214 books
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136 voters
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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 259 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,413,391 ratings — published 1985
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,439,811 ratings — published 1949
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.07 — 611,071 ratings — published 2014
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 152 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.19 — 261,247 ratings — published 1993
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.85 — 850,751 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,071,740 ratings — published 1932
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 144 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,826,274 ratings — published 1953
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 219,532 ratings — published 1969
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 134 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,880,053 ratings — published 2008
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 134 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.00 — 286,962 ratings — published 2003
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 124 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.80 — 301,396 ratings — published 2014
Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.05 — 294,966 ratings — published 2022
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
by (shelved 106 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.29 — 332,332 ratings — published 2015
Klara and the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.74 — 432,414 ratings — published 2021
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 98 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.84 — 332,711 ratings — published 2019
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.21 — 462,876 ratings — published 2020
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.75 — 251,771 ratings — published 2016
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 95 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,141,333 ratings — published 2009
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.31 — 270,311 ratings — published 1979
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 989,817 ratings — published 2001
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 90 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,707,759 ratings — published 2010
How High We Go in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.81 — 70,316 ratings — published 2022
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.08 — 490,720 ratings — published 2006
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,033,398 ratings — published 2006
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,622,219 ratings — published 1965
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 86 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.25 — 125,060 ratings — published 2002
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.26 — 150,448 ratings — published 1974
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.11 — 449,635 ratings — published 1995
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.88 — 130,369 ratings — published 2018
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,800,969 ratings — published 1993
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 80 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.09 — 511,346 ratings — published 1968
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 79 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,296,677 ratings — published 2011
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.13 — 715,824 ratings — published 2016
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,441,437 ratings — published 2020
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.15 — 465,112 ratings — published 2022
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
by (shelved 75 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 421,721 ratings — published 2019
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,879,118 ratings — published 1818
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,480,465 ratings — published 1969
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,282,882 ratings — published 1962
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.07 — 132,822 ratings — published 2009
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,282,986 ratings — published 2011
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.01 — 267,312 ratings — published 2004
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.01 — 297,554 ratings — published 1992
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,471,725 ratings — published 1985
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.12 — 366,660 ratings — published 2017
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.90 — 78,475 ratings — published 2009
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,011,851 ratings — published 1979
Exhalation (ebook)
by (shelved 68 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.27 — 112,423 ratings — published 2019
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.22 — 183,560 ratings — published 2021
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.70 — 137,597 ratings — published 1994
“True. And there are an infinite number of universes, of course, in which we don't exist at all - that is, no creatures similar to us exist at all. In which the human race doesn't exist at all. There are an infinite number of universes, for instance, in which flowers are the predominant form of life -or in which no form of life has ever developed or will develop.”
― "FREDRIC BROWN" BOOKS: What Mad Universe / Space on My Hands / Honeymoon in Hell
― "FREDRIC BROWN" BOOKS: What Mad Universe / Space on My Hands / Honeymoon in Hell
“Just as Wallace learned and evolved, Ali was on his own journey of discovery. Starting out as a 15-year-old cook, Ali learned to collect and mount specimens. He took on responsibility for organizing travel. He nursed Wallace during many bouts of fever and injury.”
― "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion
― "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion












