Top 100 Books (Post-2000)
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[S1] First book in a series; [C] Single-author collection; [A] Multiple author anthology
1 | Andy Weir | The Martian | 2012 | ![]() | ![]() | |
2 | Ernest Cline | Ready Player One [S1] | 2011 | ![]() | ![]() | |
3 | James S.A. Corey | Leviathan Wakes [S1] | 2011 | ![]() | ![]() | |
4 | Liu Cixin | The Three-Body Problem | 2006 | ![]() | ![]() | |
5 | Martha Wells | All Systems Red [S1] | 2017 | ![]() | ![]() | |
6 | Andy Weir | Project Hail Mary | 2021 | ![]() | ![]() | |
7 | John Scalzi | Old Man's War [S1] | 2005 | ![]() | ![]() | |
8 | Pierce Brown | Red Rising [S1] | 2014 | ![]() | ![]() | |
9 | Blake Crouch | Dark Matter | 2016 | ![]() | ![]() | |
10 | Becky Chambers | The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet | 2014 | ![]() | ![]() | |
11 | Andy Weir | Artemis | 2017 | ![]() | ![]() | |
12 | Jeff VanderMeer | Annihilation [S1] | 2014 | ![]() | ![]() | |
13 | Ann Leckie | Ancillary Justice [S1] | 2013 | ![]() | ![]() | |
14 | Stephenie Meyer | The Host [S1] | 2008 | ![]() | ![]() | |
15 | John Scalzi | Redshirts | 2012 | ![]() | ![]() | |
16 | Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff | Illuminae [S1] | 2015 | ![]() | ![]() | |
17 | Margaret Atwood | Oryx and Crake [S1] | 2003 | ![]() | ![]() | |
18 | Blake Crouch | Recursion | 2019 | ![]() | ![]() | |
19 | Richard K. Morgan | Altered Carbon [S1] | 2002 | ![]() | ![]() | |
20 | Hugh Howey | Wool Omnibus [S1] | 2012 | ![]() | ![]() | |
21 | Sylvain Neuvel | Sleeping Giants [S1] | 2016 | ![]() | ![]() | |
22 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Children of Time [S1] | 2015 | ![]() | ![]() | |
23 | Nnedi Okorafor | Binti [S1-3] | 2015 | ![]() | ![]() | |
24 | Ted Chiang | Stories of Your Life and Others [C] | 2002 | ![]() | ![]() | |
25 | Neal Stephenson | Seveneves | 2015 | ![]() | ![]() | |
26 | Paolo Bacigalupi | The Windup Girl | 2009 | ![]() | ![]() | |
27 | Brandon Sanderson | Skyward [S1] | 2018 | ![]() | ![]() | |
28 | Ernest Cline | Armada | 2015 | ![]() | ![]() | |
29 | John Scalzi | Lock In [S1] | 2014 | ![]() | ![]() | |
30 | Alastair Reynolds | Revelation Space [S1] | 2000 | ![]() | ![]() | |
31 | Neal Stephenson | Anathem | 2008 | ![]() | ![]() | |
32 | Arkady Martine | A Memory Called Empire [S1] | 2019 | ![]() | ![]() | |
33 | Beth Revis | Across the Universe [S1] | 2011 | ![]() | ![]() | |
34 | Dennis E. Taylor | We Are Legion (We Are Bob) [S1] | 2016 | ![]() | ![]() | |
35 | Peter F. Hamilton | Pandora's Star [S1] | 2004 | ![]() | ![]() | |
36 | John Scalzi | The Collapsing Empire [S1] | 2017 | ![]() | ![]() | |
37 | Becky Chambers | A Psalm for the Wild-Built [S1] | 2021 | ![]() | ![]() | |
38 | Pratchett & Baxter | The Long Earth [S1] | 2012 | ![]() | ![]() | |
39 | Becky Chambers | To Be Taught, If Fortunate | 2019 | ![]() | ![]() | |
40 | Ted Chiang | Exhalation [C] | 2019 | ![]() | ![]() | |
41 | Peter Watts | Blindsight [S1] | 2006 | ![]() | ![]() | |
42 | Robert Charles Wilson | Spin | 2005 | ![]() | ![]() | |
43 | Emily St. John Mandel | Sea of Tranquility | 2022 | ![]() | ![]() | |
44 | Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff | Aurora Rising [S1] | 2019 | ![]() | ![]() | |
45 | Christopher Paolini | To Sleep in a Sea of Stars | 2020 | ![]() | ![]() | |
46 | Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner | These Broken Stars [S1] | 2013 | ![]() | ![]() | |
47 | Matt Haig | The Humans | 2013 | ![]() | ![]() | |
48 | Michael Crichton | Prey | 2002 | ![]() | ![]() | |
