213 books
—
154 voters
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Sff Books
Showing 1-50 of 46,971
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 356 times as sff)
avg rating 4.11 — 402,269 ratings — published 2017
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 342 times as sff)
avg rating 4.28 — 350,672 ratings — published 2015
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 312 times as sff)
avg rating 3.82 — 367,756 ratings — published 2019
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as sff)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,594,573 ratings — published 1937
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
by (shelved 292 times as sff)
avg rating 4.17 — 194,746 ratings — published 2019
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 274 times as sff)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,799,234 ratings — published 1996
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 261 times as sff)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,222,166 ratings — published 1954
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 252 times as sff)
avg rating 4.09 — 234,086 ratings — published 1969
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 251 times as sff)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,729,100 ratings — published 1997
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 248 times as sff)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,253 ratings — published 2014
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as sff)
avg rating 4.25 — 841,781 ratings — published 1990
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 235 times as sff)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,064,415 ratings — published 1979
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 234 times as sff)
avg rating 4.15 — 537,995 ratings — published 2018
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 229 times as sff)
avg rating 3.99 — 122,468 ratings — published 2013
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 225 times as sff)
avg rating 4.18 — 290,756 ratings — published 1993
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 222 times as sff)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,002,034 ratings — published 2001
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 221 times as sff)
avg rating 4.20 — 551,698 ratings — published 2020
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 219 times as sff)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,060,094 ratings — published 2006
A Wizard of Earthsea (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as sff)
avg rating 4.01 — 373,706 ratings — published 1968
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 215 times as sff)
avg rating 4.08 — 528,326 ratings — published 2006
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 214 times as sff)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,207,382 ratings — published 2008
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
by (shelved 214 times as sff)
avg rating 4.03 — 443,875 ratings — published 2015
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 212 times as sff)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,001,568 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 211 times as sff)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,637,178 ratings — published 1998
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 210 times as sff)
avg rating 4.10 — 76,294 ratings — published 2019
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 210 times as sff)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,208,218 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 209 times as sff)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,751,180 ratings — published 2005
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
by (shelved 209 times as sff)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,640,826 ratings — published 1995
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
by (shelved 208 times as sff)
avg rating 4.24 — 231,949 ratings — published 2018
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 208 times as sff)
avg rating 4.28 — 205,068 ratings — published 2016
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 206 times as sff)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,898,627 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 204 times as sff)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,317,010 ratings — published 2000
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 204 times as sff)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,498,063 ratings — published 1985
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 202 times as sff)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,112,239 ratings — published 2007
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 199 times as sff)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,202,013 ratings — published 2015
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 194 times as sff)
avg rating 4.20 — 434,684 ratings — published 1995
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 187 times as sff)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,362,438 ratings — published 2011
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 187 times as sff)
avg rating 3.80 — 327,576 ratings — published 2014
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 184 times as sff)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,169,633 ratings — published 1954
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as sff)
avg rating 4.06 — 641,393 ratings — published 2014
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
by (shelved 179 times as sff)
avg rating 4.16 — 296,452 ratings — published 2019
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 179 times as sff)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,080,113 ratings — published 1955
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as sff)
avg rating 3.88 — 261,428 ratings — published 2004
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
by (shelved 175 times as sff)
avg rating 4.23 — 185,861 ratings — published 2018
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
by (shelved 175 times as sff)
avg rating 4.33 — 174,680 ratings — published 2017
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as sff)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,958,612 ratings — published 1963
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 174 times as sff)
avg rating 4.30 — 356,191 ratings — published 2006
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as sff)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,131,306 ratings — published 2011
“Radhe Exch id ¥＞+91-( 9257780540 )_**** In United States”
―
―
“How can so many (white, male) writers narratively justify restricting the agency of their female characters on the grounds of sexism = authenticity while simultaneously writing male characters with conveniently modern values?
The habit of authors writing Sexism Without Sexists in genre novels is seemingly pathological. Women are stuffed in the fridge under cover of "authenticity" by secondary characters and villains because too many authors flinch from the "authenticity" of sexist male protagonists. Which means the yardstick for "authenticity" in such novels almost always ends up being "how much do the women suffer", instead of - as might also be the case - "how sexist are the heroes".
And this bugs me; because if authors can stretch their imaginations far enough to envisage the presence of modern-minded men in the fake Middle Ages, then why can't they stretch them that little bit further to put in modern-minded women, or modern-minded social values? It strikes me as being extremely convenient that the one universally permitted exception to this species of "authenticity" is one that makes the male heroes look noble while still mandating that the women be downtrodden and in need of rescuing.
-Comment at Staffer's Book Review 4/18/2012 to "Michael J. Sullivan on Character Agency ”
―
The habit of authors writing Sexism Without Sexists in genre novels is seemingly pathological. Women are stuffed in the fridge under cover of "authenticity" by secondary characters and villains because too many authors flinch from the "authenticity" of sexist male protagonists. Which means the yardstick for "authenticity" in such novels almost always ends up being "how much do the women suffer", instead of - as might also be the case - "how sexist are the heroes".
And this bugs me; because if authors can stretch their imaginations far enough to envisage the presence of modern-minded men in the fake Middle Ages, then why can't they stretch them that little bit further to put in modern-minded women, or modern-minded social values? It strikes me as being extremely convenient that the one universally permitted exception to this species of "authenticity" is one that makes the male heroes look noble while still mandating that the women be downtrodden and in need of rescuing.
-Comment at Staffer's Book Review 4/18/2012 to "Michael J. Sullivan on Character Agency ”
―
