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Top 100 Books (Post-2000)

A statistical survey of the Top 100 post-2000 sci-fi books

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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	John Scalzi	Old Man's War [S1]	2005
5	Liu Cixin	The Three-Body Problem	2006
6	Pierce Brown	Red Rising [S1]	2014
7	Blake Crouch	Dark Matter	2016
8	Stephenie Meyer	The Host [S1]	2008
9	Ann Leckie	Ancillary Justice [S1]	2013
10	Jeff VanderMeer	Annihilation [S1]	2014
11	Andy Weir	Artemis	2017
12	Martha Wells	All Systems Red [S1]	2017
13	John Scalzi	Redshirts	2012
14	Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff	Illuminae [S1]	2015
15	Margaret Atwood	Oryx and Crake [S1]	2003
16	Hugh Howey	Wool Omnibus [S1]	2012
17	Richard K. Morgan	Altered Carbon [S1]	2002
18	Sylvain Neuvel	Sleeping Giants [S1]	2016
19	Neal Stephenson	Seveneves	2015
20	Paolo Bacigalupi	The Windup Girl	2009
21	Nnedi Okorafor	Binti [S1-3]	2015
22	Blake Crouch	Recursion	2019
23	Ted Chiang	Stories of Your Life and Others [C]	2002
24	John Scalzi	Lock In [S1]	2014
25	Ernest Cline	Armada	2015
26	Adrian Tchaikovsky	Children of Time [S1]	2015
27	Beth Revis	Across the Universe [S1]	2011
28	Neal Stephenson	Anathem	2008
29	Alastair Reynolds	Revelation Space [S1]	2000
30	Brandon Sanderson	Skyward [S1]	2018
31	John Scalzi	The Collapsing Empire [S1]	2017
32	Peter F. Hamilton	Pandora's Star [S1]	2004
33	Pratchett & Baxter	The Long Earth [S1]	2012
34	Robert Charles Wilson	Spin [S1]	2005
35	Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner	These Broken Stars [S1]	2013
36	Michael Crichton	Prey	2002
37	Dennis E. Taylor	We Are Legion (We Are Bob) [S1]	2016
38	Peter Watts	Blindsight [S1]	2006
39	Ted Chiang	Exhalation [C]	2019
40	China Miéville	Embassytown	2011
41	Arkady Martine	A Memory Called Empire [S1]	2019
42	Daniel H. Wilson	Robopocalypse [S1]	2011
43	Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff	Aurora Rising [S1]	2019
44	Matt Haig	The Humans	2013
45	Yoon Ha Lee	Ninefox Gambit [S1]	2016
46	Dan Simmons	Ilium [S1]	2003
47	Hannu Rajaniemi	The Quantum Thief [S1]	2010
48	Connie Willis	Blackout [S1]	2010
49	Jack Campbell	Dauntless [S1]	2006
50	William Gibson	Pattern Recognition [S1]	2003
51	Kim Stanley Robinson	2312	2012
52	Claudia Gray	A Thousand Pieces of You [S1]	2014
53	Jeff VanderMeer	Borne [S1]	2017
54	Kim Stanley Robinson	Aurora	2015
55	Rachel Bach	Fortune's Pawn [S1]	2013
56	Alastair Reynolds	House of Suns	2008
57	Alastair Reynolds	Chasm City	2001
58	Daniel Suarez	Daemon [S1]	2006
59	Ann Aguirre	Grimspace [S1]	2008
60	Peter F. Hamilton	The Dreaming Void [S1]	2007
61	Mur Lafferty	Six Wakes	2017
62	Ann Leckie	Provenance	2017
63	Ada Palmer	Too Like the Lightning [S1]	2016
64	Dmitry Glukhovsky	Metro 2033 [S1]	2002
65	John Scalzi	The Android's Dream [S1]	2006
66	Rivers Solomon	An Unkindness of Ghosts	2017
67	Iain M. Banks	The Algebraist	2004
68	Charles Stross	Accelerando	2005
69	Ramez Naam	Nexus [S1]	2012
70	Michel Faber	The Book of Strange New Things	2014
71	Elan Mastai	All Our Wrong Todays	2017
72	Charles Yu	How to Live Safely in a Sci-Fi Universe	2010
73	William Gibson	The Peripheral	2014
74	Catherynne M. Valente	Space Opera	2018
75	Jodi Taylor	Just One Damned Thing After Another [S1]	2013
76	Alastair Reynolds	Pushing Ice	2005
77	Annalee Newitz	Autonomous	2017
78	Vernor Vinge	Rainbows End	2006
79	Emma Newman	Planetfall [S1]	2015
80	Tade Thompson	Rosewater [S1]	2017
81	Elizabeth Moon	Trading in Danger [S1]	2003
82	Kass Morgan	The 100 [S1]	2013
83	Shaun David Hutchinson	We Are the Ants	2016
84	Charles Stross	The Atrocity Archives [S1]	2004
85	Peter F. Hamilton	Great North Road	2012
86	Charles Stross	Singularity Sky [S1]	2003
87	Christopher Paolini	To Sleep in a Sea of Stars	2020
88	Alastair Reynolds	The Prefect [S1]	2007
89	Kim Stanley Robinson	New York 2140	2017
90	Margaret Peterson Haddix	Found [S1]	2008
91	Melissa Landers	Starflight [S1]	2016
92	Robert J. Sawyer	Hominids [S1]	2002
93	Marko Kloos	Terms of Enlistment [S1]	2013
94	Cory Doctorow	Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom	2003
95	Kameron Hurley	The Stars Are Legion	2017
96	Alastair Reynolds	Blue Remembered Earth [S1]	2012
97	Rysa Walker	Timebound [S1]	2012
98	S.J. Kincaid	The Diabolic [S1]	2016
99	Micaiah Johnson	The Space Between Worlds	2020
100	A.G. Riddle	The Atlantis Gene [S1]	2013

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