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100 books

NPR Top 100 Science Fiction Fantasy

The Lord of the Rings
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Ender's Game
Dune
A Game of Thrones
1984
Fahrenheit 451

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24 books

Optimism Against The Apocalypse

The Fifth Season
We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People
How to Speak Whale
Pocket Nature Series: Beachcombing
Pocket Nature Series: Cloud Spotting
Pocket Nature: Mushroom Hunting
Prodigal Summer

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66 books

Pulitzer Prize-winning Fiction

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
The Night Watchman
Less
The Sympathizer
Tinkers
March
Empire Falls

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27 books

Pulitzer Prize-winning Novels

All the King's Men
A Bell for Adano
Journey in the dark.
Dragon's Teeth
In This Our Life
The Late George Apley
Honey in the Horn

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12 books

Science Fiction

Abaddon's Gate
Caliban's War
Cibola Burn
Nemesis Games
Babylon's Ashes
Persepolis Rising
Tiamat's Wrath

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29 books

Sociology

The Color of Compromise
So You Want to Talk About Race
How to Be an Antiracist
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
The Fire Next Time

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35 books

Startup 101

The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
Atomic habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Company of One
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

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14 books

Stripe Press Books

Pieces of the Action
Where Is My Flying Car?
The Big Score
Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization
The Making of Prince of Persia
Get Together
The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

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134 books

Sword And Laser

The Shining Girls
Iron Widow
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
The Shadow of the Torturer
The Mimicking of Known Successes
The Terraformers
Dawn

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12 books

Sword&Laser 2024 Picks (Unofficial)

The Shining Girls
The Shadow of the Gods
Iron Widow
Cordelia's Honor
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
The Sword of Kaigen
Cursed Bunny

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21 books

Tech Reading List

Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the Afronet to Black Lives Matter
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Race after Technology Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

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30 books

The 31 Best Fantasy Books Everyone Should Read

Black Leopard, Red Wolf
La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One
The Golem and the Djinni
A Court of Thorns and Roses
The Power
Riot Baby
Kindred

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75 books

The Book You Saw on TikTok

The Guest List
Red Rising
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Legends & Lattes
Remarkably Bright Creatures
The Silent Patient
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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43 books

The Economist’s best books of 2022

The Impossible City
There Are No Accidents
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
We Have Tired of Violence: A True Story of Murder, Memory, and the Fight for Justice in Indonesia
The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees
The Age of the Strongman
The Economic Weapon

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75 books

The Esquire 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

Frankenstein
Dune
The Martian Chronicles
The Fifth Season
Kindred
The Left Hand of Darkness
Never Let Me Go

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250 books

The Hardcover 2024 Year in Books

Lights Out
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Home Is Where the Bodies Are
The Next Mrs. Parrish
Tamsin
The Ex Vows
House of Glass

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233 books

The Hardcover 2025 Year in Books

Onyx Storm
Sunrise on the Reaping
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Deep End
The Devils
Careless People
Katabasis

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20 books

Top 20 Ennui-Filled Magical Realism Reads

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Nothing to See Here
The Passion
The Falling in Love Montage
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Mexican Gothic
Catherine House

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16 books

Top LitRPG and/or Progression Fantasy Series

Homicidal Aliens are Invading and All I Got is This Stat Menu
The Primal Hunter
Unsouled
Sufficiently Advanced Magic
Antimage
Bastion
Ritualist

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99 books

TrueLit’s 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century

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The Neapolitan Novels
My Struggle: Book 1
Solenoid
Septology
Lincoln in the Bardo
Austerlitz

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0 books

We Stannnn

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6 books

Winners of the 2025 Mythopoeic Awards (announced August, 2025)

The Melancholy of Untold History
The Isles of the Gods
The Heart of the World
Island of Whispers
The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien: Three-Volume Box Set
Urban Fantasy

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20 books

Women in Translation Month

Violeta
Minor Detail
Valentino and Sagittarius
The Little Virtues
Abigail
Boulder
Tender Is the Flesh