Allison Picks Books
bok#Books and #stories for #JanuaryReads.
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Nine novels:
●●○○○ Shot in the Buff - Joan H. Dash
●●●●○ Flood {Flood 1} - Stephen Baxter
●●●◐○ The Regretful Life of Richard Bell {Middle Falls 16} - Shawn Inmon
●●●◐○ The Lengths We Go {Behold: Humanity! 18} - Ralts Bloodthorne
●●●◐○ Naked Truth - P.Z. Walker
●●◐○○ The Germ Growers - Robert Potter
●●●●○ The Case of the Teutonic Temptress {Miles Grant 17} - Jack Dearborn
●●●○○ Ark {Flood 2} - Stephen Baxter
●●●◐○ The Case of the Felonious Feminist {Miles Grant 18} - Jack Dearborn
One novella:
●●●●○ Stolen Dormouse - L. Sprague de Camp
Five novelettes:
●●●●○ Time Patrol - Poul Anderson
●●●●○ Star Ship - Poul Anderson
●●●○○ The Dictator - Stanley G. Weinbaum
●●●◐○ Witch of the Demon Seas - Poul Anderson
●●●●○ Sargasso of Lost Starships - Poul Anderson
Thirty short stories:
●●●◐○ Agent - E C Tubb
◐○○○○ Dɔrə's Song - Victor Forna
●●●◐○ The Improper Authorities - Fritz Leiber
●●◐○○ Old Man Henderson - Kris Neville
●●○○○ Fresh Air Fiend - Kris Neville
●●●○○ White Goddess - Margaret St. Clair
●●○○○ The Girl Named Uku/phaza/mi/se/ka - Philisiwe Twijnstra
●●○○○ Beneath the Open Sky - Mel Cowan
●●◐○○ Try and Change the Past - Fritz Leiber
●●○○○ Torn - Michael Shotter
●●◐○○ N-00-D-1 Station - P.Z. Walker
●●○○○ Five Years Next Sunday - Idza Luhumyo
●●●◐○ Pillows - Margaret St. Clair
●●●◐○ Calm Down, People! It's Just Space Bees - Carlos Hernandez
●●●○○ Waiting to Die - Yefon Isabelle
●●●●○ The Chase - Wallace M Greensage
●●●◐○ Little Old Miss Macbeth - Fritz Leiber
●●●●○ Shelter - Mbozi Haimbe
●●●○○ Stroller - Margaret St. Clair
●●●○○ The Causes - Margaret St. Clair
●●●●○ Opal Necklace - Kris Neville
●●●○○ Ivy's Story - Andrew Calow
●●○○○ Underground Movement - Kris Neville
●●●○○ Accidental Eden - Mel Cowan
●●●◐○ Enough - Nicholas A. Dawn
●●◐○○ A Bad Day for Sales - Fritz Leiber
●●◐○○ The Hole in the Moon - Margaret St. Clair
●●●●○ 1962 - Ted Bun
●●●◐○ The Ming Vase - E C Tubb
●●◐○○ The Curator's Knot - Michael Shotter
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2026-01: 33 ss | 06 nvt | 02 nva | 09 nov
2025-12: 34 ss | 03 nvt | 01 nva | 07 nov
2025-11: 23 ss | 03 nvt | 05 nva | 10 nov
2025-10: 30 ss | 00 nvt | 02 nva | 13 nov
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This list says I read five novelettes, while the totals at the end say six. There are similar discrepancies in novellas and shorts.
That's because for the monthly list, I only count the stuff read in the month proper, while in the year's running total, I count everything read in the ISO year. 2026 is 53 weeks long; it already grabbed three days from 2025, and will take three from 2027.
During the last three days of December I read three shorts, a novelette, and a novella, which count for 2026, but not for January.
Morgan Sheppard
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Tiffany E. Taylor
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