Speculative Fiction

Speculative fiction is a broad category of fiction encompassing genres with certain elements that are nonexistent in terms of reality, recorded history, or nature and the present universe, covering various themes in the context of the supernatural, futuristic, and many other imaginative topics.

Under this umbrella category, the genres include, but are not limited to: science fiction, fantasy fiction, horror fiction, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history.

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Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)
The Tapestry of Fate (Amina al-Sirafi, #2)
The Girl with a Thousand Faces
Homebound
Canon
Bone of My Bone
Solace House
We Dance Upon Demons
The Dorians
She Waits Where Shadows Gather
Make Me Better
Babylon, South Dakota
Radiant Star
Villain (Hench, #2)
Ode to the Half-Broken
The Price of Honey
The Girl in the Lake (Dept of Unexplained Phenomenon, #1)
Angel Down
Vigil
Whalefall
Don't Be In Love
The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
The Poppy Fields
Our Missing Hearts
The Dream Hotel
On the Calculation of Volume IV
Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
The Kaiju Preservation Society
Into a Golden Era (Timeless, #7)
Nothing Better Than You (Better than the Movies, #1.6)
Legends & Lattes by Travis BaldreeThe House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. KluneHowl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesThe Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky ChambersA Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
CozySFF
376 books — 426 voters
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisTrainspotting by Irvine WelshOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Contemporary Cult Fiction
506 books — 493 voters

1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodDune by Frank HerbertSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Literary Science Fiction
334 books — 249 voters
The Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussThe Wise Man's Fear by Patrick RothfussMistborn by Brandon SandersonThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott LynchThe Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
New Speculative Fiction Stars
1,214 books — 2,832 voters

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussThe Eye of the World by Robert JordanMistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Fantasy Books Written for Adults
1,338 books — 1,649 voters
1984 by George OrwellFight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Let's Shake It Up A Bit
978 books — 615 voters

The Handmaid's Tale
1984
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Station Eleven
Fahrenheit 451
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Brave New World
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Never Let Me Go
The Left Hand of Darkness
Dune (Dune, #1)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Sea of Tranquility
The Power
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)

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