Maude’s Book Club
Maude’s Book Club
SDCC Highlight: Maude Garrett’s Audible Panel with Andy Weir
For Maude, it was a dream come true to be at SDCC talking about her love of books, but more importantly, her love for sci-fi and one of her favourite authors, including Matt Dinniman.
The hype from SDCC and Maude’s interview with Andy Weir has garnered new fans of the source material and will likely be a hit for Amazon, MGM Studios, and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Bonus Book of the Month: ‘The Kaiju Preservation Society’ by John Scalzi
Time to welcome the last month of summer!
Hello, August!
Maude Garrett and the MBC community love our BONUS BOOKS!
For those who want to start with one of the best sci-fi books of the past couple of years, we will always recommend a John Scalzi novel. Our BONUS BOOK this month is The Kaiju Preservation Society.
If we love an author, we will continue to explore their bookography for months to come!
Bonus Book of the Month: ‘Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy #2 Greater Good & #3 Lesser Evil by Timothy Zahn
It’s STAR WARS month!!
This month, our BOOK OF THE MONTH is a full trilogy, so we decided to read the next two books in the Thrawn Trilogy - Greater Good and Lesser Evil for our BONUS BOOKS.
Maude Garrett has been a HUGE Star Wars fan, and it’s finally time to get this famous little trilogy off the TBR list!
Join our live book chat on Twitch to discuss the series together!
Join our book club today and help us vote for our 2025 books.
Book of the Month Preview: ‘Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy #1 Chaos Rising’ by Timothy Zahn
Oh, hello, May!
If you’re a massive Star Wars fan, you know it’s the month for Star Wars because of May the 4th. Maude Garrett has been meaning to read the Thrawn trilogy, and our community members thought this would be the perfect time!
Our BOOK OF THE MONTH for May is Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn.
If you’ve been waiting to read Thrawn Ascendancy, join us this month!
The MBC community always has fun discussions in the discord and an in-depth analysis during our live book chat on Twitch!
5 Standalone Sci-fi/Fantasy Novels To Get You Out Of Your Reading Slump
Every so often people fall into a reading slump, myself included. You may have a stacked TBR and three books on the go, but sometimes the books aren’t clicking. We’ve all had the same experience and discussed it in our discord, but we all have different ways to get out of the slump!
Sometimes it helps to read a book totally out of your comfort genre. Other times it’s best to avoid a full series and read standalone novels. What we often do at MBC to reinvigorate our love of reading is pick a book with a lighter page count or something not as dense as other Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels with more world-building.
Here are the five books we recommend to those struggling to get through some pages!
The 10 Best Science Fiction Books of 2024
Sci-fi novels on this list received plenty of buzz, and others flew under the radar in 2024. And just because they flew under the radar doesn’t mean they aren’t highly rated on Goodreads. The good thing about these sci-fi novels is that most of them are standalone. So, it’s not daunting to start a brand new series constantly.
Here are the best sci-fi novels of 2024.
If You Like ‘Dark Age’ By Pierce Brown
We have followed this series for book club and have plenty of HOWLERS in our discord community. Maude Garrett has had in-depth discussions with Pierce Brown for every single book in the series and he has had some well-needed insight.
If you are a fan of the Red Rising Saga, there are more fantasy/sci-fi books out there to pick up. Dark Age may feel like a heavy read because it’s 704 pages, but Brown makes it feel like a breeze. There’s so much to tackle in this fifth instalment.
If You Like ‘Artemis’ by Andy Weir Add These To Your TBR
This is the third novel by Weir that we’ve read for book club. We love his humour and the way he explores space in an approachable way for readers.
We have more recommendations if you’ve always been fascinated with space and the themes of loneliness, survival and artificial intelligence. Some of the books listed below cross genres and incorporate horror and fantasy.
Maude’s Book Club QNA with Andy Weir
The MBC community has chosen Artemis as the bonus book for April.
We are very fortunate that Andy Weir will join us for a QnA this month! If you’re a fan of his novels, come and discuss his sci-fi novels with us.
Convincing You to Read Books by Andy Weir
From The Martian to Project Hail Mary, Maude and the MBC community have loved his humour and how he depicts space. Within the sci-fi genre, the themes of loneliness and survival are very prominent. Weir explores how his lead characters navigate these obstacles in the wide unknown.
The 10 Best Sci-Fi Novels Based in Space
This month our bonus book is Artemis by Andy Weir!
We’ve enjoyed reading his other books, The Martian and Project Hail Mary for book club in previous years. Weir is cheeky with his writing and perfectly captures isolation in outer space. We don’t realize the emptiness one can feel out there in endless darkness, and Weir is one author who transports you to that place.
Bonus Book of the Month: ‘Artemis’ by Andy Weir
Are you a fan of Andy Weir’s novels?
Well, if you are and in case you didn’t know MBC has read Project Hail Mary and The Martian for book club. The MBC community has chosen Artemis as the bonus book for April!
Join Maude’s Book Club!
We know that the internet can be a tough space to navigate and that’s why we want to create a safe space for everyone in the reading community to be able to discuss their favourite books with other bookworms.
Not only do community members interact with other book lovers and creator Maude Garrett, but Maude connects with the authors of the books directly so the community can also discuss the book with their favoruite authors.
