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Picture Books

Tales of Great Dragons: CH: *****
Crankee Doodle, illustrations by Cece Bell: CH: ****
Heart of a Tiger, illustrations by Jamichael Henterly: CH: *****
Unicorns 101: CH: ****
Old MacDonald Had a Dragon, illustrations by Christopher Santoro CH: ****
Catkin, illustrations by P. J. Lynch: CH: ****
Chloe and the Lion, illustrations by Adam Rex: CH: *****
How This Book Was Made, illustrations by Adam Rex: CH: *****
Shark vs. Train, illustrations by Tom Licthenheld CH: ****
Fire Truck vs Dragon, illustrations by Shanda McCloskey: CH: ****
Animalia: CH: ****
The Discovery of Dragons: New Research Revealed: CH: ****
Journey; The Journey trilogy, Book 1: CH: ****+
Quest; The Journey trilogy, Book 2: CH: ****+
Return; The Journey trilogy, Book 3: CH: ****+
Cat Hisstory: A Feline Tour Through the Ages (with text by Frederica Templeton): CH: ****
Dragon: CH: *****
Me and My Dragon; The Me and My Dragon series, Book 1: CH: ****
Fairy, illustrations by Dean Griffiths: CH: ****
Comet's Nine Lives: CH: ****
Children Make Terrible Pets; The Lucy series, Book 1: CH: ****
YOU WILL BE MY FRIEND!; The Lucy series, Book 2: CH: ****
The Curious Garden: CH: ****
Dragon World: CH?: ***+
Bad Kitty; The Bad Kitty series, Book 1: CH: ****
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo (with Jill Twiss), illustrations by EG (Gerald Kelley) Keller: CH: ****
Night of the Gargoyles, illustrations by David Wiesner: CH: ****
Gargoyles' Christmas, illustrations by Bridget Starr: CH: ***
The X-Files: Earth Children are Weird, illustrations by Kim Smith; Based on The X-Files series: CH: ***
You've Got Dragons, illustrations by Nick Maland: CH: ****
Camp Tiger, illustrations by John Rocco: CH: *****
It Came in the Mail: CH: ****
She Persisted, illustrations by Alexandra Boiger: CH: *****
She Persisted Around the World, illustrations by Alexandra Boiger: CH: ****+
Imagine!: CH: ****+
The Day the Crayons Quit, illustrations by Oliver Jeffers: CH: ****
The Day the Crayons Came Home, illustrations by Oliver Jeffers: CH: ****
The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors, illustrations by Adam Rex: CH: ****+
The Knight and the Dragon: CH: ****
Everyone Loves Bacon, illustrations by Eric Wight: CH: ****
You Don't Want a Unicorn!, illustrations by Liz Climo: CH: ****
Dragonhenge (with John Grant); The Dragonhenge series, Book 1: ****
The Stardragons (with John Grant); The Dragonhenge series, Book 2: ***
Ocean Meets Sky: CH: ****+
How to Draw a Dragon: CH: ****
The Cat, the Dog, Little Red, the Exploding Eggs, the Wolf, and Grandma, illustrations by Christyan Fox: CH: ***+
My Father's Dragon, illustrations by Ruth Christian Gannett; The My Father's Dragon series, Book 1: CH: ****+
A Couch for Llama: CH: ****
The Trouble with Dragons: CH: ***+
Step Inside Dragons, illustrations by Nick Harris: CH: ****
Imagine a Day (text by Sarah L. Thompson): CH: ****+
Imagine a Night (text by Sarah L. Thompson): CH: *****
Imagine a World (text by Sarah L. Thompson): CH: ****+
Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time; The Dinotopia series, Book 1: MG?: *****
Dinotopia: The World Beneath; The Dinotopia series, Book 2: MG?: ****
Never Let Your Cat Make Lunch For You, illustrations by Debbie Tilley: CH: ****
Nobody Likes a Goblin: CH: ****
Little Red Writing, illustrations by Melissa Sweet: CH: ***+
Cinder Edna, illustrations by Kevin O'Malley: CH: ***+
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book: **
Lovabye Dragon, illustrations by Randy Cecil; The Girl and Dragon Books: CH: ****
Monsters Eat Whiny Children: CH: ****
I Want My Hat Back: CH: ***+
This Is Not My Hat: CH: ***+
Dragon Night: CH: ****
The Bakery Dragon: CH: ****+
The Boy Who Cried Ninja: CH: ****
7 Ate 9: The Untold Story, illustrations by Ross McDonald; The Private I series, Book 1: CH: ****
Catwings, illustrations by S. D. Schindler; A Catwings Tale, Book 1: CH: ****
Drawn Together, illustrations by Dan Santat: CH: ****+
The Truth About Dragons, illustrations by Hanna Cha: CH: *****
E-mergency: CH: ****+
Castle: CH?: ****
Day Dreamers: A Journey of Imagination: CH: ****
John Ronald's Dragons: The Story of J. R. R. Tolkien: CH *****
Fairy Dreams: CH: *****
Tell Me a Dragon: CH: ****+
Lord of the Forest (with Caroline Pitcher): CH: ****+
This Is a Moose, illustrations by Tom Lichtenheld: CH: ****
The Paper Bag Princess: CH: *****
Do Not Open This Book: CH: ****
A is for Activist: CH: ***+
Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters, illustrations by Loren Long: CH: ****+
A Dignity of Dragons, illustrations by Nicoletta Ceccoli: CH: ****
Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude, illustrations by Kevin O'Malley, Carol Heyer, and Scott Goto: CH: ***+
Captain Raptor and the Space Pirates (with Patrick O'Brien), illustrations by Patrick O'Brien; The Captain Raptor series, Book 2: CH: ****
