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All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 355 times as sff)
avg rating 4.11 — 379,844 ratings — published 2017
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 337 times as sff)
avg rating 4.28 — 339,433 ratings — published 2015
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 310 times as sff)
avg rating 3.83 — 347,460 ratings — published 2019
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 293 times as sff)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,496,856 ratings — published 1937
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
by (shelved 290 times as sff)
avg rating 4.18 — 186,953 ratings — published 2019
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 271 times as sff)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,755,564 ratings — published 1996
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 263 times as sff)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,179,745 ratings — published 1954
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 248 times as sff)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,518,979 ratings — published 1997
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 246 times as sff)
avg rating 4.17 — 188,195 ratings — published 2014
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as sff)
avg rating 4.10 — 225,047 ratings — published 1969
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as sff)
avg rating 4.25 — 829,759 ratings — published 1990
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 233 times as sff)
avg rating 4.16 — 500,918 ratings — published 2018
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 231 times as sff)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,031,414 ratings — published 1979
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 223 times as sff)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,999 ratings — published 2013
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 222 times as sff)
avg rating 4.19 — 272,293 ratings — published 1993
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 221 times as sff)
avg rating 4.10 — 994,372 ratings — published 2001
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 217 times as sff)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,002,547 ratings — published 2006
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 215 times as sff)
avg rating 4.21 — 495,598 ratings — published 2020
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 214 times as sff)
avg rating 4.08 — 504,729 ratings — published 2006
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 10,009,859 ratings — published 2008
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
by (shelved 214 times as sff)
avg rating 4.03 — 435,393 ratings — published 2015
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 214 times as sff)
avg rating 4.01 — 364,998 ratings — published 1968
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 211 times as sff)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,541,173 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 209 times as sff)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,141,876 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 209 times as sff)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,897,316 ratings — published 1999
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
by (shelved 209 times as sff)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,625,297 ratings — published 1995
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 208 times as sff)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,236,402 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 208 times as sff)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,687,531 ratings — published 2005
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
by (shelved 206 times as sff)
avg rating 4.25 — 219,897 ratings — published 2018
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
by (shelved 205 times as sff)
avg rating 4.28 — 199,103 ratings — published 2016
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 204 times as sff)
avg rating 4.10 — 73,299 ratings — published 2019
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 202 times as sff)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,829,133 ratings — published 2003
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 201 times as sff)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,092,383 ratings — published 2007
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 200 times as sff)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,481,431 ratings — published 1985
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 196 times as sff)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,168,693 ratings — published 2015
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 189 times as sff)
avg rating 4.19 — 410,222 ratings — published 1995
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 186 times as sff)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,140,427 ratings — published 1954
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 186 times as sff)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,306,713 ratings — published 2011
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 181 times as sff)
avg rating 3.80 — 310,646 ratings — published 2014
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 179 times as sff)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,054,038 ratings — published 1955
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
by (shelved 177 times as sff)
avg rating 4.17 — 284,484 ratings — published 2019
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as sff)
avg rating 4.07 — 622,828 ratings — published 2014
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as sff)
avg rating 3.87 — 256,984 ratings — published 2004
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
by (shelved 173 times as sff)
avg rating 4.24 — 176,428 ratings — published 2018
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
by (shelved 172 times as sff)
avg rating 4.33 — 169,395 ratings — published 2017
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as sff)
avg rating 4.02 — 266,569 ratings — published 2015
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as sff)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,108,343 ratings — published 2011
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as sff)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,877,481 ratings — published 1953
“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 ”
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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 ”
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