186 books
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108 voters
Speculative Books
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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 262 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,511,197 ratings — published 1985
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,652,074 ratings — published 1948
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.06 — 635,795 ratings — published 2014
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 165 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.19 — 284,413 ratings — published 1993
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.85 — 891,692 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,125,090 ratings — published 1932
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,933,446 ratings — published 1963
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.09 — 231,273 ratings — published 1969
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 137 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,144,484 ratings — published 2008
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 137 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.00 — 292,596 ratings — published 2003
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 126 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.80 — 322,366 ratings — published 2014
Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.05 — 308,987 ratings — published 2022
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 111 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.28 — 347,321 ratings — published 2015
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.05 — 615,762 ratings — published 1995
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 107 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.82 — 361,821 ratings — published 2019
Klara and the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.74 — 455,618 ratings — published 2021
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 534,015 ratings — published 2020
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 100 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,269,147 ratings — published 2009
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.31 — 286,264 ratings — published 1979
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 999,610 ratings — published 2001
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.75 — 256,829 ratings — published 2016
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 93 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,818,931 ratings — published 2010
How High We Go in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.81 — 73,770 ratings — published 2022
The Dispossessed (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.26 — 158,269 ratings — published 1974
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,069,509 ratings — published 2006
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.08 — 520,959 ratings — published 2006
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 87 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.25 — 130,041 ratings — published 2002
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,678,234 ratings — published 1965
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.87 — 137,232 ratings — published 2018
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,867,759 ratings — published 1993
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,329,447 ratings — published 2011
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.13 — 518,672 ratings — published 2022
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,589,624 ratings — published 2020
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 80 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.09 — 526,727 ratings — published 1968
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
by (shelved 78 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 451,000 ratings — published 2019
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.13 — 777,739 ratings — published 2016
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.69 — 151,481 ratings — published 1994
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,964,807 ratings — published 1818
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.11 — 394,956 ratings — published 2017
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 74 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.07 — 134,861 ratings — published 2009
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,346,128 ratings — published 2011
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.01 — 272,831 ratings — published 2004
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.01 — 301,458 ratings — published 1992
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,304,012 ratings — published 1962
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,510,843 ratings — published 1969
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.90 — 81,188 ratings — published 2009
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,493,029 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 — 2,054,127 ratings — published 1979
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 200,593 ratings — published 2021
The Man in the High Castle (Vintage)
by (shelved 69 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.59 — 241,175 ratings — published 1962
“GoogleEarthlike soars his mind, through clouds where snowstorms brew; New York State has dropped away, and Massachusetts flew, and Newfoundland is ice-entombed and Rockall gull-beshatten, where no eye sees the lightning flash its momentary pattern …”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“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












