Top 100 Speculative Fiction Books

📘 Before the Coffee Gets Cold

If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet? In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 Ficciones

A collection of Borges’ short stories that frequently employ the labyrinth as a literary device, probing philosophical and everyday aspects of human life.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 1Q84

The novel is a sub-melodramatic sentimental metafictional love story in a ficticious world with two moons in the sky, a thriller packed with cults, assassinations and grotesque sex (newyorkobserver). The title is a play on the Japanese pronunciation of the year 1984 of George Orwell.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 The End of Eternity

The story of temporal engineers who meta-regulate the history of humanity through the centuries, eliminating risk, adventure, and space travel in the process. One man rebels in order to save the existence of someone he loves, and in the end the time bureaucracy is destroyed for the sake of individuality and human achievement.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Alternate History

📘 The Prince of Milk

All of time is simultaneous. Matter tends towards perfection. Cats can be dicks sometimes. The Prince of Milk is a leisurely stroll from prehistory to the distant future, stopping for tea in the 21st century English countryside. Before the time machine, before the undead mannequins, before the cat with the universe eye, there were the arbiters.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 ダンス・ダンス・ダンス

He burst upon the international scene with the wildly acclaimed *A Wild Sheep Chase*. He quickly came to represent the quirky voice of a new generation of Japanese writers. Now Haruki Murakami gives us his wittiest, boldest, most daring work to date. *Dance dance dance* continues the extraordinary adventure of an ordinary man.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 Little, Big

Winner of the 1982 World Fantasy Award for best novel.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 The alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 The Hidden Hindu 2

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Chronicles From The Future

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Libro de los seres imaginarios

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 A Biblioteca da Meia Noite

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 Tales from the Cafe

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 When Women Were Dragons

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

Fourteen year old Mona is a baker but she is also a not-very-powerful wizard - her medium of choice is dough. She can make pastries dance and bread light and fluffy - nothing extreme or dangerous. But when someone starts killing off all the wizards her minor wizard status doesn't matter and she has to run or be killed.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Homo Deus

Que deviendront nos démocraties quand Google et Facebook connaîtront nos goûts et nos préférences politiques mieux que nous-mêmes ? Qu'adviendra-t-il de l'Etat providence lorsque nous, les humains, serons évincés du marché de l'emploi par des ordinateurs plus performants ? Quelle utilisation certaines religions feront-elles de la manipulation génét...

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Social Speculation

📘 1Q84 [3/3]

W trzecim tomie tej fantastycznej powieści Murakamiego poznajemy dalsze losy Aomame i Tengo rozgrywające się w niezwykłym świecie roku 1Q84. Ona ukrywa się przed zemstą członków sekty za zamordowanie Lidera, a on czuwa przy łóżku nieprzytomnego ojca w mieście kotów.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 El libro de los cadáveres exquisitos

¿Qué pasa cuando la fantasía se mezcla con el mundo real? ¿Cuando despiertas pero no sabes de qué lado te encuentras? ¿Cuando, sin dormir, emergen tus sueños? Adelaida es una estudiante de bachillerato fascinada por las clases de uno de sus profesores, Lazare, astrólogo y quiromántico muy astuto que pronto le develará mundos y posibilidades que ell...

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 The Kaiju Preservation Society

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 One Hundred Years of Solitude

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 Garden Spells

**In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small house in the smallest of towns, is an apple tree rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit. In this luminous debut novel, Sarah Addison Allen tells the story of that enchanted tree and the extraordinary people who tend it.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 Black girl unlimited

Black Girl Unlimited fearlessly explores the intersections of poverty, sexual violence, depression, racism, and sexism—all through the arc of a transcendent coming-of-age story for fans of Renee Watson's Piecing Me Together and Ibi Zoboi's American Street.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 The Book of Form and Emptiness

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 R is for Rocket

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Roadmarks

The Road runs from the unimaginable past to the far future, and those who travel it have access to the turnoffs leading to all times and places--even to the alternate time-streams of histories that never happened. Why the Dragons of Bel'kwinith made the Road--or who they are--no one knows.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Alternate History

📘 Above Top Secret

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Gun Island

*Bundook*. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 Everything Under

Words are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. She hasn’t seen her mother since the age of sixteen, though – almost a lifetime ago – and those memories have faded.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 UFOs

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 The willful princess and the piebald prince

