101 books
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54 voters
Imaginative Fiction Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,047
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,741,817 ratings — published 1996
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 362,344 ratings — published 1968
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 992,141 ratings — published 2001
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,469,002 ratings — published 1937
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 506,503 ratings — published 1972
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,436,744 ratings — published 1985
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 336,957 ratings — published 1968
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 702,931 ratings — published 1983
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 126,075 ratings — published 2002
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 151,937 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 — 3,162,124 ratings — published 1954
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 826,806 ratings — published 1990
The Witches (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 429,398 ratings — published 1983
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,667,868 ratings — published 2005
Anansi Boys (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 229,879 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,511,285 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,454,258 ratings — published 1997
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,121,064 ratings — published 2007
Different Seasons (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 221,798 ratings — published 1982
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 184,773 ratings — published 1973
Childhood’s End (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 174,007 ratings — published 1953
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 771,953 ratings — published 1962
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 514,712 ratings — published 1968
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 46,647 ratings — published 2003
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.85 — 859,346 ratings — published 2005
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,478,547 ratings — published 2020
True Names (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,195 ratings — published 1981
Stranger in a Strange Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 326,785 ratings — published 1961
Babel-17 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.72 — 20,130 ratings — published 1966
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 791,484 ratings — published 2014
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 139,175 ratings — published 1966
Double Star (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 24,417 ratings — published 1956
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 155,363 ratings — published 2017
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 423,166 ratings — published 1983
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 298,400 ratings — published 1992
More Than Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 19,499 ratings — published 1953
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 406,205 ratings — published 1969
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 152,830 ratings — published 1985
Elantris (Elantris, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 350,091 ratings — published 2005
Starship Troopers (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 246,871 ratings — published 1959
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.66 — 674,508 ratings — published 2010
The Time Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 566,699 ratings — published 1895
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 222,011 ratings — published 1969
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,430,118 ratings — published 2012
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 320,650 ratings — published 2011
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 513,528 ratings — published 1900
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 75,528 ratings — published 2000
A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 141,966 ratings — published 1982
Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day (Johannes Cabal, #0.25)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,449 ratings — published 2013
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as imaginative-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,822 ratings — published 1959
“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
“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






