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.
206 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
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
Science Fiction
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
Non-Fiction
Armada
Ernest Cline
Non-Fiction
Artemis
Andy Weir
Non-Fiction
Babel
Samuel R. Delany
Non-Fiction
Blindsight
Peter Watts
Science Fiction
Borne
Jeff VanderMeer
Dystopian
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Science Fiction
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
Non-Fiction
Centennial
Ayn Rand
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
Non-Fiction
Contact
Carl Sagan
Non-Fiction
Count Zero
William Gibson
Non-Fiction
Cryptonomicon
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
Non-Fiction
Eon
Greg Bear
Young Adult
Eragon
Christopher Paolini
Non-Fiction
Everything, Everything
Douglas Adams
Non-Fiction
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Horror
Expiration Dates
Dystopian
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
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
Philip K. Dick
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
Non-Fiction
Gardens of the Moon
Steven Erikson
Non-Fiction
Gateway
Frederik Pohl
Science Fiction
Gideon the Ninth
Young Adult
Gone
Michael Grant
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
Non-Fiction
How to Stop Time
Matt Haig
Comedy
Howl's Moving Castle
Diana Wynne Jones
Fantasy
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
Non-Fiction
I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
Science Fiction
Iron Widow
Xiran Jay Zhao
Non-Fiction
Islands in the Net
Bruce Sterling
Science Fiction
Kindred
Octavia Butler
Non-Fiction
Legend
Marie Lu
Science Fiction
Leviathan Wakes
James S.A. Corey
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
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
Non-Fiction
One Thousand and One Nights
Chin-sŏk Chŏn
Non-Fiction
Oona Out of Order
Margarita Montimore
Literary Fiction
Orbital
Samantha Harvey
Science Fiction
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
Science Fiction
Parable of the Sower
Octavia Butler
Non-Fiction
People of the Book
Jeanne DuPrau
Thriller
Pines
Blake Crouch
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
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
Non-Fiction
Scythe
Neal Shusterman
Non-Fiction
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel
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
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
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
Thriller
The Anomaly
Hervé Le Tellier
Science Fiction
The Bone Clocks
Non-Fiction
The Book of Three
Lloyd Alexander
Science Fiction
The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe
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
Fantasy
The Dark Is Rising
Susan Cooper
Non-Fiction
The Demolished Man
Alfred Bester
Non-Fiction
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
Science Fiction
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
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 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
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
The Light Pirate
Literary Fiction
The Light Pirate
Lily Brooks-Dalton
Fantasy
The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan
Horror
The Long Run
Stephen King
Non-Fiction
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers
Science Fiction
The Luminous Dead
Caitlin Starling
Fantasy
The Magicians
C. S. Lewis
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
Non-Fiction
The Mote in God's Eye
Larry Niven
Science Fiction
The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri
Fantasy
The Need
Helen Phillips
Non-Fiction
The New Me
Halle Butler
Non-Fiction
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Ken Liu
Science Fiction
The Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Non-Fiction
The Plot
Dav Pilkey
Fantasy
The Primal Hunter
Zogarth
Non-Fiction
The Psychology of Time Travel
Kate Mascarenhas
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
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
Science Fiction
The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin
Romance
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
Non-Fiction
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Non-Fiction
The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood
Non-Fiction
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar
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
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
Fantasy
When
H. G. Wells
Non-Fiction
Wild Seed
Octavia E. Butler
Fantasy
Wyrd Sisters
Terry Pratchett
Non-Fiction
Year Zero
Rob Reid