It’s Friday, which is a good thing in and of itself. And with it comes the first of a new month and thus my November 2024 TBR. November also marks another round of SciFi Month, so I’ll try to focus some of my reading on scifi novellas or books.

For those who don’t know, SciFi Month is hosted by Annemieke of A Dance With Books, Mayri the BookForager, Lisa of Dear Geek Place, and imyril at There’s Always Room For One More. Information is on any of their blogs, but in a nutshell it’s an annual celebration of all things science fiction. Feel free to sign up if you’re interested.

Now, let’s blast off into this November 2024 TBR! The first prompt for this is Astronavigation also known as my TBR. How fitting.

Priority Reads

THE BLACK HUNGER by Nicholas Pullen: I started this physical ARC from Orbit a few days ago. I’m not very far into it, but I hope it gets more interesting soon. The writing style is fine, but I’m kind of waiting for the point of it all to come to light. I’ll give it until 100 pages to prove itself to my interests.

A PRINCESS OF OLDIR by Bryan Wilson: This is one of the very few novellas in my SFINCS assignment that are scifi. I don’t read a lot of scifi despite my good intentions to incorporate more. So I’m glad to have a reason to read more. “Set more than three decades before the events of The Forsaken Planet, this is a story of one family’s struggle to do what is right, even if it costs them their legacy.”

THE TIDELINGS OF DRAS SAYVE by C.B. Lansdell: This is another SFINCS novella that falls into the scifi category.

THE SCHOLAR AND THE LAST FAERIE DOOR by H.G. Parry: I included this in last month’s “hopeful reads” list. Given that it’s a standalone, that bumps it up the list for me. It’s “a mythic, magical tale full of secret scholarship, faerie curses, and the deadliest spells of all–the ones that friends cast on each other.“

Hopeful Reads

SEA OF TRANQUILITY by Emily St. John Mandel: I feel like I’m one of the last people to read this book. I won it in a giveaway some time ago and still haven’t read it. Shame on me. It’s not too long of a book, so I hope this means I can squeeze it in. “The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.“

THE WEST WIND by Alexandria Warwick: I read THE NORTH WIND by this author a couple years ago when it was independently published. It looks like a traditional published picked up the series. So I’m game to see how that affected the writing. I liked THE NORTH WIND, but felt it needed a little cutting; hopefully the story is tighter now with the extra editing assistance. “From the author of The North Wind comes a darkly reimagined tale of forbidden love, inspired by the Greek myth of Hero and Leander and the Scottish ballad Tam Lin.” If I’m honest, a big reason I decided to request this ARC is because of its basis in Tam Lin, obviously. Tamlin is a major ACOTAR character and while I don’t know anything about this ballad, still, count me in.

And I’ll leave it at that. I still have other SFINCS novellas to read. I’m also behind on ARCs. But at the same time I want to leave the door open for mood reads. I’ll see how it goes. Are any of these also on your TBR this month?

SciFi Month artwork credit: illustration by Sxwx.