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NPR: Your 50 Favorite Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of the Past Decade

This year's summer reader poll was also shaped by a series of "what ifs" — most importantly, what if, instead of looking at the entire history of the field the way we did in our 2011 poll, we only focused on what's happened in the decade since? These past 10 years have brought seismic change to science fiction and fantasy (sometimes literally, in the case of N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth series), and we wanted to celebrate the world-shaking rush of new voices, new perspectives, new styles and new stories. And though we limited ourselves to 50 books this time around, the result is a list that's truly stellar — as poll judge Tochi Onyebuchi put it, "alive."
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Ancillary Justice (Ann Leckie)
Ancillary Justice
1
Ann Leckie
A Master of Djinn (P. Djeli Clark)
A Master of Djinn
2
P. Djeli Clark
A Little Hatred (Joe Abercrombie)
A Little Hatred
3
Joe Abercrombie
Jade City (Fonda Lee)
Jade City
4
Fonda Lee
Leviathan Wakes (James S.A. Corey)
Leviathan Wakes
5
James S.A. Corey
The City of Brass (S.A.Chakraborty)
The City of Brass
6
S.A.Chakraborty
A Memory Called Empire (Arkady Martine)
A Memory Called Empire
7
Arkady Martine
The Just City (Jo Walton)
The Just City
8
Jo Walton
A Darker Shade of Magic (V.E. Schwab)
A Darker Shade of Magic
9
V.E. Schwab
City of Stairs (Robert Jackson Bennett)
City of Stairs
10
Robert Jackson Bennett
Rosewater (Tade Thompson)
Rosewater
11
Tade Thompson
Piranesi (Susanna Clarke)
Piranesi
12
Susanna Clarke
Circe (Madeline Miller)
Circe
13
Madeline Miller
Mexican Gothic (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
Mexican Gothic
14
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Ken Liu)
Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
15
Ken Liu
Spinning Silver (Naomi Novik)
Spinning Silver
16
Naomi Novik
Exhalation (Ted Chiang)
Exhalation
17
Ted Chiang
A Stranger in Olondria (Sofia Samatar)
A Stranger in Olondria
18
Sofia Samatar
Her Body and Other Parties (Carmen Maria Machado)
Her Body and Other Parties
19
Carmen Maria Machado
The Buried Giant (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Buried Giant
20
Kazuo Ishiguro
Radiance (Catherynne M. Valente)
Radiance
21
Catherynne M. Valente
The Changeling (Victor Lavalle)
The Changeling
22
Victor Lavalle
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Becky Chambers)
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
23
Becky Chambers
Binti (Nnedi Okorafor)
Binti
24
Nnedi Okorafor
The Calculating Stars (Mary Robinette Kowal)
The Calculating Stars
25
Mary Robinette Kowal
Children of Time (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
Children of Time
26
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Every Heart a Doorway (Seanan McGuire)
Every Heart a Doorway
27
Seanan McGuire
The Space Between Worlds (Micaiah Johnson)
The Space Between Worlds
28
Micaiah Johnson
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Marlon James)
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
29
Marlon James
Acceptance (Jeff Vandermeer)
Acceptance
30
Jeff Vandermeer
The Echo Wife (Sarah Gailey)
The Echo Wife
31
Sarah Gailey
Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir)
Gideon the Ninth
32
Tamsyn Muir
The Three-Body Problem (Liu Cixin)
The Three-Body Problem
33
Liu Cixin
Ninefox Gambit (Yoon Ha Lee)
Ninefox Gambit
34
Yoon Ha Lee
The Fifth Season (N. K. Jemisin)
The Fifth Season
35
N. K. Jemisin
Station Eleven (Emily St John Mandel)
Station Eleven
36
Emily St John Mandel
This Is How You Lose the Time War (Amal El-Mohtar)
This Is How You Lose the Time War
37
Amal El-Mohtar
The Poppy War (R. F. Kuang)
The Poppy War
38
R. F. Kuang
The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Seth Dickinson)
The Traitor Baru Cormorant
39
Seth Dickinson
An Unkindness of Ghosts (River Solomon)
An Unkindness of Ghosts
40
River Solomon
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