#Books and #stories for #MayReads.
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Thirteen novels:
●●●○○ The Third Artifact - David Collins {Artifact 3}
●●●◐○ The Fourth Artifact - David Collins {Artifact 4}
●●●◐○ Ballroom of the Skies - John D. MacDonald
●●●◐○ Challenges of the Deep - Ryk E. Spoor {Arena 3}
●●●●○ In Our Hands the Stars - Harry Harrison
●●●◐○ Relics and Legends - Ralts Bloodthorne {Behold: Humanity! 13}
●●●◐○ Fifth Artifact - David Collins {Artifact 5}
●●●○○ Sixth Artifact - David Collins {Artifact 6}
●●●◐○ Shadows of Hyperion- Ryk E. Spoor {Arena 4}
●●●◐○ The Apocalypse Seven - Gene Doucette
●●●●○ Secondary - Ray Ingles
●●●○○ Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds - Manly & Wade Wellman
●●●◐○ Empty World - John Christopher

One novella:
●●●◐○ The Ghost of Clifton Webb - Greg Kauffman-Starkey

Six novelettes:
●●●○○ Beyond Death's Gateway - Paul Ernst {Doctor Satan 6}
●●●○○ The Lost Kafoozalum - Pauline Ashwell {Lizzie Lee 2}
●●◐○○ The Devil's Double - Paul Ernst {Doctor Satan 7}
●●●●○ The Earth Quarter - Damon Knight (nvt) 1955
●●●○○ The Way the World Ends - Jess Walter {Warmer 1}
●○○○○ Boca Raton - Lauren Groff {Warmer 2}

Twenty-Four stories:
●●●●○ The Thing in the Attic - James Blish
●●●○○ Meeting of the Board - Alan E. Nourse
●●●◐○ The Margenes - Miriam Allen deFord
●●○○○ But the Patient Lived - Harry Warner, Jr
●●●○○ Where There's Hope - Jerome Bixby
●●●○○ Assassin - J. F. Bone
●●●○○ The Ogre - Avram Davidson
●●●◐○ Discipline - Margaret St. Clair
●●●●○ Time Enough at Last - Lynn Venable
●●◐○○ The Six Fingers of Time - R. A. Lafferty
●●●○○ Exhibit Piece - Philip K. Dick
●●◐○○ Timequake - Miriam Allen deFord
●●●○○ An Incident on Route 12 - James H. Schmitz
●●○○○ And Then There Was Peace - Gordon Dickson
●●●◐○ The Little Red Bag - Jerry Sohl
●●○○○ To Each His Own - Jack Sharkey
●◐○○○ Of the Fittest - Betsy Curtis
●●●○○ Esidarap ot Pirt Dnuor - Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
●●●●○ The Grove - Jennifer Foehner Wells
●●○○○ Marley's Chain - Alan E. Nourse
●●●○○ Captive Audience - Ann Warren Griffith
●●●●○ David’s Daddy - Rosel George Brown
●●●◐○ The Shipshape Miracle - Clifford D. Simak
●●●○○ To Pay the Piper - James Blish

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2025-05: 24 ss | 06 nvt | 01 nva | 13 nov
2025-04: 29 ss | 06 nvt | 00 nva | 11 nov
2025-03: 30 ss | 05 nvt | 01 nva | 12 nov
2025-02: 34 ss | 00 nvt | 01 nva | 09 nov

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Horror:
If It Bleeds-Stephen King

Fantasy:
A Wrath of Sparrows
Bridge of Ash
What the Ravens Sing
Stolen Apocalypse
--all by Jacquelyn Benson
Surreal Estate- Elliott James
The First Binding- RR Virdi
The City We Became-NK Jemison
Dark Whispers
Knight Shift-both by Krista Ball
The Bone Orchard- Sara Mueller
Phantom Echoes- BD Wilson
How to Become The Dark Lord & Die Trying- Django Wexler
Median- Kelly Robson

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Young Adult:
The Prisoner's Throne- Holly Black
River- Skyla Dawn Cameron
Isle of Blood and Stone- Makiia Lucier

Science fiction:
The Lost Cause- Cory Doctorow
Translation State- Ann Leckie

Thriller/Mystery
Red Team Blues- Cory Doctorow

Romantic Suspense:
State of Suspense- Marie Force

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#MayReads

THE CASTLE OF LLYR, Lloyd Alexander
LIGHT, M. John Harrison
THIS SKIN WAS ONCE MINE, Eric LaRocca
THE LANGUAGE OF THE NIGHT, Ursula K. Le Guin
THE BIRTHGRAVE, Tanith Lee
FORGOTTEN SISTERS, Cynthia Pelayo
JAPANESE TALES OF MYSTERY & IMAGINATION, Edogawa Ranpo
JOHN THE BALLADEER, Manly Wade Wellman

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A few days late, as usual, but here are my #MayReads

-Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
-Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

Not a great showing, but a mix of greatly improved weather and getting into some TV shows combined to put a dent in my reading activity. With the @storydarlings Throne of Glass series read along over, I’m not sure what to read next 🤔

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#MayReads --

🔹 SUNFALL, C.J. Cherryh
🔹 THE BLACK CAUDLRON, Lloyd Alexander
🔹 WE ARE HERE TO HURT EACH OTHER, Paula D. Ashe
🔹 THE VANISHING TOWER, Michael Moorcock
🔹 YOU'VE LOST A LOT OF BLOOD, Eric LaRocca
🔹 THE CLAW OF THE CONCILIATOR, Gene Wolfe
🔹 THE TIME MACHINE, H.G. Wells
🔹 A STORM OF WINGS, M. John Harrison
🔹 THE WIND BEGAN TO HOWL, Laird Barron

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Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros is getting a lot of hype, but I'm just gonna add to that by saying it is a MUST read if you're into fantasy. I devoured it in 2 days, 10/10 recommend. Fast moving plot, a diverse cast of characters, a disabled FMC, and DRAGONS.

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