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 | |
| 2328 | The Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu | 2006 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 2498 | 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 | |
| 3082 | Under the Skin | Michel Faber | 2000 | British | English | |
| 3102 | Super Sad True Love Story | Gary Shteyngart | 2010 | American | English | |
| 3120 | The Possibility Of An Island | Michel Houellebecq | 2005 | French | French | |
| 3129 | Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood | 2003 | Canadian | English | |
| 3615 | 11 22 63 | Stephen King | 2011 | American | English | |
| 4536 | Annihilation | Jeff VanderMeer | 2014 | American | English | |
| 4891 | The MaddAddam Trilogy | Margaret Atwood | 2003 | Canadian | English | |
| 4980 | Klara And The Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro | 2021 | British | English | |
| 5010 | Against the Day | Thomas Pynchon | 2006 | American | English | |
| 5303 | The Swarm | Frank Schatzing | 2004 | German | German | |
| 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 | |
| 5703 | Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie | 2013 | American | English | |
| 5763 | The Scar | China Miéville | 2002 | British | English | |
| 5933 | Light | M. John Harrison | 2002 | British | English | |
| 6092 | All the Birds in the Sky | Charlie Jane Anders | 2016 | American | English | |
| 6415 | All Systems Red | Martha Wells | 2017 | American | English | |
| 6463 | Air | Geoff Ryman | 2005 | British | English | |
| 6618 | Revelation Space | Alastair Reynolds | 2000 | British | English | |
| 6761 | Bold As Love | Gwyneth Jones | 2001 | British | English | |
| 6821 | The Calculating Stars | Mary Robinette Kowal | 2018 | American | English | |
| 6900 | Exhalation | Ted Chiang | 2019 | American | English | |
| 6908 | The Years of Rice and Salt | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2002 | American | English | |
| 6984 | Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir | 2021 | American | English | |
| 6992 | The Employees | Olga Ravn | 2018 | Danish | Danish | |
| 7582 | Feed | Seanan McGuire | 2010 | American | English | |
| 7637 | Soulless | Gail Carriger | 2009 | American | English | |
| 7672 | 14 | Peter Clines | 2012 | American | English | |
| 7672 | Cinder | Marissa Meyer | 2012 | American | English | |
| 7685 | A Master of Djinn | P. Djèlí Clark | 2021 | American | English | |
| 7732 | Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | 2011 | American | English | |
| 7799 | The Windup Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi | 2009 | American | English | |
| 7799 | Network Effect | Martha Wells | 2020 | American | English | |
| 7878 | Blackout/All Clear | Connie Willis | 2010 | American | English | |
| 7920 | Red Rising | Pierce Brown | 2014 | American | English | |
| 8228 | We Are Legion | Dennis E. Taylor | 2016 | Unknown | English | |
| 8257 | The Kraken King | Meljean Brook | 2014 | American | English | |
| 8327 | The Night Sessions | Ken MacLeod | 2008 | Scottish | English | |
| 8639 | Patient Zero | Jonathan Maberry | 2009 | American | English | |
| 8709 | What We Can Know | Ian McEwan | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 8816 | Feed | M. T. Anderson | 2002 | American | English | |
| 8870 | Death Of The Author | Nnedi Okorafor | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 8990 | Sunrise On The Reaping | Suzanne Collins | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 9038 | Yama Loka Terminus | Léo Henry, Jacques Mucchielli | 2008 | French | French | |
| 9064 | The Book Of Records | Madeleine Thien | 2025 | Canadian | English | |
| 9083 | Polaris Rising | Jessie Mihalik | 2019 | American | English | |
| 9088 | The Dream Hotel | Laila Lalami | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 9182 | Off To Be The Wizard | Scott Meyer | 2013 | English | ||
| 9240 | Pym | Mat Johnson | 2011 | American | English | |
| 9336 | Authority | Jeff VanderMeer | 2014 | American | English | |
| 9336 | Acceptance | Jeff VanderMeer | 2014 | American | English | |
| 9373 | Leviathan Wakes | James S. A. Corey | 2011 | American | English | |
| 9516 | If We Can't Go At The Speed Of Light | Kim Cho-yeop | 2019 | Korean | Korean | |
| 9545 | Binti | Nnedi Okorafor | 2015 | Nigerian | English | |
| 9615 | Ascent | Jed Mercurio | 2007 | British | English | |