Dragons Love: CH: *****
Meet the Dullards, illustrations by Daniel Salmieri: CH: ****+
The Dragons are Singing Tonight, illustrations by Peter Sís: CH: *****
The Gargoyle on the Roof, illustrations by Peter Sís: CH: ****
Monday's Troll, illustrations by Peter Sís: CH: ***
Carnivores, illustrations by Dan Santat: CH: *****
The Egg; The Egg series, Book 1: CH: ****
The Cinder-Eyed Cats: CH: ****
Dragons Love Tacos, illustrated by Daniel Salmieri; The Dragons Love Tacos series, Book 1: CH: ****
Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel, illustrated by Daniel Salmieri; The Dragons Love Tacos series, Book 2: CH: ****
Secret Pizza Party, illustrated by Daniel Salmieri: CH: ****
The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend: CH: ****+
There Are Cats in this Book; The Cats in this Book series, Book 1: CH: ****
There Are No Cats in this Book; The Cats in this Book series, Book 2: CH: ****
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, illustrations by Lane Smith: CH: ****+
Where the Wild Things Are: CH: ****+
The Antlered Ship, illustrations by Eric Fan and Terry Fan: CH: ****
The Most Magnificent Thing: CH: ****+
The Book That Did Not Want to Be Read: CH: ****
Fairy Foals: CH: ****
This Book is Not About Dragons: CH: ****
How to Raise and Keep a Dragon (Joseph Nigg, "editor"): CH?: ****
Sir Toby Jingle's Beastly Journey: CH: *****
The Dragon Machine, illustrations by Wayne Anderson: CH: ****+
Chester; The Chester series, Book 1: CH: ****
Chester's Back!; The Chester series, Book 2: CH: ****+
You're Finally Here!: CH: ****
Dragon Girl: The Secret Valley: CH?: ****
Free Fall: CH: ****+
Mr. Wuffles!: CH: ****+
Sector 7: CH: ****
The Dream of the Thylacine, illustrations by Ron Brooks: CH: ****+
Edwina, The Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct: CH: ****+
The Sad Little Fact, illustrations by Pete Oswald: CH: ****+
The Woodland Folk in Dragonland; The Woodland Folk series: CH: ***+
The Flying Dragon Room, illustrations by Mark Teague: CH: ***+
I Am A Story: CH: ****+
What Do You Do With a Chance?: CH: ****
What Do You Do With an Idea?: CH: ****+
What Do You Do With a Problem?: CH: ****
Teacup: CH: *****

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Poetry

Clap When You Land: YA: ****
Dragon World: ***+
The Best of Lewis Carroll: CH?: ***+
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: CH?: *****
Fragile Things: ****
The Trouble with Dragons: CH: ***+
Imagine a Day (text by Sarah L. Thompson): CH: ****+
Imagine a Night (text by Sarah L. Thompson): CH: *****
Imagine a World (text by Sarah L. Thompson): CH: ****+
How to Draw a Dragon: CH: ****
Lifeboat 12: MG: ****
Lovabye Dragon, illustrations by Randy Cecil; The Girl and Dragon Books: CH: ****
The Truth About Dragons, illustrations by Hanna Cha: CH: *****
The Lost Words: CH: ***+
Day Dreamers: A Journey of Imagination: CH: ****
Fairy Dreams: CH: *****
Beowulf: ****
Paradise Lost: ****
The Dragons are Singing Tonight, illustrations by Peter Sís: CH: *****
The Gargoyle on the Roof, illustrations by Peter Sís: CH: ****
Monday's Troll, illustrations by Peter Sís: CH: ***
Long Way Down: YA: *****
The Cinder-Eyed Cats: CH: ****
The Enchanted Cat: ***
The Dream of the Thylacine, illustrations by Ron Brooks: CH: ****+
How to Fracture a Fairy Tale: ****+

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Romance

Unexpected Gifts; The Castle Mountain Lodge series, Book 1: ***
Pride and Prejudice: ***+
The Wedding Trap; The Second Service series, Book 1: ***+
The Inscription: ***
Whatever for Hire; The Magical Romantic Comedy (with a body count) series, Book 5: ****
Beguilement; The Wide Green World series, Volume 1: The Sharing Knife series, Book 1: **+
An American Werewolf in Hoboken; The Wolf Mates series, Book 1: ****
This Is Our Song; The Shaughnessy Brothers series, Book 4: ****
Wicked Games (with Jill Myles); A Games novel, Volume 1: ***+
Doon (with Lorie Langdon); A Doon novel, Book 1: YA: ***
Fools Like Us: **
My Lady's Choosing (with Larissa Zageris): ***
Face the Flames; A Sugarland Blue novel, Book 6: **+
Scoundrel for Hire; The Velvet Lies series, Book 1: ****
Ice Planet Barbarians; The Ice Planet Barbarians series, Book 1: ***+
The Border Bride; The Borderlands trilogy, Book 1: **+
The Fix Up; The First Impressions series, Book 1: ****
Outlander; The Outlander series, Book 1: **
Unflappable: ****
The Love Con: ****
Concrete Evidence; The Evidence series, Book 1: ****
Incriminating Evidence; The Evidence series, Book 4: ****
The Ghost Pirate's Treasure: Mystery of the Jaguar Warrior; The Paranormally Yours series, Book 1: **+
Shelly's Second Chance; The Wish Granters series, Book 1: ****
Firefly Hollow; The Firefly Hollow series, Book 1: ***
Crimson Gold; The Spokan Falls series, Book 1: **
Step Into My Parlor: **
Let's Get Textual; The Texting series, Book 1: **+
Just Good Friends; The Escape to New Zealand series, Book 1: ***
