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) | US Publisher | Month Read | Seq |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | J.K.Rowling | Scholastic | Mar 19 | 118 |
| The Calculating Stars | Mary Robinette Kowal | Tor Books | Feb 19 | 117 |
| Ninefox Gambit | Yoon Ha Lee | Solaris Books | Jan 19 | 116 |
| Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr | John Crowley | Saga Press | Dec 18 | 115 |
| Zeroes | Chuck Wendig | Harper Voyager | Nov 18 | 114 |
| Lovecraft Country | Matt Ruff | Harper | Oct 18 | 113 |
| Slan | A.E. van Vogt | Orb Books | Sep 18 | 112 |
| Jade City | Fonda Lee | Orbit | Aug 18 | 111 |
| Mortal Engines | Philip Reeve | Harper Collins | Jul 18 | 110 |
| Circe | Madeline Miller | Lee Boudreaux Books | Jun 18 | 109 |
| Night's Master | Tanith Lee | DAW Books | May 18 | 108 |
| Soulless (Alternate Pick) | Gail Carriger | Orbit | Apr 18 | 107a |
| We are Legion We are Bob | Dennis E. Taylor | Worldbuilders Press | Apr 18 | 107 |
| An Unkindness of Ghosts | Rivers Solomon | Akashic Books | Mar 18 | 106 |
| A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Feb 18 | 105 |
| Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | Public Domain | Jan 18 | 104 |
| California Bones | Greg van Eekhout | Tor Books | Dec 17 | 103 |
| Doomsday Book | Connie Willis | Bantam Spectra | Nov 17 | 102 |
| The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter | Theodora Goss | Saga Press | Oct 17 | 101 |
| Helliconia Spring | Brian Aldiss | iBooks | Sep 17 | 100 |
| The Gunslinger | Stephen King | Grant | Aug 17 | 99 |
| The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | Ace Books | Jul 17 | 98 |
| The Hum and the Shiver | Alex Bledsoe | Tor Books | Jun 17 | 97 |
| The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet | Becky Chambers | Harper Voyager | May 17 | 96 |
| The Invisible Library | Genevieve Cogman | Ace Books | Apr '17 | 95 |
| Gateway | Frederik Pohl | St. Martin's Press | Mar '17 | 94 |
| The Salt Roads | Nalo Hopkinson | Grand Central Publishing | Feb '17 | 93 |
| The Three-Body Problem | Liu Cixin | Tor Books | Jan '17 | 92 |
| The Rook | Daniel O'Malley | Little, Brown and Company | Dec '16 | 91 |
| Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits | David Wong | Thomas Dunne Books | Nov '16 | 90 |
| The Golem and the Jinni | Helene Wecker | Harper | Oct '16 | 89 |
| A Fire Upon The Deep | Vernor Vinge | Tor Books | Sep '16 | 88 |
| The Last Wish | Andrzej Sapkowski | Gollancz | Aug '16 | 87 |
| The Time Traders | Andre Norton | World Publishing Co. | Jul '16 | 86 |
| Updraft | Fran Wilde | Tor Books | Jun '16 | 85 |
| Aurora | Kim Stanley Robinson | Orbit | May '16 | 84 |
| A Darker Shade of Magic | V.E.Schwab | Tor Books | Apr '16 | 83 |
| The Fifth Season (Alternate Pick) | N.K.Jemisin | Orbit | Apr '16 | 83a |
| All the Birds in the Sky | Charlie Jane Anders | Tor Books | Mar '16 | 82 |
| The Sword of Shannara | Terry Brooks | Del Rey | Feb '16 | 81 |
| Radiance | Catherynne M.Valente | Tor Books | Jan '16 | 80 |
| Arrows of the Queen | Mercedes Lackey | DAW Books | Dec '15 | 79 |
| Time and Again | Jack Finney | Orion Publishing | Nov '15 | 78 |
| The Traitor Baru Cormorant | Seth Dickinson | Tor | Oct '15 | 77 |
| A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. Miller Jr | HarperCollins EOS | Sep '15 | 76 |
| Uprooted | Naomi Novik | Del Rey | Aug '15 | 75 |
| Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel | Knopf | Jul '15 | 74 |
| City of Stairs | Robert Jackson Bennett | Broadway Books | Jun '15 | 73 |
| The Sword of Rhiannon | Leigh Brackett | Ace Books | May '15 | 72 |
