Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.82
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey tow…
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1. The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.30
Format: 468 pages, Paperback
This is the way the world ends. Again. Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a wo… read more
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- post apocalyptic
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
"Never forget what you are."-N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
"Much of history is unwritten. Remember this."-N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
"Nothing to do but follow your crazy, though."-N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
"Even the least of us must serve the greater good."-N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
2. The Left Hand of Darkness
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"The king was pregnant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Truth is a matter of the imagination."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"The light is the left hand of darkness"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
3. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.82
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey tow… read more
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- classics
- post apocalyptic
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
4. The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
By: N.K. Jemisin
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME. The season of endings grows darker as civiliza… read more
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- science fiction
- dystopia
- fantasy
- fiction
5. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more
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- classics
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"... “Dangerous!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Freedom is never very safe."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Who do you think is lying to us?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more
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7. Station Eleven
By: Emily St. John Mandel
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, Station Ele… read more
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8. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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9. The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.01
Format: 532 pages, Paperback
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME. The Moon will soon return. Whether this herald… read more
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10. I Who Have Never Known Men
By: Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underg… read more
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- classics
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
11. Monstrilio
By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
12. This Is How You Lose the Time War
By: Amal El-Mohtar
3.88
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before … read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"Atlantis sinks. Serves it right."-Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War
"And everyone is alive, somewhere in time."-Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War
"All the stars are eyes here, always seeking."-Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War
"I would rather break the world than lose you."-Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War
13. A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
By: Becky Chambers
None
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
ASIN B08H831J18 moved to the more recent edition Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-a… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
14. Severance
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routin… read more
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- post apocalyptic
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
"New York has a way of forgetting you."-Ling Ma, Severance
"She says, Only in America do you have the luxury of being depressed."-Ling Ma, Severance
"Just because you're adequately good at something doesn't mean that's what you should do."-Ling Ma, Severance
"When other people are happy, I don't have to worry about them. There is room for my happiness."-Ling Ma, Severance
15. Yellowface
By: R.F. Kuang
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more
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- fiction
"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
16. Chain-Gang All-Stars
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.14
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars
17. Babel
By: R.F. Kuang
4.18
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a historical fantasy epic that grapples with stu… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"It is astounding, in truth, how much of academia’s perceived resource scarcity is artificially constructed."-R.F. Kuang, Babel
"Grief suffocated. Grief paralysed. Grief was a cruel, heavy boot pressed so hard against his chest that he could not breathe."-R.F. Kuang, Babel
"languages aren't just made of words. they're modes of looking at the world. They're the keys to civiliation. And that's knowledge worth killing for"-R.F. Kuang, Babel
"It revealed the sheer dependence of the British, who, astonishingly, could not manage to do basic things like bake bread or get safely from one place to another without words stolen from other countr…"-R.F. Kuang, Babel
18. Sea of Tranquility
By: Emily St. John Mandel
4.07
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
A novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 t… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"It seems like it’s been fairly well contained,"-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
"You should have told me my cat was a time traveler."-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
"There's a low-level, specific pain and having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones."-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
"What if one were to dissolve into the wilderness like salt into water. He wants to go home. For the first time, Edwin begins to worry about his sanity."-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
19. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
By: Becky Chambers
4.41
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
20. How High We Go in the Dark
By: Sequoia Nagamatsu
3.83
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter's resea… read more
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- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"Death has become a way of life"-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark
"Life is always easier for boys."-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark
"She always preferred celestial objects to people."-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark
"Embrace possibility, but don't let it drag you down"-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark
21. Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
By: Damian Duffy
3.99
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to #1 New York Times Bestseller Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, comes Octavia E.… read more
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- classics
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
