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Science Fiction and Fantasy Must Reads
If you love science fiction or fantasy novels, these should be on your list.
Related Lists of Note:
Best Alternate H*story [asterisk is here so this list isn't misclassified]
Best Dystopian and Post Apocalyptic Fiction
Best Epic Fantasy
Best Fantasy of the 21st Century
Best Science Fiction
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century
Best Forgotten Science Fiction of the 20th Century
Best Science Fiction Fantasy Books
Best Space Opera
Best Urban Fantasy
Related Lists of Note:
Best Alternate H*story [asterisk is here so this list isn't misclassified]
Best Dystopian and Post Apocalyptic Fiction
Best Epic Fantasy
Best Fantasy of the 21st Century
Best Science Fiction
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century
Best Forgotten Science Fiction of the 20th Century
Best Science Fiction Fantasy Books
Best Space Opera
Best Urban Fantasy
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Wool (Wool, #1)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 106,537 ratings
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Pandemonium (Delirium, #2)
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Lauren Oliver (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 244,889 ratings
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| 703 |
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Luck in the Shadows (Nightrunner, #1)
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Lynn Flewelling (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 23,049 ratings
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| 704 |
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A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)
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The Assassin's Blade (Throne of Glass, #0.1-0.5)
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Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 1,075,550 ratings
score: 845,
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| 706 |
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Aftermath (Star Wars: Aftermath, #1)
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Chuck Wendig (Goodreads Author)
3.31 avg rating — 34,319 ratings
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| 707 |
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A Darkness at Sethanon (The Riftwar Saga, #4)
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| 708 |
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The Girl of Fire and Thorns (Fire and Thorns, #1)
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| 709 |
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Nexus (Nexus, #1)
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Ramez Naam (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 20,857 ratings
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| 710 |
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Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
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Garth Nix (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 216,630 ratings
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| 711 |
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The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl #2)
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| 712 |
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Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1)
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Beth Revis (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 119,192 ratings
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| 712 |
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All Clear (Oxford Time Travel, 4)
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| 714 |
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The Human Division (Old Man's War, #5)
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 37,182 ratings
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| 715 |
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The Fury / Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries, #3-4)
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The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus, #4)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 472,622 ratings
score: 834,
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| 717 |
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Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 159,417 ratings
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| 718 |
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Head On (Lock In, #2)
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 25,343 ratings
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The Demolished Man
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| 720 |
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All Our Wrong Todays
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Elan Mastai (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 29,116 ratings
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| 721 |
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The Coven of Deeds
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Malcolm McCoard (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 128 ratings
score: 829,
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| 722 |
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Lock In (Lock In, #1)
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 70,782 ratings
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| 723 |
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The Passage (The Passage, #1)
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Justin Cronin (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 221,066 ratings
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Trading in Danger (Vatta's War, #1)
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| 723 |
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Awoken
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Timothy Miller (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 165 ratings
score: 826,
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| 726 |
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The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (Song of the Lioness, #3)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 83,102 ratings
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| 727 |
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Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)
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| 728 |
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Olympos (Ilium, #2)
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| 729 |
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Blackout (Oxford Time Travel, #3)
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3.85 avg rating — 27,115 ratings
score: 815,
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| 730 |
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The Windup Girl
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 77,571 ratings
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| 731 |
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Dragon Slippers (Dragon Slippers, #1)
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Jessica Day George (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 29,808 ratings
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| 731 |
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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
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Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 287,076 ratings
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| 733 |
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The Castle of Llyr (The Chronicles of Prydain, #3)
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4.07 avg rating — 39,439 ratings
score: 810,
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| 733 |
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Ana Rocha: Shadows of Justice
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Ammar Habib (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 5,511 ratings
score: 810,
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| 735 |
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The Hydrogen Sonata (Culture, #10)
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| 736 |
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Obsidio (The Illuminae Files, #3)
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Amie Kaufman (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 57,096 ratings
score: 808,
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| 736 |
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All Our Yesterdays
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Cristin Terrill (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 24,114 ratings
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| 738 |
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Abarat
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Clive Barker (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 29,638 ratings
score: 806,
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| 739 |
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The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #1)
