Science Fiction Books
Science fiction uses speculative technology, space travel, and future societies as lenses for examining the human condition. From hard sci-fi rooted in real physics to space operas and cyberpunk, the genre asks "what if?" and follows the answer to its logical -- and often unsettling -- conclusion.
281 books
Thriller
11/22/63
Stephen King
Dystopian
1984
George Orwell
Dystopian
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
Non-Fiction
A Dance with Dragons
George R.R. Martin
Non-Fiction
A Feast for Crows
George R.R. Martin
Fantasy
A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge
Science Fiction
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers
Non-Fiction
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick
Literary Fiction
A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki
Science Fiction
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
Science Fiction
Absolution
Jeff VanderMeer
Science Fiction
Alas, Babylon
Science Fiction
All Systems Red
Martha Wells
Science Fiction
Altered Carbon
Richard K. Morgan
Fantasy
An Unkindness of Ghosts
Rivers Solomon
Philosophy
Anathem
Neal Stephenson
Non-Fiction
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
Literary Fiction
Annie Bot
Sierra Greer
Science Fiction
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
Non-Fiction
Armada
Ernest Cline
Non-Fiction
Artemis
Andy Weir
Literary Fiction
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
Science Fiction
Axiomatic
Greg Egan
Non-Fiction
Babel
R.F. Kuang
Non-Fiction
Blindsight
Peter Watts
Science Fiction
Borne
Jeff VanderMeer
Dystopian
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Science Fiction
Brown Girl in the Ring
Nalo Hopkinson
Science Fiction
California
Edan Lepucki
Science Fiction
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
Non-Fiction
Centennial
James Michener
Science Fiction
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Science Fiction
Child of the River
Paul J. McAuley
Non-Fiction
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
Science Fiction
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Science Fiction
Cinder
Marissa Meyer
Literary Fiction
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
Non-Fiction
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
Science Fiction
Company Town
Madeline Ashby
Non-Fiction
Contact
Carl Sagan
Non-Fiction
Count Zero
William Gibson
Non-Fiction
Cryptonomicon
Daemon
Science Fiction
Daemon
Daniel Suarez
Non-Fiction
Dark Intelligence
Neal L. Asher
Science Fiction
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch
Fantasy
Defiance of the Fall
TheFirstDefier
Science Fiction
Delirium
Lauren Oliver
Non-Fiction
Diaspora
Greg Egan
Science Fiction
Dimension of Miracles
Robert Sheckley
Fantasy
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams
Non-Fiction
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
Non-Fiction
Doomsday Book
Connie Willis
Non-Fiction
Dragon's Egg
Robert L. Forward
Science Fiction
Dragonflight
Anne McCaffrey
Science Fiction
Dune
Frank Herbert
Science Fiction
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman
Non-Fiction
Earth Abides
George Rippey Stewart
Non-Fiction
Einstein's Dreams
Alan P. Lightman
Non-Fiction
Empire of Silence
Christopher Ruocchio
Science Fiction
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Science Fiction
Engine Summer
John Crowley
Non-Fiction
Eon
Greg Bear
Young Adult
Eragon
Christopher Paolini
Non-Fiction
Everything, Everything
Nicola Yoon
Non-Fiction
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Horror
Expiration Dates
Dystopian
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Literary Fiction
Far North
Marcel Theroux
Non-Fiction
Feed
M. T. Anderson
Non-Fiction
Fevre Dream
George R. R. Martin
Non-Fiction
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
Fantasy
Fledgling
Octavia E. Butler
Non-Fiction
Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Science Fiction
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Science Fiction
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Non-Fiction
For the Win
Cory Doctorow
Fantasy
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Horror
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Non-Fiction
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Literary Fiction
Galatea 2.2
Richard Powers
Non-Fiction
Gardens of the Moon
Steven Erikson
Non-Fiction
Gateway
Frederik Pohl
Literary Fiction
Gather the Daughters
Jennie Melamed
Science Fiction
Gideon the Ninth
Young Adult
Gone
Michael Grant
Fantasy
Gormenghast
Mervyn Peake
Science Fiction
Halting State
Charles Stross
Non-Fiction
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K. Rowling
Fantasy
He Who Fights with Monsters
Shirtaloon
Fantasy
Her Body and Other Parties
Carmen Maria Machado
Fantasy
Hexwood
Diana Wynne Jones
Science Fiction
How High We Go in the Dark
Sequoia Nagamatsu
How Long 'til Black Future Month?
Science Fiction
How Long 'til Black Future Month?
