The best science fiction books of all time (chosen by science fiction authors)

Loved by 113 people

Dungeon Crawler Carl

By Matt Dinniman ,

Loved by 106 people

Project Hail Mary

By Andy Weir ,

Loved by 78 people

Dune

By Frank Herbert ,

Loved by 59 people

1984

By George Orwell ,

First Ascent

By Douglas Phillips ,

Altered Bodies

By Cody Sisco ,

Loved by 59 people

The Hunger Games

By Suzanne Collins ,

Loved by 57 people

Frankenstein

By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ,

First Ascent

By Douglas Phillips ,

Altered Bodies

By Cody Sisco ,

The Time-Jinx Twins

By Carol Fisher Saller ,

Loved by 47 people

The Handmaid's Tale

By Margaret Atwood ,

Loved by 46 people

All Systems Red

By Martha Wells ,

First Ascent

By Douglas Phillips ,

Altered Bodies

By Cody Sisco ,

The Time-Jinx Twins

By Carol Fisher Saller ,

The Rocket Scientist

By Arthur Geis ,

Loved by 45 people

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

By Douglas Adams ,

Loved by 41 people

The Midnight Library

By Matt Haig ,

The Time-Jinx Twins

By Carol Fisher Saller ,

The Rocket Scientist

By Arthur Geis ,

First Ascent

By Douglas Phillips ,

Altered Bodies

By Cody Sisco ,

The Time-Jinx Twins

By Carol Fisher Saller ,

The Rocket Scientist

By Arthur Geis ,

No Home Without You

By Lena Gibson ,

Loved by 40 people

Red Rising

By Pierce Brown ,

Loved by 37 people

Station Eleven

By Emily St. John Mandel ,

Loved by 34 people

Parable of the Sower

By Octavia E. Butler ,

Loved by 33 people

Slaughterhouse-Five

By Kurt Vonnegut ,

First Ascent

By Douglas Phillips ,

Altered Bodies

By Cody Sisco ,

The Time-Jinx Twins

By Carol Fisher Saller ,

The Rocket Scientist

By Arthur Geis ,

No Home Without You

By Lena Gibson ,

Loved by 29 people

The Ministry for the Future

By Kim Stanley Robinson ,

The Rocket Scientist

By Arthur Geis ,

No Home Without You

By Lena Gibson ,

Loved by 29 people

This Is How You Lose the Time War

By Amal El-Mohtar , Max Gladstone ,

No Home Without You

By Lena Gibson ,

Loved by 28 people

Gideon the Ninth

By Tamsyn Muir ,

Loved by 28 people

The Left Hand of Darkness

By Ursula K. Le Guin ,

Loved by 28 people

Leviathan Wakes

By James S. A. Corey ,

Loved by 28 people

The Martian

By Andy Weir ,

No Home Without You

By Lena Gibson ,

First Ascent

By Douglas Phillips ,

Altered Bodies

By Cody Sisco ,

The Time-Jinx Twins

By Carol Fisher Saller ,

The Rocket Scientist

By Arthur Geis ,

No Home Without You

By Lena Gibson ,

Loved by 27 people

Brave New World

By Aldous Huxley ,

Loved by 27 people

The Stand

By Stephen King ,

Loved by 26 people

World War Z

By Max Brooks ,

Loved by 26 people

Fahrenheit 451

By Ray Bradbury ,

Loved by 26 people

Klara and the Sun

By Kazuo Ishiguro ,

Loved by 25 people

Never Let Me Go

By Kazuo Ishiguro ,

Loved by 25 people

The Time Traveler's Wife

By Audrey Niffenegger ,

Loved by 23 people

Ready Player One

By Ernest Cline ,

Loved by 22 people

The Dispossessed

By Ursula K. Le Guin ,

Loved by 22 people

The Giver

By Lois Lowry ,

First Ascent

By Douglas Phillips ,

Altered Bodies

By Cody Sisco ,

The Time-Jinx Twins

By Carol Fisher Saller ,

The Rocket Scientist

By Arthur Geis ,

No Home Without You

By Lena Gibson ,

Loved by 22 people

Annihilation

By Jeff VanderMeer ,

Loved by 22 people

Ender's Game

By Orson Scott Card ,

Loved by 22 people

Jurassic Park

By Michael Crichton ,

Loved by 22 people

Cloud Cuckoo Land

By Anthony Doerr ,

Loved by 21 people

The Three-Body Problem

By Cixin Liu , Ken Liu (translator) ,

Loved by 21 people

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

By Philip K. Dick ,

Loved by 21 people

Children of Time

By Adrian Tchaikovsky ,

Loved by 20 people

Good Omens

By Terry Pratchett , Neil Gaiman ,

Loved by 20 people

Hyperion

By Dan Simmons ,

Loved by 20 people

Snow Crash

By Neal Stephenson ,

Loved by 20 people

The Ministry of Time

By Kaliane Bradley ,

Loved by 20 people

The Path of Ascension

By C. Mantis ,

Loved by 19 people

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

By Becky Chambers ,

Loved by 19 people

Dragonflight

By Anne McCaffrey ,

Loved by 19 people

The War of the Worlds

By H.G. Wells ,

Loved by 18 people

The Time Machine

By H.G. Wells ,

Loved by 18 people

I Am Legend

By Richard Matheson ,

Loved by 18 people

Neuromancer

By William Gibson ,

Loved by 18 people

Flowers For Algernon

By Daniel Keyes ,

Loved by 17 people

A Clockwork Orange

By Anthony Burgess ,

Loved by 17 people

Wool

By Hugh Howey ,

Loved by 17 people

A Wrinkle in Time

By Madeleine L'Engle ,

