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Our picks for each category:

An SFF book you’d recommend to a non-SFF Fan:

• Erika: Lock In by John Scalzi
• James: Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
• Jason: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
• Antony: Among Others by Jo Walton, Borderline by Mishell Baker

A classic (pre-1990) that still holds up:

• James: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus by Douglas Adams, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone
• Jason: Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Erika: Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin
• Antony: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John Le Carre, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

A book you didn’t expect to like, but really enjoyed:

• Jason: Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan Maguire, The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
• Erika: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
• James: The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
• Antony: Country by Michael Hughes

The best book you read in the past year:

• Erika: The Nova Incident by Dan Moren (Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers, A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine)
• James: The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers (A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine)
• Jason: Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky, City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett, The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
• Antony: Paint My Name In Black and Gold: The Rise of the Sisters of Mercy by Mark Andrews (The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers)

What are you reading?

• James: Gideon the Ninth & Harrow the Ninth by Tasmin Muir, A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White
• Erika: Terminal Peace by Jim C. Hines, Three Little Wishes by Paul Cornell, Steve Yeowell, Pippa Bowland & Simon Bowland,

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