NoveList Reading Challenge: January 2026Like this list

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• Remote Control

  Okorafor, Nnedi,

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  A young girl known as "the adopted daughter of death" comes of age on a quest to understand her powers and recover the mystical seed from the government that gives her the power to take away life.

• A Psalm for the Wild-built

  Chambers, Becky,

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  Hundreds of years ago, when the robots of Panga first gained sentience, they chose to retreat from human society rather than live in it as free citizens. They haven't been seen since.

• The Spare Man

  Kowal, Mary Robinette, 1969-

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  Tesla Crane, one of the richest women in the world, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between Earth and Mars. She's traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered, and her husband is named…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Road to Roswell

  A Novel

  Willis, Connie

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  When level-headed Francie arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, for her college roommate's UFO-themed wedding, complete with a true-believer bridegroom, she can't help but roll her eyes at all the wide-eyed talk of aliens, which obviously don't exist.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Splinter in the Sky

  Ashing-Giwa, Kemi,

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  A space opera about a young tea expert who is taken as a political prisoner and recruited to spy on government officials — a role that may empower her to win back her nation's independence.

• Whalefall

  a Novel

  Kraus, Daniel, 1975-

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  On a dive to find the remains of his father, Jay Gardiner is caught in a squid's tentacles and drawn into a whale's mouth.

• The Future

  Alderman, Naomi

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  A handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.

• Alien Clay

  Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972-

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  The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates, the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such prisoner is Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident. Soon after arrival, he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When the Moon Hits Your Eye

  Scalzi, John, 1969-

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  A new lunar cycle begins with a confluence of odd phenomena: the crescent moon is far brighter than it should be, and all of the lunar mineral samples on Earth have turned into cheese. The moon has turned into cheese. Now humanity has to deal with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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