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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 271 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,566,713 ratings — published 1985
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,777,194 ratings — published 1949
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 170 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.18 — 299,350 ratings — published 1993
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 169 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.06 — 649,833 ratings — published 2014
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.85 — 916,317 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,157,550 ratings — published 1932
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,997,681 ratings — published 1963
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.09 — 238,324 ratings — published 1969
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 141 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,294,311 ratings — published 2008
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 140 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.00 — 295,558 ratings — published 2003
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 131 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.80 — 334,661 ratings — published 2014
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.03 — 714,636 ratings — published 1995
Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.04 — 316,888 ratings — published 2022
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 112 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.82 — 375,569 ratings — published 2019
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 112 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.28 — 355,269 ratings — published 2015
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.31 — 295,906 ratings — published 1979
Klara and the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.73 — 481,997 ratings — published 2021
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 584,863 ratings — published 2020
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 103 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,341,305 ratings — published 2009
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,005,708 ratings — published 2001
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.75 — 259,883 ratings — published 2016
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 95 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,881,358 ratings — published 2010
The Dispossessed (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.26 — 163,698 ratings — published 1974
How High We Go in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.81 — 75,502 ratings — published 2022
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,090,650 ratings — published 2006
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 91 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.25 — 133,107 ratings — published 2002
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.87 — 140,935 ratings — published 2018
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.08 — 539,281 ratings — published 2006
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,712,918 ratings — published 1965
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,907,941 ratings — published 1993
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 84 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.09 — 535,912 ratings — published 1968
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,686,191 ratings — published 2020
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.12 — 546,224 ratings — published 2022
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,347,036 ratings — published 2011
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.68 — 161,708 ratings — published 1994
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
by (shelved 79 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 466,367 ratings — published 2019
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.13 — 815,062 ratings — published 2016
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,007,901 ratings — published 1818
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 411,855 ratings — published 2017
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 76 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.07 — 136,081 ratings — published 2009
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,529,923 ratings — published 1969
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 209,490 ratings — published 2021
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,383,737 ratings — published 2011
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.01 — 275,853 ratings — published 2004
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,885,140 ratings — published 2021
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.01 — 303,913 ratings — published 1992
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,313,883 ratings — published 1962
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.89 — 82,901 ratings — published 2009
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,505,309 ratings — published 1985
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,079,655 ratings — published 1979
“I tell my sisters: / cultivate loneliness / like you might care for / an orchid, turning it / gently towards the light, / serving it water like wine / aerated, purified, filtered.”
― Glimmerglass Girl
― Glimmerglass Girl
“I mean, that was the code, wasn’t it? Single girls and taken guys weren’t allowed to be friends. The leash always got in the way.”
― Strength
― Strength
