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Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century
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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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Divided Fire
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Red Skies Falling (Skybound, #2)
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Shadow of the Sith
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Darker Than You Think
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A Billion Days of Earth
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The Fall of the Kings (Riverside, #3)
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Night Sky Mine
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Melissa Scott (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Metropolitan (Metropolitan, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 1,291 ratings
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The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner
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The Magician (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #2)
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Michael Scott (Goodreads Author)
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Kiss of Temptation (Deadly Angels, #3)
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Distopia (Land of Dis, #2)
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The Eight (The Eight, #1)
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Hidden Blade (Soul Eater, #1)
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Star Wars: Vision of the Future (The Hand of Thrawn Duology, #2)
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The Nemesis (Diabolic, #3)
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Black Wings Beating (Skybound, #1)
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Brotherhood
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Mike Chen (Goodreads Author)
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The Road to Roswell
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The Cult of Loving Kindness (The Starbridge Chronicles, #3)
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Trouble and Her Friends
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Melissa Scott (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 1,583 ratings
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When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth
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Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 818 ratings
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My Unfair Godmother (My Fair Godmother, #2)
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Janette Rallison (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 7,469 ratings
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The Silver Wolf (Legends of the Wolf #1)
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Immortal Ever After (Argeneau, #18)
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Lynsay Sands (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 11,202 ratings
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Die seufzende Wendeltreppe (Lockwood & Co., #1)
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Jonathan Stroud (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 74,337 ratings
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Mercury Shrugs (Mercury #5)
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Robert Kroese (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Airframe
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Bayou, Vol. 1
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God Touched (The Demon Accords, #1)
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John Conroe (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 11,468 ratings
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Shiva's Fire
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Star Wars: Children of the Jedi (The Callista Trilogy, #1)
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Barbara Hambly (Goodreads Author)
3.26 avg rating — 9,900 ratings
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The Ghost Tree
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Christina Henry (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 8,300 ratings
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Realm of Ash (The Books of Ambha, #2)
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Tasha Suri (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 4,328 ratings
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Sweep of Stars (Astra Black, #1)
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Maurice Broaddus (Goodreads Author)
3.38 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Mariner's Luck (Scarlet and the White Wolf, #2)
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Kirby Crow (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 2,323 ratings
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Puck of Pook's Hill
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Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future (Santiago, #1)
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Lady of the Forest
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Jennifer Roberson (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 3,083 ratings
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Billy the Kid and the Vampyres of Vegas (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #5.5)
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Michael Scott (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 5,233 ratings
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Die Seiten der Welt (Die Seiten der Welt, #1)
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Kai Meyer (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 4,631 ratings
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Starship Grifters (Rex Nihilo #1)
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Robert Kroese (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 2,225 ratings
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Disclosure
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3.80 avg rating — 74,441 ratings
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Web of Lies (The Hundred Halls, #2)
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Thomas K. Carpenter (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 274 ratings
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Bayou Vol. 2
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4.02 avg rating — 562 ratings
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Black Frost (The Demon Accords, #3.5)
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John Conroe (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 2,438 ratings
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Der Weg nach Camelot (Gwydion, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 164 ratings
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Star Wars: Darksaber (The Callista Trilogy, #2)
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Kevin J. Anderson (Goodreads Author)
3.42 avg rating — 10,694 ratings
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To Marry Medusa
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A Curse of Ash and Embers (Tales of the Blackbone Witches, #1)
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Jo Spurrier (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 872 ratings
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The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)
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4.49 avg rating — 72,917 ratings
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Inferno Squad (Star Wars: Battlefront, #2)
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Sugar Rain (The Starbridge Chronicles, #2)
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The Land of Night (Scarlet and the White Wolf, #3)
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3.91 avg rating — 1,946 ratings
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Steel Beach
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The Sorceress (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #3)
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Michael Scott (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 87,222 ratings
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The Lady is a Vamp (Argeneau, #17)
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Lynsay Sands (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 11,645 ratings
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Krampus
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Brom (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 15,363 ratings
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Mercury Revolts (Mercury #4)
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Robert Kroese (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 462 ratings
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When She Woke
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Hillary Jordan (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 29,963 ratings
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Marked by Magic (The Baine Chronicles, #4)
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Jasmine Walt (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 3,044 ratings
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Amy Unbounded: Belondweg Blossoming
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Rachel Hartman (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Wizard Scout (Intergalactic Wizard Scout Chronicles, #3)
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Rodney W. Hartman (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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Star Wars: Planet of Twilight (The Callista Trilogy, #3)
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Barbara Hambly (Goodreads Author)
3.04 avg rating — 4,910 ratings
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Ysabel
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
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Brown Girl in the Ring
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Fractures
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Alice Reeds (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Within These Wicked Walls
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Lauren Blackwood (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 14,434 ratings
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Soldiers of Paradise (The Starbridge Chronicles, #1)
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Kirith Kirin (Irion/Hormling, #1)
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Jim Grimsley (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 1,058 ratings
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This is Not a Game (Dagmar Shaw, #1)
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Walter Jon Williams (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 2,673 ratings
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The Barbed Coil
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Mindkiller (Lifehouse, #1)
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Sebastian (Ephemera, #1)
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The Enchantress (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #6)
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Michael Scott (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 47,909 ratings
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Warrior's Redemption (Warrior, #1)
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Melissa Mayhue (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 1,109 ratings
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Der Quantenzauberer (W.A.R.P., #1)
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Mercury Rests
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Robert Kroese (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 1,308 ratings
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Fantasy of Freedom (The Tainted Accords, #4)
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Kelly St. Clare (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 7,924 ratings
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Huntress
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Malinda Lo (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 13,460 ratings
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The Registry (The Registry, #1)
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Shannon Stoker (Goodreads Author)
3.24 avg rating — 2,284 ratings
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Heaven's Reach (Uplift Storm Trilogy, #3)
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David Brin (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 7,239 ratings
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Cyteen (Cyteen, #1-3)
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C.J. Cherryh (Goodreads Author)
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Live Like Legends
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Kate Cornell (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 134 ratings
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The Loop
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Jeremy Robert Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.39 avg rating — 6,942 ratings
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The Drawing of the Dark
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The Time of the Dark (Darwath, #1)
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Barbara Hambly (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 5,639 ratings
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Convergence (The Blending, #1)
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The Warlock (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #5)
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Michael Scott (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 61,488 ratings
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Spellbound Falls (Spellbound Falls, #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
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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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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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