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Michael Scott (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 166,189 ratings
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| 740 |
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Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
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Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 141,239 ratings
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The Curse of Cardoness: Maya's Magical Adventures continue
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Malcolm McCoard (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 134 ratings
score: 804,
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| 742 |
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Fuzzy Nation (Fuzzy Sapiens, #7)
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 31,883 ratings
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| 743 |
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Oathbreakers (Vows and Honor, #2)
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Mercedes Lackey (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 16,169 ratings
score: 802,
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| 744 |
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When You Reach Me
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| 745 |
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The Oracle's Journal (Of Gods and Guardians, #1)
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Dimitri Liountris (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 42 ratings
score: 799,
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| 745 |
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Firefight (The Reckoners, #2)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 110,687 ratings
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| 747 |
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Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
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4.06 avg rating — 42,097 ratings
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| 748 |
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Alas, Babylon
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| 749 |
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The Summoner (The Legends of Arth, #1)
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Randy Massey (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 64 ratings
score: 796,
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| 749 |
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The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
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N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 190,059 ratings
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Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
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4.32 avg rating — 79,646 ratings
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| 752 |
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Rowan Hood: Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest (Rowan Hood, #1)
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Nancy Springer (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 3,136 ratings
score: 795,
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| 753 |
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The Aureate Spectacles
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Eliott McKay (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 105 ratings
score: 794,
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| 754 |
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The Dreaming Void (Void #1)
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Peter F. Hamilton (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 29,452 ratings
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| 754 |
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
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4.01 avg rating — 42,654 ratings
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| 754 |
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Mariel of Redwall (Redwall, #4)
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score: 793,
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| 757 |
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Max (Maximum Ride, #5)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 76,481 ratings
score: 791,
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| 757 |
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Bloodhound (Beka Cooper, #2)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 39,891 ratings
score: 791,
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| 757 |
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Embassytown
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 34,136 ratings
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| 757 |
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Chance (Constance, #2)
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Matthew FitzSimmons (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 3,089 ratings
score: 791,
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| 761 |
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Heir Apparent (Rasmussem Corporation, #2)
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4.11 avg rating — 10,958 ratings
score: 790,
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| 761 |
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The Shifter
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Janice Hardy (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 6,163 ratings
score: 790,
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Androne (Androne #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 3,485 ratings
score: 790,
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| 764 |
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Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy, #6)
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Richelle Mead (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 297,922 ratings
score: 789,
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| 764 |
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How High We Go in the Dark
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Sequoia Nagamatsu (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 68,276 ratings
score: 789,
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| 766 |
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Crashing Down to Earth (Crashing Down to Earth, #1)
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Terry Reid (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 143 ratings
score: 787,
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| 767 |
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Flashforward
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Robert J. Sawyer (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 16,736 ratings
score: 786,
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| 767 |
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Seveneves
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 123,423 ratings
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| 767 |
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Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
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| 770 |
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Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles, #3.5)
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Marissa Meyer (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 152,507 ratings
score: 782,
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| 771 |
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To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3)
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Tad Williams (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 56,617 ratings
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| 772 |
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Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.76 avg rating — 462,653 ratings
score: 779,
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| 773 |
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The Gods of Mars (Barsoom #2)
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| 773 |
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System Change (System Universe #1)
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4.39 avg rating — 9,174 ratings
score: 778,
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| 775 |
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Ptolemy's Gate (Bartimaeus, #3)
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Jonathan Stroud (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 89,516 ratings
score: 776,
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Recursion
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Blake Crouch (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 296,613 ratings
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The Hike
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Drew Magary (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 27,980 ratings
score: 776,
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| 778 |
