2024 Talking Time Book Club Reading List Selection Poll

[Falselogic]

List A
Palefire by Vladimir Nabokov
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
A Short History of England by G. K. Chesterton
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Fated by Benedict Jacka
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

List B
Under the Bridge by Anne Bishop
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed
The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll
The Lost Supper by Tara Grescoe
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Peace by Gene Wolfe
A City on Mars by the Weinersmiths


(Yellowface is on both lists because it was nominated by two different people)

 

[John]

Both lists have some good stuff, and if I get around to reading a quarter of either list I’ll be set. Gotta go for B, though, I’ve been saving a Peace reading for years, will finally finish it before something else squirrell’s itself in the way.

 

[lincolnic]

I also voted for B, because I've read a few things on A already (though I'm actually rereading Dune right now) and I'd like to read more N. K. Jemisin.

 

[Paul le Fou]

I went with A because B had a few more already-read books on it, but I would be perfectly happy with B too.

 

[Falselogic]

Quick question for @Violentvixen would you be willing to swap out Legends & Lattes for Bookshops & Bonedust? It's the second book in the 'series' by the author but takes places before the events of Legends & Lattes. I'm fine either way but I recently saw that this book came out last month and wanted to ask.

Let me know.

 

[Violentvixen]

Quick question for @Violentvixen would you be willing to swap out Legends & Lattes for Bookshops & Bonedust? It's the second book in the 'series' by the author but takes places before the events of Legends & Lattes. I'm fine either way but I recently saw that this book came out last month and wanted to ask.

Let me know.

Could we do both in the same thread? I haven't read either but have heard they're pretty quick? Then if people have read Legends and Lattes they could just read the new one it sounds like? But yeah I'm fine with swapping if the new one makes more sense, I just don't know enough about them to be sure.

 

[Falselogic]

Could we do both in the same thread? I haven't read either but have heard they're pretty quick? Then if people have read Legends and Lattes they could just read the new one it sounds like? But yeah I'm fine with swapping if the new one makes more sense, I just don't know enough about them to be sure.

We haven't done two books in a month before. I had just seen the new book and that it was a prequel. But, since people have already voted I dont want to change things. If people really like Legends & Lattes. Maybe we can read the prequel later.

 

[Falselogic]

Two more days until voting closes!

 

[Falselogic]

List A it is! Get your requests in to your librarian and local bookseller now!

Thank you to everyone who nominated and voted for next year's readings.