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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,096,825 ratings
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The Stand
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4.35 avg rating — 867,683 ratings
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On the Beach
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3.99 avg rating — 51,952 ratings
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The Book of M
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3.69 avg rating — 22,622 ratings
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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4.02 avg rating — 583,840 ratings
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 1,508,392 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 — 162,127 ratings
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Wool (Silo #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 297,026 ratings
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 296,402 ratings
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Earth Abides
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3.94 avg rating — 35,725 ratings
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Alas, Babylon
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4.09 avg rating — 49,692 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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4.04 avg rating — 108,610 ratings
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Lucifer's Hammer
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 46,058 ratings
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The Dog Stars
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3.92 avg rating — 93,569 ratings
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The War of the Worlds
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3.83 avg rating — 363,926 ratings
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The White Mountains (The Tripods, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 15,198 ratings
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The Passage
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4.05 avg rating — 227,740 ratings
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Planet of the Apes
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 51,008 ratings
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Way of the Wolf (Vampire Earth #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 4,847 ratings
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Choice of the Cat (Vampire Earth #2)
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4.01 avg rating — 3,439 ratings
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The Death of Grass
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3.90 avg rating — 11,825 ratings
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Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
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3.55 avg rating — 24,487 ratings
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The World Without Us
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3.81 avg rating — 44,018 ratings
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When Worlds Collide (When Worlds Collide, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 2,477 ratings
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The Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 3,046 ratings
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Mockingbird
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4.16 avg rating — 13,690 ratings
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
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3.85 avg rating — 11,507 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 — 9,642 ratings
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Poison Princess (The Arcana Chronicles, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 45,116 ratings
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Dies the Fire (Emberverse, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 18,204 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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3.73 avg rating — 222 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 — 2,568 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 — 25,962 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 — 696 ratings
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Stolen (Heart of Dread #2)
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3.81 avg rating — 2,307 ratings
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When the Wind Blows
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4.29 avg rating — 4,395 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 — 21,723 ratings
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Farnham's Freehold
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3.60 avg rating — 13,189 ratings
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Blind Faith
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4.10 avg rating — 6,679 ratings
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Winter Duty (Vampire Earth #8)
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3.87 avg rating — 1,465 ratings
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March in Country (Vampire Earth, #9)
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3.89 avg rating — 1,204 ratings
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Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 4,504,095 ratings
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Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
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3.96 avg rating — 1,661,097 ratings
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Gust Front (Posleen War, #2)
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4.11 avg rating — 9,421 ratings
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Moonseed (NASA Trilogy, #3)
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3.75 avg rating — 1,934 ratings
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The End We Start From
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3.39 avg rating — 16,025 ratings
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Gather the Daughters
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3.60 avg rating — 11,498 ratings
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The Dolphins of Altair
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3.05 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Shadow on the Hearth
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3.60 avg rating — 92 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 — 10,092 ratings
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 124,695 ratings
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Akira, Vol. 1
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4.41 avg rating — 41,416 ratings
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Akira, Vol. 2
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4.46 avg rating — 18,001 ratings
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Akira, Vol. 3
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4.44 avg rating — 15,495 ratings
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Akira, Vol. 4
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4.47 avg rating — 13,952 ratings
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Akira, Vol. 6
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4.52 avg rating — 12,864 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 — 15,864 ratings
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Underground Man (Classics of Science Fiction)
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3.10 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Station Eleven
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4.06 avg rating — 653,629 ratings
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The Last Man Standing
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3.74 avg rating — 468 ratings
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The Wall
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3.97 avg rating — 48,044 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 — 1,078 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 — 2,156 ratings
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After the Snow (After the Snow, #1)
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3.18 avg rating — 1,980 ratings
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The Ice People
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4.01 avg rating — 18,869 ratings
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Metro 2033 (Metro, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 80,970 ratings
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La Jetée: ciné-roman
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4.68 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Children of the Dust
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,301 ratings
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Riddley Walker
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4.02 avg rating — 9,012 ratings
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The Long Tomorrow
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3.68 avg rating — 2,923 ratings
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The Ark Sakura
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3.48 avg rating — 2,186 ratings
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Heroes and Villains
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3.52 avg rating — 3,336 ratings
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Motherlines (Holdfast Chronicles, #2)
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3.66 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Empty World
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3.83 avg rating — 1,031 ratings
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The City, Not Long After
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3.93 avg rating — 1,194 ratings
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This Is The Way The World Ends
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3.72 avg rating — 1,946 ratings
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Walk to the End of the World (Holdfast Chronicles, #1)
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3.57 avg rating — 492 ratings
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Engine Summer
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3.99 avg rating — 2,422 ratings
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The Year of the Quiet Sun
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3.60 avg rating — 780 ratings
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The Shore of Women
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3.86 avg rating — 1,376 ratings
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Damnation Alley
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3.56 avg rating — 5,902 ratings
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The Drowned World
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3.46 avg rating — 21,709 ratings
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Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
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4.32 avg rating — 94,797 ratings
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The Children of Men
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3.66 avg rating — 54,269 ratings
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Z for Zachariah
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3.68 avg rating — 18,399 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.