Felicity, a minstrel sworn to the truth, tells the ill-fated love story of the stubborn and indulged Princess Caution and the stableboy Lostler, a former Chalcedean slave and the piebald horse bound to him by the magic of Wit, which gives him the power to communicate with animals.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 L'anomalie

"Il est une chose admirable qui surpasse toujours la connaissance, l'intelligence, et me me le ge nie, c'est l'incompre hension."En juin 2021, un e ve nement insense bouleverse les vies de centaines d'hommes et de femmes, tous passagers d'un vol Paris-New York.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 Version control

The compelling story of a couple living in the wake of a personal tragedy. She is a star employee of an online dating company, while he is a physicist, performing experiments that, if ever successful, may have unintended consequences, altering the nature of their lives and perhaps of reality itself.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Houston, Houston, do you read?

After a solar flare damages their ship, three astronauts are rescued by survivors of an Earth that has undergone dramatic change.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Social Speculation

📘 Gingerbread

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 The enchanted

The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him. A female investigator searches for buried information from prisoners' pasts that can save those soon-to-be-executed.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 News from nowhere and selected writings and designs

William Morris was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, socialist and Marxist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris wrote and published poetry, fiction, and translations of ancient and medieval texts throughout his life.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Social Speculation

📘 Learning to die in the Anthropocene

"In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton draws on his experiences in Iraq to confront the grim realities of climate change. The result is a fierce and provocative book.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Social Speculation

📘 Terraformers

Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its burgeoning eco-systems as her parents and their parents did before her.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 The evening and the morning and the night

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 The Deep Sky

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Vagabonds!

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 The California voodoo game

Dream Park, the ultimate in amusement parks, was about to embark on the greatest Game ever: the California Voodoo Game. Across the world bets were being placed; fortunes and reputations hung in the balance. Gaming careers would be made--or destroyed. And the most advanced software package ever invented was going to be tested.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Will you be there?

If you could go back in time what would you do differently? What mistakes would you correct? For Eliott there is no doubt in his mind. To all appearances, his life has been a success. At 60, he is an esteemed surgeon with a daughter he adores. The only thing missing is Ilena - a beautiful, generous-hearted girl who died thirty years ago.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Spells

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Quest for truth

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Notes from the cosmos

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Social Speculation

📘 Aegypt

John Crowley's cunning alchemy of the here and now and the nevermore, of history and dream history, of the actual and the possible: the most daring and greathearted fiction yet by the award-winning author of *Little, Big*.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Alternate History

📘 Follow me to ground

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 The Star Trek Encyclopedia

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 The Diary of a Space Traveller

It all began with the fall of a meteorite and the crater it made. In its centre was a red notebook, sticking out of the ground—the first (or was it really the last?) of Professor Shonku’s diaries.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Snow shadow

Being able to step back into the past seemed like a wonderful stroke of luck for Erica Jansen. Northanger Abbey was like another world. And her introduction to the family there had come from a charming man, Preston Donner. She felt very fortunate indeed. But from the moment she became a guest at the Abbey, she felt like a prisoner.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Camp Zero

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 The Santaroga Barrier

On the face of it Santaroga seemed like any other small California town in an agricultural valley. But this one had its own — unofficial — rules. Outsiders found *no* houses available to let or for sale. G.I.'s *always* returned there on discharge. No Santarogan *ever* left the valley. No chain Supermarket could open there.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Ursula K Le Guin

This is a compilation of five of Ursula Le Guin's "Hainish cycle" stories, including: Rocannon's World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Word for World is Forest

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 New Amsterdam

Abigail Irene Garrett drinks too much. She makes scandalous liaisons with inappropriate men, and if in her youth she was a famous beauty, now she is both formidable and notorious! She is a forensic sorceress, and a dedicated officer of a Crown that does not deserve her loyalty. Sebastien de Ulloa is the oldest creature she has ever known.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Alternate History

📘 The dream daughter

"DIANE CHAMBERLAIN is the international bestselling author of twenty-three novels. She lives in North Carolina with her partner, photographer John Pagliuca, and her shelties, Keeper and Cole."-- "From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 The girl who chased the moon

In her latest enchanting novel, New York Times bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world--no matter how out of place they feel.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 All about Emily

Theater legend Claire Havilland fears she might be entering the Sunset Boulevard phase of her career. That is, until her manager arranges a media appearance with her biggest fan--a famous artificial intelligence pioneer's teenage niece. After precocious Emily's backstage visit, Claire decides she's in a different classic film altogether.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Avatar

Companion to the 2009 science fiction movie, Avatar. "This report details Pandora's alien ecosystem; its mining mother lode and topography; its flora and fauna; and the culture, language, and physiology of the native population, the aggressive hunter-gatherer race called the Na'vi. ...