Blessed Lands Egypt: *
Pride's Run; The Wolf's Pride series, Book 1: YA: ***+
Burned; The Dragos series, Book 1: ***
Change the Past; The Time Shifters series, Book 1: YA: ***
These Broken Stars (with Meagan Spooner); The Starbound trilogy, Book 1: YA: ****
This Shattered World (with Meagan Spooner); The Starbound trilogy, Book 2: YA: ****
Their Fractured Light (with Meagan Spooner); The Starbound trilogy, Book 3: YA: ***
Storm; The Elemental series, Book 1: YA: ****
The Girl In Between; The Girl In Between series, Book 1: YA: ****
Swordheart: ***
Broken Wings; A Time Travel Romance: ***
The Silver Metal Lover; The S.I.L.V.E.R. series, Book 1: ***+
Trials of Artemis; The Haberdashers series, Book 1: ***+
You Slay Me; The Aisling Grey, Guardian series, Book 1: ***+
Three Mages and a Margarita; The Guild Codex: Spellbound series, Book 1: ***+
Bound to the Bachelor; The Bachelor Auction series, Book 1: ****
Branded For You; The Riding Tall series, Book 1: **+
Hunt the Stars; The Starlight's Shadow series, Book 1: ****
Don't Even Think About It; The Don't Even Think About It series, Book 1: YA: ****
Stealing Mr. Right; The Penelope Blue series, Book 1: ***
Evidence of Trust; The Colorado Trust series, Book 1: ****
When Lightning Strikes; The Whiskey Creek series, Book 1: ****
Almost Perfect; The Perfect Trilogy, Book 1: ****
The Night Raven; The Crow Investigations series, Book 1: ***
Code of Honor; The Intrepid Heroines series, Book 1: **+
Witchmark; The Kingston Cycle, Book 1: ****
Dragon Rose; Tales of the Latter Kingdoms, Book 1: **+
Time Treasure; The McFey Treasures series, Book 1: ****
ExtraNormal; The ExtraNormal Academy series, Book 1: YA: ***+
Bidding on Brooks; The Blueberry Lane Series: The Winslow Brothers, Book 1: ***
Neanderthal Seeks Human; The Knitting in the City series, Book 1: ***
Just In Time Cowboy; The Lost Mine series, Book 1: ****
Deal with the Devil; The Mercenary Librarians series, Book 1: ***
Carry On; The Simon Snow series, Book 1: YA: ****
Romancing Miss Right; The Reality Romance series, Book 2: ****+
Feel the Heat; The Rockford Fire Department series, Book 1: ***+
The Down Home Zombie Blues: **
The Raven Boys; The Raven Cycle, Book 1: YA: ***+
Blood for Wolves; A Figments Fable: ****
Forever His; The Stolen Brides series, Book 1: ****
Someone Else's Fairytale; The Someone Else's Fairytale series, Book 1: ***
Disenchanted & Co.; The Disenchanted & Co. series, Book 1: **
A Sky So Big (with Karl Beckstrand): ***
Crosstalk: **+
Heavenbreaker; The Heavenbreaker series, Book 1: YA: **+
Fourth Wing; The Empyrean series, Book 1: ****

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Sci-Fi

Sea of Stars Volume 1 (with Dennis Hallum), illustrations by Stephen Green and Rico Renzi; The Sea of Stars series, Issues 1 - 5: YA?: ***+
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide; The Hitchhiker's Guide series, Books 1 - 5: ***
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (editor): ***+
All the Birds in the Sky: **
The City in the Middle of the Night: ***+
The X-Files: Ruins The X-Files series: ***
Whales on Stilts; A Pals in Peril Tale, Book 1: MG: ****+
The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen; A Pals in Peril Tale, Book 2: MG: ****+
Jasper Dash and Flame-Pits of Delaware; A Pals in Peril Tale, Book 3: MG: ****
Agent Q, or the Smell of Fear!; A Pals in Peril Tale, Book 4: MG: ****
Wolfwing The Lycanthra Chronicles, Book 1: **+
Killobyte: ***
Light From Uncommon Stars: ****+
The Complete Animorphs series The Animorphs series, Books 1 - 54, plus Megamorphs 1 - 4 and Chronicles series: MG
Alternamorphs 1 - The First Journey The Animorphs series, Alternamorphs 1: MG: ***
Alternamorphs 2 - The Next Passage The Animorphs series, Alternamorphs 2: MG: ****
The Remnants series; The Remnants series, Books 1 - 14: MG
Eve and Adam (with Michael Grant): YA: ****+
Sister of the Chosen One (with Colleen Oakes): YA: ***
Mickey7; The Mickey7 series, Book 1: **
The Caves of Steel; The Robot series, Book 1: ***+
Foundation; The Foundation series: The Foundation trilogy, Book 1: ***+
Fortune's Pawn; The Paradox series, Book 1: ***
I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here With You, and Other Stories: ****
Sky Coyote; The Company series, Book 2: ****
Carico Trails; The Beyonders series, Book 1: ***
The Time Keeper; The Timeways trilogy, Book 1: MG: ****
Great Classic Science Fiction: ****
Nick of Time; The Nick McIvers Adventures Through Time series, Book 1: MG: ***
Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887: ***
The Guns Above; A Signal Airship novel, Book 1: ***+
Galaxy Quest: *****
The Clockwork Cathedral; The Time Corps Chronicles, Book 1: **+
The Only Harmless Great Thing: *****
Arkhangelsk: ****
The Cold Between; A Central Corps novel, Book 1: *****
It Came!; The It Came series, Issues 1 - 4: *****
The Scoprion Rules; The Prisoners of Peace series, Book 1: YA: ***
