February 2021 Book VoteFebruary 2021 Book VoteFebruary 2021 Book VoteFebruary 2021 Book Vote
  • The Gloss +
    • The Gloss: A Book Club
    • Blog
    • Book Reviews
    • Meet the Team
      • The Gloss Staff
      • The Gloss Hosts
      • The Gloss Bloggers
    • Press
    • for The Gloss
  • How it Works +
    • How it Works
    • Gloss Membership
    • Book Vote
    • Q&A
    • Starting your own Chapter
  • Virtual +
    • Meet the Author
    • Virtual Events
  • Books +
    • Our Books
    • Book Vote
    • Book Store
    • Book Reviews
  • Book Clubs +
    • All Clubs
    • Australasia
    • Europe
    • Canada
    • United States
    • United Kingdom
    • Rest of the World
  • Shop
  • Login

February BOOK VOTE 2021

 
64
SHARES
Share this postTweet this post

Welcome to February's book vote! This month, we'll be reading Science Fiction. Every month we're pleased to bring you a shortlist of contenders for our Monthly Girly Book Club pick. We work really hard to ensure the list includes only titles available in paperback in our main markets, making the book more accessible to our membership. We also try to include a variety of authors and genres. We spend hours and hours pouring over potential books, their release dates, costs and availability. We hope you enjoy our selection.

Take a look at the synopses below and vote for the one that appeals to you most as a Girly Book Club selection!

Recursion

by Blake Crouch (336 pages)
81DloslmZOL

That’s what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.

That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It’s why she’s dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent.

As Barry searches for the truth, he comes face-to-face with an opponent more terrifying than any disease—a force that attacks not just our minds but the very fabric of the past. And as its effects begin to unmake the world as we know it, only he and Helena, working together, will stand a chance at defeating it.


The Deep

by Rivers Solomon (166 pages)
the-deep-9781534439870_hr

Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one—the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu.

Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface, escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilities—and discovers a world her people left behind long ago.

Yetu will learn more than she ever expected to about her own past—and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they’ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity—and own who they really are.


The Memory Police

by Yōko Ogawa (274 pages)
37004370

On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses—until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten

When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards. As fear and loss close in around them, they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past

A surreal, provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, The Memory Police is a stunning new work from one of the most exciting contemporary authors writing in any language.


This Is How You Lose the Time War

by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (201 pages)
71u+V+fclqL

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war.


VOTE!

So which book would you like to read this Month?

1 Step 1

Get notified when a winner is chosen!

keyboard_arrow_leftPrevious
Nextkeyboard_arrow_right
FormCraft - WordPress form builder
View BOTM Archives

1 Comment

  1. A reader says:
    December 22, 2020 at 4:30 pm

    When will the pick be revealed…much harder to order books during the pandemic and delivery takes a lot longer. Please consider revealing the picks a bit earlier since it appears the February and March polls have closed.

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

An olive branch to start a conversation.

Subscribe

Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates & the latest goss from The Gloss

Subscribe Now →

We respect your privacy. We will never sell your information.

  • Book Reviews
  • Questions & Answers
  • Press
  • Media Kit
  • Welcome to The Gloss
  • How it Works
  • News & Interviews
  • Meet The Author
  • Contact Us
  • Bookclubs United States
  • Bookclubs Canada
  • Bookclubs United Kingdom
  • Bookclubs Europe
  • Bookclubs Australasia
  • Meet the team
  • Meet the bloggers
  • Questions & Answers
  • Testimonials
  • Get involved
  • Careers

Contact • Support • Terms & Conditions

© Copyright All Rights Reserved The Gloss