4th Annual New Year, New Books Recommendations

Thank you to everyone who attended our 4th Annual New Year, New Books meeting! As always, we enjoyed the hospitality (and the private room!) at The Celtic Knot, and got a rousing new list of recommendations from our fellow sci-fi/fantasy fans! Below are everyone’s recommendations for your reference, and I’ll also link to them in […]

Shiny New Books!

The group has been hard at work, selecting our books for November 2019 through August 2020! Here they are: November 6, 2019: Finder, by Suzanne Palmer December 4, 2019: The Tiger’s Daughter, by K. Arsenault Rivera January 8, 2020: Our annual “New Year, New Books” meeting at The Celtic Knot! February 5, 2020: The Sorcerer […]

Two Months of McGuire

The Evanston Public Library Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Group is excited to kick off our “Two Months of McGuire” with a discussion of Into the Drowning Deep, written under Seanan McGuire’s pen name for horror fiction, Mira Grant. Seanan McGuire will be appearing at our discussion of this book (September 4, 7 PM, at […]

Where We’re Going, Where We’ve Been

Time to celebrate a new season of great group reads! Our books for April 2019-October 2019 are as follows: April 3, 2019: Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik May 1, 2019: The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell June 5, 2019: Vicious, by V. E. Schwab July 3, 2019: Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke August […]

New Year, New Books: 2019

Thank you to everyone who attended our 3rd Annual New Year, New Books meeting! We had a great time at The Celtic Knot, and came away with plenty of new books for our always-expanding “to read” piles. I’m including everyone’s recommendations here for your reference, and I’ll also link to them in our Goodreads group and […]

Dawn of a New Era

AKA, the new books have been chosen! Here’s the list for September 2018 – March 2019: Sept 5: Infomocracy by Malka Ann Older Oct. 3: City of Brass, S. A. Chakraborty Nov. 7: Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan Dec 5: The Book Of Swords, edited by Gardner Dozois Jan 9: New Year, New Books […]

2018 Book Recommendations

Thanks to everyone who came out for our 2018 New Year, New Books meeting! We got a lot of great suggestions of favorites from 2017 and beyond to add to our to-read piles. Here’s what our group members think you should read next: Danielle recommends: The City of Brass, by S. A. Chakraborty. This is an […]

It’s time for “New Year, New Books”!

Join us to ring in 2018 with our second annual New Year, New Books celebration! This special meeting will be held at 7:30 PM at The Celtic Knot (626 Church St., across from the Main Library), where you can enjoy a meal, a drink, and some new recommendations for your sci-fi/fantasy reading list! Bring […]

The Votes Are In!

Once again, the masses have made their voices heard! Out of a cast of thousands of nominees (or at least a dozen), these are the books we will be reading between September 2017 and April 2018: September 13: The Windup Girl by Paolo Baciagalupi October 4: The Black Company by Glen Cook November 1: Do […]

What We’ve Read So Far

We just celebrated 2 years of the EPL Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club! To celebrate, here’s a list of everything we’ve read so far. You can find an updating list on our Goodreads bookshelf! April 2015: Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie May 2015: Among Others, by Jo Walton June 2015: The Martian, by Andy […]