A list of books selected for the Sword and Laser Podcast
created by DoomishLaura
last updated July, 2026
The Sword of Kaigen
M.L. Wang
Cursed Bunny
Bora Chung
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Simon Jimenez
Some Desperate Glory
Emily Tesh
A Night in the Lonesome October
Roger Zelazny
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
Douglas Adams
Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts, #1)
Nnedi Okorafor
The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley
The Will of the Many
James Islington
The City & the City
China Miéville
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
Matt Dinniman
Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)
Edward Ashton
The Lives of Tao (Tao, #1)
Wesley Chu
The Devils
Joe Abercrombie
She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)
Shelley Parker-Chan
The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)
Josiah Bancroft
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
Anne Rice
Floating Hotel
Grace Curtis
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn (The Library Trilogy, #1)
Mark Lawrence
I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
Jason Pargin
Someplace to Be Flying (Newford, #5)
Charles de Lint
A Midnight Pastry Shop Called Hwawoldang
Lee Onhwa
Slow Gods
Claire North
Automatic Noodle
Annalee Newitz
The Raven Scholar
Antonia Hodgson
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
Pierce Brown
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