SciFi and Fantasy Book Club Bookshelf (258 books)

This is the list of books read by the SciFi and Fantasy Book Club until March 2023. This list is no longer updated.

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The average Goodreads member has read 28 out of 100 books on this list — how many have you read?

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201	Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1) by Terry Pratchett 4.34 avg rating — 232,462 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
202	The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2) by Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Author) 4.55 avg rating — 612,268 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
203	The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) by Liu Cixin (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 476,987 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
204	Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 4.01 avg rating — 265,195 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
205	In the Night Garden (The Orphan's Tales, #1) by Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 9,260 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
206	The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner 3.91 avg rating — 5,646 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
207	The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 76,263 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
208	The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1) by Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 136,682 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
209	Nexus (Nexus, #1) by Ramez Naam (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 20,920 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
210	A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1) by Marie Brennan (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 45,735 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
211	The Passage (The Passage, #1) by Justin Cronin (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 221,730 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
211	The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1) by Seth Dickinson (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 24,733 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
213	Blood Song (Raven's Shadow, #1) by Anthony Ryan (Goodreads Author) 4.41 avg rating — 91,337 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
213	The Aeronaut's Windlass (The Cinder Spires, #1) by Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author) 4.18 avg rating — 48,730 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
215	Sphere by Michael Crichton 3.84 avg rating — 196,527 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
216	The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2) by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 629,726 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
217	The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1) by Becky Chambers (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 180,266 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
218	Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 23,804 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
219	Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2) by James S.A. Corey (Goodreads Author) 4.39 avg rating — 178,881 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
220	Pawn of Prophecy (The Belgariad #1) by David Eddings 4.16 avg rating — 110,856 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
221	The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach 4.19 avg rating — 5,744 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
221	The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty, #1) by Ken Liu (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 27,979 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
223	Children of Time (Children of Time, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 167,005 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
224	Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear (Goodreads Author) 3.71 avg rating — 4,795 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
225	A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1) by V.E. Schwab 4.04 avg rating — 423,624 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
226	Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1) by Garth Nix (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 217,222 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
227	The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1) by N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 81,112 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
228	The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1) by Django Wexler (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 20,435 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
229	Foreigner (Foreigner, #1) by C.J. Cherryh (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 10,859 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
230	Grass (Arbai, #1) by Sheri S. Tepper 4.03 avg rating — 13,246 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
231	All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 48,517 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
232	The Book of Phoenix (Who Fears Death, #0) by Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 5,928 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
233	A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2) by Becky Chambers (Goodreads Author) 4.37 avg rating — 86,636 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
234	Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1) by Ada Palmer (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 15,472 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
235	The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2) by N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 192,145 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
236	The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester 4.06 avg rating — 54,931 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
237	The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,083,030 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
238	Arcadia by Iain Pears 3.94 avg rating — 6,314 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
239	Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds 4.07 avg rating — 21,901 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
240	The Last Policeman (The Last Policeman, #1) by Ben H. Winters (Goodreads Author) 3.77 avg rating — 35,105 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
241	The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5) by Andrzej Sapkowski 4.14 avg rating — 406,526 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
241	Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 20,232 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
243	Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1) by Leigh Bardugo (Goodreads Author) 4.46 avg rating — 1,127,496 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
244	Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor, #1) by Mark Lawrence (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 62,390 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
245	Haze by L.E. Modesitt Jr. (Goodreads Author) 3.56 avg rating — 1,196 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
245	The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley (Goodreads Author) 3.64 avg rating — 10,828 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
247	Touch by Claire North 3.82 avg rating — 12,481 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
248	Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1) by Yoon Ha Lee 3.79 avg rating — 21,308 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
249	The Power by Naomi Alderman (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 249,695 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
250	The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library, #1) by Genevieve Cogman (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 64,642 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
251	Artemis by Andy Weir (Goodreads Author) 3.69 avg rating — 316,885 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
252	Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles by Michael Moorcock 2.97 avg rating — 1,176 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
252	Winter Tide (The Innsmouth Legacy, #1) by Ruthanna Emrys (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 3,632 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
254	Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny 4.05 avg rating — 35,211 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
255	Among Others by Jo Walton (Goodreads Author) 3.71 avg rating — 25,677 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
256	Nimona by N.D. Stevenson 4.18 avg rating — 184,480 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
257	The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 439,429 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
258	The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 121,066 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars