22 books
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Futurist Books
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.18 — 293,214 ratings — published 2015
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,787 ratings — published 2005
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,937,378 ratings — published 1963
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,126,978 ratings — published 1932
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,659,513 ratings — published 1948
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,514,732 ratings — published 1985
Third Wave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,968 ratings — published 1980
Future Shock (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.82 — 5,304 ratings — published 1970
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.86 — 44,424 ratings — published 2020
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,014 ratings — published 2016
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,594 ratings — published 2015
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.66 — 11,250 ratings — published 2008
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.89 — 373,350 ratings — published 1984
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.85 — 21,494 ratings — published 2014
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.00 — 18,208 ratings — published 2011
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,154,091 ratings — published 2008
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,330,612 ratings — published 2011
Klara and the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.74 — 456,844 ratings — published 2021
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,323 ratings — published 2018
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,719,976 ratings — published 1945
Seveneves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.00 — 127,103 ratings — published 2015
The Age of Spiritual Machines (Trade Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,702 ratings — published 1998
New York 2140 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.60 — 15,997 ratings — published 2017
The Industries of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,466 ratings — published 2016
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.14 — 412,141 ratings — published 2014
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,129 ratings — published 2014
Who Owns the Future? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,673 ratings — published 2013
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,273,677 ratings — published 2009
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.86 — 90,094 ratings — published 1992
Uglies (Uglies, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.84 — 713,500 ratings — published 2005
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,452,590 ratings — published 2011
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.07 — 134,948 ratings — published 2009
The Windup Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.75 — 78,889 ratings — published 2009
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.16 — 93,831 ratings — published 1995
Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.68 — 549 ratings — published 1982
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.00 — 292,766 ratings — published 2003
What We Can Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.82 — 41,003 ratings — published 2025
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,862 ratings — published 2025
The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End (Audiobook)
by (shelved 2 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,048 ratings — published 2023
Hot Spell (Demon World, #2; Breeds, #5.5; The Guardians, Prequel)
by (shelved 2 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,939 ratings — published 2005
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.83 — 82,076 ratings — published 2015
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.82 — 5,865 ratings — published 2021
2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,536 ratings — published 2020
Exhalation (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.27 — 115,967 ratings — published 2019
Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as futurist)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,594 ratings — published 2016
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.40 — 235,636 ratings — published 2008
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.40 — 182,082 ratings — published 2010
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.28 — 347,876 ratings — published 2015
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.19 — 285,234 ratings — published 1993
MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as futurist)
avg rating 4.03 — 84,013 ratings — published 2013
“evolution is not final; the future exceeds every number you can imagine: it is the courage to continue that counts towards that evolution.”
― A Brief Introduction to Unravelling Complexity
― A Brief Introduction to Unravelling Complexity
“The most important skill to learn as a futurist is how to think, map and plan for the future of science and technology applied to its context and use”
― How to use Science Fiction for Future Forecasting
― How to use Science Fiction for Future Forecasting












