Literary Sci-Fi/Fantasy That Can Spark Your Book Club

"Despite the popular joke that book clubs are simply a convenient cover for drinking wine with friends, they do offer a great opportunity to expand your horizons and pick up titles you normally wouldn't read. In the realm of science fiction and fantasy, they also present a chance to explore novels that venture outside straightforward genre fare. Don't get me wrong: Pure genre SFF is fun and enjoyable to read. But for a book club, you want to delve into books that serve up discussion material: prose stylings, storytelling structure and approach, and philosophical arguments. That's where literary SFF comes in. Here are some selections to get you started with your book club."