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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries Heather Fawcett Del Rey May 2024 179
Cordelia's Honour Lois McMaster Bujold Baen Apr 2024 178
Iron Widow Xiran Jay Zhao Penguin Teen Mar 2024 177
The Shadow of the Gods John Gwynne Orbit Feb 2024 176
The Shining Girls Lauren Beukes Mulholland Books Jan 2024 175
Kings of the Wyld Nicholas Eames Orbit Dec 2023 174
The Mimicking of Known Successes Maika Ann Older Tor Books Nov 2023 173
The Library at Mount Char Scott Hawkins Crown Books Oct 2023 172
China Mountain Zhang Maureen F. McHugh Orb Books Sep 2023 171
Ninth House Leigh Bardugo Flatiron Books Aug 2023 170
Planetfall Emma Newman Roc Books Jul 2023 169
Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros Entangled Publishing Jun 2023 168
Children of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky PanMacmillan May 2023 167
Legends & Lattes Travis Baldree Tor Books Apr 2023 166
Under Fortunate Stars Ren Hutchings Solaris Mar 2023 165
Nettle & Bone T. Kingfisher Tor Books Feb 2023 164
Brightness Falls from the Air James Tiptree Jr. Orb Books Jan 2023 163
Elric of Melniboné Michael Moorcock Ace Dec 2022 162
Six Wakes Mur Lafferty Orbit Nov 2022 161
The Jasmine Throne Tasha Suri Orbit Oct 2022 160
How High We Go in the Dark Sequoia Nagamatsu William Morrow Sep 2022 159
Rivers of London Ben Aaronovitch Gollancz Aug 2022 158
Hunt the Stars Jessie Mihalik Harper Voyager Jul 2022 157
In Memory of Jenny Guy Colvin Jun 2022 156m
Machinehood S.B.Divya Saga Press May 2022 156
A Master of Djinn P. Djèlí Clark Tor Books Apr 2022 155
Pandora's Star Peter F. Hamilton Del Rey Mar 2022 154
The Empress of Salt and Fortune Nghi Vo Tor Books Feb 2022 153
Light from Uncommon Stars Ryka Aoki Tor Books Jan 2022 152
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina Zoraida Córdova Atria Books Dec 2021 151
Aurora Rising Alastair Reynolds Gollancz Nov 2021 150
NOS4A2 Joe Hill William Morrow Oct 2021 149
Terra Nullius Claire G. Coleman Hachette Sep 2021 148
The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry C.M.Waggoner Ace Aug 2021 147
Consider Phlebas Iain M. Banks Orbit Jul 2021 146
Piranesi Susanna Clarke Bloomsbury Jun 2021 145
Network Effect Martha Wells Tor Books May 2021 144
The House in the Cerulean Sea T.J.Klune Tor Books Apr 2021 143
Elatsoe Darcie Little Badger Levine Querido Mar 2021 142
The Fold Peter Clines Crown Feb 2021 141
The Marrow Thieves Cherie Dimaline Dancing Cat Books Jan 2021 140
Finding Baba Yaga (Alternate Pick)
Jane Yolen Tor Books Dec 2020 139a
Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler Grand Central Publishing Dec 2020 139
Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones HarperCollins Nov 2020 138
Finder Suzanne Palmer Daw Oct 2020 137
The Ten Thousand Doors of January Alix E. Harrow Redhook Sep 2020 136
Elysium Jennifer Marie Brissett Aqueduct Press Aug 2020 135
Black Leopard, Red Wolf Marlon James Riverhead Books Jul 2020 134
A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine Tor Books Jun 2020 133
Magician: Apprentice Raymond E. Feist Bantam May 2020 132
This is How You Lose the Time War Amal El-Mohtar Max Gladstone Saga Press Apr 2020 131
The Light Brigade Kameron Hurley Saga Press Mar 2020 130
Gideon the Ninth Tamsyn Muir Tor Feb 2020 129
In the Company of Others Julie E. Czerneda DAW Jan 2020 128
Hogfather Terry Pratchett Harper Dec 2019 127
The Snow Queen Joan D. Vinge Tor Nov 2019 126
Seven Blades in Black Sam Sykes Orbit Oct 2019 125
Trail of Lightning Rebecca Roanhorse Saga Press Sep 2019 124
The Poppy War R.F.Kuang Harper Voyager Aug 2019 123
Vessel Lisa A. Nichols Atria Jul 2019 122
The Last Unicorn Peter S. Beagle Penguin Roc Jun 2019 121
The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury Doubleday May 2019 120
Theft of Swords Michael J. Sullivan Orbit Apr 2019 119
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J.K.Rowling Scholastic Mar 2019 118
The Calculating Stars Mary Robinette Kowal Tor Books Feb 2019 117
Ninefox Gambit Yoon Ha Lee Solaris Books Jan 2019 116
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr John Crowley Saga Press Dec 2018 115
Zeroes Chuck Wendig Harper Voyager Nov 2018 114
Lovecraft Country Matt Ruff Harper Oct 2018 113
Slan A.E. van Vogt Orb Books Sep 2018 112
Jade City Fonda Lee Orbit Aug 2018 111
