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Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century
Best Forgotten Science Fiction of the 20th Century
Best Science Fiction Fantasy Books
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Related Lists of Note:
Best Alternate H*story [asterisk is here so this list isn't misclassified]
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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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Into Antiquity (The Epimetheus Trial #2)
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A Lullaby for Witches
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3.60 avg rating — 8,122 ratings
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The Icarus Hunt (The Icarus Saga, #0)
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Timothy Zahn (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 5,555 ratings
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Where Shadows Meet
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Patrice Caldwell (Goodreads Author)
3.10 avg rating — 1,537 ratings
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The Wreckage
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Michael Crummey (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 1,432 ratings
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The Dragon Waiting
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Angel (Maximum Ride, #7)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
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Path of Destruction (Star Wars: Darth Bane, #1)
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Drew Karpyshyn (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 36,892 ratings
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A Season for Slaughter (War Against the Chtorr #4)
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David Gerrold (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 1,093 ratings
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Feast of Souls (The Magister Trilogy, #1)
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Prospero Lost (Prospero's Daughter, #1)
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L. Jagi Lamplighter (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 674 ratings
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The Copper Promise (The Copper Cat, #1)
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Jen Williams (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 3,507 ratings
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Faeryland: The Secret World of the Hidden Ones
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The Immortal Who Loved Me (Argeneau, #21)
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4.14 avg rating — 7,967 ratings
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The Legend of Deathwalker (The Drenai Saga, #7)
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Fool
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Christopher Moore (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 57,171 ratings
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This is Our Land (Emerilia #5)
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Michael Chatfield (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 2,791 ratings
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Die Wellenläufer (Wellenläufer-Trilogie, #1)
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Kai Meyer (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 3,354 ratings
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Mr. Flood's Last Resort
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Jess Kidd (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 10,190 ratings
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Fever 1793
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 132,308 ratings
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Glimpse Spirit vol. 6 (The Glimpse Series - Imagined Scenes from Imagined Lives)
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Lisa Mathisen (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The Aeronaut's Windlass (The Cinder Spires, #1)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 48,803 ratings
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Honor Among Thieves (The Honors, #1)
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Passage
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I draghi di Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle #4 and #6)
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Men and Machines: Science Fiction Stories by Fred Saberhagan, Jack Williamson, Fritz Leiber, and more!
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Robert Silverberg (Editor)
3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Welcome to Night Vale (Welcome to Night Vale, #1)
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Joseph Fink (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 43,463 ratings
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Beyond the Veil (The Epimetheus Trial #3)
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Veil (Hush, #2)
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The Raidships (Riven Skies, #1)
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A.D. Wynterhawk (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Eleven Percent
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Maximum Ride, Vol. 3 (Maximum Ride: The Manga, #3)
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NaRae Lee (adapter/Illustrator)
4.38 avg rating — 10,971 ratings
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The Magicians and Mrs. Quent
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The Maze of Bones (The 39 Clues, #1)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 88,004 ratings
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The Faceless Ones (Skulduggery Pleasant, #3)
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The Stone Prince (Imperia, #1)
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Gena Showalter (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 5,456 ratings
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Marsbound (Marsbound, #1)
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3.56 avg rating — 3,074 ratings
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The Carnelian Throne (Silistra, #4)
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Janet E. Morris (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Quest for Lost Heroes (The Drenai Saga, #4)
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4.14 avg rating — 10,531 ratings
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The Grey King
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Susan Cooper (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 40,128 ratings
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New Horizons (Emerilia #4)
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Michael Chatfield (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 2,867 ratings
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The Beginning Place
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3.53 avg rating — 3,724 ratings
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
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4.35 avg rating — 1,496,457 ratings
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Entrance (Thornhill Trilogy, #1)
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J.J. Sorel (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 1,177 ratings
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Search for Senna (Everworld, #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 5,566 ratings
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Caressed by Ice (Psy-Changeling, #3)
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Nalini Singh (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 42,093 ratings
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Sorceress of Darshiva (The Malloreon, #4)
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4.11 avg rating — 47,974 ratings
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Heart of Iron (Heart of Iron, #1)
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Ashley Poston (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 7,326 ratings
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The Calibrated Alligator and Other Science Fiction Stories
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3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)
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Lindsay Ellis (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 27,894 ratings
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Gallant
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3.70 avg rating — 143,924 ratings
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Aestus: Book 2: The Colony
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S.Z. Attwell (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Woven From Clay
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3.61 avg rating — 315 ratings
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| 3054 |
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They Fly at Çiron
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3.27 avg rating — 351 ratings
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Emerald Sea (The Council Wars, #2)
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3.97 avg rating — 3,318 ratings
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Pathfinder (Pathfinder, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 24,931 ratings
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The Quest for the Green Man
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3.69 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Pleasure Slave (Imperia, #2)
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Gena Showalter (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 4,625 ratings
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Carry On (Simon Snow, #1)
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Rainbow Rowell (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 332,110 ratings
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Starbound (Marsbound, #2)
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3.53 avg rating — 1,700 ratings
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The Swords of Night and Day
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4.35 avg rating — 9,761 ratings
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For The Guild (Emerilia #3)
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Michael Chatfield (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 3,176 ratings
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The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
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Katherine Arden (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 109,966 ratings
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Cruiser Dreams (Kerrion Empire #2)
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Janet E. Morris (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Out of the Dust
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3.77 avg rating — 79,168 ratings
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Empress of a Thousand Skies (Empress of a Thousand Skies, #1)
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Rhoda Belleza (Goodreads Author)
3.35 avg rating — 8,162 ratings
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In the Forests of the Night (Den of Shadows, #1)
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Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 15,094 ratings
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Archangel's Kiss (Guild Hunter, #2)
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Nalini Singh (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 60,933 ratings
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White Night (The Dresden Files, #9)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 126,364 ratings
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The Forgotten Door
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The Company of Death
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Elisa Hansen (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 353 ratings
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In the Company of Witches (Evenfall Witches B&B, #1)
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Auralee Wallace (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 19,288 ratings
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The Once and Future Witches
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Alix E. Harrow (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 103,818 ratings
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A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2)
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Hank Green (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 55,668 ratings
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Home Is the Hangman/We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line
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Against the Tide (The Council Wars, #3)
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Shadows Return (Nightrunner, #4)
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Lynn Flewelling (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 8,236 ratings
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To Green Angel Tower, Part 1 (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3; Part 1)
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Tad Williams (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 56,880 ratings
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Spock's World (Star Trek: the Original Series #32)
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Diane Duane (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 3,621 ratings
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Playing with Fire (Skulduggery Pleasant, #2)
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4.29 avg rating — 34,755 ratings
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The Blinding Knife (Lightbringer, #2)
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Brent Weeks (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 93,004 ratings
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Earthbound
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Fall of Kings (Troy, #3)
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The Fox Sister Chapter 1: Little Sister (The Fox Sister, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1)
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Kendare Blake (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 107,511 ratings
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Benvari Mountains (Emerilia #2)
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Michael Chatfield (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 3,368 ratings
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The Crow (The Books of Pellinor, #3)
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Alison Croggon (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 14,188 ratings
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New Spring (The Wheel of Time, #0)
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Walk Two Moons
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The Case of the Vanishing Boy
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A Far Wilder Magic
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Allison Saft (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 24,808 ratings
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The Prisoner of Heaven (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #3)
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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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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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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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