Frontier Earth; The Frontier Earth series, Book 1: ***
The Martian Chronicles: ****
Going Bovine: YA: **+
Kiln People; The Kiln books: ****
The Practice Effect: **
CatStronauts: Mission Moon; The CatStronauts series, Book 1: CH: ****
Star Dragon: ***
Darth Vader and Son; The Darth Vader collection, Book 1: CH?: ****+
Vader's LIttle Princess; The Darth Vader collection, Book 2: CH?: ****+
The Scourge Between Stars: **+
The Wild Robot; The Wild Robot series, Book 1: CH?: ****
The Wild Robot Escapes; The Wild Robot series, Book 2: CH?: ****
Red Rising; The Red Rising Saga, Book 1: ****+
Golden Son; The Red Rising Saga, Book 2: ****
Morning Star; The Red Rising Saga, Book 3: ****+
A Princess of Mars; The Barsoom/John Carter of Mars series, Book 1: ***
Wild Seed; The Patternist series, Book 1: ***+
Hollow Kingdom: **+
Saber Tooth; The Dawn of Mammals series, Book 1: ***
Who Goes There?: ****
Ender's Game; The Enderverse Universe: The Ender Quintet, Book 1: YA?: *****
Speaker for the Dead; The Enderverse Universe: The Ender Quintet, Book 2: *****
Xenocide; The Enderverse Universe: The Ender Quintet, Book 3: ****
Children of the Mind; The Enderverse Universe: The Ender Quintet, Book 4: ***
Ender's Shadow; The Enderverse Universe: The Shadow series, Book 1: YA? *****
Shadow of the Hegemon; The Enderverse Universe: The Shadow series, Book 2: ****
Shadow Puppets; The Enderverse Universe: The Shadow series, Book 3: ***
Day Zero: ***
Any Sign of Life: YA: ****
The X-Files: Earth Children are Weird, illustrations by Kim Smith; Based on The X-Files series: CH: ***
The X-Files: Fight the Future (adapted by Elizabeth Hand); The X-Files series, Book 7: ***
Dragons in the Stars; The Star Rigger Universe: ****
Dragon Rigger; The Star Rigger Universe: *****
Star Rigger's Way; The Star Rigger Universe: ****
Seas of Ernathe; The Star Rigger Universe: ***+
Retrograde; The Retrograde series, Book 1: ****
Midnight at the Well of Souls; The Well of Souls series, Book 1: ***
A Psalm for the Wild-Built; A Monk and Robot book, Book 1: ****
To Be Taught, If Fortunate: ****
Here and Now and Then: ****
Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head (with Lauren Oliver); The Curiosity House series, Book 1: MG: ***
Ocean's Godori; The Alliance series, Book 1: ***
Flux: ***+
When the Tripods Came; The Tripods series, Book 1: CH: ****
The Lives of Tao; The Lives of Tao series, Book 1: ****
Finna; The LitenVerse series, Book 1: ****
What We Found in the Sofa and How It Saved the World: MG ****
Childhood's End: ***
Things Not Seen; The Things Not Seen series, Book 1: YA: *****
Crownchasers; The Crownchasers series, Book 1: YA: ****
Thronebreakers; The Crownchasers series, Book 2: YA: ****
Z. Rex; The Hunting series, Book 1: MG: ***+
Winds of Marque; The Blackwood & Virtue series, Book 1: ***+
And Another Thing...; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, Book 6: ****
The Supernaturalist: MG: ****
The Hunger Games; The Hunger Games trilogy, Book 1: YA: ****
Catching Fire; The Hunger Games trilogy, Book 2: YA: ****
Mockingjay; The Hunger Games trilogy, Book 3: YA: ****
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes; A Hunger Games novel: YA: ****
15 Minutes; The Rewind Agency series, Book 1: YA: ***
The Churn; An Expanse Novella: ***+
Leviathan Wakes; The Expanse series, Book 1: ****
Caliban's War; The Expanse series, Book 2: ****
Gods of Risk; An Expanse Novella: ****
Abaddon's Gate; The Expanse series, Book 3: ****
The Vital Abyss; An Expanse novella: ****
Cibola Burn; The Expanse series, Book 4: ****
Nemesis Games; The Expanse series, Book 5: ****+
Babylon's Ashes; The Expanse series, Book 6: ****
Strange Dogs; An Expanse novella: ****
Persepolis Rising; The Expanse series, Book 7: ****+
Auberon; An Expanse novella: ****
Tiamat's Wrath; The Expanse series, Book 8: ****+
Memory's Legion; The Expanse novellas: ****
How It Unfolds; The Far Reaches series, Book 1: ****+
The Expanse #1 (with Corinna Sara Bechko), illustrations by Alejandro Aragon; The Expanse series, Issue 1: ****
The Expanse #2 (with Corinna Sara Bechko), illustrations by Alejandro Aragon; The Expanse series, Issue 2: ***+
The Expanse #3 (with Corinna Sara Bechko), illustrations by Alejandro Aragon; The Expanse series, Issue 3: ****
The Expanse #4 (with Corinna Sara Bechko), illustrations by Alejandro Aragon; The Expanse series, Issue 4: ****
The Expanse: Dragon Tooth, Volume 1 (with Andy Diggle), illustrations by Rubine; The Expanse: Dragon Tooth series, Issues 1 - 4: ****+
The Expanse: Dragon Tooth, Volume 2 (with Andy Diggle), illustrations by Francesco Pisa; The Expanse: Dragon Tooth series, Issues 5 - 8: ****+
The Expanse: Dragon Tooth, Volume 3 (with Andy Diggle), illustrations by Francesco Pisa; The Expanse: Dragon Tooth series, Issues 9 - 12: ****+
The Expanse Volume 1: Origins (with Hallie Lambert and Georgia Lee), illustrations by Huang Danlan, Triona Farrell, Juan Useche, and Rahzzah; The Expanse Origins, Issues 1 - 4: ***+