49 | Hank Green | An Absolutely Remarkable Thing [S1] | 2018 | ![]() | ![]() | |
50 | China Miéville | Embassytown | 2011 | ![]() | ![]() | |
51 | Micaiah Johnson | The Space Between Worlds | 2020 | ![]() | ![]() | |
52 | Yoon Ha Lee | Ninefox Gambit [S1] | 2016 | ![]() | ![]() | |
53 | Daniel H. Wilson | Robopocalypse [S1] | 2011 | ![]() | ![]() | |
54 | Jeff VanderMeer | Borne [S1] | 2017 | ![]() | ![]() | |
55 | Hannu Rajaniemi | The Quantum Thief [S1] | 2010 | ![]() | ![]() | |
56 | Dan Simmons | Ilium [S1] | 2003 | ![]() | ![]() | |
57 | Connie Willis | Blackout [S1] | 2010 | ![]() | ![]() | |
58 | Jack Campbell | Dauntless [S1] | 2006 | ![]() | ![]() | |
59 | William Gibson | Pattern Recognition [S1] | 2003 | ![]() | ![]() | |
60 | Alastair Reynolds | House of Suns | 2008 | ![]() | ![]() | |
61 | John Scalzi | The Kaiju Preservation Society | 2022 | ![]() | ![]() | |
62 | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2312 | 2012 | ![]() | ![]() | |
63 | Claudia Gray | A Thousand Pieces of You [S1] | 2014 | ![]() | ![]() | |
64 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Aurora | 2015 | ![]() | ![]() | |
65 | Blake Crouch | Upgrade | 2022 | ![]() | ![]() | |
66 | Rivers Solomon | An Unkindness of Ghosts | 2017 | ![]() | ![]() | |
67 | Mur Lafferty | Six Wakes | 2017 | ![]() | ![]() | |
68 | Ada Palmer | Too Like the Lightning [S1] | 2016 | ![]() | ![]() | |
69 | Dmitry Glukhovsky | Metro 2033 [S1] | 2002 | ![]() | ![]() | |
70 | Alastair Reynolds | Chasm City | 2001 | ![]() | ![]() | |
71 | Rachel Bach | Fortune's Pawn [S1] | 2013 | ![]() | ![]() | |
72 | Ann Leckie | Provenance | 2017 | ![]() | ![]() | |
73 | Daniel Suarez | Daemon [S1] | 2006 | ![]() | ![]() | |
74 | Peter F. Hamilton | The Dreaming Void [S1] | 2007 | ![]() | ![]() | |
75 | Everina Maxwell | Winter's Orbit | 2021 | ![]() | ![]() | |
76 | Tade Thompson | Rosewater [S1] | 2017 | ![]() | ![]() | |
77 | Ann Aguirre | Grimspace [S1] | 2008 | ![]() | ![]() | |
78 | Sarah Gailey | The Echo Wife | 2021 | ![]() | ![]() | |
79 | William Gibson | The Peripheral | 2014 | ![]() | ![]() | |
80 | John Scalzi | The Android's Dream [S1] | 2006 | ![]() | ![]() | |
81 | Jodi Taylor | Just One Damned Thing After Another [S1] | 2013 | ![]() | ![]() | |
82 | Catherynne M. Valente | Space Opera | 2018 | ![]() | ![]() | |
83 | Iain M. Banks | The Algebraist | 2004 | ![]() | ![]() | |
84 | Charles Stross | Accelerando | 2005 | ![]() | ![]() | |
85 | Ramez Naam | Nexus [S1] | 2012 | ![]() | ![]() | |
86 | Alastair Reynolds | Pushing Ice | 2005 | ![]() | ![]() | |
87 | Charles Yu | How to Live Safely in a Sci-Fi Universe | 2010 | ![]() | ![]() | |
88 | Michel Faber | The Book of Strange New Things | 2014 | ![]() | ![]() | |
89 | Elan Mastai | All Our Wrong Todays | 2017 | ![]() | ![]() | |
90 | Emma Newman | Planetfall [S1] | 2015 | ![]() | ![]() | |
91 | Shaun David Hutchinson | We Are the Ants | 2016 | ![]() | ![]() | |
92 | Annalee Newitz | Autonomous | 2017 | ![]() | ![]() | |
93 | Kass Morgan | The 100 [S1] | 2013 | ![]() | ![]() | |
94 | Neal Stephenson | Readme | 2011 | ![]() | ![]() | |
95 | B. Herbert & K.J. Anderson | The Butlerian Jihad [S1] | 2002 | ![]() | ![]() | |
96 | Elizabeth Moon | Trading in Danger [S1] | 2003 | ![]() | ![]() | |
97 | Alastair Reynolds | The Prefect [S1] | 2007 | ![]() | ![]() | |
98 | Vernor Vinge | Rainbows End | 2006 | ![]() | ![]() | |
99 | Marko Kloos | Terms of Enlistment [S1] | 2013 | ![]() | ![]() | |
100 | Charles Stross | The Atrocity Archives [S1] | 2004 | ![]() | ![]() |
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