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Best Epic Fantasy
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Best Science Fiction
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century
Best Forgotten Science Fiction of the 20th Century
Best Science Fiction Fantasy Books
Best Space Opera
Best Urban Fantasy
Related Lists of Note:
Best Alternate H*story [asterisk is here so this list isn't misclassified]
Best Dystopian and Post Apocalyptic Fiction
Best Epic Fantasy
Best Fantasy of the 21st Century
Best Science Fiction
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century
Best Forgotten Science Fiction of the 20th Century
Best Science Fiction Fantasy Books
Best Space Opera
Best Urban Fantasy
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The Swan Thieves
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The Sorcerer's Ascension (The Sorcerer's Path, #1)
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Shield of Thunder (Troy, #2)
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When Gargoyles Rise (Shades & Shadows, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 280 ratings
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A Kiss of Shadows (Merry Gentry, #1)
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The Singing (The Books of Pellinor, #4)
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Alison Croggon (Goodreads Author)
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The Touch (The Touch, #1)
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The Mountains of Mourning (Vorkosigan Saga, #5.1)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
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The Golden Enemy
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A Letter to Three Witches (A Cupcake Coven Romance, #1)
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The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
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Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade
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Delilah S. Dawson (Goodreads Author)
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There Are Doors
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The Girl With Glass Feet
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Ali Shaw (Goodreads Author)
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Glimpses: A Collection of Nightrunner Short Stories
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Lynn Flewelling (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 2,844 ratings
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The Painter Knight (Branion, #2)
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And All The Stars A Stage
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Empress (Godspeaker Trilogy #1)
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Sharra's Exile (Darkover, #21)
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Shadowrise (Shadowmarch, #3)
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Tad Williams (Goodreads Author)
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Operation Chaos (Operation Otherworld, #1)
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Das Labyrinth der Träumenden Bücher (Zamonien, #6)
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Master (Sanctuary. #5)
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White Wolf (The Drenai Saga, #10)
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Forever Defend (The Kurtherian Gambit, #17)
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Michael Anderle (Goodreads Author)
4.53 avg rating — 3,487 ratings
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Agent (Empowered, #1)
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Dale Ivan Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 471 ratings
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Midnight Robber
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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The Space Ship Under the Apple Tree
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Seven-Year Witch (Witch Way Librarian Mysteries, #2)
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Angela M. Sanders (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 2,745 ratings
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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Dark Disciple
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Exaltations
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Counterpoint (Song of the Fallen, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 3,618 ratings
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The Granite Shield (Branion, #3)
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To Catch a Pirate
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Shadowheart (Shadowmarch, #4)
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4.04 avg rating — 6,225 ratings
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A Midsummer Tempest
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Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception (Books of Faerie, #1)
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Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 33,833 ratings
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Scent of Magic (Healer, #2)
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Maria V. Snyder (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 24,529 ratings
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The Blood Mirror (Lightbringer, #4)
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Brent Weeks (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 52,303 ratings
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Shadows
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Sword in the Storm (The Rigante, #1)
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Cold Reign (Jane Yellowrock, #11)
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4.45 avg rating — 8,045 ratings
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A Stranger in Olondria
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The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3)
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4.13 avg rating — 124,980 ratings
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The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)
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Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 39,211 ratings
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The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet (The Mushroom Planet, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 2,599 ratings
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Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves
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Meg Long (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 2,268 ratings
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The Memory Police
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Revan (Star Wars: The Old Republic, #1)
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Drew Karpyshyn (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 24,473 ratings
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The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus, #0.5)
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Jonathan Stroud (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 31,992 ratings
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Manxome Foe (Looking Glass, #3)
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4.23 avg rating — 3,325 ratings
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Wayland's Principia
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Cethe
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3.73 avg rating — 1,376 ratings
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MirrorMask
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 8,098 ratings
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The Bards of Bone Plain
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Secrets of the Sands (Children of the Desert, #1)
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Winter Rose (Winter Rose, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 7,589 ratings
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Taste of Darkness (Healer, #3)
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Maria V. Snyder (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 15,658 ratings
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Obernewtyn (The Obernewtyn Chronicles, #1)
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Isobelle Carmody (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 12,473 ratings
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The Emerald City of Oz (Oz, #6)
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The Best of John W. Campbell
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Pawn's Gambit: And Other Stratagems
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Timothy Zahn (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 354 ratings
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The Blind Assassin
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 162,666 ratings
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Agatha Heterodyne and the Airship City (Girl Genius, #2)
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This Lullaby
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Sarah Dessen (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 180,691 ratings
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Tuf Voyaging
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The Wolves of Winter
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Tyrell Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 7,039 ratings
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Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet (The Mushroom Planet, #2)
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Luminous
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Mara Rutherford (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 1,037 ratings
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Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)
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J.R. Ward (Goodreads Author)
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The Free Lunch
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Claws That Catch (Looking Glass, #4)
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Declare
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The End of the Game (The End of the Game #1-3)
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4.33 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Tower of the King's Daughter (Outremer, #1)
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Chaz Brenchley (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Solstice Wood (Winter Rose, #2)
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Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5)
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Susan Cooper (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 35,925 ratings
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The Shipshape Miracle and Other Stories (The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak #10)
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4.35 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Lord of the Silver Bow (Troy, #1)
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Cairo
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G. Willow Wilson (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 2,414 ratings
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Lila lässt die Funken fliegen
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Martin Swans Diary: Black Water Crossing
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Kyle Keyes (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 485 ratings
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The Starbirth Assignment: Shifter (Starbirth, #1 part 1)
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J.M. Johnson (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 135 ratings
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American War
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Omar El Akkad (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 41,944 ratings
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Contest
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Space Cat
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The Witch Haven (The Witch Haven, #1)
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Sasha Peyton Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 13,496 ratings
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The Buried Giant
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 120,164 ratings
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The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 458,106 ratings
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Many Waters (Time Quintet, #4)
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Cobra (Cobra, #1)
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Timothy Zahn (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 2,489 ratings
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Cold War in a Country Garden
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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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