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[Fillyjonk]

Welcome Welcome to your seat at the RPGX book club! Every month, we will be discussing a different book or author. Sometimes our choice will connect to gaming or fantasy or sci-fi, but sometimes it will be simply a book that one of the folks who hangs out in book club thinks will be an awesome fit. How do I join? Just participate. How do I participate? The active thread will be pinned to the top of the forum, but you can chat in any of the book threads if you want to reinvigorate an old discussion or add your two cents. Read the month's book, or read about the book, or have an opinion about why you will never read that &^*@&%^@&%#ing book, and then jump in and post. Spoilers? We tend to use spoiler buttons for the first half of the month, and by then, it’s assumed you have read it, so reader beware. We also use spoiler buttons on posts that might spoil a related title for someone. How do I suggest a book? Just do it in the active thread. If you see a book suggested that sounds interesting to you, chime in and say so! What is with the "Theme" in the charts below? In our second year, we loosely revisited the same categories as the first year, so if you want inspiration for a suggestion, look at the previous year's chart to see what kind of book might be good. This is a simple, no frills, drop in, drop out, come as you are, come when you want, inclusive place for readers, and you are welcome! Book List 2024 # Month Theme Title Author Thread 1 January Fantasy Children of Blood and Bone Tomi Adeyemi link 2 February Horror Fairy Tale Stephen King link 3 March TTRPG Legends and Lattes Travis Baldree link 4 April Dystopian 1984 George Orwell link 5 May Contemporary Bunny Mona Awad link 6 June Queer Representation Thirst Marina Yuszczuk link 7 July Summer's Fun/Fast Read Shrek William Steig link 2023 # Month Theme Title Author Chosen or Inspired By Thread 1 January RP Reading In-Character Book Reviews Players in non-canonical holiday threads     2 February Mythology Girl Meets Boy Ali Smith bothers link 3 March Collection Gitanjali Rabindranath Tagore lostcheerio link 4 April New This Year Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin Fillyjonk   5 May Author's Body of Work A Wizard of Earthsea/The Left Hand of Darkness/Any Title Ursula K. Le Guin lostcheerio link 6 June/July Retelling Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver lostcheerio link 7 August Book2Screen Rebecca Daphne du Murier Fillyjonk   8 September Futurama Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century Kim Fu lostcheerio link 9 October Spooky! Reader's Choice Shirley Jackson Fillyjonk link 10 Nov/Dec Fairy Library Reader's Choice Recommendations/Gifting Bokaflod link 2022 # Month Theme Title Author Chosen or Inspired By Thread 1 February Mythology Monkey King: Journey to the West Wu Cheng'en, translated by Julia Lovell Wynamoinen's Uncaged Game link 2 March Collection Appendix N.: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons Peter Bebergal (Editor) bothers link 3 April New This Year Matrix Lauren Groff Lemming23 link 4 May Author's Body of Work Dreamsnake/The Exile Waiting/The Sun and the Moon/Any VNM title Vonda N. McIntyre Fillyjonk link 5 June/July Retelling Spear Nicola Griffith Sprite link 6 August Future The Parable of the Sower Octavia Butler lostcheerio link 7 September Book to Screen The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien Amazon Prime link 8 October Spooky! H.P. Lovecraft Month Lovecraft and Others Various link 9 November Classics (100 years+) Margaret Cavendish The Blazing-World Consensus link 10 December Remember Year in Review Recommendations Gifting   ink Previous books/discussions are archived HERE.