The Greatest Speculative Fiction Books Since 2000

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
290 The Road Cormac McCarthy 2006 American English
427 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell 2004 British English
607 House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski 2000 American English
1117 The Fifth Season N. K. Jemisin 2015 American English
1201 Kafka On The Shore Haruki Murakami 2002 Japanese Japanese
1381 Station Eleven Emily St John Mandel 2014 Canadian English
1388 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins 2008 American English
1585 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke 2004 British English
1698 Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang 2002 American English
1723 1Q84 Haruki Murakami 2009 Japanese Japanese
1755 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J. K. Rowling 2005 British English
1842 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling 2000 British English
1910 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling 2003 British English
2172 Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman 2001 British English
2193 American Gods Neil Gaiman 2001 British English
2228 Exit West Mohsin Hamid 2017 Pakistani English
2233 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. K. Rowling 2007 British English
2328 The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu 2006 Chinese Chinese
2498 Mortals Norman Rush 2003 American English
2642 The Power Naomi Alderman 2016 British English
2647 Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor 2017 Mexican Spanish
2652 Circe Madeline Miller 2018 American English
2683 Twilight Stephenie Meyer 2005 American English
2736 Severance Ling Ma 2018 American English
2741 The Martian Andy Weir 2011 American English
2830 Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin 2022 American English
2882 Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One Rick Riordan 2005 American English
2970 The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman 2000 British English
2989 Eragon Christopher Paolini 2002 American English
3049 Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin 2014 Argentinian Spanish
3083 Under the Skin Michel Faber 2000 British English
3103 Super Sad True Love Story Gary Shteyngart 2010 American English
3121 The Possibility Of An Island Michel Houellebecq 2005 French French
3130 Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood 2003 Canadian English
3190 The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern 2011 American English
3398 The Name Of The Wind Patrick Rothfuss 2007 American English
3438 The Broken Earth Trilogy N. K. Jemisin 2015 American English
3452 Mistborn Brandon Sanderson 2006 American English
3489 Akata Witch Nnedi Okorafor 2011 American English
3542 Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado 2017 American English
3616 11 22 63 Stephen King 2011 American English
3814 Dark Lover J. R. Ward 2005 American English
3816 City of Bohane Kevin Barry 2011 Irish English
3886 Lunar Park Bret Easton Ellis 2005 American English
3927 The Poppy War R. F. Kuang 2018 Chinese English
4079 Children Of Blood And Bone Tomi Adeyemi 2018 Nigerian English
4190 An Ember In The Ashes Sabaa Tahir 2015 American English
4306 A Court Of Thorns And Roses Sarah J. Maas 2015 American English
4460 The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman 2008 British English
4536 Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
4657 Coraline Neil Gaiman 2002 British English
4664 The Swan Book Alexis Wright 2013 Australian English
4710 Six Of Crows Leigh Bardugo 2015 American English
4891 The MaddAddam Trilogy Margaret Atwood 2003 Canadian English
4898 The Emissary Yoko Tawada 2014 Japanese Japanese
4935 The Terror Dan Simmons 2007 American English
4936 Who Fears Death Nnedi Okorafor 2010 Nigerian English
4945 The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro 2015 British English
4980 Klara And The Sun Kazuo Ishiguro 2021 British English
5010 Against the Day Thomas Pynchon 2006 American English
5014 Zone One Colson Whitehead 2011 American English
5017 Slave To Sensation Nalini Singh 2006 New Zealand English
5042 Storm Front Jim Butcher 2000 American English
5100 A Hunger Like No Other Kresley Cole 2006 American English
5115 Let The Right One In John Ajvide Lindqvist 2004 Swedish Swedish
5156 Cursed Bunny Bora Chung 2021 Korean Korean
5277 The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin 2017 American English
5303 The Swarm Frank Schatzing 2004 German German
5427 Glorious Exploits Ferdia Lennon 2024 Irish English
5448 The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson 2010 American English
5464 The Animals In That Country Laura Jean McKay 2020 Australian English
5482 The Ministry For the Future Kim Stanley Robinson 2020 American English
5583 This Is How You Lose The Time War Amal El Mohtar, Max Gladstone 2019 Multiple English
5596 World War Z Max Brooks 2006 American English
5620 Our Share of Night Mariana Enríquez 2019 Argentinian Spanish
5689 The Saint Of Bright Doors Vajra Chandrasekera 2023 Unknown English
5703 Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie 2013 American English
5763 The Scar China Miéville 2002 British English
5813 John Dies At The End David Wong 2007 American English
5933 Light M. John Harrison 2002 British English
5937 A Promise Of Fire Amanda Bouchet 2016 American English
6092 All the Birds in the Sky Charlie Jane Anders 2016 American English
6106 A Storm Of Swords George R. R. Martin 2000 American English
6148 The Historian Elizabeth Kostova 2005 American English
6158 The God Of The Woods Liz Moore 2024 Unknown English
6247 A Discovery Of Witches Deborah Harkness 2011 American English
6298 Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs 2011 American English
6377 The Priory Of The Orange Tree Samantha Shannon 2019 British English
6415 All Systems Red Martha Wells 2017 American English
6463 Air Geoff Ryman 2005 British English
6534 A Stranger In Olondria Sofia Samatar 2013 American English
6609 The Anomaly Hervé Le Tellier 2020 French French
6610 Nos4 A2 Joe Hill 2013 American English
6618 Revelation Space Alastair Reynolds 2000 British English
6663 You Caroline Kepnes 2014 American English
6680 The Imago Sequence And Other Stories Laird Barron 2007 American English
6698 The Tattooist Of Auschwitz Heather Morris 2018 Australian English
6700 The Little Stranger Sarah Waters 2009 British English
6761 Bold As Love Gwyneth Jones 2001 British English
6802 Bird Box Josh Malerman 2014 American English
6821 The Calculating Stars Mary Robinette Kowal 2018 American English
6860 A Head Full Of Ghosts Paul Tremblay 2015 American English
6869 The Cruel Prince Holly Black 2018 American English
6891 Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer 2001 Irish English
6900 Exhalation Ted Chiang 2019 American English
6908 The Years of Rice and Salt Kim Stanley Robinson 2002 American English
6918 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Grace Lin, Janet Song 2009 Chinese English
6917 The Paper Menagerie And Other Stories Ken Liu 2016 American English
6984 Project Hail Mary Andy Weir 2021 American English
6987 The Testaments Margaret Atwood 2019 Canadian English
6992 The Employees Olga Ravn 2018 Danish Danish
7012 Ancestral Shadows Russell Kirk 2004 American English
7043 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Simon Armitage 2007 British Middle english
7051 The Changeling Victor LaValle 2017 American English
7055 Chain Gang All Stars Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 2023 American English
7080 A Court Of Mist And Fury Sarah J. Maas 2016 American English
7087 There Once Lived A Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby Ludmila Petrushevskaya 2009 Russian Russian
7104 Get In Trouble Kelly Link 2015 American English
7109 The Children Of The Dead Elfriede Jelinek 2024 Austrian German
7142 Jade City Fonda Lee 2017 Chinese English