2023 Reading List

We post the books we will be reading in bulk order so those that do not read as fast as our core readers can join in with us when we discuss the book.

Chimera Readers Top 5
1/11 – Nexus – Ramez Naam – 404 pages
1/18 – The Library at Mount Char – Scott Hawkins – 390 pages
2/1 – The Lies of Locke Lamora – Scott Lynch – 752 pages
2/8 – The Princess Bride – William Goldman – 400 pages
2/15- The Three Body Problem – Cixin Liu – 400 pages

High Fantasy
3/1 –The Stardust Thief – Chelsea Abdullah – 481 pages
3/8 – Legends & Lattes: A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes – by Travis Baldree – 296 pages
3/15 – The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea – Axie Oh – 329 pages
3/22 – To Ride Hell’s Chasm – Janny Wurts – 496 pages
4/5 – A Court of Thorns and Roses – by Sarah J. Maas – 432 pages

Before 1990
4/19 – The Dragonbone Chair – Tad Williams- 668 pages
4/26 – King of Elfland’s Daughter – Lord Dunsany – 188 pages
5/3 – Dragonsbane – Barbara Hambly – 305 pages
5/10 – The Moon is a Harsh Mistress – Robert A Heinlein – 400 pages
5/24 – Heir to the Empire – Timothy Zahn – 513 pages

AI
5/31 – Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro – 418 pages
6/7 – Elysium – Jennifer Marie Brissett – 190 pages
6/14 – A Psalm for the Wild-Built – Becky Chambers – 151 pages
6/21- All Systems Red – Martha Wells – 156 pages
6/28 – The Mad Scientist’s Daughter – Axie Oh – 313 pages

Summer Funnies
7/5 – That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon – Kimberly Lemming – 185 pages
7/12 – Cursed Cocktails: A Cozy Fantasy (Tales of Aedrea) – S.L. Rowland – 282 pages
7/19 – The King’s Captive: Magiford Supernatural City – K. M. Shea – 340 pages
7/26 – Space Team – Barry Hutchison – 288 pages

Free Pick
8/2 – Monsters Born and Made – Tanvi Berwah – 347 pages
8/16 – Daughter of the Moon Goddess: A Novel – Sue Lynn Tan – 507 pages
8/23 – When We Were Birds – Ayanna Lloyd Banwo – 286 pages
8/30 – An Unkindness of Ghosts – Rivers Solomon – 247 pages
9/6 – This Is How You Lose the Time War – Amal El-Mohtar – 223 pages

Graphic Novel
9/13 – Snow, Glass, Apples – Neil Gaiman -64 pages
9/20 – Eternals – Neil Gaiman & John Romita Jr. – 223 pages
9/27 – Saga – Brian K. Vaughan – 188 pages
10/04 – The Last Count of Monte Cristo – Ayize Jama-Everett – 160 pages
10/18 – Ascender Volume 1 – Jeff Lemire – 133 pags

Folklore/Mythology
10/25 – Hindu Love Stories: Dharmically Ever After – Aditi Banerjee – 221 pages
11/1 – The Bear and the Nightingale -Katherine Arden – 338 pages
11/29 – Legendbourne – Tracy Deonn – 511 pages
12/06 – Hades – Rebecca F. Kenney – 323 pages

Asian Female Lead
12/13 – Secret Santa – The Girl with Ghost Eyes – M. H. Boroson – 306 pages
12/20 – Six Crimson Cranes – Elizabeth Lim – 461 pages