Loved by 17 people

Iron Widow

By Xiran Jay Zhao ,

Loved by 17 people

Divergent

By Veronica Roth , Nicolas Delort (photographer) ,

Loved by 17 people

Kindred

By Octavia E. Butler ,

Loved by 16 people

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

By Becky Chambers ,

Loved by 16 people

Dark Matter

By Blake Crouch ,

Loved by 16 people

The Martian Chronicles

By Ray Bradbury ,

Loved by 16 people

We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

By Dennis E. Taylor ,

Loved by 16 people

Playground

By Richard Powers ,

Loved by 15 people

Contact

By Carl Sagan ,

Loved by 15 people

Jade City

By Fonda Lee ,

Loved by 15 people

The Girl With All the Gifts

By M.R. Carey ,

Loved by 15 people

The Butcher's Masquerade

By Matt Dinniman ,

Loved by 15 people

Orbital

By Samantha Harvey ,

Loved by 14 people

Oryx and Crake

By Margaret Atwood ,

Loved by 14 people

Foundation

By Isaac Asimov ,

Loved by 13 people

The Forever War

By Joe Haldeman ,

Loved by 13 people

Cloud Atlas

By David Mitchell ,

Loved by 13 people

When You Reach Me

By Rebecca Stead ,

Loved by 13 people

Cat's Cradle

By Kurt Vonnegut ,

Loved by 13 people

Red Mars

By Kim Stanley Robinson ,

Loved by 13 people

A Canticle for Leibowitz

By Walter M. Miller, Jr. ,

Loved by 12 people

Rendezvous with Rama

By Arthur C. Clarke ,

Loved by 12 people

Solaris

By Stanislaw Lem , Steve Cox (translator) , Joanna Kilmartin (translator)

Loved by 12 people

Stories of Your Life and Others

By Ted Chiang ,

Loved by 12 people

Doomsday Book

By Connie Willis ,

Loved by 12 people

American Gods

By Neil Gaiman ,

Loved by 12 people

Starship Troopers

By Robert A. Heinlein ,

Loved by 12 people

The Power

By Naomi Alderman ,

Loved by 12 people

Something Wicked This Way Comes

By Ray Bradbury ,

Loved by 12 people

Old Man's War

By John Scalzi ,

Loved by 12 people

Wrong Place Wrong Time

By Gillian McAllister ,

Loved by 11 people

Halfway to the Grave

By Jeaniene Frost ,

Loved by 11 people

The Circle

By Dave Eggers ,

Loved by 11 people

Dawn

By Octavia E. Butler ,

Loved by 11 people

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

By Toshikazu Kawaguchi ,

Loved by 11 people

The Maze Runner

By James Dashner ,

Loved by 11 people

Severance

By Ling Ma ,

Loved by 11 people

A Princess of Mars

By Edgar Rice Burroughs ,

Loved by 11 people

The Day of the Triffids

By John Wyndham ,

Loved by 11 people

The Andromeda Strain

By Michael Crichton ,

Loved by 11 people

Monstrous Regiment

By Terry Pratchett ,

Loved by 11 people

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

By Agatha Christie ,

Loved by 11 people

The Mountain in the Sea

By Ray Nayler ,

Loved by 11 people

Starter Villain

By John Scalzi ,

Loved by 10 people

2001

By Arthur C. Clarke ,

Loved by 10 people

Ringworld

By Larry Niven ,

Loved by 10 people

Her Body and Other Parties

By Carmen Maria Machado ,

Loved by 10 people

Seveneves

By Neal Stephenson ,

The best science fiction books of all time

The books our community loved the most.

Dungeon Crawler Carl

Project Hail Mary

Dune

1984

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First Ascent

Altered Bodies

The Hunger Games

Frankenstein

Books from our members

First Ascent

Altered Bodies

The Time-Jinx Twins

The Handmaid's Tale

All Systems Red

Books from our members

First Ascent

Altered Bodies

The Time-Jinx Twins

The Rocket Scientist

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Midnight Library

Books from our members

The Time-Jinx Twins

The Rocket Scientist

Books from our members

First Ascent

Altered Bodies

The Time-Jinx Twins

The Rocket Scientist

No Home Without You

Red Rising

Station Eleven

Parable of the Sower

Slaughterhouse-Five

Books from our members

First Ascent

Altered Bodies

The Time-Jinx Twins

The Rocket Scientist

No Home Without You

The Ministry for the Future

Books from our members

The Rocket Scientist

No Home Without You

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Books from our members

No Home Without You

Gideon the Ninth

The Left Hand of Darkness

Leviathan Wakes

The Martian

Books from our members

No Home Without You

Books from our members

First Ascent

Altered Bodies

The Time-Jinx Twins

The Rocket Scientist

No Home Without You

Brave New World

The Stand

World War Z

Fahrenheit 451

Klara and the Sun

Never Let Me Go

The Time Traveler's Wife

Ready Player One

The Dispossessed

The Giver

Books from our members

First Ascent

Altered Bodies

The Time-Jinx Twins

The Rocket Scientist

No Home Without You

Annihilation

Ender's Game