The Greatest Science 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.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1201 | Kafka On The Shore | Haruki Murakami | 2002 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 1388 | The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | 2008 | American | English | |
| 1698 | Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang | 2002 | American | English | |
| 1723 | 1Q84 | Haruki Murakami | 2009 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 2327 | The Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu | 2006 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 2497 | Mortals | Norman Rush | 2003 | American | English | |
| 2741 | The Martian | Andy Weir | 2011 | American | English | |
| 2829 | Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin | 2022 | American | English | |
| 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 | |
| 3615 | 11 22 63 | Stephen King | 2011 | American | English | |
| 4533 | Annihilation | Jeff VanderMeer | 2014 | American | English | |
| 4888 | The MaddAddam Trilogy | Margaret Atwood | 2003 | Canadian | English | |
| 4977 | Klara And The Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro | 2021 | British | English | |
| 5006 | Against the Day | Thomas Pynchon | 2006 | American | English | |
| 5301 | The Swarm | Frank Schatzing | 2004 | German | German | |
| 5480 | The Ministry For the Future | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2020 | American | English | |
| 5581 | This Is How You Lose The Time War | Amal El Mohtar, Max Gladstone | 2019 | Multiple | English | |
| 5594 | World War Z | Max Brooks | 2006 | American | English | |
| 5701 | Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie | 2013 | American | English | |
| 5761 | The Scar | China Miéville | 2002 | British | English | |
| 5930 | Light | M. John Harrison | 2002 | British | English | |
| 6090 | All the Birds in the Sky | Charlie Jane Anders | 2016 | American | English | |
| 6413 | All Systems Red | Martha Wells | 2017 | American | English | |
| 6462 | Air | Geoff Ryman | 2005 | British | English | |
| 6617 | Revelation Space | Alastair Reynolds | 2000 | British | English | |
| 6760 | Bold As Love | Gwyneth Jones | 2001 | British | English | |
| 6820 | The Calculating Stars | Mary Robinette Kowal | 2018 | American | English | |
| 6899 | Exhalation | Ted Chiang | 2019 | American | English | |
| 6907 | The Years of Rice and Salt | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2002 | American | English | |
| 6983 | Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir | 2021 | American | English | |
| 6991 | The Employees | Olga Ravn | 2018 | Danish | Danish | |
| 7581 | Feed | Seanan McGuire | 2010 | American | English | |
| 7636 | Soulless | Gail Carriger | 2009 | American | English | |
| 7671 | 14 | Peter Clines | 2012 | American | English | |
| 7671 | Cinder | Marissa Meyer | 2012 | American | English | |
| 7684 | A Master of Djinn | P. Djèlí Clark | 2021 | American | English | |
| 7731 | Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | 2011 | American | English | |
| 7798 | The Windup Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi | 2009 | American | English | |
| 7798 | Network Effect | Martha Wells | 2020 | American | English | |
| 7877 | Blackout/All Clear | Connie Willis | 2010 | American | English | |
| 7919 | Red Rising | Pierce Brown | 2014 | American | English | |
| 8226 | We Are Legion | Dennis E. Taylor | 2016 | Unknown | English | |
| 8255 | The Kraken King | Meljean Brook | 2014 | American | English | |
| 8325 | The Night Sessions | Ken MacLeod | 2008 | Scottish | English | |
| 8636 | Patient Zero | Jonathan Maberry | 2009 | American | English | |
| 8706 | What We Can Know | Ian McEwan | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 8812 | Feed | M. T. Anderson | 2002 | American | English | |
| 8867 | Death Of The Author | Nnedi Okorafor | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 8987 | Sunrise On The Reaping | Suzanne Collins | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 9035 | Yama Loka Terminus | Léo Henry, Jacques Mucchielli | 2008 | French | French | |
| 9061 | The Book Of Records | Madeleine Thien | 2025 | Canadian | English | |
| 9080 | Polaris Rising | Jessie Mihalik | 2019 | American | English | |
| 9085 | The Dream Hotel | Laila Lalami | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 9179 | Off To Be The Wizard | Scott Meyer | 2013 | English | ||
| 9332 | Authority | Jeff VanderMeer | 2014 | American | English | |
| 9332 | Acceptance | Jeff VanderMeer | 2014 | American | English | |
| 9369 | Leviathan Wakes | James S. A. Corey | 2011 | American | English | |
