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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,086,892 ratings
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The Stand
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4.35 avg rating — 862,474 ratings
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On the Beach
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3.99 avg rating — 51,628 ratings
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The Book of M
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3.69 avg rating — 22,471 ratings
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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4.02 avg rating — 580,828 ratings
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 1,503,328 ratings
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Postapoc
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3.77 avg rating — 70 ratings
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I Am Legend
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4.05 avg rating — 160,502 ratings
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Wool (Silo #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 292,378 ratings
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 295,109 ratings
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Earth Abides
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3.94 avg rating — 35,492 ratings
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Alas, Babylon
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4.09 avg rating — 49,489 ratings
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Life First (Life First #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 342 ratings
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The Twelve (The Passage, #2)
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4.03 avg rating — 108,273 ratings
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Lucifer's Hammer
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 45,926 ratings
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The Dog Stars
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3.93 avg rating — 88,730 ratings
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The War of the Worlds
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3.83 avg rating — 361,561 ratings
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The White Mountains (The Tripods, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 15,096 ratings
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The Passage
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4.05 avg rating — 227,013 ratings
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Planet of the Apes
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 50,666 ratings
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Way of the Wolf (Vampire Earth #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 4,842 ratings
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Choice of the Cat (Vampire Earth #2)
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4.01 avg rating — 3,438 ratings
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The Death of Grass
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3.89 avg rating — 11,683 ratings
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Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
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3.56 avg rating — 24,443 ratings
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The World Without Us
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3.81 avg rating — 43,910 ratings
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When Worlds Collide (When Worlds Collide, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 2,456 ratings
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The Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 3,028 ratings
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Mockingbird
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4.16 avg rating — 13,481 ratings
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
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3.85 avg rating — 11,423 ratings
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Lifeboat
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3.79 avg rating — 75 ratings
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The Undead: Book One, Overview
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3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Frozen (Heart of Dread, #1)
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3.56 avg rating — 9,636 ratings
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Poison Princess (The Arcana Chronicles, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 45,074 ratings
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Dies the Fire (Emberverse, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 18,123 ratings
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The Ark
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3.86 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Network
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3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Mild Murderer: The True Story of the Dr. Crippen Case
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3.44 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Jeremiah's Ghost: An Apocalyptic Fantasy
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3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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RazorWire (After Civilization #1)
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3.72 avg rating — 221 ratings
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Mercury's Son
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4.07 avg rating — 87 ratings
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The Rift
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3.66 avg rating — 2,561 ratings
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The Undead: Book Two, North America
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Endless Knight (The Arcana Chronicles, #2)
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4.35 avg rating — 25,938 ratings
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Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff
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3.47 avg rating — 694 ratings
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Stolen (Heart of Dread #2)
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3.81 avg rating — 2,303 ratings
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When the Wind Blows
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4.29 avg rating — 4,353 ratings
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When Worlds Collide / After Worlds Collide (When Worlds Collide, #1-2)
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4.06 avg rating — 157 ratings
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The Onion Field
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4.10 avg rating — 21,680 ratings
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Farnham's Freehold
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3.60 avg rating — 13,122 ratings
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Blind Faith
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4.10 avg rating — 6,658 ratings
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Winter Duty (Vampire Earth #8)
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3.87 avg rating — 1,466 ratings
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March in Country (Vampire Earth, #9)
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3.89 avg rating — 1,206 ratings
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Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 4,486,925 ratings
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Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
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3.96 avg rating — 1,655,689 ratings
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Gust Front (Posleen War, #2)
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4.11 avg rating — 9,415 ratings
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Moonseed (NASA Trilogy, #3)
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3.74 avg rating — 1,929 ratings
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The End We Start From
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3.39 avg rating — 15,969 ratings
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Gather the Daughters
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3.60 avg rating — 11,432 ratings
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The Dolphins of Altair
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3.05 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Shadow on the Hearth
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3.59 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip K. Dick
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3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Eternaut
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4.35 avg rating — 9,969 ratings
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 123,888 ratings
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Akira, Vol. 1
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4.41 avg rating — 41,053 ratings
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Akira, Vol. 2
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4.46 avg rating — 17,865 ratings
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Akira, Vol. 3
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4.44 avg rating — 15,388 ratings
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Akira, Vol. 4
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4.47 avg rating — 13,857 ratings
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Akira, Vol. 6
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4.52 avg rating — 12,770 ratings
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The Science Fiction Stories of Jack London
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3.75 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Scarlet Plague (The Radium Age Science Fiction Series)
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3.75 avg rating — 15,640 ratings
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Underground Man (Classics of Science Fiction)
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3.09 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Station Eleven
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4.06 avg rating — 647,379 ratings
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The Last Man Standing
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3.74 avg rating — 467 ratings
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The Wall
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3.97 avg rating — 45,980 ratings
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A Dusk of Demons
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3.38 avg rating — 100 ratings
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The Sea and Summer
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3.91 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
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Debris
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3.02 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Fiskadoro
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3.53 avg rating — 2,144 ratings
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After the Snow (After the Snow, #1)
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3.18 avg rating — 1,979 ratings
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The Ice People
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4.02 avg rating — 18,659 ratings
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Metro 2033 (Metro, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 80,128 ratings
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La Jetée: ciné-roman
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4.68 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Children of the Dust
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4.01 avg rating — 2,295 ratings
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Riddley Walker
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4.02 avg rating — 8,955 ratings
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The Long Tomorrow
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3.68 avg rating — 2,908 ratings
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The Ark Sakura
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3.48 avg rating — 2,168 ratings
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Heroes and Villains
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3.52 avg rating — 3,315 ratings
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Motherlines (Holdfast Chronicles, #2)
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3.65 avg rating — 298 ratings
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Empty World
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3.83 avg rating — 1,029 ratings
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The City, Not Long After
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3.93 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
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This Is The Way The World Ends
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3.72 avg rating — 1,943 ratings
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Walk to the End of the World (Holdfast Chronicles, #1)
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3.56 avg rating — 492 ratings
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Engine Summer
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3.99 avg rating — 2,393 ratings
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The Year of the Quiet Sun
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3.59 avg rating — 777 ratings
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The Shore of Women
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3.87 avg rating — 1,366 ratings
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Damnation Alley
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3.56 avg rating — 5,883 ratings
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The Drowned World
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3.47 avg rating — 21,579 ratings
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Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
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4.32 avg rating — 93,309 ratings
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The Children of Men
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3.66 avg rating — 53,965 ratings
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Z for Zachariah
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3.68 avg rating — 18,310 ratings
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Your list was too short and did not have some of the really great books of the genre. Of course, I've been reading books of this style for at least 50 years, so I have a head start. I am sure that I've missed some, and it also depends upon your definition.
