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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 256 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,454,557 ratings — published 1985
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,530,258 ratings — published 1948
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.07 — 621,110 ratings — published 2014
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 156 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.19 — 270,602 ratings — published 1993
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.85 — 866,562 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,093,819 ratings — published 1932
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,870,662 ratings — published 1953
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 224,225 ratings — published 1969
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 134 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,993,070 ratings — published 2008
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 134 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.00 — 289,138 ratings — published 2003
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 123 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.80 — 309,226 ratings — published 2014
Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.05 — 301,063 ratings — published 2022
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 106 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.28 — 338,358 ratings — published 2015
Klara and the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.74 — 440,826 ratings — published 2021
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.21 — 492,086 ratings — published 2020
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 101 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.84 — 344,986 ratings — published 2019
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.31 — 276,733 ratings — published 1979
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 97 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,195,101 ratings — published 2009
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.75 — 253,504 ratings — published 2016
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.08 — 517,031 ratings — published 1995
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 993,800 ratings — published 2001
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 90 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,754,559 ratings — published 2010
How High We Go in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.81 — 71,553 ratings — published 2022
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.08 — 502,824 ratings — published 2006
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,642,794 ratings — published 1965
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,047,852 ratings — published 2006
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.26 — 153,228 ratings — published 1974
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 85 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.25 — 126,877 ratings — published 2002
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.88 — 133,069 ratings — published 2018
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,828,677 ratings — published 1993
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,309,977 ratings — published 2011
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 79 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.09 — 517,430 ratings — published 1968
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.14 — 487,017 ratings — published 2022
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 79 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,504,285 ratings — published 2020
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.13 — 740,619 ratings — published 2016
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
by (shelved 75 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 430,243 ratings — published 2019
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,918,721 ratings — published 1818
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.12 — 377,961 ratings — published 2017
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,292,182 ratings — published 1962
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,302,882 ratings — published 2011
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.01 — 269,611 ratings — published 2004
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,480,069 ratings — published 1985
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,492,365 ratings — published 1969
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 72 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.07 — 133,585 ratings — published 2009
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.01 — 299,061 ratings — published 1992
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.69 — 143,006 ratings — published 1994
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.90 — 79,444 ratings — published 2009
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.21 — 190,296 ratings — published 2021
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,028,755 ratings — published 1979
Exhalation (ebook)
by (shelved 67 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.27 — 114,267 ratings — published 2019
“We are all of the same substance, the same life. Though there are many differences between us, those are merely the shadows that delineate our boundaries. Our light is the same.”
― The Winter Boy
― The Winter Boy
“Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.”
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