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Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century
Best Forgotten Science Fiction of the 20th Century
Best Science Fiction Fantasy Books
Best Space Opera
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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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Black Wine
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3.73 avg rating — 378 ratings
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I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls, #1)
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Ally Carter (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 193,088 ratings
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| 1600 |
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The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 42,382 ratings
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The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)
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Genevieve Cogman (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 27,906 ratings
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Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches, #4)
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Devil's Bait
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Debbie Boek (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Chalice
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Succubus on Top (Georgina Kincaid, #2)
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Richelle Mead (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 33,389 ratings
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| 1608 |
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Born of Night (The League: Nemesis Rising, #1)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 28,303 ratings
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| 1608 |
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Looking for Alaska
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 1,733,551 ratings
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Yoga Time
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4.79 avg rating — 52 ratings
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A Sword from Red Ice (Sword of Shadows, #3)
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The Absolute Sandman, Volume 1
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4.64 avg rating — 22,635 ratings
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The Warded Man (The Demon Cycle, #1)
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Peter V. Brett (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 130,832 ratings
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The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus, #3)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 667,519 ratings
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Every Which Way But Dead (The Hollows, #3)
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Kim Harrison (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 72,264 ratings
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Sentinels: Book 1 Part 1 of The One True Child Series
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L.C. Conn (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 258 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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Jay Asher (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 1,020,159 ratings
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The Oldest Dance (Wisdom Revolution, #2)
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Misba (Goodreads Author)
4.70 avg rating — 13,541 ratings
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Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
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Neal Shusterman (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 403,666 ratings
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Death's Master (Flat Earth, #2)
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4.23 avg rating — 1,507 ratings
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Tactics of Mistake (Childe Cycle, #4)
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4.22 avg rating — 3,250 ratings
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Son of the Shadows (Sevenwaters, #2)
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 34,020 ratings
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Guardians
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L.C. Conn (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 216 ratings
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| 1625 |
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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4.06 avg rating — 283,491 ratings
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Succubus Blues (Georgina Kincaid, #1)
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Richelle Mead (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 58,177 ratings
score: 176,
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Delirium's Mistress (Flat Earth, #4)
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4.21 avg rating — 842 ratings
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Dance of the Goblins (The Goblin, #1)
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3.69 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Child of the Prophecy (Sevenwaters, #3)
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 24,639 ratings
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Delusion's Master (Flat Earth, #3)
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4.18 avg rating — 1,115 ratings
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Star Force: Inception (Star Force, #1)
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Aer-ki Jyr (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 340 ratings
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| 1630 |
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Radiance
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Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 5,464 ratings
score: 175,
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The Tempest
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3.78 avg rating — 225,173 ratings
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Carling (The One True Child, #2)
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L.C. Conn (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 432 ratings
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Through Wolf's Eyes (Firekeeper Saga, #1)
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Jane Lindskold (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 7,170 ratings
score: 174,
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A Sliver of Shadow (Abby Sinclair, #2)
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Allison Pang (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 2,313 ratings
score: 174,
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The Fiery Cross (Outlander, #5)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 225,348 ratings
score: 174,
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The Rithmatist (The Rithmatist, #1)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 74,071 ratings
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City At The Edge Of Time
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Janet E. Morris (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 91 ratings
score: 174,
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| 1640 |
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Night's Master (Tales from the Flat Earth #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 3,704 ratings
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Apex
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4.16 avg rating — 314 ratings
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The Belgariad, Vol. 1: Pawn of Prophecy / Queen of Sorcery / Magician's Gambit (The Belgariad, #1-3)
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4.29 avg rating — 16,329 ratings
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An Echo in the Bone (Outlander, #7)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 164,429 ratings
score: 172,
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On the Beach
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3.98 avg rating — 49,054 ratings
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The Snow Queen (The Snow Queen Cycle, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 13,137 ratings
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The Citadel of the Autarch (The Book of the New Sun, #4)
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4.25 avg rating — 10,914 ratings
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A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander, #6)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 190,311 ratings
score: 170,
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The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
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3.88 avg rating — 10,764 ratings
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Final Frontier