Mortal Engines Philip Reeve Harper Collins Jul 2018 110
Circe Madeline Miller Lee Boudreaux Books Jun 2018 109
Night's Master Tanith Lee DAW Books May 2018 108
Soulless (Alternate Pick) Gail Carriger Orbit Apr 2018 107a
We are Legion We are Bob Dennis E. Taylor Worldbuilders Press Apr 2018 107
An Unkindness of Ghosts Rivers Solomon Akashic Books Mar 2018 106
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle Farrar, Straus and Giroux Feb 2018 105
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Public Domain Jan 2018 104
California Bones Greg van Eekhout Tor Books Dec 2017 103
Doomsday Book Connie Willis Bantam Spectra Nov 2017 102
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter Theodora Goss Saga Press Oct 2017 101
Helliconia Spring Brian Aldiss iBooks Sep 2017 100
The Gunslinger Stephen King Grant Aug 2017 99
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin Ace Books Jul 2017 98
The Hum and the Shiver Alex Bledsoe Tor Books Jun 2017 97
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Becky Chambers Harper Voyager May 2017 96
The Invisible Library Genevieve Cogman Ace Books Apr 2017 95
Gateway Frederik Pohl St. Martin's Press Mar 2017 94
The Salt Roads Nalo Hopkinson Grand Central Publishing Feb 2017 93
The Three-Body Problem Liu Cixin Tor Books Jan 2017 92
The Rook Daniel O'Malley Little, Brown and Company Dec 2016 91
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits David Wong Thomas Dunne Books Nov 2016 90
The Golem and the Jinni Helene Wecker Harper Oct 2016 89
A Fire Upon The Deep Vernor Vinge Tor Books Sep 2016 88
The Last Wish Andrzej Sapkowski Gollancz Aug 2016 87
The Time Traders Andre Norton World Publishing Co. Jul 2016 86
Updraft Fran Wilde Tor Books Jun 2016 85
Aurora Kim Stanley Robinson Orbit May 2016 84
A Darker Shade of Magic V.E.Schwab Tor Books Apr 2016 83
The Fifth Season (Alternate Pick) N.K.Jemisin Orbit Apr 2016 83a
All the Birds in the Sky Charlie Jane Anders Tor Books Mar 2016 82
The Sword of Shannara Terry Brooks Del Rey Feb 2016 81
Radiance Catherynne M.Valente Tor Books Jan 2016 80
Arrows of the Queen Mercedes Lackey DAW Books Dec 2015 79
Time and Again Jack Finney Orion Publishing Nov 2015 78
The Traitor Baru Cormorant Seth Dickinson Tor Oct 2015 77
A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller Jr HarperCollins EOS Sep 2015 76
Uprooted Naomi Novik Del Rey Aug 2015 75
Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel Knopf Jul 2015 74
City of Stairs Robert Jackson Bennett Broadway Books Jun 2015 73
The Sword of Rhiannon Leigh Brackett Ace Books May 2015 72
Wyrd Sisters Terry Pratchett Hartorch Apr 2015 71
The Goblin Emperor Katherine Addison Tor Books Mar 2015 70
Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer FSG Originals Feb 2015 69
The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell Ballantine Books Jan 2015 68
The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern Doubleday Dec 2014 67
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Philip K. Dick Del Rey Nov 2014 66
Alif the Unseen G. Willow Wilson Grove Press Oct 2014 65
Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang Small Beer Press Sep 2014 64
The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss DAW (Penguin Group) Aug 2014 63
Dawn Octavia E. Butler Warner Books Jul 2014 62
Promise of Blood Brian McClellan Orbit (Hachette) Jun 2014 61
The Martian Andy Weir Broadway Books (Random House) May 2014 60
A Dance of Cloaks David Dalglish Orbit (Hachette) Apr 2014 59
The Brand (Alternate Pick) Bryan Alexander Benson CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Apr 2014 59a
Altered Carbon Richard K. Morgan Del Rey (Random House) Mar 2014 58
A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin Parnassus Press (Hachette) Feb 2014 57
The Einstein Intersection Samuel R. Delaney Ace Books (Penguin Random House) Jan 2014 56
His Majesty's Dragon (Alternate Pick) Naomi Novik Del Rey (Penguin Random House) Dec 2013 55a
A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent Marie Brennan Tor Books (Macmillan) Dec 2013 55
Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie Orbit (Hachette) Nov 2013 54
Boneshaker Cherie Priest Tor Books (Macmillan) Oct 2013 53
The Demolished Man Alfred Bester Shasta Publishers [1947-1957] Sep 2013 52
