Speculative Fiction Reading Group Reading List

SF Long Term Reading List

AuthorTitle
Beginnings: Spring 2022 and beyond
Butler, OctaviaParable of the Sower
Jemisin, NKThe Fifth Season (Broken Earth Trilogy)
Wells, MarthaAll Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries)
Chiang, TedExhalation (selections)
browne, adrienne mareeEmergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Shaping Worlds (selections)
adrienne maree brown & Imarisha WalidahOctavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements (selections)
Janelle MonáeMemory Librarian, And Other Stories of Dirty Computer (selections)
Ursula K Le Guin“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
NK JemisinHow Long ‘Til Black Future Month (selections)
Louise ErdrichFuture Home of the Living God
Butler, OctaviaDawn (Xenogenesis series)
Phillip K DickMan in the High Castle
Kazuo IshiguroKlara and the Sun
NK JemisinThe City We Became
Emily St. John MandelStation Eleven
Arthur C ClarkeChildhood’s End
Kim Stanley RobinsonWild Shore
M.E. O’Brien &
Eman Abdelelhadi
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York City Commune, 2052-2072
Ursula K. Le GuinLeft Hand of Darkness
Liu CixinThe Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past 1)
Adrian TschaikovskyChildren of Time
Adrian TschaikovskyChildren of Ruin
Ken LiuBroken Stars (selections)
Hao JinfangVagabonds
R.F. KuangBabel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
Celeste NgOur Missing Hearts
Winter 2024
Philip K DickDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Amal El Mohtar/
Max Gladstone
This is How You Lose the Time War
Ann LeckieAncillary Justice (Imperial Radch)
Martha WellsFugitive Telemetry (Murderbot Diaries)
Rivers SolomonThe Deep
Spring 2024
Ray NaylerThe Mountain in the Sea
Ted Chiang“The Story of Your Life”, in collection of that name, republished as Arrival
Summer 2024
Basma Ghalayini, edPalestine +100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba
Octavia ButlerParable of the Talents
Ada PalmerToo Like the Lightning
Fredric JamesonArchaeologies of the Future (nonfiction)
Fall 2024
Ursula K Le GuinThe Dispossessed
NK JemisinFifth Season
Winter 2025
NK JemisinObelisk Gate
Martin MacInnessIn Ascension
Stanislas LemSolaris
Spring 2025
Paul LynchProphet Song
Kim Stanley RobinsonMinistry for the Future
NNedi OkoraforDeath of the Author
Summer 2025
Ling MaSeverance
Marge PiercyWoman on the Edge of Time
Fall 2025
Tade ThompsonRosewater
Ryka AokiLight from Uncommon Stars
Susana MorrisPositive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E Butler
Octavia ButlerWild Seed
Winter 2025
Mary ShelleyFrankenstein
Daniel A. OlivasChicano Frankenstein
Guillermo del ToroFrankenstein (2025 film version on Netflix)
Spring 2026
Doris LessingShikasta
Emile HabibiThe Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist
Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older (eds)We Will Rise Again
Check out our long term reading list, which began with a focus on Octavia Butler and contemporary writers she influenced. It has continued through contemporary and some classic fiction that encourages visionary thinking about our future.