The best science fiction books are listed below: old and new, popular and obscure, straightforward and super-weird, optimistic and We’re All Doomed!
Review: Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia by Jason Pargin
Review: The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler
Review: Lock In by John Scalzi
Review: Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
The Best Dark Science Fiction Books
The Best Science Fiction Books with Gas Giants
Review: Heaven’s River by Dennis E. Taylor
The Arthur C. Clarke Award Winners of the 21st Century
The Best Parallel Worlds Science Fiction Books
The Best Philosophical Science Fiction Books
The Best Fantasy Books of 2023
The Best Science Fiction Books of 2023
Review: The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis
Review: Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway
The Best Modern Military Science Fiction Books
Review: Truth of the Divine by Lindsay Ellis
Review: More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
Review: Gravity by Tess Gerritsen
The Best Hard Science Fiction Books by Women
Review: Daemon by Daniel Suarez
Summer 2023 Science Fiction Reading List
The Best Lesser-known Golden Age Science Fiction Books
The Best Modern Artificial Intelligence Science Fiction Books
The Best Optimistic Science Fiction Books
Review: The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
The Readers Speak! This Blog’s Readers’ Favorite Science Fiction Series
Review: Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
The Readers Speak! This Blog’s Readers’ Favorite Science Fiction Books
Review: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
The Best Science Fiction Books for Beginners
Review: Dr. No by Percival Everett
The Best Science Fiction Books Written by Scientists
The Best Science Fiction Books with Alien Languages
Review: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
The Best Science Fiction Thrillers
Best Post-apocalyptic Book Series
Review: Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Best Mad Scientist Science Fiction Books
Review: The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
Review: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
The Best Science Fiction Books with Cats in Them
The Best Fantasy Books of 2022
Review: 11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Best Science Fiction Books of 2022
Review: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Review: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Review: Upgrade by Blake Crouch
Review: Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson
Review: Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis
Review: Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
Review: The Sky is Yours by Chandler Klang Smith
Review: Battle of the Linguist Mages by Scotto Moore
Review: Rabbits by Terry Miles
12 Best Mathematical Science Fiction Books
The 23 Best New Wave Science Fiction Books
Review: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The 26 Best Middle Grade Science Fiction Books
The Bestselling Science Fiction Books of All Time
The Best Science Fiction Books of 2021
Review: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Best Science Fiction Heist Books
Best Science Fiction Books Published Since This Blog Started
Review: Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
Best Modern Science Fiction Authors
Review: Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
Review: The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
Best Dystopian Science Fiction Books
Review: All Systems Red: Murderbot Diaries #1 by Martha Wells
Best Modern Science Fiction Book Series
Review: Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
Review: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Summer 2021 Science Fiction Reading List
Review: Halting State by Charles Stross
The Best Science Fiction Book Sequels
Review: Hearts of Oak by Eddie Robson
Best Indie Science Fiction Books
Review: Redshirts by John Scalzi
Best Science Fiction Books with Numbers in the Title
22 Best Mundane Science Fiction Books
The Best Planetary Romance Books
23 Best Fantasy Graphic Novels
Review: Early Riser by Jasper Fforde
The Worst Warlock by A. A. Livingston & Dan Livingston
Review: Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick by David Wong
The Best Modern Classic Science Fiction Books
The Best Fantasy Books of 2020
21 Best Computer Science Fiction Books
Review: Revenger by Alastair Reynolds
The Best Science Fiction Books of 2020
15 Best Science Fiction Anthologies
28 Best Science Fiction Detective Books
15 Best Science Fiction Romance Books
23 Best Climate Change Science Fiction Books
21 Groundbreaking Science Fiction Novels
10 Great Science Fiction Authors That Used Pen Names
15 Best Sports and Games Science Fiction Books
Review: Honor Among Thieves by Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre
7 Best Science Fiction Books with Exotic Ecosystems
Review: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
6 Best Science Fiction Books Based on Video Games
25 Best Science Fiction Book Debuts
25 Best Science Fiction Books with Female Protagonists
Review: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
23 Best Science Fiction Pandemic Books
15 Best Science Fiction Noir Books
Review: Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds
Summer 2020 Science Fiction Reading List
13 Best Gothic Science Fiction Books
Review: Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds
29 Best Near Future Science Fiction Books
Review: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor
Review: Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson
Review: The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Review: Devolution by Max Brooks
Review: Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty
Review: Recursion by Blake Couch
25 Best Science Fiction Book Movie Adaptations
24 Best Artificial Intelligence Science Fiction Books
23 Best Modern Dystopian Books
Review: Steel Beach by John Varley
Review: Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
23 Best Modern Post-apocalyptic Books
11 Amazing Science Fiction Books by Black Authors
22 Great Science Fiction Books That Almost Won the Hugo Award
Review: The Risen Empire by Scott Westerfeld
Review: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Review: The Humans by Matt Haig
Review: The Genius Plague by David Walton
21 Best Science Fiction Books of 2019
Review: The Grand Dark by Richard Kadrey
Review: The Lost Fleet: Dauntless by Jack Campbell
Review: Bad Hair Day by Jim Benton
21 Best Political Science Fiction Books
Review: Dragon’s Egg by Robert L. Forward
Review: House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
Summer 2019 Science Fiction Reading List
Review: The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
Review: The Breach by Patrick Lee
Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
11 One-hit Wonder Science Fiction Books
Review: Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem
Review: Strata by Terry Pratchett
17 Best Science Fiction Books About the Moon
16 Best Space Exploration Science Fiction Books
17 Best Galactic Empire Science Fiction Books
Review: The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman
Review: Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson
25 Best Science Fiction Books of 2018
19 Best LGBTQ Science Fiction Books
Review: Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb
19 Best Genetic Engineering Science Fiction Books
Review: Ubik by Philip K. Dick
13 Best Science Fiction Audiobooks
Review: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
17 Best Colonization Science Fiction Books
Review: Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
23 Best Science Fiction Adventure Books
Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
15 Best Mysterious Alien Megastructure Books
Review: The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
19 Best Young Adult Science Fiction Books
2018 Science Fiction Summer Reading List
Review: The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts
19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books
21 Best Science Fiction Graphic Novels
Review: All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
Review: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
23 Best Science Fiction Books of 2017
27 Best Alien World Science Fiction Books
19 Best Utopian Science Fiction Books
19 Best Science Fiction Books About Clones
Review: Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong
25 Best Deep Space Science Fiction Books
Review: The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey
17 Best Underrated Science Fiction Books
Review: Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Review: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
13 Best Chinese Science Fiction Books
Review: Abaddon’s Gate by James S. A. Corey
19 Best Science Fiction Books of 2016
Review: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
23 Best Spunky Heroine Science Fiction Books
Review: Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
29 Best Transhuman Science Fiction Books
31 Best Literary Science Fiction Books
Review: A Darkling Sea by James L. Cambias
Review: Echopraxia by Peter Watts
23 Best Alternate History Books
Review: Accelerando by Charles Stross
Science Fiction Summer Reading List (2016)
Review: The Maiden Voyage of the Destiny Unknown by Nicholas Ponticello
Review: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Review: The Fall of the Towers by Samuel R. Delany
19 Funniest Science Fiction Books
21 Best Mars Science Fiction Books
31 Best Soft Science Fiction Books
17 Best Pulp Science Fiction Books
Review: Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanislaw Lem
21 Best Alien Science Fiction Books
Review: Panda Ray by Michael Kandel
19 Best Nanotechnology Science Fiction Books
Review: The City & The City by China Miéville
17 Best Weird Science Fiction Books
Review: The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard
Review: Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Review: The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks
Review: Do Not Resuscitate by Nicholas Ponticello
Review: His Master’s Voice by Stanislaw Lem
15 Best Science Fiction Western Books
21 Best Immortality Science Fiction Books
25 Best Science Fiction Books for Kids
Review: Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
Review: The Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker
Review: Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
23 Best Science Fiction Mystery Books
Review: Spin State by Chris Moriarty
23 Best Military Science Fiction Books
23 Best Hard Science Fiction Books
23 Best Time Travel Science Fiction Books
The Martian by Andy Weir is Awesome
23 Best Robot Science Fiction Books
23 Best Science Fiction Book Series
25 Best Far Future Science Fiction Books
23 Best Non-English Science Fiction Books
The 23 Best Science Fiction Books by Female Authors
29 Best Alien Invasion Science Fiction Books
21 Best Post-apocalyptic Science Fiction Books
The Top 10 Underwater Science Fiction Books
Reddit’s Favorite Stand-alone Science Fiction Novels
