Previous reads…

The Manchester SciFi Fantasy Bookgroup has been running since September 2011 which means we’ve read a lot of books … here’s the list so far:

2011

All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

Island by Aldous Huxley

Moxyland by Lauren Beukes

Harpy’s Flight by Megan Lindholm (Robin Hobb)

Winter Warriors by David Gemmell

2012

Game Of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

Watchmen by Alan Moore

Snuff by Terry Pratchett

Surface Detail by Iain M Banks

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Viking by Ivan Brandon

Shadows Over Baker Street by Michael Reaves & John Pelan

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

The Prestige by Christopher Priest

Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock

Kraken by China Mieville

2013

Anathem by Neal Stephenson

Knights Of Dark Renown by David Gemmell

The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi

The King In Yellow by Robert W Chambers

Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller

The Wind Up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

Redshirts by John Scalzi

Pavane  by Keith Roberts

The Girl Who Would Be King by Kelly Thompson

Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb

The Man In The High Castle by Philip K Dick

The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood

Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes

2014

Dark Eden by Chris Beckett

Intrusion by Ken Macleod

Gate of Ivrel by C J Cherryh

Planetary by Warren Ellis & John Cassaday

The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester

Broken Angles by Richard Morgan

Kindred by Octavia E Butler

Swastika Night by Katharin Burdekin

Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett

vN by Madeline Ashby

Islands In A Sea Of Time by S M Stirling

Guilty Pleasures by Laurel K Hamilton

Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross

2015

Outpost by Adam Baker

The Invisibles by Grant Morrison

Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Indigo by Clemens Setz

The Dead Zone by Stephen King

Anno Dracula by Kim Newman

Embassytown by China Mieville

Blood Of Elves by Andrej Sapkowski

Station Eleven by Emily St.John Mandel

The First Men On The Moon by H.G Wells

Kings Blood Four by Sherri S Tepper

2016

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making by Catherynne M Valente

Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Eric Raspe

Rogue Moon by Algis Burdrys

The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore

The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison

The Call of Cthulhu and other Weird Stories by
H.P Lovecraft

Black Amazon of Mars by Leigh Brackett

Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams by C.L. Moore

Player of Games by Iain M Banks

Deathtrap Dungeon by Ian Livingstone

Thud by Terry Pratchett

Running Man by Richard Bachman

2017

Enders Game by Orson Scott Card

Replay by Ken Grimwood

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

11/12/63 by Stephen King

Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein

First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North

Wolf in Shadow/Last Guardian by David Gemmell

The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan

Company Town by Madelaine Ashby

Wild Cards by George RR Martin

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

2018

Rotherweird by Andrew Caldecott

Excession by Iain M Banks

Halting State by Charles Stross

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

Grandville by Bryan Talbot

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Age of Assassins by R.J. Baker

Domesday Book by Connie Willis

Among Others by Jo Walton

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Girl with all the Gifts by M.R. Carey

2019

When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger

Killing Time by John Smith and Chris Weston

Red Sister by Mark Lawrence

Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red by Martha Wells

From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell

Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons

Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin

America by John Warner and Alan Grant

Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

2020

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

World War Z by Max Brooks

Blackwing by Ed Macdonald

Wool by Hugh Howey

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

The City and the City by China Mieville

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

The City in the Middle of Night by Charlie Jane Anders

A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

2021

The Terror by Dan Simmons

Hardboiled Wonderland by Haruki Murakami

City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

The Bees: A Novel by Laline Paull

Exhaltation by Ted Chiang

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

2022

‘Uprooted’ by Naomi Novik