171 books
—
222 voters
Speculative Books
Showing 1-50 of 25,773
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 259 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,372,352 ratings — published 1985
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,341,321 ratings — published 1949
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.07 — 602,063 ratings — published 2014
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 151 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 252,062 ratings — published 1993
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.85 — 834,759 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,047,155 ratings — published 1932
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 140 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,774,979 ratings — published 1953
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 134 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.00 — 284,792 ratings — published 2003
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 215,285 ratings — published 1969
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 130 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,740,759 ratings — published 2008
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 119 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.79 — 292,350 ratings — published 2014
Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.06 — 289,469 ratings — published 2022
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
by (shelved 106 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.29 — 326,180 ratings — published 2015
Klara and the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.74 — 423,044 ratings — published 2021
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.75 — 249,875 ratings — published 2016
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 96 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.85 — 321,797 ratings — published 2019
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.31 — 265,328 ratings — published 1979
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.22 — 438,218 ratings — published 2020
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 91 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,083,293 ratings — published 2009
How High We Go in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.82 — 69,115 ratings — published 2022
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 985,076 ratings — published 2001
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,019,167 ratings — published 2006
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.08 — 477,860 ratings — published 2006
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 86 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,657,184 ratings — published 2010
Dune (Dune #1)
by (shelved 86 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,599,519 ratings — published 1965
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 83 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.25 — 122,804 ratings — published 2002
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.89 — 127,448 ratings — published 2018
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.26 — 147,303 ratings — published 1974
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,767,908 ratings — published 1993
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,283,001 ratings — published 2011
The Midnight Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,371,329 ratings — published 2020
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 77 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.09 — 505,059 ratings — published 1968
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.13 — 693,464 ratings — published 2016
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.12 — 387,977 ratings — published 1995
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,467,248 ratings — published 1969
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.15 — 437,674 ratings — published 2022
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
by (shelved 74 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 414,103 ratings — published 2019
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 74 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.07 — 132,070 ratings — published 2009
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,271,942 ratings — published 1962
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.01 — 265,336 ratings — published 2004
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,816,940 ratings — published 1818
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,992,714 ratings — published 1979
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,263,018 ratings — published 2011
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,462,108 ratings — published 1985
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.90 — 77,535 ratings — published 2009
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.01 — 295,812 ratings — published 1992
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.22 — 176,334 ratings — published 2021
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.12 — 353,519 ratings — published 2017
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.70 — 132,210 ratings — published 1994
The Man in the High Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.59 — 232,577 ratings — published 1962
“If I had known how difficult it was to edit my book, I would have done that first then written the story.”
― The Darkside of the Medallion
― The Darkside of the Medallion
“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












