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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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The Illustrated Man
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Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman, #1)
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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
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The Book of Doors
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Don't Be In Love
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Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
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Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
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Marissa Meyer (Goodreads Author)
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Cryptonomicon
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
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A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
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Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1)
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Mur Lafferty (Goodreads Author)
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Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)
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The Ancient Code (The Ancient Secrets #1)
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Catch the Sun
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Jennifer Hartmann (Goodreads Author)
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Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
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The Invisible Man
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Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)
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Elizabeth Lim (Goodreads Author)
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The Emperor (The Emperor, the Son and the Thief, #1)
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Conjunction (The Wise Society, #1)
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club
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Malinda Lo (Goodreads Author)
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The Sunshine Stone
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Foster Henderson (Goodreads Author)
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Lessons In Faking (Hall Beck University, #1)
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Selina Mae (Goodreads Author)
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The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
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Gallant
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The Half King (The Half King, #1)
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Melissa Landers (Goodreads Author)
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Legend (Legend, #1)
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Marie Lu (Goodreads Author)
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Timeline
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Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
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Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)
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Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
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Sue Lynn Tan (Goodreads Author)
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Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
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Mysterious, Discovered, Accepted (Nightfall, #3)
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Violet Samuels (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 272 ratings
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The Gods Themselves
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A Wind in the Door (Time Quintet, #2)
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His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
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The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
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The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
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Rogue Genesis (Shimmer in the Dark, #1)
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Ceri London (Goodreads Author)
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Witches Abroad (Discworld, #12; Witches, #3)
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Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
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Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)
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The Lathe of Heaven
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Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #1)
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J.R. Ward (Goodreads Author)
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Inkspell (Inkworld, #2)
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Cornelia Funke (Goodreads Author)
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I Remember You
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Brian Freeman (Goodreads Author)
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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Galactic Energies
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Luca Rossi (Goodreads Author)
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RELIC: A SciFi Adventure
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T.S. Falk (Goodreads Author)
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The Beast of Cretacea
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Todd Strasser (Goodreads Author)
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Infinite
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Brian Freeman (Goodreads Author)
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Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky, #1)
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Veronica Rossi (Goodreads Author)
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Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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Pierce Brown (Goodreads Author)
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Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
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Starshine (Aurora Rising #1; Aurora Rhapsody #1)
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G.S. Jennsen (Goodreads Author)
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Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
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Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)
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Steven Erikson (Goodreads Author)
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The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
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House of Marionne (House of Marionne #1)
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J. Elle (Goodreads Author)
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The Sirens of Titan
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Tigana
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
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The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
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Grass (Arbai, #1)
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The Secret of the Blood Charm (Coven Cove #1)
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David Clark (Goodreads Author)
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The Silmarillion
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The Naming (The Books of Pellinor, #1)
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Alison Croggon (Goodreads Author)
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The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #4)
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The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
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Replay
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This Changes Everything (The Spanners, #1)
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Sally Ember (Goodreads Author)
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The Darkest Core (Netherdei #2)
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Peter Hackshaw (Goodreads Author)
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Worm Holes (Quantum Roots, #2)
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Kyle Keyes (Goodreads Author)
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Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 94,510 ratings
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Lies, Inc.
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Green Rider (Green Rider, #1)
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The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1)
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Tad Williams (Goodreads Author)
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Whalefall
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Daniel Kraus (Goodreads Author)
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Star Wars: Heir to the Empire (The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
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Timothy Zahn (Goodreads Author)
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The Sword of Kaigen
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Kindred
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NIGHT TERROR (A Genetics Investigation Team Thriller, #1)
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Russ Tilton (Goodreads Author)
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Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
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Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
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Cade (Society #1)
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Mason Sabre (Goodreads Author)
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Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1)
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The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
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The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset (The Hunger Games, #1-3)
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Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
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Matched (Matched, #1)
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The Reappearance of Rachel Price
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Holly Jackson (Goodreads Author)
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Planet of the Apes
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Dark Matter
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Daemon (Daemon, #1)
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The First Step (A Thousand Li, #1)
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Tao Wong (Goodreads Author)
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Heart of Night and Fire (The Nightfire Quartet, #1)
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Nisha J. Tuli (Goodreads Author)
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To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1)
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The Anomaly
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Prodigy (Legend, #2)
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Marie Lu (Goodreads Author)
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Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
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Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)
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The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
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Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
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Way Station
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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
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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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