SF Long Term Reading List
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Beginnings: Spring 2022 and beyond | |
| Butler, Octavia | Parable of the Sower |
| Jemisin, NK | The Fifth Season (Broken Earth Trilogy) |
| Wells, Martha | All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries) |
| Chiang, Ted | Exhalation (selections) |
| browne, adrienne maree | Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Shaping Worlds (selections) |
| adrienne maree brown & Imarisha Walidah | Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements (selections) |
| Janelle Monáe | Memory Librarian, And Other Stories of Dirty Computer (selections) |
| Ursula K Le Guin | “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” |
| NK Jemisin | How Long ‘Til Black Future Month (selections) |
| Louise Erdrich | Future Home of the Living God |
| Butler, Octavia | Dawn (Xenogenesis series) |
| Phillip K Dick | Man in the High Castle |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Klara and the Sun |
| NK Jemisin | The City We Became |
| Emily St. John Mandel | Station Eleven |
| Arthur C Clarke | Childhood’s End |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | Wild Shore |
| M.E. O’Brien & Eman Abdelelhadi | Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York City Commune, 2052-2072 |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | Left Hand of Darkness |
| Liu Cixin | The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past 1) |
| Adrian Tschaikovsky | Children of Time |
| Adrian Tschaikovsky | Children of Ruin |
| Ken Liu | Broken Stars (selections) |
| Hao Jinfang | Vagabonds |
| R.F. Kuang | Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution |
| Celeste Ng | Our Missing Hearts |
| Winter 2024 | |
| Philip K Dick | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep |
| Amal El Mohtar/ Max Gladstone | This is How You Lose the Time War |
| Ann Leckie | Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch) |
| Martha Wells | Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot Diaries) |
| Rivers Solomon | The Deep |
| Spring 2024 | |
| Ray Nayler | The Mountain in the Sea |
| Ted Chiang | “The Story of Your Life”, in collection of that name, republished as Arrival |
| Summer 2024 | |
| Basma Ghalayini, ed | Palestine +100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba |
| Octavia Butler | Parable of the Talents |
| Ada Palmer | Too Like the Lightning |
| Fredric Jameson | Archaeologies of the Future (nonfiction) |
| Fall 2024 | |
| Ursula K Le Guin | The Dispossessed |
| NK Jemisin | Fifth Season |
| Winter 2025 | |
| NK Jemisin | Obelisk Gate |
| Martin MacInness | In Ascension |
| Stanislas Lem | Solaris |
| Spring 2025 | |
| Paul Lynch | Prophet Song |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | Ministry for the Future |
| NNedi Okorafor | Death of the Author |
| Summer 2025 | |
| Ling Ma | Severance |
| Marge Piercy | Woman on the Edge of Time |
| Fall 2025 | |
| Tade Thompson | Rosewater |
| Ryka Aoki | Light from Uncommon Stars |
| Susana Morris | Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E Butler |
| Octavia Butler | Wild Seed |
| Winter 2025 | |
| Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |
| Daniel A. Olivas | Chicano Frankenstein |
| Guillermo del Toro | Frankenstein (2025 film version on Netflix) |
| Spring 2026 | |
| Doris Lessing | Shikasta |
| Emile Habibi | The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist |
| Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older (eds) | We Will Rise Again |