Space Station Ice-3: YA: ***
Bruce Coville's Book of... Anthologies (editor): CH: *****
Bruce Coville's Strange Worlds (editor): CH: *****
Jurassic Park; The Jurassic Park series, Book 1: ****
Timeline: ***
Dark Matter: ****
Recursion: ****
Pines; The Wayward Pines trilogy, Book 1: ****
The Dragon Book (with Gardner Dozois, editors): **+
Jupiter Winds; The Jupiter Winds series, Book 1: YA: **+
Bone Wars: **
The Tea Master and the Detective: ***
The Last Watch; The Divide series, Book 1: ****
The Exiled Fleet; The Divide series, Book 2: ****
The Marrow Thieves; The Marrow Thieves series, Book 1: YA?: ****
Usborne Fantasy Quests; The Fantasy Adventures series: CH: ****
Ice Planet Barbarians; The Ice Planet Barbarians series, Book 1: ***+
Counterweight (translated by Anton Hun): ***
The Lost World; The Professor Challenger series, Book 1: ****+
How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse; The Arithmancy and Anarchy series: The Thorne Chronicles, Book 1: YA: ****+
How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge; The Arithmancy and Anarchy series: The Thorne Chronicles, Book 2: YA: ****+
Nightwatch on the Hinterlands; The Arithmancy and Anarchy series: The Weep series, Book 1: ****+
Nightwatch Over Windscar; The Arithmancy and Anarchy series: The Weep series, Book 2: ****+
Race for the Escape: MG: ***
Ocean/Orbiter Deluxe Edition, illustrations by Chris Sprouse and Colleen Doran: *****
Starfire: A Red Peace; The Starfire trilogy, Book 1: ****
The Disasters: YA: ***+
Cats in Space and Other Places (editor): **
King: The Graphic Novel, illustrated by Bernard Chang and Marcelo Maiolo: ****
The Darkest Time of Night: ***
Pyramid Scheme (with Dave Freer); The Pyramid series, Book 1: ***
The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind; The Frost Files series, Book 1: ***+
The Machine Stops: ****
Cat-A-Lyst: **
Quozl: ***
Star Sailor 1: The Wolves of Sahlam; The Star Sailor series, Book 1: YA: *+
Black Sun Rising; The Coldfire trilogy, Book 1: ****
When True Night Falls; The Coldfire trilogy, Book 2: ****
Crown of Shadows; The Coldfire trilogy, Book 3: ***
Outlander; The Outlander series, Book 1: **
The Echo Wife: ***
River of Teeth; The River of Teeth series, Book 1: ***
Fortunately, the Milk: CH: ****
Fragile Things: ****
Empress of Forever: **+
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2012 Edition (with David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden, editors): ***
Jumper; The Jumper series, Book 1: YA: ***
Feed; The Newsflesh series, Book 1: *****
Deadline; The Newsflesh series, Book 2: *****
Blackout; The Newsflesh series, Book 3: *****
Rise: The Complete Newsflesh Collection; The Newsflesh series: *****
Deathstalker; The Deathstalker series, Book 1: ***+
Dragons: The Greatest Stories (editor): **
Self / Made, illustrations by Eudardo Ferigato and Marcelo Costa; Issues 1 - 6: YA?: ***+
Found; The Missing series, Book 1: MG: ***+
Among the Hidden; The Shadow Children sequence, Book 1: MG: ****
Among the Imposters; The Shadow Children sequence, Book 2: MG: ****
The Forever War; The Forever War series, Book 1: ****
One Trick Pony: CH: ***+
Metropolis: **+
Titanium Noir: ***+
Cat Scratch Fever; The Cat Scratch series, Book 1: **+
The Warehouse: ***+
The Anything Box: ****
The Girl in Red: ****
When the Sky Fell on Splendor: YA: **
Dune; The Dune Chronicles, Book 1: ****
Full Throttle: Stories: ****
Terminal Alliance; The Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse series, Book 1: ****
Zero Sum Game; The Cas Russell series, Book 1: ***
The Iron Giant: CH: **
A Rip Through Time: The Dame, the Doctor, and the Device (with Chad Eagleton, Garnett Elliot, and Charles A. Gramlich, authors; David Cranmer, editor); A Rip Through Time series, Volume 1: **
The Fourteenth Goldfish; The Fourteenth Goldfish series, Book 1: MG: ****
The Darwin Elevator; The Dire Earth Cycle, Book 1: ***+
Beacon 23: ***+
The Mighty Odds; The Odds series, Book 1: CH?: ****
Time Tourist Outfitters, Ltd.; The Toronto Time Agents series, Book 1: ***+
The Loneliest Girl in the Universe: YA: *+
After London or, Wild England: **+
The Fifth Season; The Broken Earth trilogy, Book 1: ****
Emergency Skin; The Forward collection: ****+
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories 2018 (editor, with John Joseph Adams): ****
Low Road West, illustrations by Miquel Muerto Flaviano; Issues 1 - 5: YA: ***+
The Last Human: ***
Eclipse Volume 1, illustrated by Giovanni Timpano; The Eclipse series, Issues 1 - 4: ****
Change the Past; The Time Shifters series, Book 1: YA: ***
These Broken Stars (with Meagan Spooner); The Starbound trilogy, Book 1: YA: ****
This Shattered World (with Meagan Spooner); The Starbound trilogy, Book 2: YA: ****
Their Fractured Light (with Meagan Spooner); The Starbound trilogy, Book 3: YA: ***
The Clone Assassin; A Clone Republic novel, Book 9: ***
