Books that have been #SFFBookClub reads
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The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo, Nghi Vo (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
4 stars
With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo's The Empress …
Tak! says: November 2022
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A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
4 stars
On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. …
Tak! says: September 2023
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The Library of the Dead by T. L. Huchu (Edinburgh Nights, #1)
3 stars
When a child goes missing in Edinburgh's darkest streets, young Ropa investigates. She'll need to call on Zimbabwean magic as …
Tak! says: October 2023
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Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon
5 stars
For forty years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia's home. On this planet far away in space and time from the …
Tak! says: November 2021
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Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts
4 stars
It's been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens …
Tak! says: October 2021
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The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
4 stars
A bandit walks into a coffeehouse, and it all goes downhill from there. Guet Imm, a young votary of the …
Tak! says: March 2023
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Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
4 stars
From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes this reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel, a story …
Tak! says: May 2023
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She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
4 stars
To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything
Mulan meets The Song of Achilles …
Tak! says: September 2022
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What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
4 stars
From T. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling …
Tak! says: January 2023
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Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)
4 stars
"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would …
Tak! says: June 2023
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The Accidental Alchemist by Gigi Pandian (An Accidental Alchemist Mystery, #1)
3 stars
When Zoe Faust--herbalist, alchemist, and recent transplant to Portland, Oregon--begins unpacking her bags, she can't help but notice she's picked …
Tak! says: February 2022
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Infomocracy by Malka Ann Older (The Centenal Cycle, #1)
3 stars
It's been twenty years and two election cycles since "Information," a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring …
Tak! says: February 2023
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Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
4 stars
"The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and …
Tak! says: August 2022
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To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
4 stars
At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as …
Tak! says: January 2021
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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
4 stars
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
Tak! says: October 2022
