The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
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336 books — 252 voters
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Best of Cyberpunk
387 books — 1,200 voters

Blindsight by Peter Watts
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9 books — 4 voters
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246 books — 205 voters

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Big Dumb Objects
68 books — 77 voters
Blindsight by Peter Watts
First Contact
283 books — 385 voters

Timelike Infinity by Stephen BaxterRing by Stephen Baxter
Time Dilation
10 books — 5 voters
Diaspora by Greg EganBlindsight by Peter Watts
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290 books — 306 voters

Diaspora by Greg EganBlindsight by Peter WattsAccelerando by Charles Stross
Transhuman Science Fiction
157 books — 192 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Best History Books
3,951 books — 4,191 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Books with Non-Linear Time
83 books — 27 voters
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
The Worst Books of All Time
8,121 books — 19,900 voters

1984 by George OrwellDiaspora by Greg EganBlindsight by Peter WattsA Storm of Swords by George R.R. MartinSapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
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78,392 books — 292,237 voters
Raft by Stephen Baxter
Excellent Space Opera
1,119 books — 3,823 voters

1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,339 books — 5,886 voters
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best hard science fiction
444 books — 865 voters

Blindsight by Peter WattsSeveneves by Neal StephensonAccelerando by Charles Stross
Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
1,136 books — 9,198 voters

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Best Science Fiction
3,845 books — 7,700 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
12,197 books — 11,113 voters

1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,999 books — 26,662 voters