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Speculative Fiction Books
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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1061 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,387,331 ratings — published 1985
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 711 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,376,497 ratings — published 1949
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 612 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 255,911 ratings — published 1993
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 597 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 605,642 ratings — published 2014
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 596 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,792,998 ratings — published 1953
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 570 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 285,682 ratings — published 2003
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 559 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,056,314 ratings — published 1932
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 548 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,785,035 ratings — published 2008
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 506 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 841,270 ratings — published 2005
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 472 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 217,005 ratings — published 1969
Dune (Dune #1)
by (shelved 429 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,608,342 ratings — published 1965
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 416 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,103,625 ratings — published 2009
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 404 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 3.75 — 250,682 ratings — published 2016
Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 381 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 291,753 ratings — published 2022
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 380 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,674,876 ratings — published 2010
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
by (shelved 373 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 328,576 ratings — published 2015
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
by (shelved 362 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 417,096 ratings — published 2019
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 267,410 ratings — published 1979
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 346 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,000,071 ratings — published 1979
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 342 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 507,633 ratings — published 1968
Klara and the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 341 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 3.74 — 426,932 ratings — published 2021
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 341 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 148,621 ratings — published 1974
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 339 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 296,235 ratings — published 2014
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 336 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,288,465 ratings — published 2011
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 334 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 482,922 ratings — published 2006
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 334 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 132,388 ratings — published 2009
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 334 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,466,032 ratings — published 1985
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 331 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 986,864 ratings — published 2001
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 328 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,779,575 ratings — published 1993
The Man in the High Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 3.59 — 233,607 ratings — published 1962
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 311 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 361,092 ratings — published 1984
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 310 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 123,678 ratings — published 2002
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 308 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 325,955 ratings — published 2019
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 294 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,024,919 ratings — published 2006
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 288 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,850,331 ratings — published 1818
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 286 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,270,731 ratings — published 2011
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 283 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 77,951 ratings — published 2009
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 282 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,417,224 ratings — published 1937
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 275 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,279,744 ratings — published 1997
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 274 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 296,547 ratings — published 1992
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 273 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,478,866 ratings — published 1945
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,472,435 ratings — published 1969
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 263 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 179,143 ratings — published 2021
MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)
by (shelved 257 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 82,171 ratings — published 2013
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 254 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.32 — 82,405 ratings — published 1998
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 254 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 412,584 ratings — published 1995
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 250 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 447,653 ratings — published 2020
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 249 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,275,061 ratings — published 1962
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 248 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,345,097 ratings — published 2011
The Lathe of Heaven (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as speculative-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 87,076 ratings — published 1971
“Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that they are important. … it's vanity.”
― City of Stairs
― City of Stairs
“Just as Wallace learned and evolved, Ali was on his own journey of discovery. Starting out as a 15-year-old cook, Ali learned to collect and mount specimens. He took on responsibility for organizing travel. He nursed Wallace during many bouts of fever and injury.”
― "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
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