11/22/63: ****+
Dragons vs. Drones; The Dragons vs. Drones series, Book 1: MG: ***+
Forbidden Mind; The Forbidden trilogy, Book 1: YA: ***
With the Night Mail: ***+
The Best of Damon Knight: ***+
Domesticating Dragons; The Build-A-Dragon Sequence, Book 1: ****
The Calculating Stars; A Lady Astronaut novel, Book 1: ****
The Fated Sky; A Lady Astronaut novel, Book 2: ****
The Spare Man: **
Whalefall: ***
Broken Wings; A Time Travel Romance: ***
The Haunted Mesa: **+
Starflight; The Starflight series, Book 1: ***
One Word Kill; The Impossible Times series, Book 1: YA: ***
Ancillary Justice; The Imperial Radch trilogy, Book 1: ****
The Silver Metal Lover; The S.I.L.V.E.R. series, Book 1: ***+
Dragon Pearl; A Rick Riordan Presents novel: MG: ****
Rocannon's World; The Hainish Cycle, Book 1: Fiction, Sci-Fi: ****
Amid the Crowd of Stars: ***+
Descender: The Deluxe Edition Volume 1, illustrations by Dustin Nguyen; The Descender series, Issues 1 - 16: *****
Descender Volume 4: Orbital Mechanics, illustrations by Dustin Nguyen; The Descender series, Issues 17 - 21: ****+
Descender Volume 5: Rise of the Robots, illustrations by Dustin Nguyen; The Descender series, Issues 22 - 26: *****
Descender Volume 6: The Machine War, illustrations by Dustin Nguyen; The Descender series, Issues 27 - 32: ****
Ascender Volume 1: The Haunted Galaxy, illustrations by Dustin Nguyen; The Ascender series, Issues 1 - 5: ****+
Ascender Volume 2: The Dead Sea, illustrations by Dustin Nguyen; The Ascender series, Issues 6 - 10: ****+
Ascender Volume 3: The Digital Mage, illustrations by Dustin Nguyen; The Ascender series, Issues 11 - 14: ****+
Ascender Volume 4: Star Seed, illustrations by Dustin Nguyen; The Ascender series, Issues 15 - 18: ****+
Sentient, illustrations by Gabriel Walta: ****
A Wrinkle in Time; The Time Quintet, Book 1: MG: ***+
Watchers: Last Stop; The Watchers series, Book 1: MG: *****
Watchers: Rewind; The Watchers series, Book 2: MG: *****
Watchers: I.D.; The Watchers series, Book 3: MG: *****
Watchers: War; The Watchers series, Book 4: MG: *****
Watchers: Island; The Watchers series, Book 5: MG: ****+
Watchers: Lab 6; The Watchers series, Book 6: MG: *****
Power Up, illustrations by Matt Cummings; The Power Up series, episodes 1 - 6: YA?: ***+
Arabella of Mars; The Aventures of Arabella Ashby, Book 1: YA?: ****
Arabella and the Battle of Venus; The Aventures of Arabella Ashby, Book 2: YA?: ****
Arabella the Traitor of Mars; The Aventures of Arabella Ashby, Book 3: YA?: ****
The Three-Body Problem (translated by Ken Liu); The Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, Book 1: ***+
Before Adam: ***+
Planet Paradise: ***
Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves: YA: ****
At the Mountains of Madness: ****
The Giver; The Giver quartet, Book 1: ****
Acheron Rising; The Federation Chronicles series: ***+
The Dragon and the Stars (with Eric Choi, editors): ***+
Nightflyers: ****
A Memory Called Empire; The Teixcalaan series, Book 1: ****+
Dragonfold and Other Adventures: YA?: **+
The Psychology of Time Travel: ***+
Heroine Addiction: **
Robots Vs. Princesses Volume 1, illustrations by Nicholas Chapuis; The Robots Vs. Princesses series, Issues 1 - 4: CH?: ***+
I Am Legend and Other Stories: ***
Bitterwood; The Dragon Age series, Book 1: ***
Saturday, the Twelfth of October: YA: ****
The Ship Who Sang; The Brain and Brawn Ship series, Book 1: *****
PartnerShip (with Margaret Ball); The Brain and Brawn Ship series, Book 2: ***
The Ship Who Searched (with Mercedes Lackey); The Brain and Brawn Ship series, Book 3: ***+
Crystal Singer; The Crystal Singer trilogy, Book 1: **
The Dragonriders of Pern; The Dragonriders of Pern series, Books 1 - 3: ****+
Dragonsong; The Pern universe: The Harper Hall trilogy, Book 1: YA?: *****
Dragonsinger; The Pern universe: The Harper Hall trilogy, Book 2: YA?: *****
Dragondrums; The Pern universe: The Harper Hall trilogy, Book 3: YA?: ****
Once & Future (with A. R. Capetta); The Once & Future series, Book 1: YA: ***
The Warrior Within: ****
Dreamsnake: ****
Caverns of Socrates: ****
Roswell High: The Outsiders; The Roswell High series, Book 1: ****
Cinder; The Lunar Chronicles, Book 1: YA: ****
Off to Be the Wizard; The Magic 2.0 series, Book 1: ****+
Spell or High Water; The Magic 2.0 series, Book 2: ****
An Unwelcome Quest; The Magic 2.0 series, Book 3: ****
Run Program: ***
The Body Scout: ****+
The Gem People: YA: ***
Hunt the Stars; The Starlight's Shadow series, Book 1: ****
Don't Even Think About It; The Don't Even Think About It series, Book 1: YA: ****
Oona Out of Order: ***+
Trading in Danger; The Vatta's War series, Book 1: ****
Altered Carbon; The Takeshi Kovacs series, Book 1: ****
Altered Carbon: Download Blues (with Rik Hoskin), illustrations by Ferran Sellares; A Takeshi Kovacs graphic novel: ****
WE3, illustrations by Frank Quitely; The We3 series, Issues 1 - 3: ****
The Tusks of Extinction: ****
Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers; The Red Dwarf series, Book 1: ****
Better Than Life; The Red Dwarf series, Book 2: ****+
A History of What Comes Next; The Take Them to the Stars series, Book 1: ****+
Vessel: ***+
Ringworld; The Ringworld series, Book 1: ***
Dream Park (with Steven Barnes); The Dream Park series, Book 1: ***
Polaris: MG: ***
Catseye: YA?: ***+
Catfantastic I - IV (with Martin H. Greenberg, editors); The Catfantastic series: ****
The Blighted Stars; The Devoured Worlds series, Book 1: ****
Velocity Weapon; The Protectorate series, Book 1: ****+
Chaos Vector; The Protectorate series, Book 2: ****+
Catalyst Gate; The Protectorate series, Book 3: ****
Binti; The Binti trilogy, Book 1: ****+
Binti: Home; The Binti trilogy, Book 2: ****
Binti: The Night Masquerade; The Binti trilogy, Book 3: ****
Ikenga: MG: ****
Lagoon: ****
The Mimicking of Known Successes; The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti series, Book 1: ***+
Captain Raptor and the Space Pirates (with Patrick O'Brien), illustrations by Patrick O'Brien; The Captain Raptor series, Book 2: CH: ****
War Girls; The War Girls series, Book 1: YA: ****+
Too Like the Lightning; The Terra Ignota series, Book 1: **
Finder; The Finder Chronicles, Book 1: ****+
Driving the Deep; The Finder Chronicles, Book 2: ****+
The Scavenger Door; The Finder Chronicles, Book 3: ****+
Ghostdrift; The Finder Chronicles, Book 4: ****+
Seafire; The Seafire trilogy, Book 1: YA?: **+
The Transall Saga: MG?: ***
2099: Doomsday; The 2099 series, Book 1: MG: ***+
2099: Betrayal; The 2099 series, Book 2: MG: ****
Gunpowder Moon: ***+
Life as We Knew It; The Life as We Knew It series, Book 1: YA: ****
The Dead and the Gone; The Life as We Knew It series, Book 2: YA: ***+
The Visitors (with Lynn Harnett); The Visitors Trilogy, Book 1 - 3: MG: *
Little Fuzzy; The Fuzzy Sapiens series, Book 1: **+
Starswarm; A Jupiter novel: MG?: **
Embers of War; The Embers of War trilogy, Book 1: ***
The Bromeliad Trilogy; The Bromeliad Trilogy, Books 1 - 3: MG?: *****
Only You Can Save Mankind; The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy, Book 1: MG?: *****
Sharcano; The Sharkpocalypse Trilogy, Book 1: ***+
Tyrannosaur Canyon; The Wyman Ford series, Book 1: ****
Boneshaker; The Clockwork Century series, Book 1: YA: **
Arcana Universalis: Terminus; The Arcana Universalis series, Part 1: ***+
Arcana Universalis: Danse Macabre; The Arcana Universalis series, Part 2: ****
ExtraNormal; The ExtraNormal Academy series, Book 1: YA: ***+
Larklight; The Larklight series, Book 1: MG: **+
Year Zero: ***+
The True Meaning of Smekday; The Smek Smeries series, Book 1: MG: ****+
Revenger; The Revenger series, Book 1: YA?: **+
Close Encounters of the Worst Kind; A Brewster Rockit, Space Guy! collection, Book 1: *****
Mort(e); The War With No Name series, Book 1: **
Just In Time Cowboy; The Lost Mine series, Book 1: ****
Red Mars; The Mars Trilogy, Book 1: ****
Deal with the Devil; The Mercenary Librarians series, Book 1: ***
The City Beyond the Sands; The Strange Lands Saga, Book 1: ***
Steelheart; The Reckoners series, Book 1: YA: ***+
Skyward: YA: ***+
Saturn Run (with Ctien): ****
The Android's Dream: ****
The Collapsing Empire; The Interdependency series, Book 1: ***+
Old Man's War; The Old Man's War series, Book 1: ****
The Kaiju Preservation Society: ***+
The Ables: MG: **+
Frankenstein: **+
Lord Valentine's Castle; The Majipoor Cycle, Book 1: ***+
Nightwings: ***
City: ***+
Way Station: ****
Snow White and the Seven Robots, illustrations by Jimena Sanchez S.; The Far-Out Fairy Tales series: CH: ***+
The Down Home Zombie Blues: **
Clash of Eagles; The Clash of Eagles trilogy, Book 1: ***+
A Wizard in Mind; The Chronicles of the Rogue Wizard, Book 1: ***
When You Reach Me: MG: ****+
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (with Nicole Galland); The D.O.D.O. series, Book 1: ***+
We Shall Sing a Song into the Deep: ****
Island in the Sea of Time; A Novel of the Change: The Island series, Book 1: **+
In the Red: MG: ***+
We Are Legion (We Are Bob); The Bobiverse series, Book 1: ****
For We Are Many; The Bobiverse series, Book 2: ****
All These Worlds; The Bobiverse series, Book 3: ****
Just One Damned Thing After Another; The Chronicles of St. Mary's, Book 1: **+
Children of Time; The Children of Time series, Book 1: ****
Dogs of War; The Dogs of War series, Book 1: ****
The Doors of Eden: ****
Elder Race: ***+
Shards of Earth; The Final Architecture series, Book 1: ****
Walking to Aldebaran: ***+
Rex Rising; Elei's Chronicles, Book 1: YA: **
The Murders of Molly Southborne: **+
Siege Therapy: **
Game Over - Extended Edition: MG?: ****
Bitter Seeds; The Milkweed Triptych, Book 1: ***
The Last Murder at the End of the World: ***
The Woods Volume 1: The Arrow; The Woods series, Issues 1 - 4: ****
The Woods Volume 2: The Swarm; The Woods series, Issues 5 - 8: ****
