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

Updated about 1 month ago
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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
Acceptance Jeff VanderMeer	3.61	320 reads
A Darker Shade of Magic V.E. Schwab	3.97	1,030 reads
A Little Hatred Joe Abercrombie	4.41	269 reads
All Systems Red Martha Wells	4.06	2,117 reads
A Master of Djinn P. Djèlí Clark	4.04	289 reads
A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine	4.15	547 reads
American War Omar El Akkad	3.85	117 reads
Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie	3.99	660 reads
An Unkindness of Ghosts Rivers Solomon	3.99	123 reads
A Stranger in Olondria Sofia Samatar	3.5	19 reads
Binti: The Complete Trilogy Nnedi Okorafor	3.76	317 reads
Black Leopard, Red Wolf Marlon James	3.1	139 reads
Black Sun Rebecca Roanhorse	4.07	240 reads
Children of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky	4.27	905 reads
Circe Madeline Miller	4.24	1,675 reads
City of Stairs Robert Jackson Bennett	4.07	243 reads
Every Heart a Doorway Seanan McGuire	3.88	529 reads
Exhalation Ted Chiang	4.27	505 reads
Gideon the Ninth Tamsyn Muir Jelena Katić Živanović (Translator)	4.08	906 reads
Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado	3.77	257 reads
Jade City Fonda Lee	4.09	616 reads
Leviathan Wakes James S. A. Corey	4.23	1,484 reads
Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia Dan Sociu (Translator)	3.76	722 reads
Ninefox Gambit Yoon Ha Lee	3.65	225 reads
On Fragile Waves E. Lily Yu	4.25	6 reads
Piranesi Susanna Clarke	4.24	1,436 reads
Radiance Catherynne M. Valente	3.33	57 reads
Riot Baby	3.66	68 reads
Rosewater Tade Thompson	3.79	123 reads
Sorcerer to the Crown Zen Cho	3.56	79 reads
Spinning Silver Naomi Novik	4.18	405 reads
Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel	4.08	1,224 reads
The Bird King G. Willow Wilson	3.85	37 reads
The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro	3.52	215 reads
The Calculating Stars Mary Robinette Kowal	4.06	306 reads
The Changeling Victor LaValle	3.76	107 reads
The City of Brass S. A. Chakraborty	4.05	400 reads
The Collapsing Empire John Scalzi	4.05	405 reads
The Echo Wife Sarah Gailey	3.68	163 reads
The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin	4.35	1,236 reads
The Goblin Emperor Katherine Addison	4.14	320 reads
The Just City Jo Walton	3.74	44 reads
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Becky Chambers	4.14	959 reads
The Martian Andy Weir	4.41	2,791 reads
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Ken Liu	4.39	201 reads
The Poppy War R.F. Kuang	4	945 reads
The Space Between Worlds Micaiah Johnson	3.85	219 reads
The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu Ken Liu (Translator)	3.94	1,962 reads
The Traitor Baru Cormorant Seth Dickinson	3.87	229 reads
This Is How You Lose the Time War Amal El-Mohtar Max Gladstone	3.88	1,344 reads