| Wyrd Sisters | Terry Pratchett | Hartorch | Apr '15 | 71 |
| The Goblin Emperor | Katherine Addison | Tor Books | Mar '15 | 70 |
| Annihilation | Jeff VanderMeer | FSG Originals | Feb '15 | 69 |
| The Sparrow | Mary Doria Russell | Ballantine Books | Jan '15 | 68 |
| The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern | Doubleday | Dec '14 | 67 |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep | Philip K. Dick | Del Rey | Nov '14 | 66 |
| Alif the Unseen | G. Willow Wilson | Grove Press | Oct '14 | 65 |
| Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang | Small Beer Press | Sep '14 | 64 |
| The Name of the Wind | Patrick Rothfuss | DAW (Penguin Group) | Aug '14 | 63 |
| Dawn | Octavia E. Butler | Warner Books | Jul '14 | 62 |
| Promise of Blood | Brian McClellan | Orbit (Hachette) | Jun '14 | 61 |
| The Martian | Andy Weir | Broadway Books (Random House) | May '14 | 60 |
| A Dance of Cloaks | David Dalglish | Orbit (Hachette) | Apr '14 | 59 |
| The Brand (Alternate Pick) | Bryan Alexander Benson | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | Apr '14 | 59a |
| Altered Carbon | Richard K. Morgan | Del Rey (Random House) | Mar '14 | 58 |
| A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin | Parnassus Press (Hachette) | Feb '14 | 57 |
| The Einstein Intersection | Samuel R. Delaney | Ace Books (Penguin Random House) | Jan '14 | 56 |
| His Majesty's Dragon (Alternate Pick) | Naomi Novik | Del Rey (Penguin Random House) | Dec '13 | 55a |
| A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent | Marie Brennan | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Dec '13 | 55 |
| Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie | Orbit (Hachette) | Nov '13 | 54 |
| Boneshaker | Cherie Priest | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Oct '13 | 53 |
| The Demolished Man | Alfred Bester | Shasta Publishers [1947-1957] | Sep '13 | 52 |
| The Curse of Chalion | Lois McMaster Bujold | Eos (Harper Collins) | Aug '13 | 51 |
| Ringworld | Larry Niven | Ballantine Books (Penguin Random House) | Jul '13 | 50 |
| RedShirts (Alternate Pick) | John Scalzi | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Jul '13 | 49a |
| Among Others | Jo Walton | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Jun '13 | 49 |
| Wool | Hugh Howey | Kindle Direct Publishing | May '13 | 48 |
| Dragonflight | Anne McCaffrey | Ballantine Books (Penguin Random House) | Apr '13 | 47 |
| Downbelow Station | C.J. Cherryh | DAW Books (Penguin Random House) | Mar '13 | 46 |
| Bridge of Birds | Barry Hughart | St. Martin's Press (Macmillan) | Feb '13 | 45 |
| Old Man's War | John Scalzi | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Jan '13 | 44 |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R.Tolkien | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Dec '12 | 43 |
| The Dirty Streets of Heaven | Tad Williams | DAW Books (Penguin Random House) | Nov '12 | 42 |
| Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | Penguin Random House | Oct '12 | 41 |
| Foundation | Isaac Asimov | Spectra (Penguin Random House) | Sep '12 | 40 |
| Assassin's Apprentice | Robin Hobb | Spectra (Penguin Random House) | Aug '12 | 39 |
| Leviathan Wakes | James S.A. Corey | Orbit Books (Hachette) | Jul '12 | 38 |
| Tigana | Guy Gavriel Kay | Penguin Random House | Jun '12 | 37 |
| Hyperion | Dan Simmons | Doubleday (Penguin Random House) | May '12 | 36 |
| The Magicians | Lev Grossman | Viking Press (Penguin Random House) | Apr '12 | 35 |
| The Lies of Locke Lamora | Scott Lynch | Spectra (Penguin Random House) | Feb '12 | 34 |
