(How I rate books, explanation)
(For non-fiction, scroll down-down-down)
A
- Joe Abercrombie
- The First Law series
- The Blade Itself ***½
- Before They Are Hanged ***½
- Last Argument of Kings ****
- The First Law standalones
- Best Served Cold ****
- The Heroes ****½
- Red Country ***½
- The First Law series
- Douglas Adams
- Katherine Addison
- The Goblin Emperor ****
- Brian W. Aldiss
- Hothouse *** ½
- Poul Anderson
- Tau Zero ***
- Isaac Asimov
- The Foundation series
- Foundation ****
- Foundation and Empire *** ½
- Second Foundation *** ½
- Foundation’s Edge *** ½
- The Robot series
- I, Robot ****
- The Caves of Steel *** ½
- The Foundation series
- Margaret Atwood
- The MaddAddam trilogy
- Oryx and Crake ****½
- The Year of the Flood ****
- The MaddAddam trilogy
B
- R. Scott Bakker
- The Aspect-Emperor series
- The Judging Eye ****
- The White-Luck Warrior *****
- The Great Ordeal ****½
- The Unholy Consult ****½
- The Aspect-Emperor series
- Josiah Bancroft
- The Books of Babel
- Senlin Ascends ****½
- Arm of the Sphinx ****
- The Hod King *****
- The Books of Babel
- Iain M. Banks
- T.J. Bass
- The Hive series
- Half Past Human ***
- The Godwhale ***
- The Hive series
- Robert Jackson Bennett
- The Divine Cities
- City of Stairs ****
- City of Blades ****
- City of Miracles ****
- The Divine Cities
- Dan Brown
- Origin *½
- Steven Brust
- The Book of Jhereg ***½
C
- James Branch Cabell
- M.R. Carey
- B. Catling
- The Vorrh Trilogy
- The Vorrh *****
- The Erstwhile ****
- The Cloven *****
- The Vorrh Trilogy
- Michael Chabon
- Becky Chambers
- Ted Chiang
- Stories of Your Life and Others *****
- Exhalation ****½
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Susanna Clarke
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell *****
- Piranesi *****
- Carlo Collodi
- James S.A. Corey
- The Expanse
- Leviathan Wakes ***½
- Caliban’s War ***½
- Abaddon’s Gate ***
- The Expanse
- John Crowley
D
- Philip K. Dick
- The Penultimate Truth ***
- A Maze of Death ****
- A Scanner Darkly ***
E
- Nicholas Eames
- Kings of the Wyld ***½
- E.R. Eddison
- The Worm Ouroboros ****
- Greg Egan
- Permutation City ***½
- Dave Eggers
- The Circle **½
- Steven Erikson
- The Malazan Book of the Fallen
- Gardens of the Moon ****
- The Malazan Book of the Fallen
F
- Charles G. Finney
- Michael R. Fletcher
G
- John Gardner
- Grendel *****
H
- Peter F. Hamilton
- The Commonwealth Saga
- Pandora’s Star ***½
- Judas Unchained ***½
- The Commonwealth Saga
- M. John Harrison
- The Centauri Device ***
- You Should Come With Me Now ****
- The Kefahuchi Tract trilogy
- Light *****
- Nova Swing ****
- Scott Hawkins
- Frank Herbert
- Dune series
- Dune *****
- Dune Messiah ****
- Children of Dune ****½
- God Emperor of Dune ****½
- Heretics of Dune ***½
- Chapterhouse: Dune ****
- Dune series
- Robert Holdstock
- Mythago Wood ****
- Kameron Hurley
- The Stars Are Legion ****
- Dave Hutchinson
- Fractured Europe series
- Europe in Autumn *****
- Europe at Midnight ****½
- Europe in Winter ****
- Fractured Europe series
I
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Never Let Me Go *****
- The Buried Giant ***½
J
- Marlon James
- N.K. Jemisin
- The Broken Earth Trilogy
- The Fifth Season *****
- The Obelisk Gate ****
- The Stone Sky *****
- The Broken Earth Trilogy
K
- Marc-Uwe Kling
- QualityLand **½
L
- Mark Lawrence
- The Broken Empire trilogy
- Prince of Thorns ****
- King of Thorns ****½
- Emperor of Thorns ****
- The Red Queen’s War trilogy
- Prince of Fools ***½
- The Broken Empire trilogy
- Yoon Ha Lee
- Ninefox Gambit ****
- Ursula K. LeGuin
- The Earthsea Novels ****
- Stanislaw Lem
- The Star Diaries ***
- David D. Levine
- Arabella of Mars ***
- David Lindsay
