102 books
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55 voters
Imaginative Fiction Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,056
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,766,160 ratings — published 1996
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 367,095 ratings — published 1968
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 996,108 ratings — published 2001
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,520,163 ratings — published 1937
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 509,223 ratings — published 1972
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,477,916 ratings — published 1985
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 339,324 ratings — published 1968
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 712,283 ratings — published 1983
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 128,205 ratings — published 2002
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 155,255 ratings — published 1974
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,189,946 ratings — published 1954
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 832,233 ratings — published 1990
The Witches (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 432,261 ratings — published 1983
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,702,415 ratings — published 2005
Anansi Boys (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 230,347 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,562,541 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,568,026 ratings — published 1997
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,157,295 ratings — published 2007
Different Seasons (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 223,349 ratings — published 1982
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 186,676 ratings — published 1973
Childhood’s End (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 175,517 ratings — published 1953
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 779,493 ratings — published 1962
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 521,415 ratings — published 1968
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 877,242 ratings — published 2005
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,538,854 ratings — published 2020
True Names (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,202 ratings — published 1981
Stranger in a Strange Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 328,072 ratings — published 1961
Babel-17 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.72 — 20,400 ratings — published 1966
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 851,506 ratings — published 2014
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 140,023 ratings — published 1966
Double Star (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 24,582 ratings — published 1956
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 158,790 ratings — published 2017
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 426,588 ratings — published 1983
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 300,006 ratings — published 1992
More Than Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 19,645 ratings — published 1953
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 418,146 ratings — published 1969
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 154,031 ratings — published 1985
Elantris (Elantris, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 357,945 ratings — published 2005
Starship Troopers (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 248,721 ratings — published 1959
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.66 — 692,410 ratings — published 2010
The Time Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 571,555 ratings — published 1895
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 227,238 ratings — published 1969
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,520,809 ratings — published 2012
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 326,715 ratings — published 2011
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 517,719 ratings — published 1900
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 76,212 ratings — published 2000
A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 143,473 ratings — published 1982
Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day (Johannes Cabal, #0.25)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,464 ratings — published 2013
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 121,140 ratings — published 1959
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 661,064 ratings — published 2013
“To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.”
― The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
― The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
“Snakes do not go to school. Everything important in the world is written on the inside of our eggs. When we have finished reading and memorising what is written, we break our eggs and hatch.”
― The Little Snake
― The Little Snake






