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)
Annihilation by Jeff VandermeerAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanPerdido Street Station by China MiévilleHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Best Weird Fiction Books
1,261 books — 1,173 voters
American Gods by Neil GaimanPerdido Street Station by China MiévilleNeverwhere by Neil GaimanThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Outside-the-box Speculative Fiction
896 books — 496 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Smart Apocalyptic and Dystopian Fiction
544 books — 748 voters
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. KluneHarrow the Ninth by Tamsyn MuirCemetery Boys by Aiden ThomasThe Extraordinaries by T.J. KluneSpellhacker by M.K. England
2020 Queer Sci-Fi Fantasy
201 books — 403 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
Babel by R.F. KuangSea of Tranquility by Emily St. John MandelNettle & Bone by T. KingfisherLegends & Lattes by Travis BaldreeThe Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Hugo 2023 Eligible Novels
128 books — 277 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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