The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017
By: Charles Yu
3.75
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
“This volume showcases the nuanced, playful, ever-expanding definitions of the genre and celebrates…
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1. The Devil of Nanking
By: Mo Hayder
3.92
Format: 471 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Like the thrillers of Thomas Harris and Philip Kerr, Mo Hayder's riveting new novel animates the da… read more
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"Maybe that was the price of ignorance, I thought, looking at the naked vagrant. Maybe Japan had to pay for the ignorant things it did in Nanking. Because ignorance as I'd got tired of hearing, is no …"-Mo Hayder, The Devil of Nanking
"I'm not very good at knowing what other people are thinking, but I do know that you can see tragedy, real tragedy, sitting just inside a person's gaze. You can almost always see where a person has be…"-Mo Hayder, The Devil of Nanking
"I had an overwhelming sense of the lonliness of this city - a trillion souls in their bedrooms, high in the cliffs of windows. I thought of what was underneath it all - I thought of the electricty ca…"-Mo Hayder, The Devil of Nanking
2. The Supernatural Enhancements
By: Edgar Cantero
3.64
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
What begins as a clever, gothic ghost story soon evolves into a wickedly twisted treasure hunt in T… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
"I long for the slightest evidence of it that doesn’t require me to relinquish reason, because a natural mystery and reason to face it make the happiest combination of all."-Edgar Cantero, The Supernatural Enhancements
"All those pathetic lonely people fooling one another into their clumsy games of afterlife and cosmic relevance just to avoid noticing the nauseating sadness of their real lives."-Edgar Cantero, The Supernatural Enhancements
"I did not hesitate to quit my courses and leave my apartment, feeling as detached from everything as only at twenty-three one feels, when all is temporary and settling down means to stagnate"-Edgar Cantero, The Supernatural Enhancements
"But I can’t believe. The older I get, the more solid the wall becomes, like everything that was to be explored has already been. True things grow truer, and unproved things fade away. Because we don’…"-Edgar Cantero, The Supernatural Enhancements
3. Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
By: Jodi Taylor
3.88
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
"History is just one damned thing after another." Behind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Ma… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"Your primary survival strategy will always be running away."-Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
"He had fallen for Cal like a sperm-whale failing to clear the Grand Canyon on a bicycle."-Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
"The eyes of the world are fixed on Mars at the moment, sir. Everywhere I look the arts are being shunted aside for technology. It's not necessarily a bad thing but, maybe in some small way, this coul…"-Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
4. Dear Committee Members
By: Julie Schumacher
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
Finally, a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered profe… read more
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- fiction
5. North American Lake Monsters
By: Nathan Ballingrud
3.97
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous exp… read more
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- collections
- anthologies
- short stories
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- speculative fiction
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"He imagined the room bathed in blood, himself striding through it, a raven amongst the carcasses. Strutting like any carrion king."-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
"A ghost is something that fills a hole inside you, where you lost something. It's a memory. Sometimes it can be painful, and sometimes it can be scary. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the ghost end…"-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
"Sounds rose from the earth. New sounds: cobwebs of exhalations, pauses of the heart, the monastic work of the worms translating flesh to soil, the slow crawl of rock. There was another kind of indust…"-Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters
6. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016
By: John Joseph Adams , Vandana Singh , Kelly Link , Catherynne M. Valente , Rachel Swirsky , Charlie Jane Anders , Karen Joy Fowler , Dexter Palmer , Maria Dahvana Headley , Ted Chiang , Kij Johnson , Adam Johnson , S.L. Huang , Dale Bailey , Will Kaufman , Sofia Samatar , Sam J. Miller , Seth Dickinson , Nick Wolven , None , None , None
4.16
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
From quiet, elegiac, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by seri… read more
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7. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015
By: John Joseph Adams , Kelly Link , Seanan McGuire , Cat Rambo , Alaya Dawn Johnson , Neil Gaiman , Adam-Troy Castro , T. Coraghessan Boyle , A. Merc Rustad , Karen Russell , Susan Palwick , Joe Hill , Jo Walton , Daniel H. Wilson , Nathan Ballingrud , Carmen Maria Machado , Sofia Samatar , Sam J. Miller , Theodora Goss , Kelly Sandoval , Jess Row
3.89
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
Science fiction and fantasy enjoy a long literary tradition, stretching from Mary Shelley, H. G. We… read more
