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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 266 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,537,934 ratings — published 1985
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,710,176 ratings — published 1949
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.06 — 642,197 ratings — published 2014
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 167 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.18 — 291,732 ratings — published 1993
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.85 — 903,451 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,139,803 ratings — published 1932
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,962,720 ratings — published 1963
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.09 — 234,551 ratings — published 1969
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 139 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.00 — 293,998 ratings — published 2003
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 138 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,217,157 ratings — published 2008
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 128 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.80 — 328,334 ratings — published 2014
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.04 — 662,163 ratings — published 1995
Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.04 — 312,371 ratings — published 2022
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 112 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.28 — 351,163 ratings — published 2015
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 111 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.82 — 368,648 ratings — published 2019
Klara and the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.73 — 467,847 ratings — published 2021
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 555,022 ratings — published 2020
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.31 — 290,853 ratings — published 1979
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 100 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,303,532 ratings — published 2009
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,002,401 ratings — published 2001
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.75 — 258,337 ratings — published 2016
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 93 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,848,612 ratings — published 2010
The Dispossessed (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.26 — 160,682 ratings — published 1974
How High We Go in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.81 — 74,522 ratings — published 2022
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,079,365 ratings — published 2006
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 90 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.25 — 131,493 ratings — published 2002
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.08 — 529,520 ratings — published 2006
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.87 — 138,960 ratings — published 2018
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,693,899 ratings — published 1965
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,887,982 ratings — published 1993
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 82 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.09 — 530,923 ratings — published 1968
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,635,604 ratings — published 2020
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,337,852 ratings — published 2011
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.13 — 532,042 ratings — published 2022
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.68 — 156,139 ratings — published 1994
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
by (shelved 78 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 459,242 ratings — published 2019
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.13 — 794,847 ratings — published 2016
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 76 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.07 — 135,429 ratings — published 2009
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.11 — 403,236 ratings — published 2017
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,984,949 ratings — published 1818
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,519,740 ratings — published 1969
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,364,852 ratings — published 2011
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.01 — 274,061 ratings — published 2004
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.89 — 81,983 ratings — published 2009
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.01 — 302,532 ratings — published 1992
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,308,772 ratings — published 1962
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,498,821 ratings — published 1985
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,066,040 ratings — published 1979
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,795,296 ratings — published 2021
Exhalation (ebook)
by (shelved 69 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.27 — 117,023 ratings — published 2019
“fluttering amidst the stars / stands the thin black/ stalk / of a glimmerglass girl /”
― Glimmerglass Girl
― Glimmerglass Girl
“I mean, that was the code, wasn’t it? Single girls and taken guys weren’t allowed to be friends. The leash always got in the way.”
― Strength
― Strength
