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2014 Books for Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Club
1. Feed by MT Anderson
2. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
3. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
4. Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
5. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (also show movie adaptation)
6. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
7. Hyperion by Dan Simmons
8. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
9. Ringworld by Larry Niven
10. Ghost Story by Peter Straub (show movie adaptation)
11. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (show movie adaptation)
12.Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather

2015 Books & Films for Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Club
1. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
2. OZ the complete collection volume one by L. Frank  Baum (The Wizard of OZ, Marvelous Land of OZ, and Ozma of Oz) (show movie Return to OZ)
3. On Basilisk Station by David Weber
4. Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore
5. Philip K. Dick’s Ubik (showed Blade Runner)
6. George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones
7. Frank Herbert’s Dune (showed film adaptation)
8. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (showed film adaptation)
9. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin (showed film adaptation)
10. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (showed film adaptation)
11. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (showed film adaptation)

2016 Books & Films for Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Club
*all discussions featured film screenings of book adaptations except where noted

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
3. Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (screening Tank Girl)
4. Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
5.  Protector by Larry Niven (screening Fifth Element)
6. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
7.Contact by Carl Sagan
8.Storm Front by Jim Butcher (Watch TV Show episode 1 (Birds of a Feather) and episode 8 (Storm Front) episode 3 (Hair of Dog loosely based on 2nd book).
9. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling  (Harry Potter and Sorcerer’s Stone Movie)
10. Dracula by Bram Stoker (Triple Feature including the 1992 movie version, Nosferatu, Bela Lugosi version)
11.Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book (Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure)
12. Christopher Moore’s The Stupidest Angel (Gremlins)

2017 Books & Films for Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Club
1. Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds (Star Wars)
2. Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred (Guardians of the Galaxy)
3. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (2001 Space Odyssey)
4. George Alec Effinger’s When Gravity Fails (Tron)
5. Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s Inferno (Constantine)
6. Leviathan Awakes by James S. A. Corey (Wall-E)
7. The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King (Westworld-movie)
8. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (Peter Jackson movie adaptation)
9. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin (2004 movie adaptation)
10. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (movie adaptation)
11. Once and Future King by T.H. White (Double Feature: Excalibur and Sword in the Stone)
12. Time Machine by H.G. Wells (with latest movie adaptation)

2018 Books & Films for Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Club
1. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente (Labyrinth)
2. Mote in God’s Eye Larry Niven (Wrath of Khan)
3. The Magicians by Lev Grossman (episodes of TV show)
4. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (show Existenz)
5. Scythe by Neal Shusterman (show Ghost Rider)
6. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (show 1966 film)
7. Spellsinger by Alan Dean Foster (Heavy Metal showing)
8. The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu and translated by Ken Liu (Forbidden Planet screening)
9. Lady of the Forest by Jennifer Roberson (Robin and Marian screening)
10. Collection of works by HP Lovecraft (Double Feature Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein/Beetlejuice)
11. Red Shirts by John Scalzi (Trekkies)
12. Good Omens Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (Nightmare Before Christmas)

2019 Books & Films for Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Club
1. Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (Ghost in the Shell Live Action movie)
2. Darker Shade of Magic by Victoria Schwab (Fantastic Beasts)
3. Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (movie adaptation)
4. Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (Gravity)
5. Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve (movie adaptation)
6. Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames (episodes of the TV Show Hercules)
7. A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Serenity)
8. Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald ( Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets)
9. Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw (Hotel Transylvania)
10. Deborah Harkness’s Discovery of Witches (Hocus Pocus)
11. Luna: Wolf Moon by Ian McDonald (Silent Running)
12. Time and Again by Jack Finney

2020 Books & Films for Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Club
1. Semiosis by Sue Burke (show Starman)
2. Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (show Black Panther)
Neil Gaiman’s Trigger Warning (weekly short story discussions March-May during Covid-19 Pandemic via Discord)
3. The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper
4. The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco
5. Ken Liu’s The Grace of Kings
6. A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle
7. Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
8. The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz
9. The Autobiography of Santa Claus by Jeff Guinn

2021 Books & Films for Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Club
1. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
2. Queens of the Wyrd by Timandra Whitecastle
3. A Time of Dread by John Gwynneho
4. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
5. All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
6. Sundiver by David Brin
7. Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson
8. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Movie Screening of Her)
9. Soulless (The Parasol Protectorate, 1) by Gail Carriger (Movie Screening of Underworld)
10. From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury (Movie Screening of Blade)
11. This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar (Movie Screening of Time After Time)
12. Hiddensee by Gregory Maguire (Nutcracker and the Four Realms movie was postponed till February)

2022 Books & Films for the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Club
1. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
2. Gilded Ones by Namina Forna (Movie Screening of Wonder Woman)
3. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (Movie Screening of Disney’s Hercules)
4. The Atlantis Gene by A.G. Riddle (Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull)
6. The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children)
7. The Last Day on Mars by Kevin Emerson (The Martian)
8. The Princess Bride by William Goldman (The Princess Bride, 1987 movie adaptation)
9.  Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (The Shape of Water)
10.  Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw (Monster Hunt 2)
11. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon (Robocop, 2014)
12.  A Scandal in Battersea by Mercedes Lackey (Elf)

2023 Books for the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Club
1. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (Solaris, 2002 movie adaptation)
2. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
3. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
4. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
5. Siren Queen by Nghi Vo (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings)
6. The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart
7. The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford
8. Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
9. Recursion by Blake Crouch
10. The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (Queen of the Damned and Lost Boys, Halloween movie double feature)
11. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
12. Miracle and Other Christmas Stories by Connie Willis

2024 Books for Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Club
1. The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence
2. The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
3. To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by  Moniquill Blackgoose
4. All Systems Red by Martha Wells
5. The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu
6. The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix
7. Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
8. Witchmark by C.L. Polk
9. Velocity Weapon by Megan E. O’Keefe (September)
10. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (with screening of True Blood TV Show)(October)

Updated 5/16/24 ATH

The Grand Street Branch is currently closed and will reopen on January 2nd.
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