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Best Science Fiction Books

Science fiction stories

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  1. The Girl With All the Gifts

    M.R. Carey

    ★ 3.9 (190k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a world after the apocalypse, a smart young girl named Melanie, who is a zombie, dreams of a future she might not have, making her captors question her unique existence.

  2. Hyperion

    Dan Simmons

    ★ 4.2 (188k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Seven pilgrims travel to Hyperion, a world guarded by a terrifying, time-traveling entity called the Shrike. They seek answers from the Shrike before galactic war begins, hoping its mysteries can save humanity.

  3. The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset

    Suzanne Collins

    ★ 4.5 (188k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a dystopian future, a defiant teenage girl from the poorest district volunteers for a brutal televised death match, igniting a rebellion against the tyrannical Capitol.

  4. The Waste Lands

    Stephen King

    ★ 4.2 (186k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Roland's quest for the Dark Tower is complicated by a paradox of erased memories and a descent into a ruined city where an insane, riddle-loving train offers their only escape.

  5. Around the World in Eighty Days

    Jules Verne

    ★ 3.9 (184k) average on GoodreadsLifestyle

    Phileas Fogg bets his fortune he can circle the globe in 80 days, embarking on a rapid journey by train, elephant, and more, challenging Victorian expectations of time and travel.

  6. The Circle

    Dave Eggers

    ★ 3.4 (183k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A young woman's dream job at a powerful tech company spirals into a terrifying loss of privacy and identity as the corporation's quest for ultimate transparency consumes everything in its path.

  7. The Dead Zone

    Stephen King

    ★ 3.9 (181k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A man awakens from a coma with the psychic ability to foresee the future, forcing him to decide whether to assassinate a presidential candidate to prevent an apocalypse.

  8. Elantris

    Brandon Sanderson

    ★ 4.2 (176k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Divine magic becomes a curse, forcing a fallen prince, a cunning princess, and a zealous priest into conflict over a kingdom's fate, unaware that salvation lies in the very city that caused their despair.

  9. The Man in the High Castle

    Philip K. Dick

    ★ 3.6 (175k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In an alternate 1962 where the Axis powers won WWII, an antique dealer, a resistance fighter, and a mysterious author's forbidden novel ignite a dangerous search for truth across a divided America.

  10. Artemis

    Andy Weir

    ★ 3.7 (175k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    On the moon's only city, a small-time smuggler named Jazz Bashara dives into a high-stakes heist that plunges her into a dangerous conspiracy for control of Artemis itself, forcing her to gamble everything for survival.

  11. Leviathan Wakes

    James S.A. Corey

    ★ 4.3 (171k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a solar system close to war, a jaded detective and an idealistic ice-miner find a derelict ship. This discovery uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to start an interstellar conflict between Earth, Mars, and the Asteroid Belt.

  12. Specials

    Scott Westerfeld

    ★ 3.8 (169k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Tally, now a beautiful and deadly enforcer, must choose between her new power and a faint memory of rebellion that could shatter her world.

  13. Champion

    Marie Lu

    ★ 4.3 (167k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A deadly plague threatens to break a fragile peace, forcing a prodigy officer to convince her legendary love to make the ultimate sacrifice to save their war-torn Republic.

  14. Naked in Death

    J.D. Robb

    ★ 4.1 (167k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In 2058 New York, a cynical homicide detective investigates the murder of a senator's daughter, uncovering high-society secrets, illicit passions, and a dangerous attraction to her prime suspect, a charismatic billionaire.

  15. Sphere

    Michael Crichton

    ★ 3.8 (167k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Beneath the crushing pressure of the Pacific, a team of scientists unearths a colossal, centuries-old spaceship, only to discover its true terror lies not in its alien origins, but in the dark reflections it casts upon their own minds.

  16. Wizard and Glass

    Stephen King

    ★ 4.2 (166k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Stranded in an alternate, plague-ridden Kansas, Roland takes his ka-tet to a past of young love, betrayal, and a mystical seeing sphere, showing the tragic start of his quest for the Dark Tower in a world near collapse.

  17. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

    Robert C. O'Brien

    ★ 4.1 (164k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A widowed mouse with a sick child discovers a secret society of intelligent, escapee lab rats who might just save her family from the farmer's plow.

  18. Animal Farm / 1984

    George Orwell

    ★ 4.3 (164k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    A pig's revolution becomes a tyranny, and Big Brother's gaze crushes freedom, showing the chilling depths of totalitarian control.

  19. The Kill Order

    James Dashner

    ★ 3.7 (163k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    After sun flares and a fast-spreading, rage-inducing disease devastate Earth, two survivors navigate a dangerous world where humanity's last hope is a risky cure, and every life has a price.

  20. Old Man's War

    John Scalzi

    ★ 4.2 (162k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    At 75, John Perry leaves his wife's grave for an interstellar battlefield, where the Colonial Defense Force turns retirees into enhanced soldiers to fight alien wars for humanity's survival and a chance at a new life.

  21. Four: A Divergent Story Collection

    Veronica Roth

    ★ 4.0 (161k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Before Tris, a sixteen-year-old Tobias renames himself 'Four' and plunges into Dauntless, battling his past and the corrupt faction system, only to find his true self unlocked by a fearless initiate two years later.

  22. Gathering Blue

    Lois Lowry

    ★ 3.8 (161k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    An orphan with a talent for weaving uncovers her society's dark truths, forcing her to choose between complacency and a dangerous quest for change.

  23. Congo

    Michael Crichton

    ★ 3.6 (159k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A primatologist and a talking gorilla join a desperate expedition into the heart of the Congo, where a lost city, deadly diamond mines, and a terrifying, intelligent species of ape guard the secrets of a massacred research team.

  24. Wool Omnibus

    Hugh Howey

    ★ 4.2 (159k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a post-apocalyptic world where humanity lives in a vast underground silo, a sheriff's quest to understand why her loved ones were sent to their deaths outside uncovers a conspiracy that could shatter their last refuge.

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