The Curse of Chalion Lois McMaster Bujold Eos (Harper Collins) Aug 2013 51
Ringworld Larry Niven Ballantine Books (Penguin Random House) Jul 2013 50
RedShirts (Alternate Pick) John Scalzi Tor Books (Macmillan) Jul 2013 49a
Among Others Jo Walton Tor Books (Macmillan) Jun 2013 49
Wool Hugh Howey Kindle Direct Publishing May 2013 48
Dragonflight Anne McCaffrey Ballantine Books (Penguin Random House) Apr 2013 47
Downbelow Station C.J. Cherryh DAW Books (Penguin Random House) Mar 2013 46
Bridge of Birds Barry Hughart St. Martin's Press (Macmillan) Feb 2013 45
Old Man's War John Scalzi Tor Books (Macmillan) Jan 2013 44
The Hobbit J.R.R.Tolkien Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Dec 2012 43
The Dirty Streets of Heaven Tad Williams DAW Books (Penguin Random House) Nov 2012 42
Cloud Atlas David Mitchell Penguin Random House Oct 2012 41
Foundation Isaac Asimov Spectra (Penguin Random House) Sep 2012 40
Assassin's Apprentice Robin Hobb Spectra (Penguin Random House) Aug 2012 39
Leviathan Wakes James S.A. Corey Orbit Books (Hachette) Jul 2012 38
Tigana Guy Gavriel Kay Penguin Random House Jun 2012 37
Hyperion Dan Simmons Doubleday (Penguin Random House) May 2012 36
The Magicians Lev Grossman Viking Press (Penguin Random House) Apr 2012 35
The Lies of Locke Lamora Scott Lynch Spectra (Penguin Random House) Feb 2012 34
Empire State (Alternate Pick) Adam Christopher Angry Robot (Harper Collins) Jan 2012 33a
Rule 34 Charles Stross Ace (Penguin Random House) Jan 2012 33
1Q84 (Alternate Pick) Haruki Murakami Knopf (Penguin Random House) Nov 2011 32a
Elantris Brandon Sanderson Tor Books (Macmillan) Nov 2011 32
Reamde (Alternate Pick) Neal Stephenson William Morrow (Harper Collins) Oct 2011 31a
Ready Player One Ernest Cline Penguin Random House Oct 2011 31
Flashforward Robert J. Sawyer Tor Books (Macmillan) Aug 2011 30
Fuzzy Nation (Alternate Pick) John Scalzi Tor Books (Macmillan) Jul 2011 29a
A Dance With Dragons George R. R. Martin Spectra (Penguin Random House) Jul 2011 29
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Scholastic Press Jun 2011 28
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms N. K. Jemisin Orbit Books (Hachette) May 2011 27
Blindsight Peter Watts Tor Books (Macmillan) Apr 2011 26
Shadow and Claw Gene Wolfe Orb Books (Macmillan) Feb 2011 25
Good Omens Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett Workman Jan 2011 24
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe Charles Yu Pantheon (Penguin Random House) Nov 2010 23
The Princess Bride William Goldman Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Sep 2010 22
The Once and Future King T. H. White Ace (Penguin Random House) Sep 2010 21
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert A. Heinlein Orb Books (Macmillan) Jul 2010 20
The Blade Itself (Alternate Pick) Joe Abercrombie St. Martin's Press (Macmillan) Jun 2010 19a
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War Max Brooks Crown (Penguin Random House) Jun 2010 19
Bitter Seeds Ian Tregillis Tor Books (Macmillan) May 2010 18
The Windup Girl Paolo Bacigalupi Night Shade Books (Perseus Books Group) Mar 2010 17
Down and out in the Magic Kingdom Cory Doctorow Tor Books (Macmillan) Jan 2010 16
Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley Knopf (Penguin Random House) Oct 2009 15
The Forever War Joe Haldeman St. Martin's Press (Macmillan) Aug 2009 14
A Game of Thrones George R. R. Martin Spectra (Penguin Random House) Jun 2009 13
Daemon Daniel Suarez Signet (Penguin Random House) Apr 2009 12
Dune Frank Herbert Ace (Penguin Random House) Mar 2009 11
The Eye of the World Robert Jordan Tor Books (Macmillan) Jan 2009 10
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub Stanislaw Lem Mariner Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Nov 2008 09
Anathem Neal Stephenson William Morrow (Harper Collins) Sep 2008 08
Watership Down Richard Adams Scribner (Simon and Schuster) Jul 2008 07
Unshapely Things Mark Del Franco Ace (Penguin Random House) May 2008 06
Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke Ballantine Books (Penguin Random House) Apr 2008 05
Neuromancer William Gibson Ace (Penguin Random House) Jan 2008 04
American Gods Neil Gaiman William Morrow (Harper Collins) Dec 2007 03
Ender's Game Orson Scott Card Tor Books (Macmillan) Nov 2007 02
The Golden Compass Philip Pullman Scholastic Oct 2007 01
