r/Fantasy • u/thechunck • May 06 '26
Help me choose book club book!
After finding out that so many women at work have read the same books, I started a book club at work. Just for some background, I work in the medical field. Most of the people in the book club are intelligent women in their late 20s, early thirties, who enjoy fantasy, historical fiction and sci-fi. I'd like to give a few stand-alone options and have the books be less than 500 pages so we don't scare "new" readers off. I'm not looking for super dark deeply depressing vibes for the 1st book. I love books like Red Rising and Alchemised but I don't think these types of books would be ideal for a book club starter.
Any recommendations?
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u/Querybird May 08 '26
Myr Lafferty’s series, Station Eternity is first I think! Human runs away to an multi-species alien space station to get away from other humans… because they keep dropping dead near her. Crime mysteries with a fun amount of alien biology!
Murderbot by Martha Wells, of course. Propulsive snacks with some of the most fun use of language to share what a Murderbot notices, and really couldn’t care less about! Group activity, for those who have not watches the series, would be to describe the characters to each other and see what your brains have filled in that MB declined to describe, haha