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Star Trek - Crucible, McCoy - Provenance of Shadows

IN A SINGLE MOMENT ...the lives of three men will be forever changed. In that split second, defined paradoxically by both salvation and loss, they will destroy the world and then restore it. Much had come before, and much would come after, but nothing would color their lives more than that one, isolated instant on the edge of forever.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Alternate History

📘 A sound of crying

While staying at her cousin's house, Polly has strange dreams in which she becomes a young girl who lived in the same house long ago.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Departures

Alternate history stories featuring Harry Turtledove's imaginative twists on history’s paths and outcomes.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Alternate History

📘 The Disunited States of America (Crosstime Traffic)

A small town in the past finds itself caught in the middle of a time-travel adventure gone wrong.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Alternate History

📘 Africa Risen

A child robot discovers signs of new life on a dying planet while a group of cabinet ministers query a supercomputer containing the minds of Africa’s ancestors.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 The dragon and the disc

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Les Furtifs

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Missile Gap

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Alternate History

📘 Isaac Asimov's Suspicion: Robot City

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Alien Interview

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Star Wars the Essential Guide to Characters

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Blue and gold

A short novel combining fictional autobiography with political intrigue. History rewrites itself at every turn in this tale of an alchemist whose own base metal becomes pure gold.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Star Surgeon

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 The Jack Vance Reader

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Parakeet

"The week of her wedding, the bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead grandmother because of the cornflower blue line beneath her eyes, her dubious expression, and the way she asks: What is the Internet? Her grandmother is a parakeet. She says not to get married. She says: Go and find your brother.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 The Peshwar Lancers

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Alternate History

📘 In other worlds

Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the speculative / science fiction genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminate the essential truths about the modern world.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 The Hidden History of the Human Race

Uncover the hidden history of human evolution and the dark cover-up in scientific research.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Alternate History

📘 Hadriana dans tous mes rêves

"Takes place primarily during carnival in 1938 in the Haitian village of Jacmel. A beautiful young French woman, Hadriana, is about to marry a Haitian boy from a prominent family. But on the morning of the wedding, Hadriana drinks a mysterious potion and collapses at the altar. Transformed into a zombie, her wedding becomes her funeral.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 Worm

An introverted teenage girl with an unconventional superpower, Taylor goes out in costume to find escape from a deeply unhappy and frustrated civilian life. Her first attempt at taking down a supervillain sees her mistaken for one, thrusting her into the midst of the local ‘cape’ scene’s politics, unwritten rules, and ambiguous morals.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Torchwood

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Shoggoths In Bloom

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 The Echo of Old Books

Rare-book dealer Ashlyn Greer's affinity for books extends beyond the intoxicating scent of old paper, ink, and leather. She can feel the echoes of the books' previous owners-an emotional fingerprint only she can read.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 The complete idiot's guide to vampires

Vampires are the hottest topic in popular culture today. From the now classic novels of Anne Rice, to the mega- selling series by Stephanie Meyer to the hit HBO series "True Blood" based on the bestselling novels of Charlaine Harris, the undead are certainly not dead in terms of books sales.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Faery

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 The Arrest

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Out of my mind

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Mask of Time

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 On Fragile Waves

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 La anomalía

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Cien años de Soledad

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Magical Realism

📘 Tales Of SCP

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Quantum leap : the beginning

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Le jour des fourmis

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 The Sky Is Yours

Navigating their burned-out, futuristic city home under constant threat from a pair of dragons circling the skies, three young people are forced to flee and confront challenges ranging from fire and conspiracies to taboo drugs and dragon-worshippers.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Jason X

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Foop!

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Ray Bradbury's The veldt

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 The alien abduction files

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 The Long Afternoon of Earth

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction

📘 Grey aliens and the harvesting of souls

"Exposes the agenda behind the bio-robotic grey aliens' genetic manipulation of certain human races"--Provided by publisher.

Genre: Speculative Fiction Subgenre: Speculative Fiction