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8. Ferryman
By: Claire McFall
4.11
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Dylan has escaped a horrific train crash unscathed. Except she hasn't. The bleak landscape around h… read more
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9. A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
By: Melissa de la Cruz , Aliette de Bodard , Renée Ahdieh , Cindy Pon , Alyssa Wong , Roshani Chokshi , Julie Kagawa , Rahul Kanakia , Ellen Oh , Aisha Saeed , E.C. Myers , Sona Charaipotra , Elsie Chapman , Lori M. Lee , Shveta Thakrar , Preeti Chhibber
4.07
Format: 189 pages, ebook
Star-crossed lovers, meddling immortals, feigned identities, battles of wits, and dire warnings. Th… read more
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10. Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.16
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of th… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"We couldn’t survive as a people if we were always confined to one ship or one world."-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
"A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you…"-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
"She held out, did not speak directly to her captors except to curse them. She offered no cooperation. There were moments when she did not know why she resisted. What would she be giving up if she ans…"-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
11. The Kraken Wakes
By: John Wyndham
3.76
Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ships are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fir… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
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- fantasy
"I don't care. I don't mind working hard when there's hope. It was having no more hope that was too much for me."-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
"Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling"-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
"I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get …"-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
"What is more, nobody has ever actually proved him wrong. His chief trouble was that he usually provided such large, indigestible slabs that they stuck in all gullets—even mine, and I would class myse…"-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
12. A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)
By: Marie Brennan
3.84
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
You, dear reader, continue at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart—no more so than the s… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
"I have often found this to be true since, that matters which seem terribly important in the early days of such a journey (what will people back home say?) fade into triviality with the passage of tim…"-Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)
"You may think you see plenty of stars, friend reader, but you are wrong. Night is both blacker and more brilliant than you can imagine, and the sky a glory that puts to shame the most splendid jewels…"-Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)
"... I think that was the moment at which I realised I was truly leaving. This is something the gentlemen readers of this memoir may not understand, but the ladies will know it all too well. If they a…"-Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)
"It’s—it’s as if there is a dragon inside me. I don’t know how big she is; she may still be growing. But she has wings, and strength, and—and I can’t keep her in a cage. She’ll die. I’ll die. I know i…"-Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)
13. I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons
By: Peter S. Beagle
3.78
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A cast of characters trapped within their roles of dragon hunter, princess, and more must come toge… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
"Fear cannot breed where there is action."-Peter S. Beagle, I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons
14. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)
By: Stephen Graham Jones
4.21
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)
15. The Echo Wife
By: Sarah Gailey
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, r… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"I became an alone-thing, more than I had ever been before."-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
"No one would look at the seams that held me together and guess that they were scars."-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
"He was relieved to have told me. He transmuted his guilt into my anger and now I was the one who had to carry it and he had the audacity to be relieved."-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
"I'll be taking you out for coffee later this week, and you can give me all the details. In the meantime, I'll commence hating him just a little , in case I need material to seed hating him a lot."-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
16. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
3.72
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse and series edi… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- collections
- adult
- anthologies
- short stories
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
17. Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1)
By: Mur Lafferty
3.71
Format: 457 pages, Paperback
From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroil… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- fiction
