March Madness noms 25

Updated 4 months ago
72 Books

Book club Sword and Laser's annual March Madness; nominations for 2025's event.

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#1	Dungeon Crawler Carl Matt Dinniman	4.36	621 reads
#2	Mickey7 Edward Ashton	3.61	201 reads
#3	The Art of Prophecy Wesley Chu	3.92	53 reads
#4	Embers of War Gareth L. Powell	3.97	48 reads
#5	The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi S. A. Chakraborty	4.29	240 reads
#6	Middlegame Seanan McGuire	4.07	174 reads
#7	Lord of Light Roger Zelazny	3.76	134 reads
#8	The Speed of Dark Elizabeth Moon	3.76	43 reads
#9	Kill the Farm Boy Delilah S. Dawson Kevin Hearne	3.22	37 reads
#10	She Who Became the Sun Shelley Parker-Chan	3.85	288 reads
#11	Twelve Kings in Sharakhai Bradley P. Beaulieu	3.87	40 reads
#12	Time of the Cat Tansy Rayner Roberts	4	1 read
#13	In Fury Born David Weber	3.39	17 reads
#14	Parable of the Talents Octavia E. Butler	4.21	205 reads
#15	Womb City Tlotlo Tsamaase	2.94	19 reads
#16	How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse K. Eason	3.95	24 reads
#17	De Stad van de Dromende Boeken Walter Moers Erica van Rijsewijk (Translator)	4.33	36 reads
#18	The Bear and the Nightingale Katherine Arden	4	409 reads
#19	Dracula Bram Stoker	3.86	1,562 reads
#20	King Rat China Miéville	3.23	35 reads
#21	He Who Fights with Monsters Shirtaloon Travis Deverell	4.14	153 reads
#22	The Bright Sword Lev Grossman	3.94	47 reads
#23	A Dirty Job Christopher Moore	3.87	200 reads
#24	The Tainted Cup Robert Jackson Bennett	4.35	254 reads
#25	Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution R.F. Kuang	4.07	1,124 reads
#26	The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy Megan Bannen	4.05	120 reads
#27	The Fated Sky Mary Robinette Kowal	4.34	149 reads
#28	Project Hail Mary Andy Weir	4.45	2,844 reads
#29	Aftershocks Marko Kloos	3.76	50 reads
#30	Patient Zero Jonathan Maberry	3.8	57 reads
#31	The Night Guest Hildur Knútsdóttir Mary Robinette Kowal (Translator)	3.38	27 reads
#32	The Blue Sword Robin McKinley	3.98	97 reads
#33	Gobbelino London & a Scourge of Pleasantries Kim M. Watt	4	5 reads
#34	These Burning Stars Bethany Jacobs	4.23	30 reads
#35	Vita Nostra Marina Dyachenko	4.04	116 reads
#36	Sandman Slim Richard Kadrey	3.84	146 reads
#37	36 Streets T.R. Napper	4	7 reads
#38	Clockwork Angels Kevin J. Anderson Neil Peart	3.11	11 reads
#39	Dead Silence S.A. Barnes	3.77	210 reads
#40	The Steel Remains Richard K. Morgan	3.75	81 reads
#41	Sunshine Robin McKinley	3.56	97 reads
#42	Chasing the Darkness Cassie Sanchez	0	0 reads
#43	The Management Style of the Supreme Beings Tom Holt	4.33	11 reads
#44	A Pale Light in the Black K. B. Wagers	3.55	18 reads
#45	Five Broken Blades Mai Corland	3.57	61 reads
#46	The Ministry for the Future Kim Stanley Robinson	3.76	188 reads
#47	A Portrait in Shadow Nicole Jarvis	4	2 reads
#48	The Body Scout Lincoln Michel	4.5	7 reads
#49	Replay Ken Grimwood	4.04	169 reads
#50	For Whom the Belle Tolls Jaysea Lynn	4.5	5 reads
#51	On Stranger Tides Tim Powers	4	38 reads
#52	Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome Matthew Holness	3.82	26 reads
#53	In the Black Patrick S. Tomlinson	4.4	5 reads
#54	Armor John Steakley	3.76	68 reads
#55	I Am Not A Serial Killer Dan Wells	3.66	119 reads
#56	The Downloaded Robert J. Sawyer	3.64	25 reads
#57	Storm Front Jim Butcher	3.71	1,115 reads
#58	Parasol Against the Axe Helen Oyeyemi	3.25	7 reads
#59	The Atrocity Archives Charles Stross	3.68	178 reads
#60	The Child Thief Brom	3.78	58 reads
#61	First Contact Michael R. Hicks	4	13 reads
#62	Lord of a Shattered Land Howard Andrew Jones	4.5	2 reads
#63	White Trash Warlock David R. Slayton	3.99	60 reads
#64	Making History Stephen Fry	3.85	28 reads
#65	Shards of Earth Adrian Tchaikovsky	3.97	242 reads
#66	Embassytown China Miéville	3.83	167 reads
#67	Red Rising Pierce Brown	4.14	1,728 reads
#68	Lord Valentine's Castle Robert Silverberg	3.64	31 reads
#69	The Aeronaut's Windlass Jim Butcher	4.15	172 reads
#70	Someone You Can Build a Nest In John Wiswell	4.06	66 reads
#71	The Blighted Stars Megan E. O'Keefe	3.96	46 reads
#72	The Book of Elsewhere Keanu Reeves China Miéville	3.48	37 reads