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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 This list is no longer updated.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 — 1,455,722 ratings
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American Gods (American Gods, #1)
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 982,006 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
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Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 584,626 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 — 142,589 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 — 2,347,393 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 372,699 ratings
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I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
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4.21 avg rating — 372,093 ratings
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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3.92 avg rating — 324,169 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,458,909 ratings
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Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 915,898 ratings
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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4.09 avg rating — 499,843 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 813,752 ratings
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Frankenstein
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3.89 avg rating — 1,787,279 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 — 218,298 ratings
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,274,774 ratings
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Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
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Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 383,672 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 557,068 ratings
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Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 267,071 ratings
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The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 415,656 ratings
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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 653,320 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 500,795 ratings
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The War of the Worlds
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3.83 avg rating — 342,890 ratings
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The Time Machine
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3.89 avg rating — 555,724 ratings
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Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 289,064 ratings
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The Princess Bride
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4.27 avg rating — 939,543 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 — 330,601 ratings
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The Martian Chronicles
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4.16 avg rating — 281,154 ratings
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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4.10 avg rating — 212,270 ratings
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Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 63,802 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 562,004 ratings
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Watchmen
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Alan Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 588,409 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 — 133,350 ratings
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Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)
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Jacqueline Carey (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 83,498 ratings
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Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 356,647 ratings
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Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 266,773 ratings
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The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
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4.14 avg rating — 131,735 ratings
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Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 74,414 ratings
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Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 60,271 ratings
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The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 297,796 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.88 avg rating — 1,260,765 ratings
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 117,332 ratings
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His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 109,896 ratings
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Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
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James S.A. Corey (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 307,872 ratings
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Anansi Boys
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 228,721 ratings
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The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 177,867 ratings
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 147,172 ratings
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Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1)
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Gail Carriger (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 113,532 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 — 34,211 ratings
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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4.26 avg rating — 145,128 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,009,779 ratings
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Snow Crash
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 294,544 ratings
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Tigana
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 51,261 ratings
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Midnight Riot (Rivers of London #1)
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Ben Aaronovitch (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 145,197 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 — 559,171 ratings
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Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 113,327 ratings
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The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
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4.19 avg rating — 110,119 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 — 1,058,599 ratings
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To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)
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4.11 avg rating — 43,579 ratings
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Childhood’s End
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4.12 avg rating — 170,841 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 — 283,262 ratings
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Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 252,456 ratings
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The City & the City
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 76,860 ratings
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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4.15 avg rating — 137,385 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,371,796 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 — 92,564 ratings
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The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 272,105 ratings
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Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera, #1)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 112,669 ratings
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A Scanner Darkly
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4.03 avg rating — 108,707 ratings
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The Windup Girl
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 77,550 ratings
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I Am Legend
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4.05 avg rating — 148,823 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 — 652,114 ratings
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Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
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Peter F. Hamilton (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 53,014 ratings
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The Man in the High Castle
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3.59 avg rating — 230,799 ratings
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The Word for World Is Forest
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4.06 avg rating — 40,977 ratings
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Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)
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Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 100,249 ratings
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Magician (The Riftwar Saga, #1-2)
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4.32 avg rating — 70,972 ratings
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 1,980,742 ratings
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Blackout (Oxford Time Travel, #3)
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3.85 avg rating — 27,107 ratings
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The Black Prism (Lightbringer, #1)
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Brent Weeks (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 130,253 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 — 34,088 ratings
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Cat’s Cradle
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4.15 avg rating — 430,529 ratings
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The Snow Queen (The Snow Queen Cycle, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 13,089 ratings
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Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
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Ann Leckie (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 116,307 ratings
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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 87,514 ratings
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Fuzzy Nation (Fuzzy Sapiens, #7)
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4.15 avg rating — 31,873 ratings
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The Day of the Triffids
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4.01 avg rating — 115,723 ratings
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Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire, #1)
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Mark Lawrence (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 121,904 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 — 29,955 ratings
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The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
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4.28 avg rating — 78,872 ratings
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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 — 1,250,511 ratings
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Warbreaker
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 265,299 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:)