| 9714 | Hell Divers | Nicholas Sansbury Smith | 2016 | American | English | |
| 9714 | The Dispatcher | John Scalzi | 2016 | American | English | |
| 9810 | The Obelisk Gate | N. K. Jemisin | 2016 | American | English | |
| 9907 | A Memory Called Empire | Arkady Martine | 2019 | American | English | |
| 9928 | Children Of Time | Adrian Tchaikovsky | 2015 | British | English | |
| 9979 | Legend | Marie Lu | 2011 | American | English | |
| 9984 | A Guardian And A Thief | Megha Majumdar | 2025 | Indian | English | |
| 9986 | The Atrocity Archives | Charles Stross | 2004 | British | English | |
| 9985 | This Inevitable Ruin | Matt Dinniman | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10023 | Mending Bodies | Hon Lai-Chu | 2010 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 10032 | An Absolutely Remarkable Thing | Hank Green | 2018 | American | English | |
| 10033 | Obsidio | Amie Kaufman | 2018 | Australian | English | |
| 10086 | The Girl With All The Gifts | M. R. Carey | 2014 | British | English | |
| 10163 | Transmission | Hari Kunzru | 2004 | British | English | |
| 10279 | Death's End | Cixin Liu | 2010 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 10367 | A Desolation Called Peace | Arkady Martine | 2021 | American | English | |
| 10407 | Oh Pure And Radiant Heart | Lydia Millet | 2005 | American | English | |
| 10429 | Abaddon's Gate | James S. A. Corey | 2013 | American | English | |
| 10530 | Terrestrial History | Joe Mungo Reed | 2025 | British | English | |
| 10574 | Caliban's War | James S. A. Corey | 2012 | American | English | |
| 10581 | The Goblin Emperor | Katherine Addison | 2014 | American | English | |
| 10653 | Prophet | Helen MacDonald, Sin Blaché | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 10691 | Automatic Noodle | Annalee Newitz | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10826 | Scythe | Neal Shusterman | 2016 | American | English | |
| 10869 | Ancillary Sword | Ann Leckie | 2014 | American | English | |
| 10964 | Radiant Terminus | Antoine Volodine | 2014 | French | French | |
| 11022 | Gifted & Talented | Olivie Blake | 2025 | American | English | |
| 11040 | Babylon's Ashes | James S. A. Corey | 2016 | American | English | |
| 11113 | The Quantum Rose | Catherine Asaro | 2000 | American | English | |
| 11113 | The Speed of Dark | Elizabeth Moon | 2003 | American | English | |
| 11113 | Camouflage | Joe Haldeman | 2004 | American | English | |
| 11113 | Seeker | Jack McDevitt | 2005 | American | English | |
| 11113 | Powers | Ursula K. Le Guin | 2007 | American | English | |
| 11113 | 2312 | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2012 | American | English | |
| 11113 | A Song for a New Day | Sarah Pinsker | 2019 | American | English | |
| 11163 | The Dark Forest | Cixin Liu | 2008 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 11216 | Ship Breaker | Paolo Bacigalupi | 2010 | American | English | |
| 11242 | The Book Of Guilt | Catherine Chidgey | 2025 | New Zealander | English | |
| 11345 | The National Telepathy | Roque Larraquy, Frank Wynne | 2020 | Argentine | Spanish | |
| 11414 | Spin | Robert Charles Wilson | 2005 | Canadian | English | |
| 11540 | Perdido Street Station | China Miéville | 2000 | British | English | |
| 11643 | Noggin | John Corey Whaley | 2014 | American | English | |
| 11798 | Leviathan Falls | James S. A. Corey | 2021 | American | English | |
| 11834 | Cibola Burn | James S. A. Corey | 2014 | American | English | |
| 11834 | Wayfarers | Becky Chambers | 2014 | American | English | |
| 11927 | Ancillary Mercy | Ann Leckie | 2015 | American | English | |
| 11927 | Nemesis Games | James S. A. Corey | 2015 | American | English | |
| 12036 | We Are The Ants | Shaun David Hutchinson | 2016 | American | English | |
| 12077 | Rosewater | Tade Thompson | 2016 | Nigerian | English | |
| 12077 | Ninefox Gambit | Yoon Ha Lee | 2016 | American | English | |
| 12142 | Yellow Blue Tibia | Adam Roberts | 2009 | British | English | |
| 12182 | The Unworthy | Agustina Bazterrica | 2023 | Argentinian | Spanish | |
| 12227 | The Collapsing Empire | John Scalzi | 2017 | American | English | |
| 12227 | Persepolis Rising | James S. A. Corey | 2017 | American | English | |
| 12227 | Shades Of Grey | Jasper Fforde | 2009 | British | English | |
| 12297 | The Payback | Kashana Cauley | 2025 | American | English |