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SciFi and Fantasy Book Club Bookshelf
This is the list of books read by the
SciFi and Fantasy Book Club
until March 2023. This list is no longer updated.
See SFFBC Current Events for links to current group book resources.
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The Lions of Al-Rassan
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 25,709 ratings
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War for the Oaks
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Emma Bull (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 10,616 ratings
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The Speed of Dark
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3.99 avg rating — 11,578 ratings
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Ubik
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4.11 avg rating — 119,892 ratings
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Deathless
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Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 22,610 ratings
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The Summer Tree (The Fionavar Tapestry, #1)
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 26,342 ratings
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The Silent Tower (Windrose Chronicles, #1)
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Barbara Hambly (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 3,540 ratings
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
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3.73 avg rating — 132,549 ratings
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Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 61,370 ratings
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1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
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The Warded Man (The Demon Cycle, #1)
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Peter V. Brett (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 130,253 ratings
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Spin (Spin, #1)
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Homeland (Forgotten Realms: The Dark Elf Trilogy, #1; Legend of Drizzt, #1)
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Charmed Life (Chrestomanci, #1)
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Wild Seed (Patternist, #1)
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The Master and Margarita
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Under Heaven (Under Heaven, #1)
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 16,675 ratings
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Zodiac
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 20,302 ratings
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The Anubis Gates
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3.90 avg rating — 17,513 ratings
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
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4.23 avg rating — 219,751 ratings
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When Gravity Fails (Marîd Audran, #1)
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Eon: Dragoneye Reborn (Eon, #1)
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Alison Goodman (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 62,641 ratings
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The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)
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The Rook (The Checquy Files, #1)
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The Lathe of Heaven
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4.13 avg rating — 85,378 ratings
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The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
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Mary Doria Russell (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 80,722 ratings
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The Magic of Recluce (The Saga of Recluce, #1)
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L.E. Modesitt Jr. (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 25,651 ratings
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Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 180,674 ratings
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Embassytown
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 34,137 ratings
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Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 98,689 ratings
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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3.72 avg rating — 79,534 ratings
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The Native Star (Veneficas Americana, #1)
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M.K. Hobson (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 3,678 ratings
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The Crown Conspiracy (The Riyria Revelations, #1)
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Michael J. Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 26,027 ratings
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A Night in the Lonesome October
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Night Watch (Watch, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 44,957 ratings
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The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1)
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Brent Weeks (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 175,370 ratings
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Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, #1)
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Alphabet of Thorn
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4.09 avg rating — 6,158 ratings
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Weave World
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Clive Barker (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 33,759 ratings
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The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 61,761 ratings
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Cold Magic (Spiritwalker, #1)
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Kate Elliott (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 9,329 ratings
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John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
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David Wong (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 82,423 ratings
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
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Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 14,045 ratings
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The Briar King (Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, #1)
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Island in the Sea of Time (Nantucket, #1)
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The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 72,442 ratings
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The Accidental Time Machine
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3.73 avg rating — 10,668 ratings
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The Sword-Edged Blonde (Eddie LaCrosse, #1)
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Alex Bledsoe (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 2,739 ratings
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Alif the Unseen
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G. Willow Wilson (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 17,890 ratings
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The Killing Moon (Dreamblood, #1)
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N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 22,934 ratings
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The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (Burton & Swinburne, #1)
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Mark Hodder (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 7,396 ratings
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Pump Six and Other Stories
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 8,748 ratings
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On the Oceans of Eternity (Nantucket, #3)
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Against the Tide of Years (Nantucket, #2)
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The Terror
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4.09 avg rating — 71,431 ratings
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Flowers for Algernon
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4.23 avg rating — 771,682 ratings
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Station Eleven
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Emily St. John Mandel (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 596,505 ratings
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Infernal Devices (Infernal Devices, #1)
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3.36 avg rating — 2,910 ratings
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Zoo City
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Lauren Beukes (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 11,555 ratings
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The Algebraist
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4.04 avg rating — 24,061 ratings
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The Dragon's Path (The Dagger and the Coin, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 22,794 ratings
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Legend (The Drenai Saga, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 35,188 ratings
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Red Country
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4.31 avg rating — 62,784 ratings
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The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
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Helene Wecker (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 130,006 ratings
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Opening Atlantis (Atlantis, #1)
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3.35 avg rating — 1,695 ratings
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The Suicide Collectors
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David Oppegaard (Goodreads Author)
3.25 avg rating — 868 ratings
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Hounded (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #1)
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Kevin Hearne (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 91,783 ratings
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Shadow's Son (Shadow Saga, #1)
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Jon Sprunk (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 4,498 ratings
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The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
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Katherine Arden (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 226,291 ratings
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Lock In (Lock In, #1)
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 70,786 ratings
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Memory of Water
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Emmi Itäranta (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 10,072 ratings
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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
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Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 287,122 ratings
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City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)
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Robert Jackson Bennett (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 39,266 ratings
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Gun, With Occasional Music
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Little, Big
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Promise of Blood (Powder Mage, #1)
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Brian McClellan (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 62,825 ratings
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The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
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White Cat (Curse Workers, #1)
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Holly Black (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 50,636 ratings
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City of Bones
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Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 6,627 ratings
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Starship Troopers
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
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Three Parts Dead (Craft Sequence, #1)
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Max Gladstone (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 15,337 ratings
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Uprooted
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 258,545 ratings
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Kindred
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 94,351 ratings
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Machine Man
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Max Barry (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 4,757 ratings
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Seveneves
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 322,083 ratings
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Regarding Ducks and Universes
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Neve Maslakovic (Goodreads Author)
3.41 avg rating — 1,501 ratings
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The Goblin Emperor (The Chronicles of Osreth, #1)
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Katherine Addison (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 52,938 ratings
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Redshirts
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 115,811 ratings
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Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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Pierce Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 686,256 ratings
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Elantris (Elantris, #1)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 334,929 ratings
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The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
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M.R. Carey (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 241,969 ratings
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The Stand
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
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The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1)
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The Neverending Story
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Armada
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Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 126,778 ratings
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Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)
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Ann Leckie (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 59,436 ratings
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No, this list is purely for books read by the SciFi and Fantasy Book Club.
This is the wrong book -The Last Unicorn
by Peter Gillis (Adaptation)
and should be replaced by the The Last UnicornPeter S Beagle.
Hmm, I like this list but I can't 'like' it.
I'm really lagging behind in reading books on this list!! I've got a handful of the unread ones on my shelves too. I know what I'm going to be doing this month!
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Nice list, but can you please add the rest of the LOTR series? Thanks:)