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3.87 avg rating — 1,366 ratings
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| 1650 |
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The Fish the Fighters and the Song-Girl
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Janet E. Morris (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 182 ratings
score: 169,
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| 1651 |
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Shadow Souls (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #2)
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3.74 avg rating — 40,569 ratings
score: 168,
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Dark Currents (The Emperor's Edge, #2)
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Lindsay Buroker (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 8,749 ratings
score: 168,
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The Farm (The Farm, #1)
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Emily McKay (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 4,736 ratings
score: 168,
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Fall of a Kingdom (The Farsala Trilogy, #1)
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Hilari Bell (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 5,650 ratings
score: 167,
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The Shepherd's Crown (Discworld, #41; Tiffany Aching, #5)
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4.38 avg rating — 33,860 ratings
score: 167,
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Flipped
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Wendelin Van Draanen (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 125,504 ratings
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| 1657 |
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Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
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Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 3,512 ratings
score: 166,
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Gaven (The Gaven Series, #1)
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J.C. Owens (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 2,887 ratings
score: 166,
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Deadly Games (The Emperor's Edge, #3)
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Lindsay Buroker (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 7,533 ratings
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Swords and Deviltry (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 13,469 ratings
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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
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Ken Liu (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 37,920 ratings
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The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
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3.95 avg rating — 326,901 ratings
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| 1663 |
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The True Game (Land of the True Game, #1-3)
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4.21 avg rating — 1,385 ratings
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Footprints of Thunder
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3.64 avg rating — 686 ratings
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Tempus With his Right-Side Companion Niko
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Janet E. Morris (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 263 ratings
score: 164,
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The Secret Hour (Midnighters, #1)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 30,704 ratings
score: 163,
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Very Bad Deaths (Russell Walker/Zandor Zudenigo/Nika Mandiç Mysteries, #1)
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3.67 avg rating — 727 ratings
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Song in the Silence (The Tale of Lanen Kaelar, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 5,591 ratings
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Druid's Sword (The Troy Game, #4)
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4.02 avg rating — 2,341 ratings
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Mossflower (Redwall, #2)
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4.13 avg rating — 72,099 ratings
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 1,348,529 ratings
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Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
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4.36 avg rating — 195,096 ratings
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Creatures of Light and Darkness
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3.93 avg rating — 4,776 ratings
score: 162,
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The High House (Evenmere Chronicles #1)
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James Stoddard (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 657 ratings
score: 162,
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Mutineers' Moon (Dahak, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 7,086 ratings
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Nimona
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4.18 avg rating — 184,907 ratings
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The Other Wind
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4.20 avg rating — 32,297 ratings
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There Will Be Dragons (The Council Wars, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 5,362 ratings
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In the Realm of the Wolf (The Drenai Saga, #5)
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4.27 avg rating — 9,915 ratings
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The Lovely Bones
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3.86 avg rating — 2,452,220 ratings
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One Fell Sweep (Innkeeper Chronicles, #3)
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Ilona Andrews (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 35,493 ratings
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| 1682 |
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Lady of Devices (Magnificent Devices, #1)
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Shelley Adina (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 8,366 ratings
score: 160,
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| 1683 |
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Sweep in Peace (Innkeeper Chronicles #2)
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Ilona Andrews (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 41,932 ratings
score: 159,
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Tam Lin
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3.84 avg rating — 5,816 ratings
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The Ring of Five Dragons (The Pearl Saga, #1)
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3.73 avg rating — 957 ratings
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Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1)
by
Gail Carriger (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 113,785 ratings
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| 1687 |
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Mattimeo (Redwall, #3)
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4.09 avg rating — 37,215 ratings
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Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #1)
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3.72 avg rating — 49,726 ratings
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| 1689 |
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The King's Buccaneer (Krondor's Sons, #2)
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4.08 avg rating — 26,022 ratings
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The Heritage of Hastur (Darkover, #18)
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4.03 avg rating — 3,333 ratings
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The Trapped Mind Project (Emerilia, #1)
by
Michael Chatfield (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 4,846 ratings
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| 1692 |
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Orhan's Inheritance
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Aline Ohanesian (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 8,671 ratings
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Silver Silence (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #1; Psy-Changeling, #16)
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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.
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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
[book:The Ascendance Protocol: ..."
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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