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The Icewind Dale Trilogy Collector's Edition (Forgotten Realms: Icewind Dale, #1-3; Legend of Drizzt, #4-6)
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4.32 avg rating — 16,895 ratings
score: 775,
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| 778 |
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Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
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James S.A. Corey (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 95,161 ratings
score: 775,
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| 780 |
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Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold (Magic Kingdom of Landover, #1)
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Terry Brooks (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 39,115 ratings
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| 781 |
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The Last Star (The 5th Wave, #3)
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3.61 avg rating — 80,681 ratings
score: 772,
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The Great Dune Trilogy
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4.37 avg rating — 62,823 ratings
score: 766,
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Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
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3.96 avg rating — 40,446 ratings
score: 766,
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| 784 |
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The Looking Glass Wars (The Looking Glass Wars, #1)
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Frank Beddor (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 46,738 ratings
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| 784 |
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Double Star
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3.91 avg rating — 24,133 ratings
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| 786 |
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The Last Colony (Old Man's War, #3)
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 71,156 ratings
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| 786 |
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Feed (Newsflesh, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 61,068 ratings
score: 764,
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| 786 |
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Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Vorkosigan Saga, #15)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 16,954 ratings
score: 764,
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| 789 |
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Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
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3.78 avg rating — 112,872 ratings
score: 763,
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| 789 |
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Feed
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3.55 avg rating — 67,283 ratings
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| 791 |
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The Shifter Dimension (Starbirth, #2)
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J.M. Johnson (Goodreads Author)
4.61 avg rating — 123 ratings
score: 762,
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| 792 |
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Aurora
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3.78 avg rating — 27,301 ratings
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| 792 |
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Nightfall
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4.06 avg rating — 37,543 ratings
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| 794 |
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Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 110,648 ratings
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| 794 |
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The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 93,933 ratings
score: 759,
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| 796 |
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The Black Jewels Trilogy: Daughter of the Blood, Heir to the Shadows, Queen of the Darkness (The Black Jewels, #1-3)
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4.39 avg rating — 14,202 ratings
score: 758,
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| 797 |
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Crossroads and the Dominion of Four (Crossroads, #2)
by
C. Toni Graham (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 3,383 ratings
score: 753,
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| 797 |
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Lexicon
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Max Barry (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 39,894 ratings
score: 753,
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| 799 |
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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 87,554 ratings
score: 752,
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The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
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Why are The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns on here? There are neither Science Fiction nor Fantasy. Can someone remove them?
I also hate when people put Science Fiction and Fantasy together. They are clearly very different things.
Dude, your book is not a 'must read.' It's not even a 'maybe read.'
Wish I could have retracted my vote (for a single Pullman vs the series). Roger Zelazny, the Amber Chronicles The Great Book of Amber
Isaac Asimov, the Foundation seriesThe Foundation Trilogy
Emily wrote: "Why are The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns on here? There are neither Science Fiction nor Fantasy. Can someone remove them?"Thoroughly agree!
Oh, well if vampires are included then one must read Anne Rice, who popularized the romance and sensuality of vampires:The Vampire Chronicles Interview With the Vampire; The Vampire Lestat; The Queen of the Damned
Doctruthyness wrote: "Dude, your book is not a 'must read.' It's not even a 'maybe read.'"Just wondering who "Dude, your book" is!
And could someone remove the duplicate editions? I don't think we need to list titles like Brave New World more than once. And yes, why are books like The Kite Runner on this list, which clearly are not science fiction nor fantasy?
How is Midnight Sun number 33? It's not a book, it is, at best, an unfinished manuscript available on the internet that will probably never be published.
There are a great many books on this list that do not qualify as great or even good, they are merely new. Apparently a lot of people haven't read anything that was published before they entered high school.
The Hunger Games before Dune? This list lost all it's credibility
4l3x wrote: "The Hunger Games before Dune? This list lost all it's credibility"
the hunger games is much better
the hunger games is much better
Monique wrote: "4l3x wrote: "The Hunger Games before Dune? This list lost all it's credibility"the hunger games is much better"
oh please... Have you even read Dune?
4l3x wrote: "Monique wrote: "4l3x wrote: "The Hunger Games before Dune? This list lost all it's credibility"
the hunger games is much better"
oh please... Have you even read Dune?"
have you even read the hunger games?
the hunger games is much better"
oh please... Have you even read Dune?"
have you even read the hunger games?
Monique wrote: "4l3x wrote: "Monique wrote: "4l3x wrote: "The Hunger Games before Dune? This list lost all it's credibility"
the hunger games is much better"
oh please... Have you even read Dune?"
have you even..."
and yes i have read it
the hunger games is much better"
oh please... Have you even read Dune?"
have you even..."
and yes i have read it
Somebody's eatin' the crazy pills! The Hunger Games is young adult!! There's no way it could compare to the universe & history in the Dune series. Get a perspective.
Monique wrote:oh please... Have you even read Dune?"
have you even read the hunger games? "
I have. The whole series. (as you can see in my read books ;D) And while I enjoyed it in some extent (I find Katniss incredibly annoying and clueless) there is no way it should be before Dune in any list
Ruby wrote: "There's no way it could compare to the universe & history in the Dune series. Get a perspective. "
I see there is still hope out there
4l3x wrote: "The Hunger Games before Dune? This list lost all it's credibility"LIKE LIKE LIKE LIKE
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+1
Emily wrote: "I also hate when people put Science Fiction and Fantasy together. They are clearly very different things. "YES! 1000X YES!
science fiction and fantasy can be good together
I agree. I love it when they are mixed in the same world! Or when the story seems like one and turns out to be the other.
i like fantasy and science fition i loved footprints of thunder and thunder of time there fantasy and science fiction
It feels as though books that are part of series are really clogging the list up. Someone who's read a single series from start to finish will feel like they're a big man on campus after reading this list.
