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Best Epic Fantasy
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Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century
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Best Science Fiction Fantasy Books
Best Space Opera
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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 Lord of the Rings
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Dune (Dune #1)
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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Harry Potter Series Box Set (Harry Potter, #1-7)
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1984
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Author)
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,781,502 ratings
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Brave New World
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 985,723 ratings
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The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 1,606,819 ratings
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I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
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4.21 avg rating — 375,392 ratings
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Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 940,265 ratings
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The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
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Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 589,714 ratings
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Viciously Yours (Fae Kings of Eden, #1)
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Jamie Applegate Hunter (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 42,980 ratings
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The Princess Bride
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 2,772,039 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 375,199 ratings
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,377,608 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 1,272,978 ratings
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The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)
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Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Author)
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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4.09 avg rating — 505,950 ratings
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The Time Machine
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3.89 avg rating — 559,762 ratings
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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3.92 avg rating — 325,304 ratings
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Starship Troopers
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4.01 avg rating — 244,440 ratings
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The Stand
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 826,200 ratings
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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
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3.90 avg rating — 1,832,243 ratings
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Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle #1)
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Christopher Paolini (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 1,923,023 ratings
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The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
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Scott Lynch (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 335,381 ratings
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The Martian Chronicles
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4.16 avg rating — 283,210 ratings
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Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 1,049,782 ratings
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The Host (The Host, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 1,045,136 ratings
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The Lies of Vampires and Slayers (Magic on Main Street, #1)
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K.M. Shea (Goodreads Author)
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Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
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Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author)
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A Dead and Stormy Night (Nevermore Bookshop Mysteries, #1)
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Heretical Fishing (Heretical Fishing, #1)
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Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1)
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,284,941 ratings
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Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
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The Little Prince
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4.33 avg rating — 2,428,866 ratings
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The War of the Worlds
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3.83 avg rating — 346,266 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
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Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 293,391 ratings
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City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 2,149,904 ratings
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Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
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3.67 avg rating — 7,223,957 ratings
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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4.15 avg rating — 138,099 ratings
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A Cursed Son (Remnants of the Fallen Kingdom, #1)
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Day Leitao (Goodreads Author)
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Snow Crash
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 296,074 ratings
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Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
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Sara Pascoe (Goodreads Author)
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2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 333,805 ratings
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The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
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Accidental Mystic (Midlife Melody, #1)
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Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 128,152 ratings
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Watchmen
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Alan Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 591,754 ratings
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5)
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4.38 avg rating — 336,773 ratings
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The Polymorph
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Max Nowaz (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 14,788 ratings
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The Martian
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Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 1,265,750 ratings
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Salvager
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Scott Moon (Goodreads Author)
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The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
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4.28 avg rating — 701,959 ratings
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Magical Midlife Awakening (Leveling Up, #9)
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K.F. Breene (Goodreads Author)
4.63 avg rating — 11,359 ratings
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The Three Witches and the Master
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Max Nowaz (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 17,954 ratings
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The Art of Avoiding Your Werewolf (Wildwood, #1)
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Lola Glass (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 8,214 ratings
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I'm Glad You're Dead: Preternatural Chronicles Book 1
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Hunter Blain (Goodreads Author)
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Lucky Son of a Gun (The Demon Accords, #19)
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John Conroe (Goodreads Author)
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House of Vampires and Flame (Shades of Ruin and Magic #1)
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Meg Xuemei X (Goodreads Author)
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The Art of Avoiding Your Alpha (Wildwood, #2)
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Lola Glass (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 5,497 ratings
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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Code Yellow in Gretna Green (Midlife Recorder, #5)
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Linzi Day (Goodreads Author)
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The Warm Hands of Ghosts
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Katherine Arden (Goodreads Author)
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Magician: Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga, #1)
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A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
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Marked by Magic (Tracking Trouble #1)
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Lindsay Buroker (Goodreads Author)
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Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1)
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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I Am Legend
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Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)
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Pierce Brown (Goodreads Author)
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The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)
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James S.A. Corey (Goodreads Author)
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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
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Get Rich or Get Lucky
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Max Nowaz (Goodreads Author)
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Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
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K. Ritz (Goodreads Author)
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
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The Road
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Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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The Three Witches and The Master
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Max Nowaz (Goodreads Author)
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Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
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Cornelia Funke (Goodreads Author)
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His Dark Materials (His Dark Materials #1-3)
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On Destiny
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Aileen Erin (Goodreads Author)
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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Cat’s Cradle
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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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