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SciFi and Fantasy Book Club Bookshelf
This is the list of books read by the
SciFi and Fantasy Book Club
until March 2023. This list is no longer updated.
See SFFBC Current Events for links to current group book resources.
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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Dune (Dune #1)
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 1,455,822 ratings
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American Gods (American Gods, #1)
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 982,055 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
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Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 584,693 ratings
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A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
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A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
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Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1)
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4.08 avg rating — 142,596 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 — 2,347,772 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 372,725 ratings
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I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
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4.21 avg rating — 372,121 ratings
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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3.92 avg rating — 324,190 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,459,045 ratings
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Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 916,202 ratings
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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4.09 avg rating — 499,908 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 813,805 ratings
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Frankenstein
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3.89 avg rating — 1,787,567 ratings
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Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 218,339 ratings
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,274,893 ratings
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Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
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Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 383,741 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 557,085 ratings
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Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 267,103 ratings
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The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 415,691 ratings
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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 653,369 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 500,821 ratings
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The War of the Worlds
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3.83 avg rating — 342,938 ratings
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The Time Machine
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3.89 avg rating — 555,780 ratings
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Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 289,123 ratings
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The Princess Bride
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4.27 avg rating — 939,584 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 — 330,662 ratings
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The Martian Chronicles
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4.16 avg rating — 281,184 ratings
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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4.10 avg rating — 212,310 ratings
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Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 63,811 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 562,028 ratings
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Watchmen
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Alan Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 588,462 ratings
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Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)
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Steven Erikson (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 133,366 ratings
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Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)
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Jacqueline Carey (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 83,502 ratings
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Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 356,691 ratings
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Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 266,819 ratings
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The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
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4.14 avg rating — 131,753 ratings
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Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 74,423 ratings
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Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 60,276 ratings
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The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 297,870 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.88 avg rating — 1,261,023 ratings
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 117,341 ratings
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His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 109,912 ratings
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Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
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James S.A. Corey (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 307,920 ratings
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Anansi Boys
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 228,730 ratings
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The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 177,883 ratings
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 147,179 ratings
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Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1)
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Gail Carriger (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 113,536 ratings
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The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 34,217 ratings
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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4.26 avg rating — 145,160 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,009,894 ratings
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Snow Crash
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 294,564 ratings
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Tigana
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 51,271 ratings
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Midnight Riot (Rivers of London #1)
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Ben Aaronovitch (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 145,215 ratings
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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Max Brooks (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 559,215 ratings
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Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 113,335 ratings
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The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
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4.19 avg rating — 110,128 ratings
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Author)
4.52 avg rating — 1,058,709 ratings
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To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)
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4.11 avg rating — 43,582 ratings
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Childhood’s End
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4.12 avg rating — 170,852 ratings
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 283,289 ratings
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Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 252,464 ratings
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The City & the City
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 76,869 ratings
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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4.15 avg rating — 137,391 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,372,175 ratings
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 92,572 ratings
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The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 272,124 ratings
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Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera, #1)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 112,672 ratings
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A Scanner Darkly
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4.03 avg rating — 108,718 ratings
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The Windup Girl
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 77,556 ratings
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I Am Legend
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4.05 avg rating — 148,846 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 652,140 ratings
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Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
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Peter F. Hamilton (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 53,023 ratings
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The Man in the High Castle
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3.59 avg rating — 230,819 ratings
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The Word for World Is Forest
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4.06 avg rating — 40,998 ratings
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Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)
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Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 100,273 ratings
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Magician (The Riftwar Saga, #1-2)
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4.32 avg rating — 70,977 ratings
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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Blackout (Oxford Time Travel, #3)
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3.85 avg rating — 27,108 ratings
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The Black Prism (Lightbringer, #1)
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Brent Weeks (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 130,259 ratings
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Swords and Deviltry (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 13,404 ratings
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Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1)
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Cherie Priest (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 34,089 ratings
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Cat’s Cradle
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4.15 avg rating — 430,573 ratings
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The Snow Queen (The Snow Queen Cycle, #1)
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Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
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Ann Leckie (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 116,320 ratings
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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 87,522 ratings
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Fuzzy Nation (Fuzzy Sapiens, #7)
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4.15 avg rating — 31,877 ratings
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The Day of the Triffids
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4.01 avg rating — 115,735 ratings
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Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire, #1)
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Mark Lawrence (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 121,912 ratings
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A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
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The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 29,956 ratings
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The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
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Those Who Hunt the Night (James Asher #1)
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Barbara Hambly (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 5,032 ratings
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The Martian
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Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 1,250,718 ratings
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Warbreaker
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 265,370 ratings
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No, this list is purely for books read by the SciFi and Fantasy Book Club.
This is the wrong book -The Last Unicorn
by Peter Gillis (Adaptation)
and should be replaced by the The Last UnicornPeter S Beagle.
Hmm, I like this list but I can't 'like' it.
I'm really lagging behind in reading books on this list!! I've got a handful of the unread ones on my shelves too. I know what I'm going to be doing this month!
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Nice list, but can you please add the rest of the LOTR series? Thanks:)