Do you love sci-fi books?
Well, you’re in luck! I’ve compiled a list of 101 Science Fiction Books to keep you reading for weeks to come.
If you like aliens, vampires, or monsters then this list is for you. I’ll feature popular authors like H.G. Wells and Michael Crichton, as well as a few newer writers like Emily St. John Mandel. You’ll be sure to find something you like.
Don’t be afraid to pick something you’ve never heard of because this list contains a few hidden gems.
Likewise, you’ll want to take note of the famous books on the list that you somehow haven’t managed to get ahold of yet.
Ready? Let’s Go!
1. 1984
George Orwell, 1949
2. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne, 1869
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke, 1968
4. 48 Hours
William R. Forstchen, 2019
5. A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine, 2019
6. All Systems Red
Martha Wells, 2017
7. Ammonite
Nicola Griffith, 1992
8. An Unkindness of Ghosts
Rivers Solomon, 2017
9. Annihilation
Jeff Vandermeer, 2014
10. Anthem
Any Rand, 1938
11. Artemis
Andy Weir, 2017
12. Babel-17
Samuel R. Delany, 1966
13. Blade Runner
William S. Burroughs, 1979
14. Brave New World
Aldous Huxley, 1932
15. Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky, 2015
16. Consider Phlebas
Iain M. Banks, 1987
17. Day Zero
C. Robert Cargill, 2021
18. Deep Wheel Orcadia
Harry Giles, 2021
19. Divergent
Veronica Roth, 2011
20. Dune
Frank Herbert, 1965
21. Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card, 1985
22. Exhalation
Ted Chiang, 2019
23. Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury, 1953
24. Final Architecture Series
Adrian Tchaikovsky, 2021-2022
25. Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes, 1959
26. Frankenstein
Mary Shelley, 1818
27. Goliath
Tochi Onyebuchi, 2022
28. How High We Go In the Dark
Sequoia Nagamatsu, 2022
29. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, 1989
30. I Am Legend
Richard Matheson, 1954
31. I, Robot
Isaac Asimov, 1950
32. Ice
Anna Kavan, 1967
33. Jack Four
Neal Asher, 2021
34. Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne, 1871
35. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, 1991
36. Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro, 2021
37. Light Years From Home
Mike Chen, 2022
38. Maze Runner
James Dashner, 2009
39. Neuromancer
Gordon R. Dickson, 1962
40. One Second After
William R. Forstchen, 2009
41. Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood, 2003
42. Paradox Bound
Peter Clines, 2017
43. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, 2021
44. Ready Player One (and Two)
Ernest Cline, 2011
45. Recursion
Blake Crouch, 2019
46. Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson, 1992
47. Red Rising Series
Pierce Brown, 2014
48. Remote Control
Nnedi Okorafor, 2021
49. Robopocalypse
Daniel H. Wilson, 2011
50. Sea of Rust
C. Robert Cargill, 2017
51. Set My Heart to Five
Simon Stephenson, 2020
52. Skyward
Brandon Sanderson, 2012
53. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, 1969
54. Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson, 1992
55. Solaris
Stanislaw Lem, 1961
56. State of Fear
Michael Crichton, 2004
57. Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel, 2014
58. Termination Shock
Neal Stephenson, 2021
59. The 5th Wave
Rick Yancey, 2013
60. The Actual Star
Monica Byrne, 2021
61. The Andromeda Evolution
Daniel H. Wilson (Michael Crichton), 2019
62. The Andromeda Strain
Michael Crichton, 1969
63. The Children of Men
P.D. James, 1992
64. The Echo Wife
Sarah Gailey, 2021
65. The End of Eternity
Isaac Asimov, 1995
66. The End of Men
Christina Sweeney-Baird, 2021
67. The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin, 2015
68. The Forever War
Joe Haldeman, 1974
69. The Girl with All the Gifts
M.R. Carey, 2014
70. The Giver
Lois Lowry, 1993
71. The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood, 1985
72. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, 1979
73. The Host
Stephenie Meyer, 2008
74. The Hunger Games Trilogy
Suzanne Collins, 2008
75. The Invisible Library
Genevieve Cogman, 2014
76. The Invisible Man
H.G. Wells, 1897
77. The Last Man
Mary Shelley, 1826
78. The Last Watch
J.S. Dewes, 2021
79. The Long Earth
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, 2012
80. The Luminous Dead
Caitlin Starling, 2019
81. The Martian
Andy Weir, 2011
82. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, 2020
83. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein, 1966
84. The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne, 1875
85. The Passage Series
Justin Cronin, 2010
86. The Road
Cormac McCarthy, 2006
87. The Salt Line
Holly Goddard Jones, 2017
88. The Space Between Worlds
Micaiah Johnson, 2020
89. The Stand
Stephen King, 1978
90. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886
91. The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Lui, 2014
92. The Time Machine
H.G. Wells, 1895
93. The Time Traveller’s Wife
Audrey Niffenegger, 2003
94. The War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells, 1898
95. This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, 2019
96. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Christopher Paolini, 2020
97. Tuf Voyaging
George R.R. Martin, 1986
98. Wanderers
Chuck Wendig, 2019
99. World War Z
Max Brooks, 2006
100. Zone One
Colson Whitehead, 2011
101. Zoo
James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge, 2012
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