We have a wide-ranging conversation covering the totality of the books we’ve read in our book club thus far. What was the funniest moment? What counts as grimdark? We wind down with a speed round of favorite moments and look at what we are most excited to read the rest of the year.
OUR COMPLETED NOVELS:
2023 -
- THE SHADOW OF THE TORTURER by Gene Wolfe
- THE CLAW OF THE CONCILIATOR by Gene Wolfe
- THE SWORD OF THE LICTOR by Gene Wolfe
- THE CITADEL OF THE AUTARCH by Gene Wolfe
- THE BLACK COMPANY by Glen Cook
- SHADOWS LINGER by Glen Cook
- THE WHITE ROSE by Glen Cook
- THE EYES OF THE DRAGON by Stephen King
- GALAPAGOS by Kurt Vonnegut
- TARZAN OF THE APES by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- THE RETURN OF TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- THE COMING OF CONAN THE CIMMERIAN by Robert E. Howard (13 short stories)
- THE BLOODY CROWN OF CONAN by Robert E. Howard (Del Rey Edition Vol. 2)
- THE CONQUERING SWORD OF CONAN by Robert E. Howard (Del Rey Edition Vol. 3)
- THE BROKEN SWORD by Poul Anderson
- ELRIC OF MELNIBONE: THE ELRIC SAGA PART 1 by Michael Moorcock
- STORMBRINGER: THE ELRIC SAGA PART 2 by Michael Moorcock
- THE WHITE WOLF: THE ELRIC SAGA PART 3 by Michael Moorcock
2024 -
- SWORDS AGAINST DEATH: FAFHRD AND THE GRAY MOUSER BOOK 2 by Fritz Leiber
- SWORDS IN THE MIST: FAFHRD AND THE GRAY MOUSER BOOK 3 by Fritz Leiber
- THE SWORDS OF LANKHMAR: FAFHRD AND THE GRAY MOUSER BOOK 5 by Fritz Leiber
- THE SWORDS OF LANKHMAR: FAFHRD AND THE GRAY MOUSER BOOK 5 by Fritz Leiber
- LEGEND (DRENAI SAGA 1) by David Gemmell
- THE KING BEYOND THE GATE (DRENAI SAGA 2) by David Gemmell
- WAYLANDER (DRENAI SAGA 3) by David Gemmell
- SWORD OF DESTINY by Andrej Sapkowski
- THE LAST WISH by Andrej Sapkowski
- THE KNIGHT by Gene Wolfe
- THE WIZARD by Gene Wolfe
- MALICE (THE FAITHFUL AND THE FALLEN 1) by John Gwynne
- VALOR (THE FAITHFUL AND THE FALLEN 2) by John Gwynne
- RUIN (THE FAITHFUL AND THE FALLEN 3) by John Gwynne
- WRATH (THE FAITHFUL AND THE FALLEN 4) by John Gwynne
- SHAGDUK by JB Jackson
- THE MABINOGION (Jones and Jones translation & SIONED DAVIES AUDIOBBOOK)
- LE MORTE D’ARTHUR (part 2, books X-XXI, chapters 19-45 audiobook) by Thomas Malory
- IDYLLS OF THE KING by Alfred Lord Tennyson
- URSULA OF ULM by JB Jackson
- THE STORY OF KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT by Mark Twain
- BETWEEN TWO FIRES by Christopher Buelhman
- THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING: THE SWORD AND THE STONE by T.H. White
- THE BLACKTONGUED THIEF by Christopher Buelhman
- The Daughter’s War by Christopher Buelhman
- SULDRUN’S GARDEN Garden by Jack Vance
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