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Curated category · 2006—2025

Best science fiction & fantasy

Award-winning and editorially recommended science fiction & fantasy across twenty years, organized for discovery rather than sales ranking.

Selections
341
Authors
263
Lists & prizes
5

Showing 1–48 of 341

2025Science fiction & fantasy

Black Woods, Blue Sky

Eowyn Ivey, illustrated by Ruth Hulbert

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2025Science fiction & fantasy

Hungerstone

Kat Dunn

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2025Science fiction & fantasy

Onyx Storm

Rebecca Yarros

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2025Science fiction & fantasy

The Bewitching

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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2025Science fiction & fantasy

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Stephen Graham Jones

On 2 lists: Nebula Award for Best Novel, NPR Books We Love

2025Science fiction & fantasy

The Everlasting

Alix E. Harrow

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

Annie Bot

Sierra Greer

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

Blackheart Man

Nalo Hopkinson

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

Bride

Ali Hazelwood

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

Long Live Evil

Sarah Rees Brennan

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

Nicked

M. T. Anderson

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

Ours

Phillip B. Williams

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

Pink Slime

Fernanda Trías, translated by Heather Cleary

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

Rakesfall

Vajra Chandrasekera

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

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