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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 255 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,346,681 ratings — published 1985
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,280,798 ratings — published 1949
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.07 — 595,765 ratings — published 2014
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 149 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 245,084 ratings — published 1993
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.85 — 823,628 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,260,327 ratings — published 1932
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 138 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,745,485 ratings — published 1953
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 133 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.00 — 283,229 ratings — published 2003
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 212,184 ratings — published 1969
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 130 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,666,349 ratings — published 2008
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 119 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.79 — 286,469 ratings — published 2014
Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.06 — 285,563 ratings — published 2022
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 105 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.29 — 321,527 ratings — published 2015
Klara and the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.74 — 415,784 ratings — published 2021
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.75 — 248,240 ratings — published 2016
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.31 — 261,534 ratings — published 1979
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 93 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.85 — 314,911 ratings — published 2019
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 91 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,048,104 ratings — published 2009
American Gods (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 90 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 981,909 ratings — published 2001
How High We Go in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.82 — 68,176 ratings — published 2022
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.22 — 421,160 ratings — published 2020
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,009,537 ratings — published 2006
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 86 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,626,002 ratings — published 2010
Dune (Dune #1)
by (shelved 86 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,584,180 ratings — published 1965
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 84 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.25 — 121,390 ratings — published 2002
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.08 — 468,746 ratings — published 2006
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.89 — 125,177 ratings — published 2018
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.26 — 145,067 ratings — published 1974
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,274,561 ratings — published 2011
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,749,661 ratings — published 1993
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 77 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.09 — 499,714 ratings — published 1968
The Midnight Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,322,562 ratings — published 2020
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
by (shelved 75 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 407,712 ratings — published 2019
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,458,698 ratings — published 1969
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.13 — 677,582 ratings — published 2016
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.16 — 414,636 ratings — published 2022
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.07 — 131,481 ratings — published 2009
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.01 — 263,914 ratings — published 2004
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,786,825 ratings — published 1818
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,267,356 ratings — published 1962
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,250,166 ratings — published 2011
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,980,452 ratings — published 1979
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,455,573 ratings — published 1985
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.90 — 76,841 ratings — published 2009
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.13 — 344,602 ratings — published 1995
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.71 — 127,825 ratings — published 1994
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.01 — 294,510 ratings — published 1992
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.23 — 171,342 ratings — published 2021
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.12 — 344,369 ratings — published 2017
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,400,673 ratings — published 1945
“I wonder what Ali thought about Wallace? How did he view this tall, gawky, bearded eccentric man? Did Ali defend Wallace when villagers thought he was an evil demon? Did he secretly giggle when he heard Wallace speak Malay with a strong British accent? Did he gossip about his boss with other locals? Why was Wallace enthralled to discover a new beetle or ant? Did Ali see his time with Wallace as a chance to better himself, a grand adventure? Or was his work with Wallace simply a job?”
― "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion
― "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion
“They construct billboards out in the sea, painted allegories adorn their facades, hawking sex and sentiment to the opulent, the fortunate
of the people of fortune, who bury their dead in the sand where the light of heaven is closest at dawn, and farther and farther away at twilight.”
― Mithila Review Issue 8
of the people of fortune, who bury their dead in the sand where the light of heaven is closest at dawn, and farther and farther away at twilight.”
― Mithila Review Issue 8
