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.
 Ancillary Justice
| 3.99 |
 Sorcerer to the Crown
| 3.56 |
 The Martian
| 4.41 |
 The Collapsing Empire
| 4.08 |
 All Systems Red
| 4.06 |
 The Goblin Emperor
| 4.17 |
 On Fragile Waves
| 4.25 |
 Riot Baby | 3.76 |
 American War
| 3.81 |
 The Bird King
| 3.91 |
 An Unkindness of Ghosts
| 3.93 |
 The Traitor Baru Cormorant
| 3.87 |
 The Poppy War
| 4.03 |
 This Is How You Lose the Time War
| 3.88 |
 Station Eleven
| 4.09 |
 The Fifth Season
| 4.36 |
 Ninefox Gambit
| 3.61 |
 The Three-Body Problem
| 3.94 |
 Gideon the Ninth
| 4.08 |
 The Echo Wife
| 3.65 |
 Acceptance
| 3.61 |
 Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)
| 3.1 |
 The Space Between Worlds
| 3.82 |
 Every Heart a Doorway
| 3.87 |
 Children of Time
| 4.27 |
 The Calculating Stars
| 4.08 |
 Binti: The Complete Trilogy
| 3.79 |
 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
| 4.13 |
 The Changeling
| 3.81 |
 Radiance
| 3.33 |
 The Buried Giant
| 3.55 |
 Her Body And Other Parties
| 3.81 |
 A Stranger in Olondria
| 3.23 |
 Exhalation
| 4.26 |
 Spinning Silver
| 4.19 |
 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
| 4.34 |
 Mexican Gothic
| 3.75 |
 Circe
| 4.25 |
 Piranesi
| 4.24 |
 Black Sun
| 4.13 |
 Rosewater
| 3.79 |
 City of Stairs
| 4.14 |
 A Darker Shade of Magic
| 4 |
 The Just City
| 3.66 |
 The City of Brass
| 4.06 |
 Leviathan Wakes
| 4.23 |
 Jade City
| 4.1 |
 A Little Hatred
| 4.4 |
 A Master of Djinn
| 4.07 |
 A Memory Called Empire
| 4.17 |