N. K. Jemisin
Non-Fiction
How to Stop Time
Matt Haig
Comedy
Howl's Moving Castle
Diana Wynne Jones
Literary Fiction
Hum
Helen Phillips
Fantasy
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
Non-Fiction
I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
Science Fiction
In Ascension
Martin MacInnes
Literary Fiction
Into the Forest
Jean Hegland
Science Fiction
Iron Widow
Xiran Jay Zhao
Non-Fiction
Islands in the Net
Bruce Sterling
Science Fiction
Jennifer Government
Max Barry
Literary Fiction
Julia
Sandra Newman
Science Fiction
Kindred
Octavia Butler
Non-Fiction
Legend
Marie Lu
Science Fiction
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
Kim Fu
Science Fiction
Leviathan Wakes
James S.A. Corey
Science Fiction
Looking Backward
Edward Bellamy
Science Fiction
Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny
Non-Fiction
Lucifer's Hammer
Larry Niven
Historical Fiction
Machines Like Me
Ian McEwan
Non-Fiction
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
Tad Williams
Non-Fiction
Mona Lisa Overdrive
William Gibson
Young Adult
More Than This
Patrick Ness
Non-Fiction
Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut
Science Fiction
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Historical Fiction
Off to Be the Wizard
Scott Meyer
Non-Fiction
On the Beach
Nevil Shute
Literary Fiction
On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
Solvej Balle
Non-Fiction
One Thousand and One Nights
Chin-sŏk Chŏn
Literary Fiction
Only Ever Yours
Louise O'Neill
Non-Fiction
Oona Out of Order
Margarita Montimore
Literary Fiction
Orbital
Samantha Harvey
Non-Fiction
Orwell's Revenge
Peter Huber
Science Fiction
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
Science Fiction
Parable of the Sower
Octavia Butler
Science Fiction
Parable of the Talents
Octavia E. Butler
Science Fiction
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
Non-Fiction
People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks
Thriller
Pines
Blake Crouch
Science Fiction
Pixel Juice
Jeff Noon
Science Fiction
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Thriller
Quicksilver
Callie Hart
Science Fiction
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
Non-Fiction
Reamde
Neal Stephenson
Non-Fiction
Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Science Fiction
Red Rising
Pierce Brown
Non-Fiction
Replay
Ken Grimwood
Literary Fiction
Riddley Walker
Russell Hoban
Non-Fiction
Ringworld
Larry Niven
Non-Fiction
Roadside Picnic
Аркадий Натанович Стругацкий
Science Fiction
Robopocalypse
Young Adult
Running Out of Time
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Non-Fiction
S.
Karel Čapek
Science Fiction
Saga
Brian K. Vaughan
Non-Fiction
Scythe
Neal Shusterman
Non-Fiction
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel
Science Fiction
Semiosis
Sue Burke
Science Fiction
Service Model
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Non-Fiction
Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
Science Fiction
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Science Fiction
Small Gods
Terry Pratchett
Science Fiction
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Young Adult
Snowglobe
Soyoung Park
Science Fiction
Software
Rudy Rucker
Non-Fiction
Solaris
Stanisław Lem
Non-Fiction
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
Non-Fiction
Spark
Jeanne DuPrau
Science Fiction
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
Non-Fiction
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
Science Fiction
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
Young Adult
Sunrise on the Reaping
Suzanne Collins
Fantasy
Swan Song
Robert R. McCammon
Fantasy
The 100
Kass Morgan
Romance
The 5th Wave
Richard Yancey
Fantasy
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Terry Pratchett
The Ancients
Literary Fiction
The Ancients
John Larison
Thriller
The Anomaly
Hervé Le Tellier
Historical Fiction
The Baroque Cycle
Neal Stephenson
The Blueprint
Literary Fiction
The Blueprint
Rae Giana Rashad
Science Fiction
The Bone Clocks
Non-Fiction
The Book of Three
Lloyd Alexander
Science Fiction
The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe
Science Fiction
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
Meg Elison
Non-Fiction
The Calculating Stars
Mary Robinette Kowal
Non-Fiction
The Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov
Non-Fiction
The Children of Men
P. D. James
Non-Fiction
The Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis
The Culture Series
Science Fiction
The Culture Series
Iain M. Banks
Science Fiction
The Cyberiad
Stanisław Lem
Fantasy
The Dark Is Rising
Susan Cooper
Literary Fiction
The Death of Grass
John Christopher
Science Fiction
The Deluge
Stephen Markley
Non-Fiction
The Demolished Man
Alfred Bester
Non-Fiction
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
Science Fiction
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
Science Fiction
The Dying Earth
Jack Vance
Literary Fiction
The Employees
Olga Ravn
Non-Fiction
