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

February 21, 2022
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NPR conducted a poll for listeners' favorite science fiction and fantasy books released between 2011 and 2021. A panel of judges then went through the results and selected the top 50 books spanning both genres.

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie	3.99	572 reads
Sorcerer to the Crown Zen Cho	3.57	69 reads
The Martian Andy Weir	4.41	2,442 reads
The Collapsing Empire John Scalzi	4.06	353 reads
All Systems Red Martha Wells	4.06	1,845 reads
The Goblin Emperor Katherine Addison	4.18	286 reads
On Fragile Waves E. Lily Yu	4.25	6 reads
Riot Baby	3.77	62 reads
American War Omar El Akkad	3.82	103 reads
The Bird King G. Willow Wilson	3.83	32 reads
An Unkindness of Ghosts Rivers Solomon	3.94	113 reads
The Traitor Baru Cormorant Seth Dickinson	3.89	201 reads
The Poppy War R. F. Kuang	4.02	833 reads
This Is How You Lose the Time War Amal El-Mohtar Max Gladstone	3.89	1,182 reads
Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel	4.08	1,102 reads
The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin	4.35	1,087 reads
Ninefox Gambit Yoon Ha Lee	3.64	194 reads
The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu Ken Liu (Translator)	3.94	1,659 reads
Gideon the Ninth Tamsyn Muir Jelena Katić Živanović (Translator)	4.09	806 reads
The Echo Wife Sarah Gailey	3.68	153 reads
Acceptance Jeff VanderMeer	3.62	278 reads
Black Leopard, Red Wolf Marlon James	3.07	124 reads
The Space Between Worlds Micaiah Johnson	3.85	197 reads
Every Heart a Doorway Seanan McGuire	3.87	484 reads
Children of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky	4.27	760 reads
The Calculating Stars Mary Robinette Kowal	4.07	274 reads
Binti: The Complete Trilogy Nnedi Okorafor	3.76	272 reads
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Becky Chambers	4.14	844 reads
The Changeling Victor LaValle	3.75	96 reads
Radiance Catherynne M. Valente	3.36	56 reads
The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro	3.51	190 reads
Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado	3.79	226 reads
A Stranger in Olondria Sofia Samatar	3.4	17 reads
Exhalation Ted Chiang	4.26	437 reads
Spinning Silver Naomi Novik	4.19	371 reads
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Ken Liu	4.35	172 reads
Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia Dan Sociu (Translator)	3.77	658 reads
Circe Madeline Miller	4.24	1,484 reads
Piranesi Susanna Clarke	4.23	1,266 reads
Black Sun Rebecca Roanhorse	4.09	216 reads
Rosewater Tade Thompson	3.76	106 reads
City of Stairs Robert Jackson Bennett	4.11	214 reads
A Darker Shade of Magic V. E. Schwab	3.98	942 reads
The Just City Jo Walton	3.69	36 reads
The City of Brass S. A. Chakraborty	4.06	352 reads
Leviathan Wakes James S. A. Corey	4.22	1,306 reads
Jade City Fonda Lee	4.09	551 reads
A Little Hatred Joe Abercrombie	4.4	236 reads
A Master of Djinn P. Djèlí Clark	4.08	247 reads
A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine	4.15	489 reads

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie	3.99	572 reads
Sorcerer to the Crown Zen Cho	3.57	69 reads
The Martian Andy Weir	4.41	2,442 reads
The Collapsing Empire John Scalzi	4.06	353 reads
All Systems Red Martha Wells	4.06	1,845 reads
The Goblin Emperor Katherine Addison	4.18	286 reads
On Fragile Waves E. Lily Yu	4.25	6 reads
Riot Baby	3.77	62 reads
American War Omar El Akkad	3.82	103 reads
The Bird King G. Willow Wilson	3.83	32 reads
An Unkindness of Ghosts Rivers Solomon	3.94	113 reads
The Traitor Baru Cormorant Seth Dickinson	3.89	201 reads
The Poppy War R. F. Kuang	4.02	833 reads
This Is How You Lose the Time War Amal El-Mohtar Max Gladstone	3.89	1,182 reads
Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel	4.08	1,102 reads
The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin	4.35	1,087 reads
Ninefox Gambit Yoon Ha Lee	3.64	194 reads
The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu Ken Liu (Translator)	3.94	1,659 reads
Gideon the Ninth Tamsyn Muir Jelena Katić Živanović (Translator)	4.09	806 reads
The Echo Wife Sarah Gailey	3.68	153 reads
Acceptance Jeff VanderMeer	3.62	278 reads
Black Leopard, Red Wolf Marlon James	3.07	124 reads
The Space Between Worlds Micaiah Johnson	3.85	197 reads
Every Heart a Doorway Seanan McGuire	3.87	484 reads
Children of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky	4.27	760 reads
The Calculating Stars Mary Robinette Kowal	4.07	274 reads
Binti: The Complete Trilogy Nnedi Okorafor	3.76	272 reads
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Becky Chambers	4.14	844 reads
The Changeling Victor LaValle	3.75	96 reads
Radiance Catherynne M. Valente	3.36	56 reads
The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro	3.51	190 reads
Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado	3.79	226 reads
A Stranger in Olondria Sofia Samatar	3.4	17 reads
Exhalation Ted Chiang	4.26	437 reads
Spinning Silver Naomi Novik	4.19	371 reads
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Ken Liu	4.35	172 reads
Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia Dan Sociu (Translator)	3.77	658 reads
Circe Madeline Miller	4.24	1,484 reads
Piranesi Susanna Clarke	4.23	1,266 reads
Black Sun Rebecca Roanhorse	4.09	216 reads
Rosewater Tade Thompson	3.76	106 reads
City of Stairs Robert Jackson Bennett	4.11	214 reads
A Darker Shade of Magic V. E. Schwab	3.98	942 reads
The Just City Jo Walton	3.69	36 reads
The City of Brass S. A. Chakraborty	4.06	352 reads
Leviathan Wakes James S. A. Corey	4.22	1,306 reads
Jade City Fonda Lee	4.09	551 reads
A Little Hatred Joe Abercrombie	4.4	236 reads
A Master of Djinn P. Djèlí Clark	4.08	247 reads
A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine	4.15	489 reads

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

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