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🏆 2024 Shirley Jackson Award Winners

Midwestern Gothic
Hollow Tongue
Why Didn't You Just Leave
Curdle Creek
The Thirteen Ways We Turned Darryl Datson into a Monster
Three Faces of a Beheading

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39 books

Arthur C. Clarke Award (1987 to 2025)

The Handmaid’s Tale
The Sea and Summer
Unquenchable Fire
The Child Garden
Take back plenty
Synners
Body Of Glass

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100 books

Banned in US Schools 2023-2024

Nineteen Minutes
Looking for Alaska
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Sold
Thirteen Reasons Why
Crank
Identical

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29 books

Cultivation

Aether's Guard
Eclipse Core
The First Step
First Orbit

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271 books

Fantasy Litrpg

The Land: Alliances
Life Reset: Human Resource
Life Reset: Hobnobbing
Cipher's Quest
Mana Master
CivCEO
The Mayor of Noobtown

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75 books

Gamelit Harem

Tamer: King of Dinosaurs 2
Tamer: King of Dinosaurs 3
Tamer: King of Dinosaurs 4
Tamer: King of Dinosaurs 5

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440 books

Gamelit Litrpg

Shaman's Revenge (The Way of the Shaman: Book #6) LitRPG Series
The Karmadont Chess Set
The Phantom Castle
Adventures of a Scribe
Level Up
Accidental Duelist
Accidental Thief

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48 books

Harem

Wild Wastes 4
Wild Wastes
Super Sales on Super Heroes
Super Sales on Super Heroes, Book 2

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219 books

Harem

Rise of the Weakest Summoner: Volume I
Rise of the Weakest Summoner: Volume II
Rise of the Weakest Summoner: Volume III
Rise of the Weakest Summoner: Volume IV
Rise of the Weakest Summoner: Volume V
Rise of the Weakest Summoner: Volume VII
Rise of the Weakest Summoner: Volume VIII

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75 books

Hugo Award for Best Novel (1953 to 2025)

The Demolished Man
They’d rather be right
Double Star
The Big Time
A Case of Conscience
Starship Troopers
A Canticle for Leibowitz

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516 books

Kindle Unlimited

Pixie Problems
The Second Tail
Mage Unmasked
Luna Rising
A Small Town in Southern Illvaria
The First Tail
Azarinth Healer: Book Four

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271 books

Litrpg

He Who Fights with Monsters 3
Overgeared
He Who Fights with Monsters 5
He Who Fights with Monsters 4
The Two Week Curse

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6 books

Litrpg

Awaken Online: Catharsis
The Primal Hunter
Iron Prince
All the Skills
System Change
The Perfect Run

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348 books

Litrpg

Uru's Third Temple
The Second Betrayal
Shade's First Rule
The Wandering Inn: Volume 3
Fae and Fare
The Wandering Inn
The Fourth Secret

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58 books

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1971 to 2026)

Ringworld
The Lathe of Heaven
The Gods Themselves
Rendezvous with Rama
The Dispossessed
The Forever War
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

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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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50 books

NPR Top 50 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the 2010s

A Memory Called Empire
A Master of Djinn
A Little Hatred
Jade City
Leviathan Wakes
The City of Brass
The Just City

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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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237 books

Owned

Magic and Mystery: Series Starter Boxed Set: 4 Series Beginnings
Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection
Battlefield Earth
A Voice in the Dark
The Collapsing Empire
The Consuming Fire
The Last Emperox

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63 books

Poly Harem

A Lesson in Thorns
Chosen by Villains
Den of Vipers
Bloodshed
7th Circle

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241 books

Progression Culitvation Fantasy

To Play With Magic: A Mage Litrpg Adventure
The Fallen City of Lescado
To Pierce The Heart
The Path of Ascension 4
Soulbound 3: A Progression Fantasy Adventure
Dungeon Diving 104
Rising Insanity

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102 books

Pulitzer Prize-winning Biography

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
The Pope and Mussolini
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
George F. Kennan

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7 books

Sword&Laser 2026 Picks

I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
Someplace to Be Flying
Automatic Noodle
The Raven Scholar
Slow Gods
Red Rising
A Midnight Pastry Shop Called Hwawoldang

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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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29 books

The Cosmere - Ordered

Mistborn: The Final Empire
The Eleventh Metal
The Well of Ascension
The Hero of Ages
Elantris
The Hope of Elantris
The Emperor's Soul