The Farthest Shore
Ursula K. Le Guin
Fantasy
The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
Science Fiction
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North
Young Adult
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Carrie Ryan
Non-Fiction
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
Patricia A. McKillip
Non-Fiction
The Gone World
Tom Sweterlitsch
Science Fiction
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Ken Liu
Science Fiction
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Fantasy
The Hollow Places
T. Kingfisher
Dystopian
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
Science Fiction
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins
Thriller
The Institute
Stephen King
Horror
The Island of Doctor Moreau
H. G. Wells
Young Adult
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Patrick Ness
Fantasy
The Land: Founding
Aleron Kong
Science Fiction
The Last Contract of Isako
Fonda Lee
Science Fiction
The Last Question
Isaac Asimov
Non-Fiction
The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle
Science Fiction
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
Fantasy
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch
Literary Fiction
The Light Pirate
Lily Brooks-Dalton
Fantasy
The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan
Horror
The Long Run
Mishka Shubaly
Non-Fiction
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers
Science Fiction
The Luminous Dead
Caitlin Starling
Fantasy
The Magicians
Lev Grossman
Non-Fiction
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
Science Fiction
The Martian
Andy Weir
Non-Fiction
The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Science Fiction
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
Literary Fiction
The Morningside
Téa Obreht
Non-Fiction
The Mote in God's Eye
Larry Niven
Science Fiction
The Mountain in the Sea
Ray Nayler
Science Fiction
The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri
Fantasy
The Need
Helen Phillips
Non-Fiction
The New Me
Halle Butler
Fantasy
The Obelisk Gate
N. K. Jemisin
Non-Fiction
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Ken Liu
Science Fiction
The Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Literary Fiction
The Pesthouse
Jim Crace
Science Fiction
The Player of Games
Iain M. Banks
Non-Fiction
The Plot
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Science Fiction
The Power
Naomi Alderman
Fantasy
The Primal Hunter
Zogarth
Non-Fiction
The Psychology of Time Travel
Kate Mascarenhas
Science Fiction
The Quantum Thief
Hannu Rajaniemi
Fantasy
The Saint of Bright Doors
Vajra Chandrasekera
Romance
The Selection
Kiera Cass
Mystery
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton
Non-Fiction
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut
Historical Fiction
The Sparrow
Fantasy
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Simon Jimenez
Science Fiction
The Speed of Dark
Elizabeth Moon
Non-Fiction
The Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester
Fantasy
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Historical Fiction
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Romance
The Sun Is Also a Star
Nicola Yoon
Non-Fiction
The Sword of Kaigen
M. L. Wang
Literary Fiction
The Third Policeman
Flann O'Brien
Science Fiction
The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin
Romance
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
Literary Fiction
The Wall
Marlen Haushofer
Science Fiction
The Water Knife
Paolo Bacigalupi
Literary Fiction
The Wild Boys
William S. Burroughs
Non-Fiction
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Non-Fiction
The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood
Literary Fiction
The Years of Rice and Salt
Kim Stanley Robinson
Non-Fiction
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar
Romance
Time and Again
Jack Finney
Non-Fiction
Trail of Lightning
Rebecca Roanhorse
Non-Fiction
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Kwame Mbalia
Non-Fiction
Ubik
Philip K. Dick
Non-Fiction
Uglies
Scott Westerfeld
Under the Eye of the Big Bird
Literary Fiction
Under the Eye of the Big Bird
Hiromi Kawakami
Non-Fiction
Under the Tuscan Sun
Frances Mayes
Non-Fiction
Uprooted
Naomi Novik
Non-Fiction
Utopia Avenue
David Mitchell
Non-Fiction
VALIS
Philip K. Dick
Science Fiction
Version Control
Dexter Palmer
Fantasy
Viriconium
M. John Harrison
Non-Fiction
Virtual Light
William Gibson
Non-Fiction
Warcross
Marie Lu
Thriller
Watchers
Dean Koontz
Science Fiction
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
Dennis E. Taylor
We Lived on the Horizon
Science Fiction
We Lived on the Horizon
Erika Swyler
Fantasy
When
Daniel Pink
Science Fiction
When Gravity Fails
George Alec Effinger
Literary Fiction
When She Woke
Hillary Jordan
Non-Fiction
Wild Seed
Octavia E. Butler
Woman on the Edge of Time
Science Fiction
Woman on the Edge of Time
Marge Piercy
Fantasy
Wyrd Sisters
Terry Pratchett
Non-Fiction
Year Zero
Rob Reid