| 9512 | If We Can't Go At The Speed Of Light | Kim Cho-yeop | 2019 | Korean | Korean | |
| 9541 | Binti | Nnedi Okorafor | 2015 | Nigerian | English | |
| 9611 | Ascent | Jed Mercurio | 2007 | British | English | |
| 9709 | Hell Divers | Nicholas Sansbury Smith | 2016 | American | English | |
| 9709 | The Dispatcher | John Scalzi | 2016 | American | English | |
| 9805 | The Obelisk Gate | N. K. Jemisin | 2016 | American | English | |
| 9902 | A Memory Called Empire | Arkady Martine | 2019 | American | English | |
| 9922 | Children Of Time | Adrian Tchaikovsky | 2015 | British | English | |
| 9973 | Legend | Marie Lu | 2011 | American | English | |
| 9978 | A Guardian And A Thief | Megha Majumdar | 2025 | Indian | English | |
| 9980 | The Atrocity Archives | Charles Stross | 2004 | British | English | |
| 9979 | This Inevitable Ruin | Matt Dinniman | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10017 | Mending Bodies | Hon Lai-Chu | 2010 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 10026 | An Absolutely Remarkable Thing | Hank Green | 2018 | American | English | |
| 10027 | Obsidio | Amie Kaufman | 2018 | Australian | English | |
| 10080 | The Girl With All The Gifts | M. R. Carey | 2014 | British | English | |
| 10158 | Transmission | Hari Kunzru | 2004 | British | English | |
| 10274 | Death's End | Cixin Liu | 2010 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 10362 | A Desolation Called Peace | Arkady Martine | 2021 | American | English | |
| 10402 | Oh Pure And Radiant Heart | Lydia Millet | 2005 | American | English | |
| 10424 | Abaddon's Gate | James S. A. Corey | 2013 | American | English | |
| 10526 | Terrestrial History | Joe Mungo Reed | 2025 | British | English | |
| 10570 | Caliban's War | James S. A. Corey | 2012 | American | English | |
| 10577 | The Goblin Emperor | Katherine Addison | 2014 | American | English | |
| 10648 | Prophet | Helen MacDonald, Sin Blaché | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 10686 | Automatic Noodle | Annalee Newitz | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10820 | Pym | Mat Johnson | 2011 | American | English | |
| 10821 | Scythe | Neal Shusterman | 2016 | American | English | |
| 10864 | Ancillary Sword | Ann Leckie | 2014 | American | English | |
| 10959 | Radiant Terminus | Antoine Volodine | 2014 | French | French | |
| 11018 | Gifted & Talented | Olivie Blake | 2025 | American | English | |
| 11036 | Babylon's Ashes | James S. A. Corey | 2016 | American | English | |
| 11109 | The Quantum Rose | Catherine Asaro | 2000 | American | English | |
| 11109 | The Speed of Dark | Elizabeth Moon | 2003 | American | English | |
| 11109 | Camouflage | Joe Haldeman | 2004 | American | English | |
| 11109 | Seeker | Jack McDevitt | 2005 | American | English | |
| 11109 | Powers | Ursula K. Le Guin | 2007 | American | English | |
| 11109 | 2312 | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2012 | American | English | |
| 11109 | A Song for a New Day | Sarah Pinsker | 2019 | American | English | |
| 11159 | The Dark Forest | Cixin Liu | 2008 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 11212 | Ship Breaker | Paolo Bacigalupi | 2010 | American | English | |
| 11238 | The Book Of Guilt | Catherine Chidgey | 2025 | New Zealander | English | |
| 11341 | The National Telepathy | Roque Larraquy, Frank Wynne | 2020 | Argentine | Spanish | |
| 11411 | Spin | Robert Charles Wilson | 2005 | Canadian | English | |
| 11538 | Perdido Street Station | China Miéville | 2000 | British | English | |
| 11641 | Noggin | John Corey Whaley | 2014 | American | English | |
| 11796 | Leviathan Falls | James S. A. Corey | 2021 | American | English | |
| 11832 | Cibola Burn | James S. A. Corey | 2014 | American | English | |
| 11832 | Wayfarers | Becky Chambers | 2014 | American | English | |
| 11925 | Ancillary Mercy | Ann Leckie | 2015 | American | English | |
| 11925 | Nemesis Games | James S. A. Corey | 2015 | American | English | |
| 12034 | We Are The Ants | Shaun David Hutchinson | 2016 | American | English | |
| 12076 | Rosewater | Tade Thompson | 2016 | Nigerian | English | |
| 12076 | Ninefox Gambit | Yoon Ha Lee | 2016 | American | English | |
| 12140 | Yellow Blue Tibia | Adam Roberts | 2009 | British | English | |
| 12180 | The Unworthy | Agustina Bazterrica | 2023 | Argentinian | Spanish | |
| 12225 | The Collapsing Empire | John Scalzi | 2017 | American | English | |
| 12225 | Persepolis Rising | James S. A. Corey | 2017 | American | English | |
| 12225 | Shades Of Grey | Jasper Fforde | 2009 | British | English | |
| 12295 | The Payback | Kashana Cauley | 2025 | American | English |