The Science Fiction Book Club meets the last Monday of the month at 7pm. In the summer we meet outdoors at Odd Fellows Park. Once it cools off in the fall we meet again at the library. Check library calendar for location.
Want to see what we're reading? check out the list to the right. ---->
Please email steve.maus@ci.northfield.mn.us if you have any questions.
2023 | ||
MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR |
January | The Ninth Metal | Benjamin Percy |
John Wyndham | ||
March | A Psalm for the Wild-Built | Becky Chambers |
April | Mars | Ben Bova |
May | The Last Astronaut | David Wellington |
June | Downbelow Station | C. J. Cherryh |
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2022 | ||
MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR |
January | The Light Brigade | Kameron Hurley |
February |
Children of Time |
Adrian Tchaikovsky |
March | Axiom's End | Lindsay Ellis |
April | Red Rising | Pierce Brown |
May | Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir |
June | Providence | Max Barry |
July | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert Heinlein |
August | This is How You Lose the Time War | Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladston |
September | We Are Legion (We Are Bob) | Dennis E. Taylor |
October | When Gravity Fails | George Alec Effinger |
November | Hominids: Volume One of the Neanderthal Parallax | Robert J. Sawyer |
December | Binti | Nnedi Okorafor |
2021 | ||
MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR |
January | Arkwright | Allen Steele |
February |
After Atlas |
Emma Newman |
March | Way Station | Clifford D. Simak |
April | Timescape | Gregory Benford |
May | Waste Tide | Qiufan Chen |
June | Pandora's Star | Peter F. Hamilton |
July | Qualityland | Marc-Uwe Kling |
August | The Stars My Destination | Alfred Bester |
September | The Lesson | Cadwell Turnbull |
October | Trading in Danger | Elizabeth Moon |
November | The Forever War | Joe Haldeman |
December | Contact | Carl Sagan |
2020 | ||
MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR |
January | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep | Philip K. Dick |
February |
Six Wakes |
Mur Lafferty |
March | Grass | Sheri S. Tepper |
April | Group did not meet | Group did not meet |
May | Group did not meet | Group did not meet |
June | Group did not meet | Group did not meet |
July | Group did not meet | Group did not meet |
August | The Long way to a Small, Angry Planet | Becky Chambers |
September | Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang |
October | A Memory Called Empire | Arkady Martine |
November | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes |
December |
All Systems Red |
Martha Wells |
2019 | ||
MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR |
January 01.21 | Caves of Steele | Asimov, Isaac |
January 01.29 |
Nexus |
Ramez Naam |
February | Blindsight | Peter Watts |
March | Dragon's Egg | Robert L. Forward |
April | Timeline | Michael Crichton |
May | Dark Matter: A Novel | Blake Crouch |
June | Old Man's War | John Scalzi |
July | Shards of Honor | Lois Mcmaster Bujold |
August | Ninefox Gambit | Yoon Ha Lee |
September | Influx | Daniel Suarez |
October | The Calculating Stars | Mary Kowal Robinette |
November | Semiosis | Sue Burke |
December | A Lot Like Christmas | Connie Willis |
2018 | ||
MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR |
January | The Book of Strange New Things | Michel Faber |
February | Too Like the Lightning | Ada Palmer |
March | Gateway | Frederik Pohl |
April | Darwin's Radio | Greg Bear |
May | The God's Themselves | Isaac Asimov |
June | The Windup Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi |
July | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro |
August | Ringworld | Larry Niven |
September | All the Birds in the Sky | Charlie Jane Anders |
October | World War Z | Max Brooks |
November | Off Armageddon Reef | David Weber |
2017 | ||
MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR |
January | The Time Machine | H.G. Wells |
February | The Dead Lands | Benjamin Percy |
March | The Hydrogen Sonata | Iain Banks |
April | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne |
May | Foreigner | C.J. Cherryh |
June | Martian Time-Slip | Philip K. Dick |
July | The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood |
August | The Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu |
September | Blue Remembered Earth | Alastair Reynolds |
October | Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson |
November | Among Others | Jo Walton |
2016 | ||
MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR |
January | Firebird | Jack McDevitt |
February | The Boat of a Million Years | Poul Anderson |
March | Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel |
April | Spin | Robert Charles Wilson |
May | Leviathan Wakes | S.A. Corey |
June | Discount Armageddon | Seanan McGuire |
July | Parable of the Sower | Octavia Butler |
August | The Rapture of the Nerds | Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross |
September | A Princess of Mars | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
October | Sleeping Giants | Sylvain Neuvel |
November | Rendezvous with Rama | Arthur C. Clarke |
2015 | ||
MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR |
January | Ready Player One | Ernest Cline |
February | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | Robert Heinlein |
March | A Fire Upon the Deep | Vernor Vinge |
April | The Sparrow | Mary Doria Russell |
May | Manifold: Time | Stephen Baxter |
June | Nine Princes in Amber | Roger Zelazny |
July | Robopocalypse | Daniel Wilson |
August | Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut |
September | Beggars in Spain | Nancy Kress |
October | The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury |
November | Red Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson |
2014 | ||
MONTH | TITLE | AUTHOR |
January | A Hymn Before Battle | John Ringo |
February | Red Planet Blues | Robert J. Sawyer |
March | Kiln People | David Brin |
April | Wool | Hugh Howey |
May | Foundation | Isaac Asimov |
June | Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie |
July | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams |
August | The Martian | Andy Weir |
September | Helliconia Spring | Brian Aldiss |
October | *Various short stories* | H.P. Lovecraft |
November | Out of the Silent Planet | C.S. Lewis |