2023 Reading List

January

All Systems Red and Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

February

Stories from The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022, ed. by Rebecca Roanhorse and John Joseph Adams

  • “10 Steps to a Whole New You” by Tonya Liburd
  • “Skinder’s Veil” by Kelly Link
  • “Proof By Induction” by José Pablo Iriarte
  • “Colors of the Immortal Palette” by Caroline M. Yoachim

Plus bonus stories:

  • “The Pizza Boy” by Meg Elison
  • “The Future Library” by Peng Shepherd

March

Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

April

The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe

May

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

June

Stories from Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women (1958-1963) ed. by Gideon Marcus

  • “A Matter of Proportion” by Anne Walker
  • “The Putnam Tradition” by Sonya Hess Dorman
  • “Cornice on the Walls” by Sydney van Scyoc
  • “Unwillingly to School” by Pauline Ashwell

Plus bonus story:

  • “Of All Possible Worlds” by Rosel George Brown

July

Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072 by M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi

August

A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

September

The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang

October

Stories from We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow: And Other Stories by Margaret Killjoy

  • “We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow”
  • “Imagine a World So Forgiving”
  • “The Free Orcs of Cascadia”
  • “The Devil Lives Here”
  • “Beyond Sapphire Glass”

Plus bonus story:

  • “The Fortunate Death of Jonathan Sandelson”

November

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

December

Uranians by Theodore McCombs