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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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Requiem for the Sun (Symphony of Ages, #4)
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Blade of Fire (The Icemark Chronicles #2)
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Doctors in Hell (Heroes in Hell #18)
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Two If By Sea
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Stormwalker (Stormwalker, #1)
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Krabat
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Sabine's Notebook (Griffin & Sabine #2)
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Imzadi
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Orbital Decay (Near Space, #1)
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Matthew Looney's Voyage to the Earth (Matthew and Maria Looney, #1)
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Hello, Cruel Heart
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The Dark Hills Divide (The Land of Elyon, #1)
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Night of Power
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
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Bound (Kria, #2)
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Selling Out (Quantum Gravity #2)
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Harpist in the Wind (Riddle-Master, #3)
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Killing Rocks (The Bloodhound Files, #3)
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Gods' Concubine (The Troy Game, #2)
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Oath of Fealty (Paladin's Legacy, #1)
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First Lensman (The Lensman Series, #2)
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Last Battle of the Icemark
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
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The Pier Falls: And Other Stories
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Dark Time (Mortal Path, #1)
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Xombi
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The Incorruptible Library (The Second Journey of Agatha Heterodyne Volume 3)(Girl Genius #16)
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Appleseed
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Daughters of the Storm (Blood and Gold, #1)
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The Monarchs (The Ravens #2)
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The Library at Mount Char
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The Lifehouse Trilogy (Lifehouse Series)
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The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun, #3)
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Keeping It Real (Quantum Gravity #1)
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3.47 avg rating — 2,813 ratings
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Heir of Sea and Fire (Riddle-Master, #2)
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Legacy of Mist and Shadow: The Age of Awakenings - Book 3
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How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky
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Junkyard Druid (Colin McCool, #1)
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Lord of the Flies
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Maledicte (Antyre, #1)
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Lane Robins (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 808 ratings
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Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars
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Bright Ruined Things
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Very Hard Choices (Russell Walker/Zandor Zudenigo/Nika Mandiç Mysteries, #2)
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The Marianne Trilogy (Marianne, #1-3)
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The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun, #2)
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Greybeard
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Genellan: Planetfall
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Kings of the North (Paladin's Legacy, #2)
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Dead in Dixie (Sookie Stackhouse 1-3)
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4.16 avg rating — 3,372 ratings
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Sea Glass (Glass, #2)
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4.01 avg rating — 20,490 ratings
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Trouble with Lichen
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Mercenary Magic (Dragon Born Serafina, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 4,593 ratings
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Adaptation (Adaptation, #1)
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Malinda Lo (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 7,975 ratings
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The Bathwater Conspiracy
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3.92 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Neveryóna (Return to Nevèrÿon, #2)
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Secret Under the Sea
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Near the Bone
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Christina Henry (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 20,508 ratings
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Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2)
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The Polar Express
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Starmother
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Personal Demons (Megan Chase, #1)
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Stacia Kane (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 2,597 ratings
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Inherit the Stars
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The Forge of God (Forge of God, #1)
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Spy Glass (Glass, #3)
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Homeric Hymns
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Artifact
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Elizabeth's Legacy (Royal Institute of Magic, #1)
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Victor Kloss (Goodreads Author)
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Princeless, Vol. 1: Save Yourself
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Mimus
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The King of Elfland's Daughter
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Tales of Nevèrÿon (Return to Nevèrÿon, #1)
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The Crown of Rowan (Blood and Gold, #0.5)
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Wolfling
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Namesake (Fable, #2)
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666 Park Avenue
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A Certain Slant of Light (Light, #1)
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Sunwaifs
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Unholy Magic (Downside Ghosts, #2)
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The King Beyond the Gate (Drenai Tales, #2)
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The Silent Tower (Windrose Chronicles, #1)
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Good Night, Mr. James and Other Stories (The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak #8)
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Grounded (Out of the Box, #4)
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Doctor Who: Spiral Scratch
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Black Sun Rising (The Coldfire Trilogy, #1)
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Always Coming Home
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A Strange Scottish Shore (Emmaline Truelove, #2)
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Juliana Gray (Goodreads Author)
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Across a Billion Years
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The Apocalypse Seven
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Gene Doucette (Goodreads Author)
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Stargazer (Evernight, #2)
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Claudia Gray (Goodreads Author)
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Through the Ice
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Drowntide
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City of Ghosts (Downside Ghosts, #3)
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Stacia Kane (Goodreads Author)
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Time's Arrow
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Psion (Cat, #1)
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Grotto of the Dancing Deer and Other Stories (The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak #4)
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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
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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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