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Best Alternate H*story [asterisk is here so this list isn't misclassified]
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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
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Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
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Komarr (Vorkosigan Saga, #11)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
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Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
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Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)
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Sylvain Neuvel (Goodreads Author)
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Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1)
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Ilona Andrews (Goodreads Author)
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Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)
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The Riddle-Master of Hed (Riddle-Master, #1)
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Skulduggery Pleasant (Skulduggery Pleasant, #1)
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Time Enough for Love
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Tau Zero
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Delirium (Delirium, #1)
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Have Space Suit—Will Travel
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Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines, #1)
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...And the Stars Will Sing
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Michelle Browne (Goodreads Author)
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Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices, #2)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
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Steelheart (The Reckoners, #1)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
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Stars Above (The Lunar Chronicles, #4.5)
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Marissa Meyer (Goodreads Author)
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Unwind (Unwind, #1)
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Neal Shusterman (Goodreads Author)
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Forever Peace (The Forever War, #3)
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The Realms of the Gods (Immortals, #4)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
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Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)
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Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 16,999 ratings
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Inversions (Culture, #6)
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The Honor of the Queen (Honor Harrington, #2)
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Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
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James S.A. Corey (Goodreads Author)
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author)
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Jackaroo (Tales of the Kingdom, #1)
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Cynthia Voigt (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 5,044 ratings
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Evernight (Evernight, #1)
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Claudia Gray (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 82,260 ratings
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An Unkindness of Ghosts
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Rivers Solomon (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 21,476 ratings
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Rainbows End
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Winter of Fire
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The Fairy Godmother (Five Hundred Kingdoms, #1)
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Mercedes Lackey (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 19,408 ratings
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Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 33,627 ratings
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Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, #1)
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
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The 100 (The 100, #1)
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Kass Morgan (Goodreads Author)
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Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
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Liu Cixin (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 166,739 ratings
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Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
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More Than Human
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Poison
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Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern (Pern, #7)
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Absolution Gap (Revelation Space, #3)
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Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
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Laini Taylor (Goodreads Author)
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Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows, #1)
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Kim Harrison (Goodreads Author)
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Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4)
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Marissa Meyer (Goodreads Author)
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City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)
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Tad Williams (Goodreads Author)
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The Minority Report
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Rama II (Rama #2)
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Hammered (Legacy of Magic, #1)
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Lindsay Buroker (Goodreads Author)
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I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
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Beyond Sanctuary
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Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
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The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
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Cetaganda (Vorkosigan Saga, #9)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
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Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot (Cecelia and Kate, #1)
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Patricia C. Wrede (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 21,612 ratings
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The Alliance (The Evox Chronicles #1)
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Chris G. Wright (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Dust (Silo, #3)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 134,232 ratings
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From Unseen Fire (Aven Cycle, #1)
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Cass Morris (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 623 ratings
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Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse, #1)
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Daniel H. Wilson (Goodreads Author)
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The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)
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The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds, #1)
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Alexandra Bracken (Goodreads Author)
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Dragonquest (Dragonriders of Pern, #2)
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2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)
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Untamed (House of Night, #4)
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P.C. Cast (Goodreads Author)
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The Dark Tower #1-3
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 8,594 ratings
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The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)
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The Immortal Rules (Blood of Eden, #1)
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Julie Kagawa (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 72,260 ratings
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2010: Odyssey Two
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Lirael (Abhorsen, #2)
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Garth Nix (Goodreads Author)
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Gone (Gone, #1)
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Michael Grant (Goodreads Author)
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Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)
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Touching Darkness (Midnighters, #2)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
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The Word for World Is Forest
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Warping Minds & Other Misdemeanors (The Guild Codex: Warped, #1)
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Annette Marie (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 7,211 ratings
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The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
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Leo Gray and the Lunar Eclipse
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K.J. Kruk (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)
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Downbelow Station (The Company Wars, #1)
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C.J. Cherryh (Goodreads Author)
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I Am Legend and Other Stories
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City
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Upgrade
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Blake Crouch (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 118,613 ratings
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Sunshine
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The Starbirth Assignment: Transmutes (Starbirth, #1 part 2)
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J.M. Johnson (Goodreads Author)
4.58 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Anubis Gates
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Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
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The Kill Order (The Maze Runner, #4)
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James Dashner (Goodreads Author)
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After Death
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Dean Koontz (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 18,215 ratings
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Idoru (Bridge, #2)
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The Sweet Far Thing (Gemma Doyle, #3)
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Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)
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Prey
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Wise Child (Doran, #1)
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The Stainless Steel Rat (Stainless Steel Rat, #4)
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Polgara the Sorceress
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Star Wars: The Last Command (The Thrawn Trilogy, #3)
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Timothy Zahn (Goodreads Author)
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Valiant (Modern Faerie Tales, #2)
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Holly Black (Goodreads Author)
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Crown Duel (Crown & Court, #1-2)
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Sherwood Smith (Goodreads Author)
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Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2)
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Marissa Meyer (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 457,310 ratings
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Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
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Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)
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Becky Chambers (Goodreads Author)
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School's Out—Forever (Maximum Ride, #2)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
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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
and
+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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