- A Voyage to Arcturus *****
- Cixin Liu
- Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy
- The Three-Body Problem ****
- The Dark Forest ****
- Death’s End ****½
- Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy
- Ken Liu
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Scott Lynch
- Gentleman Bastard series
M
- George R.R. Martin
- A. Lee Martinez
- Cormac McCarthy
- The Road *****
- Jack McDevitt
- Priscilla Hutchins series
- The Engines of God ***
- Chindi ***
- Priscilla Hutchins series
- Patricia A. McKillip
- The Changeling Sea ****
- Ombria in Shadow ****
- China Mieville
- David Mitchell
- The Bone Clocks ****
- Richard K. Morgan
- Thin Air ***
N
- Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
P
- Ada Palmer
- Terra Ignota series
- Too Like the Lightning ****
- Seven Surrenders *****
- The Will To Battle ****
- Terra Ignota series
- Mervyn Peake
- The Gormenghast Novels *****
- Terry Pratchett
- Discworld series
- The Truth ****
- Thief of Time ****
- The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents ***½
- Night Watch ****
- The Wee Free Men ***½
- Monstrous Regiment ***½
- A Hat Full of Sky ****
- Discworld series
R
- Alastair Reynolds
- Revelation Space Series
- Revelation Space ****
- Chasm City ***½
- Redemption Ark ****
- Absolution Gap ****
- Galactic North ***½
- Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies
- Aurora Rising (The Prefect) ***½
- Elysium Fire ***
- Terminal World ***½
- Revelation Space Series
- Kim Stanley Robinson
S
- Brandon Sanderson
- The Stormlight Archive
- The Way of Kings ***½
- Words of Radiance ***½
- Oathbringer ***
- The Stormlight Archive
- Jose Saramago
- Karl Schroeder
- Lady of Mazes ****
- Tommy Siegel
- Clifford D. Simak
- Way Station ****
- Dan Simmons
- Cordwainer Smith
- The Rediscovery of Man ****½
- E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith
- Olaf Stapledon
- Neal Stephenson
- Cryptonomicon *****
- Seveneves ****½
- The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (with Nicole Galland) ***½
- Michael Swanwick
- Stations of the Tide ****
T
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Children of Time ****
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Dempow Torishima
- Sisyphean ****
V
- Catherynne M. Valente
- Radiance ****½
- Space Opera ***
- Jack Vance
- The Dying Earth novels ****½
- Night Lamp ***
- Jeff VanderMeer
- Borne ****
- Ambergris Series
- City of Saints and Madmen ***
- Shriek: An Afterword ****
- Finch ****
- Southern Reach Series
- Annihilation *****
- Authority ****
- Acceptance ****
W
- Peter Watts
- Blindsight *****
- The Freeze-Frame Revolution ****
- Oscar Wilde
- Gene Wolfe
Z
- Roger Zelazny
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Non-fiction – History
- Bill Bryson – One Summer: America 1927
- Mike Dash – Tulipomania
- Norman Davies – Vanished Kingdoms
- Peter Frankopan – The Silk Roads
- Yuval Noah Harari – Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind
- Yuval Noah Harari – Homo Deus, A Brief History of Tomorrow
- Ian Mortimer – Human Race
Non-fiction – Other
- Tim Birkhead – Bird Sense
- Daniel C. Dennett – From Bacteria to Bach and Back
- Charles Foster – Being a Beast
- Stephen Fry – Mythos
- Eric Harvey – The Leadership Secrets of Santa Claus
- Benjamin Hoff – The Tao of Pooh
- Henry Kissinger – World Order
- Arthur Koestler – The Act of Creation
- Mark Manson – The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- Michael Palin – New Europe
- Steven Pinker – Enlightenment Now
- Oliver Sacks – The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat
- Greg Sestero & Tom Bissell – The Disaster Artist
- Max Tegmark – Life 3.0
- Alan W. Watts – The Wisdom of Insecurity