Penguin Random House) | Apr 2009 | 12 |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | Ace (Penguin Random House) | Mar 2009 | 11 |
| The Eye of the World | Robert Jordan | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Jan 2009 | 10 |
| Memoirs Found in a Bathtub | Stanislaw Lem | Mariner Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) | Nov 2008 | 09 |
| Anathem | Neal Stephenson | William Morrow (Harper Collins) | Sep 2008 | 08 |
| Watership Down | Richard Adams | Scribner (Simon and Schuster) | Jul 2008 | 07 |
| Unshapely Things | Mark Del Franco | Ace (Penguin Random House) | May 2008 | 06 |
| Childhood's End | Arthur C. Clarke | Ballantine Books (Penguin Random House) | Apr 2008 | 05 |
| Neuromancer | William Gibson | Ace (Penguin Random House) | Jan 2008 | 04 |
| American Gods | Neil Gaiman | William Morrow (Harper Collins) | Dec 2007 | 03 |
| Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Nov 2007 | 02 |
| The Golden Compass | Philip Pullman | Scholastic | Oct 2007 | 01 |