The Woods Volume 3: New London; The Woods series, Issues 9 - 12: ****
Chilling Effect; The Chilling Effect series, Book 1: ***
Space Opera: *****
Paper Girls Volume 1, illustrations by Cliff Chiang; The Paper Girls series: MG?: ****
Paper Girls Volume 2, illustrations by Cliff Chiang; The Paper Girls series: MG?: ****
Paper Girls Volume 3, illustrations by Cliff Chiang; The Paper Girls series: MG?: ****
Paper Girls Volume 4, illustrations by Cliff Chiang; The Paper Girls series: MG?: ****
Paper Girls Volume 5, illustrations by Cliff Chiang and Matthew Wilson; The Paper Girls series: MG?: ****
Paper Girls Volume 6, illustrations by Cliff Chiang and Matthew Wilson; The Paper Girls series: MG?: ***+
Saga Volume 1 illustrations by Fiona Staples; The Saga series, Issues 1 - 6: *****
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: ****
A Journey to the Center of the Earth: ***+
Disenchanted & Co.; The Disenchanted & Co. series, Book 1: **
The Snow Queen; The Snow Queen Cycle, Book 1: ***
A Fire Upon the Deep; The Zones of Thought series, Book 1: ***+
Serpents of Sky: Nine stories of dragons: YA?: ***+
A Pale Light in the Black; The NeoG series, Book 1: ***
Hench: ***
Cast the First Stone (with Susan May Warren, James L. Rubart, and David C. Warren); The True Lies of Rembrandt Stone series, Book 1: ***+
On Basilisk Station; The Honor Harrington series, Book 1: **
Quantum Mechanics: CH?: ****
Artemis: ***+
The Martian: *****
The Invisible Man: ***
The Time Machine: ***+
All Systems Red; The Murderbot Diaries, Book 1: ****
Artifical Condition; The Murderbot Diaries, Book 2: ****
Rogue Protocol; The Murderbot Diaries, Book 3: ****
Exit Strategy; The Murderbot Diaries, Book 4: ****
Network Effect; The Murderbot Diaries, Book 5: ****
Horizon; The Horizon series, Book 1: MG: ****
Leviathan; The Leviathan trilogy, Book 1: YA: ***+
Behemoth; The Leviathan trilogy, Book 2: YA: ****+
Goliath; The Leviathan trilogy, Book 3: YA: ****
Hard Reboot: ***+
A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe; The Salvagers series, Book 1: ***+
Killing Gravity; The Voidwitch Saga, Book 1: ****
Mr. Wuffles!: CH: ****+
The Stars Now Unclaimed; The Universe After series, Book 1: ****
Mirror World: **
Otherland: City of Golden Shadow; The Otherland series, Book 1: ****
Otherland: River of Blue Fire; The Otherland series, Book 2: ****
Otherland: Mountain of Black Glass; The Otherland series, Book 3: *****
Otherland: Sea of Silver Light; The Otherland series, Book 4: ****
Crosstalk: **+
Heavenbreaker; The Heavenbreaker series, Book 1: YA: **+
The 5th Wave; The 5th Wave trilogy, Book 1: YA: ****
The Infinite Sea; The 5th Wave trilogy, Book 2: YA: ****
The Last Star; The 5th Wave trilogy, Book 3: YA: ***+
Cards of Grief: **
Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories: ****
Eridahn: ***
Time Travel Dinosaur; A Chooseomatic book, Book 3: *****
Dragon and Thief; The Dragonback Adventures, Book 1: YA: ****
Dragon and Soldier; The Dragonback Adventures, Book 2: YA: ****
Dragon and Slave; The Dragonback Adventures, Book 3: YA: ****
Dragon and Herdsman; The Dragonback Adventures, Book 4: YA: ***+
Dragon and Judge; The Dragonback Adventures, Book 5: YA: ****
Dragon and Liberator; The Dragonback Adventures, Book 6: YA: ***+
Night Train to Rigel; The Quadrail series, Book 1: **+
Mechanical Failure; The Epic Failure series, Book 1: ****

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Carico Trails; The Beyonders series, Book 1: ***
Wake of Vultures; The Shadow series, Book 1: YA: ****
Vengeance Road; The Vengeance Road series, Book 1: YA: ****+
Retribution Rails; The Vengeance Road series, Book 2: YA: ****
Frontier Earth; The Frontier Earth series, Book 1: ***
The Untamed; The Dan Barry series, Book 1: ***
Pulp, illustrations by Sean Phillips and Jacob Phillips: ****
Killing Dirty; The Across the Barren Landscape series, Story 1: ***+
Misadventures of Maude March; The Maude March series, Book 1: MG: ***
The Good Luck Girls; The Good Luck Girls series, Book 1: YA: **+
0.44: ***+
The Sisters Brothers: ****
Scoundrel for Hire; The Velvet Lies series, Book 1: ****
Goblintown Justice; A Shotguns & Sorcery story: ***
Riders of the Purple Sage: ***
Holmes on the Range; The Holmes on the Range series, Book 1: ****
News of the World: ****
The Haunted Mesa: **+
Lonesome Dove; The Lonesome Dove series, Book 1: ****
Six-Shooter Tales; The Six-Shooter series, Book 1: ****
True Grit: ****
The Legend of Charlie Fish: ****
The Alloy of Law; The Mistborn series: The Wax and Wayne series, Book 1: ***
Unwanted: Dead or Alive; The Buck and Dobie series, Book 1: ****
Devil's Tower: ****
Devil's Engine: ****
Six-Gun Snow White: ***+
A Partner in Crime; A Weapons Casters story: ***+
Wanted: A Western Story Collection: ***
A Sky So Big (with Karl Beckstrand): ***
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains: ****

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