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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 This list is no longer updated.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 — 1,455,461 ratings
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American Gods (American Gods, #1)
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 981,882 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
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Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 584,424 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 — 142,572 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 — 2,346,254 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 372,620 ratings
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I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
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4.21 avg rating — 371,989 ratings
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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3.92 avg rating — 324,119 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,458,557 ratings
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Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 914,964 ratings
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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4.09 avg rating — 499,635 ratings
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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4.25 avg rating — 813,587 ratings
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Frankenstein
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3.89 avg rating — 1,786,488 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 — 218,198 ratings
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,274,375 ratings
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Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
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Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 383,380 ratings
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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 557,006 ratings
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Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 266,971 ratings
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The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 415,555 ratings
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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 653,190 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 500,730 ratings
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The War of the Worlds
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3.83 avg rating — 342,757 ratings
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The Time Machine
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3.89 avg rating — 555,550 ratings
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Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 288,906 ratings
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The Princess Bride
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4.27 avg rating — 939,411 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 — 330,427 ratings
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The Martian Chronicles
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4.16 avg rating — 281,068 ratings
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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4.10 avg rating — 212,127 ratings
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Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 63,779 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 561,948 ratings
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Watchmen
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Alan Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 588,269 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 — 133,281 ratings
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Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)
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Jacqueline Carey (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 83,481 ratings
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Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 356,557 ratings
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Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 266,638 ratings
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The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
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4.14 avg rating — 131,660 ratings
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Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 74,405 ratings
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Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 60,267 ratings
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The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 297,558 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.88 avg rating — 1,260,035 ratings
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 117,294 ratings
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His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 109,859 ratings
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Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
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James S.A. Corey (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 307,704 ratings
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Anansi Boys
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 228,712 ratings
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The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 177,820 ratings
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 147,151 ratings
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Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1)
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Gail Carriger (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 113,533 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 — 34,195 ratings
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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4.26 avg rating — 145,032 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,009,389 ratings
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Snow Crash
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 294,495 ratings
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Tigana
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Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 51,240 ratings
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Midnight Riot (Rivers of London #1)
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Ben Aaronovitch (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 145,150 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 — 559,057 ratings
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Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 113,311 ratings
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The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
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4.19 avg rating — 110,078 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 — 1,058,221 ratings
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To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)
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4.11 avg rating — 43,572 ratings
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Childhood’s End
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4.12 avg rating — 170,805 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 — 283,197 ratings
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Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 252,430 ratings
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The City & the City
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 76,831 ratings
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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4.15 avg rating — 137,366 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,370,489 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 — 92,554 ratings
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The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 272,081 ratings
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Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera, #1)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 112,658 ratings
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A Scanner Darkly
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4.03 avg rating — 108,672 ratings
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The Windup Girl
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 77,545 ratings
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I Am Legend
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4.05 avg rating — 148,759 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 — 652,050 ratings
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Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
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Peter F. Hamilton (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 53,002 ratings
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The Man in the High Castle
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3.59 avg rating — 230,735 ratings
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The Word for World Is Forest
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4.06 avg rating — 40,931 ratings
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Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)
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Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 100,179 ratings
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Magician (The Riftwar Saga, #1-2)
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4.32 avg rating — 70,953 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 — 1,980,247 ratings
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Blackout (Oxford Time Travel, #3)
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3.85 avg rating — 27,105 ratings
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The Black Prism (Lightbringer, #1)
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Brent Weeks (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 130,220 ratings
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Swords and Deviltry (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 13,397 ratings
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Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1)
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Cherie Priest (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 34,084 ratings
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Cat’s Cradle
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4.15 avg rating — 430,430 ratings
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The Snow Queen (The Snow Queen Cycle, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 13,087 ratings
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Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
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Ann Leckie (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 116,269 ratings
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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 87,495 ratings
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Fuzzy Nation (Fuzzy Sapiens, #7)
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4.15 avg rating — 31,875 ratings
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The Day of the Triffids
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4.01 avg rating — 115,690 ratings
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Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire, #1)
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Mark Lawrence (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 121,879 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 — 29,953 ratings
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The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
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4.28 avg rating — 78,850 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 — 5,031 ratings
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The Martian
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Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 1,249,945 ratings
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Warbreaker
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 265,037 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:)