Speculative Fiction

Speculative fiction is a broad category of fiction encompassing genres with certain elements that are nonexistent in terms of reality, recorded history, or nature and the present universe, covering various themes in the context of the supernatural, futuristic, and many other imaginative topics.

Under this umbrella category, the genres include, but are not limited to: science fiction, fantasy fiction, horror fiction, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history.

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The Merge
The Bookshop Below
As Many Souls as Stars
Lightbreakers
3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years (The Time Traveler's Passport)
Turns of Fate (Isle of Wyrd, #1)
The Great Work
A Love Story from the End of the World: Stories
The King Must Die
Cronus (The Time Traveler's Passport)
A Guardian and a Thief
The Hearth Witch's Guide to Magic & Murder (The Hemlock Saga, #1)
The Princess Knight
The Isle in the Silver Sea
Queen Demon (The Rising World, #2)
The Names
Culpability
3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years (The Time Traveler's Passport)
A Guardian and a Thief
On the Calculation of Volume I
The Poppy Fields
The Dream Hotel
For Whom the Belle Tolls (Hell's Belles, #1)
Lightbreakers
Our Missing Hearts
Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
Turns of Fate (Isle of Wyrd, #1)
Don't Be In Love
The Kaiju Preservation Society
The Frozen People (Ali Dawson #1)
1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Dune by Frank Herbert
Literary Science Fiction
306 books — 231 voters
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-ChanUnder the Whispering Door by T.J. KluneWinter's Orbit by Everina MaxwellThe Jasmine Throne by Tasha SuriThe Unbroken by C.L. Clark
2021 Queer SFF
233 books — 527 voters

The Moon Dwellers by David EstesFire Country by David EstesRoute 666 by J.D. ToepferThe Woodlands by Lauren Nicolle TaylorA Different Alchemy by Chris Dietzel
Little Known Dystopias
260 books — 277 voters
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardDune by Frank Herbert1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
8,342 books — 24,605 voters

Annihilation by Jeff VandermeerAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanPerdido Street Station by China MiévilleHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiNeverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Best Weird Fiction Books
1,200 books — 1,091 voters

The Handmaid's Tale
1984
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Station Eleven
Fahrenheit 451
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Brave New World
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Never Let Me Go
The Left Hand of Darkness
Dune (Dune #1)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
The Power
Sea of Tranquility
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)

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