• ✔ Book translated from a language you don't speak
  • The Strange Library (Japanese)
• Book someone else chooses for you (The Testament of Gideon Mack or South Riding or Black Ships)
• Book that reminds you of your childhood (The Owl Service)
• Book about a subject/topic about which you are unfamiliar (The Hero with a Thousand Faces)
• Book about autism (The Rosie Project)
• Book about language(s) (Empire of the Word or This Magnificent Bastard Tongue)
• Book about/with scientists (The Viral Storm)
• Book with a natural disaster
• Book centered around a major historical event
• Book about/with epistolary/letters/corres...

• January : Other pasts - Steampunk, Gaslamp, Historical SFF
  • ✔ Soulless
  • ✔ Fever Crumb
  • ✔ Clockwork Prince
• February : The Classics - SFF written before 1980 (Beginning Operations, To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Titus Groan, Ringworld, The City and the Stars)
  • ✔ I Am Legend
• March : It's the end of the world as we know it - Apocalyptic, Dystopic, Post Apocalyptic (The Wind-Up Girl)
• April : Fair Tales and Mighty Myths - Fairy Tales and Myths
• May : Girl Power - SFF written by women or featuring a strong female main character
• June : Does anybody know what time it is? - Time travel and alternative history

January

• ✔ J : Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
• T : The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson

February

• ✔ I : I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
• B : Beginning Operations by James White

March

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April

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May

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June

• January : BCE to 1 - Myths and Legends (The Hero with a Thousand Faces)
• February : 1 to 500 - Religion (Christianity)
• March : 500 to 1000 - Exploration and Conquest
• April : 1000 to 1300 - Crime and Mysteries
• May : 1300 to 1500 - Plagues and Disasters
• June : 1500 to 1600 - Culture and the Arts
• July : 1600 to 1700 - Immigration and Migration
• August : 1700 to 1800 - Medicine and Disease
• September : 1800-1850 - Social History
• October : 1850 to 1900 - Science and Technology
• November : 1900 to 1945 - War and Peace
• December : 1945-1990 - Civil Rights and Equality

• Pride and Prejudice (Jan/Feb)
• Mansfield Park (Mar/Apr)
• Sense and Sensibility (May/Jun)
• Emma (Jul/Aug)
• Northanger Abbey (Sep/Oct)
• Persuasion (Nov/Dec)

"Being a working Mum is like being a currency that never has enough value" (Brothers & Sisters, ep 1)

"Alcohol is my gateway to pills. The problem is, people are my gateway to alcohol." (Brothers & Sisters, ep 3)

"The BM chucked hand grenades full of racial poison" (Red Dust Road - Jackie Kay)