Speculative Fiction

Speculative fiction is a broad category of fiction encompassing genres with certain elements that are nonexistent in terms of reality, recorded history, or nature and the present universe, covering various themes in the context of the supernatural, futuristic, and many other imaginative topics.

Under this umbrella category, the genres include, but are not limited to: science fiction, fantasy fiction, horror fiction, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history.

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Katabasis
The Hounding
The Society of Unknowable Objects
The Magician of Tiger Castle
The Once and Future Me
The Book of Lost Hours
Moderation
The Island of Last Things
Lucky Day
Automatic Noodle
These Memories Do Not Belong to Us
The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand
Lessons in Magic and Disaster
Departure 37
Where Are You Really From
The Names
Culpability
The Poppy Fields
The Dream Hotel
Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy (The Murderbot Diaries, #2.5)
Mother of Death & Dawn (The War of Lost Hearts, #3)
Our Missing Hearts
Playground
On the Calculation of Volume I
The Frozen People (Ali Dawson #1)
The Dead Guy Next Door (Riley Thorn #1)
Vera, or Faith
Notes on Infinity
Twisted Ties (The Arrow Hart Academy #2)
The Strange Case of Jane O.
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeerAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanPerdido Street Station by China MiévilleHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiNeverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Best Weird Fiction Books
1,191 books — 1,083 voters
1984 by George OrwellDracula by Bram StokerA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Shining by Stephen        KingInterview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Quality Dark Fiction
2,470 books — 3,216 voters

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-ChanUnder the Whispering Door by T.J. KluneWinter's Orbit by Everina MaxwellThe Jasmine Throne by Tasha SuriThe Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
2021 Queer SFF
231 books — 521 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Smart Apocalyptic and Dystopian Fiction
528 books — 724 voters

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeerAuthority by Jeff VanderMeerThe Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. CareyStarshine by G.S. JennsenWords of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
2014 Speculative Fiction
64 books — 164 voters
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisTrainspotting by Irvine WelshOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Contemporary Cult Fiction
492 books — 453 voters

The Handmaid's Tale
1984
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Fahrenheit 451
Station Eleven
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Brave New World
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Never Let Me Go
The Left Hand of Darkness
Dune (Dune #1)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
The Power
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
Sea of Tranquility

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