Science fiction AND fantasy in one list? Oh brother... Why don't you just mix children books with zombie books next for all the sense it makes? YAUGRL--yet another useless goodreads list.
another list turned worthless due to everyone and his brother spaming every single book in a series.....When all you need is the first one.
There are other better lists:For recent science fiction take a look at Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century.
For popular fantasy take a look at The Most Popular Fantasy on Goodreads
For both these lists there are links in the list description to other good fantasy and science fiction lists.
The system found and removed 4 duplicates.
برای کشف اقیانوس باید جرات ترک ساحل را داشت این دنیا دنیای تغییرات است نه تقدیر
Greg wrote: "A new collection for consideration. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3..."This is spam, and it violates Goodreads author conduct policy. I recommend you delete it. Otherwise I will flag it.
As mixed lists go, this one is pretty good. I am seeing some genre issues though. Removed Beloved from p 5. Toni Morrison, science fiction and fantasy? The hell? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
On the line: where do we draw the line between fantasy and horror, folks? I am looking at some Stephen King titles, and Anne Rice. Dracula by Bram Stoker is clearly out of genre, and I'm removing it:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Love to hear some input about the others mentioned here. Some have a large number of votes, and I know that once a list is established, the first page becomes almost sacred. I don't want to touch anything that's liable to draw objections unless it's very clearly in the wrong place...
Removed from page 7, A Thousand Splendid Suns, out of genre:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Removed from page 8, A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
So - I'm not a big fan of horror. But a lot of horror I would consider also fantasy. And I'm not the only one. Dracula for example, is shelved 7,950 as horror. But it is also shelved 3,360 as fantasy. As a librarian I do a lot of removing books from lists. But as far as I'm concerned vampires and werewolves are just about always fantasy - and sometimes horror and sometimes romance and sometimes very rarely science fiction.
Mitchell wrote: "So - I'm not a big fan of horror. But a lot of horror I would consider also fantasy. And I'm not the only one. Dracula for example, is shelved 7,950 as horror. But it is also shelved 3..."The difference in genre, as I understand it, is that horror is written to induce fear more than anything else. I did see that some people have incorrectly shelved Dracula, but it's also a very small percentage of readers overall. (Look at the numbers at the top of the shelf list and you'll see what I mean.)
However, I also realize--though I'm not a fan personally--that there are now a lot of stories involving paranormal and vampirical love. So that's where the line gets hazy, because we have a category that used to be entirely horror and now is not.
As I previously said, I"m not going to remove anything I'm not sure of. I feel confident about Dracula.
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Emily wrote: "I also hate when people put Science Fiction and Fantasy together. They are clearly very different things. "I TOTALLY agree!
Horn-Horn by ADT McLellan - one of those few books that you will go from the last page immediately back to the first page. Like The Sixth Sense, reading it a second time is like reading it for the first time again. It's a completely different story once all of the twists are revealed.
So...number 1777 is Black Beauty. Perhaps the person who added it meant a different Black Beauty? Either way, they tagged the kid's book. Perhaps it should be deleted...or we should add Old Yeller. ;)
Liz wrote: "So...number 1777 is Black Beauty. Perhaps the person who added it meant a different Black Beauty? Either way, they tagged the kid's book. Perhaps it should be deleted...or we should add Old Yeller. ;)"Good eyes. It's gone now.
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The Ascendance Protocol: Endeavour by Chris ScottSuch a great book. I have both kindle and paperback versions!
The Ascendance Protocol: Endeavour
The Ascendance Protocol: Endeavour
Amy wrote: "The Ascendance Protocol: Endeavour by Chris ScottSuch a great book. I have both kindle and paperback versions!
The Ascendance Protocol: Endeavour
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If you want that title on the list and it isn't there yet, you have to enter it yourself using the tab at the top of the list.
Mary wrote: "Why are there some books with less than 1K votes and hundreds of votes in the list? They should be deleted..what a joke.Examples: The Outlands"
This list was setup without criteria that let's a librarian remove books with some impunity. You might appreciate Most Popular Science Fiction on Goodreads and the lists that it links to more.
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