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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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Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)
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Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
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A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
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The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
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Anathema (The Eating Woods, #1)
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Keri Lake (Goodreads Author)
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The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
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The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1)
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Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)
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Ender's Shadow (The Shadow Series, #1)
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Never Let Me Go
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
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Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1)
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Richelle Mead (Goodreads Author)
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Shift (Silo, #2)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
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The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
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A Language of Dragons (A Language of Dragons, #1)
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Under the Whispering Door
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T.J. Klune (Goodreads Author)
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Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
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Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author)
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The Aspect of Essence (The Aelfyn Archives, #1)
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Samantha Amstutz (Goodreads Author)
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A Game of Love and Betrayal (The Choosing Chronicles, #1)
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Elayna R. Gallea (Goodreads Author)
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Flowers for Algernon
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The Book of Azrael (Gods & Monsters, #1)
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Amber V. Nicole (Goodreads Author)
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Eon (The Way, #1)
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Lady of Darkness (Lady of Darkness, #1)
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Melissa K. Roehrich (Goodreads Author)
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Phantasma (Wicked Games, #1)
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Kaylie Smith (Goodreads Author)
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Descent (The Palladium Wars, #4)
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Marko Kloos (Goodreads Author)
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The In-Between Bookstore
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Edward Underhill (Goodreads Author)
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
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I Am Not Jessica Chen
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Ann Liang (Goodreads Author)
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The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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Water Moon
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The Man in the High Castle
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J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
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Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)
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Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author)
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
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Olivia Atwater (Goodreads Author)
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At the Bottom of the Garden
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Camilla Bruce (Goodreads Author)
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Uglies (Uglies, #1)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
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The Stars My Destination
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The Artifact
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Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1)
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Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, #1)
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The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy (Hart and Mercy, #1)
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Termination Shock
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
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Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
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Death of the Author
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Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads Author)
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Marked (House of Night, #1)
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Honeysuckle and Bone
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Trisha Tobias (Goodreads Author)
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Blood Over Bright Haven
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M.L. Wang (Goodreads Author)
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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Immortal
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Sue Lynn Tan (Goodreads Author)
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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
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Grady Hendrix (Goodreads Author)
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Kingdom of Fallen Ash (The Order #1)
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Rivers of London (Rivers of London, #1)
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Ben Aaronovitch (Goodreads Author)
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Mind's Eye
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Douglas E. Richards (Goodreads Author)
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The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
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Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads Author)
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My Roommate Is a Vampire (My Vampires, #1)
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Jenna Levine (Goodreads Author)
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Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)
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Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
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Antarctica Station
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Crank Palace (The Maze Runner, #3.5)
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James Dashner (Goodreads Author)
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Taming Flame
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Therisa Peimer (Goodreads Author)
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Susan, You're The Chosen One (Welcome To Midlife Magic, #1)
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Lauretta Hignett (Goodreads Author)
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Livesuit (The Captive's War, #1.5)
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James S.A. Corey (Goodreads Author)
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We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
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Dennis E. Taylor (Goodreads Author)
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Starsight (Skyward, #2)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
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Never Fall for a Dragon (Mate Mountain, #1)
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Lola Glass (Goodreads Author)
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Service Model
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Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author)
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The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
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City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2)
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Mother of Death & Dawn (The War of Lost Hearts, #3)
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
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Starter Villain
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
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A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon (Glimmer Falls, #1)
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Risen (The Boy in the Iron Box, #4)
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The White Dragon (The Dragonriders of Pern, #3)
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Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1)
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Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force, #1)
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Craig Alanson (Goodreads Author)
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Wraith (The Convergence War #1)
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
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The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)
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Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
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Mickey7 (Mickey7 #1)
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Engines of Oblivion (The Memory War, #2)
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What Comes of Attending the Commoners Ball
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The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
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That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon (Mead Mishaps, #1)
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Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
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James S.A. Corey (Goodreads Author)
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Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)
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Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
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My Funny Demon Valentine (Hell Bent, #1)
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Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
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James S.A. Corey (Goodreads Author)
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The House Witch (The House Witch, #1)
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The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
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Midlife in Gretna Green (Midlife Recorder, #1)
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How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1)
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The Arbitrator
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The Librarian of the Haunted Library (Strangely Scary Funny #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
and
+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.
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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.
The system found and removed 6 duplicates.
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.
The system found and removed 21 duplicates.
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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