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Our favorite books of 2015

Here are our favorite books published in 2015. Hover over the cover to see who recommends each book. Click on the cover to read our review.

Please keep in mind that we did not read every SFF book published this year, so we know we’ve missed some good ones! Please add your comments — we’d love to hear your opinions about our list and to know which were YOUR favorite books of 2015. What did we miss?

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MIDDLE GRADE / YOUNG ADULT SFF

ANTHOLOGIES / NON-FICTION

HONORABLE MENTIONS: FAVORITE NEWLY RELEASED ON AUDIO IN 2015:

December 17th, 2015. FanLit | Best of the Year | 35 comments |

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It’s time again for one of our favorite games!

Please help us rename this atrocious-looking science fiction novel by John Rackham and DAW books (November, 1973).

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We love this game!

October 22nd, 2015. FanLit | Thoughtful Thursday | 20 comments |

Thoughtful Thursday: Guess what we’re reading!

It’s been over a year since we played Guess What We’re Reading. Let’s try it again!

Grab a very well-known speculative fiction book off the shelf (something you think we should be familiar with), choose a passage and give us 50 words from that passage. Other readers will try to guess your book while you try to guess theirs.

Here are the rules:

Submit as many passages as you like — just put them in separate comments.
When you guess someone’s book, reply directly to that comment so we keep the threads neatly organized.

September 24th, 2015. FanLit | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 29 comments |

Rename this cover!

It’s time again for one of our favorite games!

Please help us rename the cover of this book.

Got a suggestion for a cover that needs renaming? Please send it to Kat.

We love this game!

July 30th, 2015. FanLit | Thoughtful Thursday | 36 comments |

Thoughtful Thursday: Happy Birthday to us!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!

This week marks our EIGHTH birthday! Yep, we’ve been hanging out together (well, some of us) since June 2007!

To celebrate, we’d like to invite some characters from speculative fiction to our virtual birthday party. We’d like YOU to choose the guests. Who should we invite, and why? What do you think might happen? Oh, and of course, you’re invited, too!

EIGHT commenters from the US or Canada will receive a gift from us: some festive FanLit BOOKMARKS and a delicious FANLIT T-SHIRT (or,

June 11th, 2015. FanLit | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 32 comments |

Rename this horrible cover!

It’s time again for one of our favorite games!

Please help us rename the horrible cover of this book by Grande Dame Andre Norton.

The author of the new title we like best wins a book from the FanLit Stacks.

Got a suggestion for a horrible cover that needs renaming? Please send it to Kat.

We love this game!

NEXT WEEK’s Thoughtful Thursday column: We’ll be giving away all of the Nebula and Hugo nominated novels to one lucky winner!

May 21st, 2015. FanLit | Andre Norton | Thoughtful Thursday | 18 comments |

Our favorite books of 2014

Here are our favorite books published in 2014. Hover over the cover to see who recommends each book and what they say about it. Please keep in mind that we did not read every SFF book published in 2014, so we know we’ve missed some good ones! Please add your comments — we’d love to hear your opinions about our list and to know which were YOUR favorite books of 2014. What did we miss? One commenter will win a book from our stacks.

ADULT SFF

MIDDLE GRADE / YOUNG ADULT SFF

ANTHOLOGIES / COLLECTIONS / MAGAZINES / UNTOLD HISTORIES

NEWLY RELEASED ON AUDIO IN 2014:

January 1st, 2015. FanLit | Best of the Year | 17 comments |

Thoughtful Thursday: Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, friends!

We hope you’re all warm and cozy and surrounded by people (and books) you love.

Did you get any books for Christmas? Or gift cards or cash to spend on books?

If so, which books will you buy?

One commenter gets a FanLit T-shirt or a book from our stacks.

NEXT WEEK: Our favorite books of 2014!

December 25th, 2014. FanLit | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 10 comments |

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Here’s a book cover that’s screaming for a new name. See it screaming?

Please help us rename the horrible cover of this book by the esteemed Michael Moorcock.

Got a suggestion for a horrible cover that needs renaming? Send it to us.

October 9th, 2014. FanLit | Michael Moorcock | Thoughtful Thursday | 17 comments |

Thoughtful Thursday: Books we loved in 2013

We’ve just posted our annual Favorites list — the best books we read which were published for the first time in 2013. For today’s discussion, we’ll tell you why we like some of these books and ask you what you thought of them.

One commenter will win these three anthologies from Tor books: Twenty-First Century Science Fiction, Year’s Best SF 18, and Dangerous Women. Thanks, Tor!

You can find our reviews for each of the novels listed below by clicking on the linked author names.

December 26th, 2013. FanLit | Best of the Year, Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 18 comments |

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