| Empire State (Alternate Pick) | Adam Christopher | Angry Robot (Harper Collins) | Jan '12 | 33a |
| Rule 34 | Charles Stross | Ace (Penguin Random House) | Jan '12 | 33 |
| 1Q84 (Alternate Pick) | Haruki Murakami | Knopf (Penguin Random House) | Nov '11 | 32a |
| Elantris | Brandon Sanderson | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Nov '11 | 32 |
| Reamde (Alternate Pick) | Neal Stephenson | William Morrow (Harper Collins) | Oct '11 | 31a |
| Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | Penguin Random House | Oct '11 | 31 |
| Flashforward | Robert J. Sawyer | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Aug '11 | 30 |
| Fuzzy Nation (Alternate Pick) | John Scalzi | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Jul '11 | 29a |
| A Dance With Dragons | George R. R. Martin | Spectra (Penguin Random House) | Jul '11 | 29 |
| The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | Scholastic Press | Jun '11 | 28 |
| The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms | N. K. Jemisin | Orbit Books (Hachette) | May '11 | 27 |
| Blindsight | Peter Watts | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Apr '11 | 26 |
| Shadow and Claw | Gene Wolfe | Orb Books (Macmillan) | Feb '11 | 25 |
| Good Omens | Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett | Workman | Jan '11 | 24 |
| How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe | Charles Yu | Pantheon (Penguin Random House) | Nov '10 | 23 |
| The Princess Bride | William Goldman | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Sep '10 | 22 |
| The Once and Future King | T. H. White | Ace (Penguin Random House) | Sep '10 | 21 |
| The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | Robert A. Heinlein | Orb Books (Macmillan) | Jul '10 | 20 |
| The Blade Itself (Alternate Pick) | Joe Abercrombie | St. Martin's Press (Macmillan) | Jun '10 | 19a |
| World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War | Max Brooks | Crown (Penguin Random House) | Jun '10 | 19 |
| Bitter Seeds | Ian Tregillis | Tor Books (Macmillan) | May '10 | 18 |
| The Windup Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi | Night Shade Books (Perseus Books Group) | Mar '10 | 17 |
| Down and out in the Magic Kingdom | Cory Doctorow | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Jan '10 | 16 |
| Mists of Avalon | Marion Zimmer Bradley | Knopf (Penguin Random House) | Oct '09 | 15 |
| The Forever War | Joe Haldeman | St. Martin's Press (Macmillan) | Aug '09 | 14 |
| A Game of Thrones | George R. R. Martin | Spectra (Penguin Random House) | Jun '09 | 13 |
| Daemon | Daniel Suarez | Signet (Penguin Random House) | Apr '09 | 12 |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | Ace (Penguin Random House) | Mar '09 | 11 |
| The Eye of the World | Robert Jordan | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Jan '09 | 10 |
| Memoirs Found in a Bathtub | Stanislaw Lem | Mariner Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) | Nov '08 | 09 |
| Anathem | Neal Stephenson | William Morrow (Harper Collins) | Sep '08 | 08 |
| Watership Down | Richard Adams | Scribner (Simon and Schuster) | Jul '08 | 07 |
| Unshapely Things | Mark Del Franco | Ace (Penguin Random House) | May '08 | 06 |
| Childhood's End | Arthur C. Clarke | Ballantine Books (Penguin Random House) | Apr '08 | 05 |
| Neuromancer | William Gibson | Ace (Penguin Random House) | Jan '08 | 04 |
| American Gods | Neil Gaiman | William Morrow (Harper Collins) | Dec '07 | 03 |
| Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | Tor Books (Macmillan) | Nov '07 | 02 |
| The Golden Compass | Philip Pullman | Scholastic | Oct '07 | 01 |