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A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.63 — 372 ratings — published 2023
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,721,056 ratings — published 1965
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,508,603 ratings — published 1985
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 240,257 ratings — published 1969
The Dispossessed (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 165,186 ratings — published 1974
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,086,315 ratings — published 1979
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,811,104 ratings — published 1949
Stranger in a Strange Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 331,552 ratings — published 1961
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,917,086 ratings — published 1993
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 124,150 ratings — published 2013
Dying Inside (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,896 ratings — published 1972
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,336,839 ratings — published 2008
Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 451,916 ratings — published 1969
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,351,831 ratings — published 2011
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,027,428 ratings — published 1818
The Time Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 583,635 ratings — published 1895
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,165,892 ratings — published 1932
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 618,765 ratings — published 1951
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,061 ratings — published 2021
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 378,929 ratings — published 2019
Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 273,640 ratings — published 1976
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 148,762 ratings — published 2016
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 199,616 ratings — published 2014
Embassytown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 35,896 ratings — published 2011
Ender's Shadow (The Shadow Series, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.32 — 182,856 ratings — published 1999
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 322,247 ratings — published 1989
Of Monsters and Mainframes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 18,367 ratings — published 2025
The Stars My Destination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 57,195 ratings — published 1956
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 852,755 ratings — published 1966
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 116,973 ratings — published 2021
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 235,815 ratings — published 2005
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 653,915 ratings — published 2014
Translation State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 18,994 ratings — published 2023
Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.52 — 182,738 ratings — published 2019
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,581,684 ratings — published 1985
The Midwich Cuckoos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 30,577 ratings — published 1957
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,014,575 ratings — published 1963
Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 319,649 ratings — published 2022
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 162,209 ratings — published 1954
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 124,743 ratings — published 1959
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 52,132 ratings — published 2015
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch #2)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,823 ratings — published 2014
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,535,129 ratings — published 1969
Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet / Perelandra / That Hideous Strength (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 12,673 ratings — published 1938
Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 112,627 ratings — published 1938
Remnant Population (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,323 ratings — published 1996
Galápagos (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 91,891 ratings — published 1985
Exhalation (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 121,089 ratings — published 2019
An Unkindness of Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 22,603 ratings — published 2017
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as soft-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 191,696 ratings — published 2018