18. How Long 'til Black Future Month?
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.28
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and dra… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- anthologies
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- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"Still. Marching."-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
"I’ll take the dreams,"-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
"I need to talk to you,"-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
"The monster is amused to be found monstrous"-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
19. Where the Body Was
By: Ed Brubaker
4.14
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, Where the Body Was is unlike anything Bru… read more
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- fiction
20. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017
By: Charles Yu
3.75
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
“This volume showcases the nuanced, playful, ever-expanding definitions of the genre and celebrates… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- collections
- adult
- anthologies
- dystopia
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
21. The Magician’s Daughter
By: H.G. Parry
3.99
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
A young woman raised on an isolated island by a magician discovers things aren’t as they seem and m… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
"It's a change. You never know what might happen, do you?" "Never." The kind of things, perhaps, that might have happened in books written by authors who still remembered magic."-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter
"Biddy knew the trees as soon as Hutchincroft led her to them: three of them in a triangle, each slender and white-limbed, leaves turning golden brown and bristling with red berries. Rowan trees."-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter
"At this time of year, the path was like a dark green cathedral, dappled with sun, and Biddy told the other two about the words the Japanese had for different kinds of light: Light through leaves was …"-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter
"She was breaking apart. Her heart was unfurling like a flower awakening to sunlight, her ribs expanding, her head splitting open like that of Zeus when Athena sprang full-formed. She couldn't scream …"-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter
22. The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
By: H.G. Parry
3.98
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The ultimate book-lover's fantasy, featuring a young scholar with the power to bring literary chara… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
"We’ve read our own myths into the world."-H.G. Parry, The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
"Where the light was strongest, there were no buildings."-H.G. Parry, The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
"There is not a poem on earth that doesn't make sense to anyone."-H.G. Parry, The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
"Things in writing exist. They are not always true. But they exist."-H.G. Parry, The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
23. The Widow of Rose House
By: Diana Biller
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A young widow restores a dilapidated mansion with the assistance of a charming, eccentric genius, o… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"I believe in things I can measure. I also believe that what most people take for granted as reality is simply t he top layer of a much more interesting truth. It's like looking at a lake and thinking…"-Diana Biller, The Widow of Rose House
24. The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #2)
By: Seth Dickinson
3.89
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
A breathtaking geopolitical fantasy as fraught as Game of Thrones, The Monster Baru Cormorant is th… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
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"No,"-Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #2)
"Baru,"-Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #2)
"There are families here, Baru."-Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #2)
"I need someone to take up strangling me during sex,"-Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #2)
25. Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)
By: Terry Miles
3.64
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
Conspiracies abound in this surreal and yet all-too-real technothriller in which a deadly undergrou… read more
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- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
"We each had our reasons for wanting the fantastical world promised by Rabbits to replace the flawed emotional narrative of our real lives."-Terry Miles, Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)
"The world felt smaller from that vantage point, and much easier to understand. Life was messy and complicated when you were in the middle of it, while it was rushing toward you from all angles, close…"-Terry Miles, Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)
26. The Last Human
By: Zack Jordan
3.65
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Most days, Sarya doesn't feel like the most terrifying creature in the galaxy. Most days, she's got… read more
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- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
"Order is unnatural," it says. "It costs energy to maintain. Disorder, on the other hand, happens all by itself."-Zack Jordan, The Last Human
27. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018
By: N.K. Jemisin
3.82
Format: 357 pages, Paperback
A collection of the best American science fiction and fantasy stories from 2017. Today’s readers… read more
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- adult
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
28. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020
By: Diana Gabaldon
3.73
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
The best science fiction and fantasy stories from 2019, guest-edited by author of the mega-best-sel… read more
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- anthologies
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29. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023
By: R.F. Kuang
3.68
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A collection of the year's best science fiction and fantasy writing selected by New York Times best… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- anthologies
- short stories
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- science fiction
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"The truce was over; the walls were up; they had reminded her why she'd abandoned them, which was that she could never really, properly, be one of them. And Letty, if she could not belong to a place, …"-R.F. Kuang, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023
30. Prison of Sleep (Journals of Zaxony Delatree, #2)
By: Tim Pratt
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
After escaping the ruthless Lector, Zax Delatree has a new enemy to fight in the sequel to Doors of… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
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31. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019
By: Carmen Maria Machado
3.95
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
This omnivorous selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and World Fantasy Aw… read more
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- collections
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