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
| 4.02 | 363 reads | |
 Sorcerer to the Crown
| 3.53 | 49 reads | |
 The Martian
| 4.4 | 1,491 reads | |
 The Collapsing Empire
| 4.07 | 236 reads | |
 All Systems Red
| 4.06 | 1,167 reads | |
 The Goblin Emperor
| 4.12 | 201 reads | |
 On Fragile Waves
| 4.33 | 4 reads | |
 Riot Baby | 3.73 | 50 reads | |
 American War
| 3.88 | 64 reads | |
 The Bird King
| 3.85 | 20 reads | |
 An Unkindness of Ghosts
| 3.97 | 84 reads | |
 The Traitor Baru Cormorant
| 3.8 | 146 reads | |
 The Poppy War
| 4 | 554 reads | |
 This Is How You Lose the Time War
| 3.89 | 768 reads | |
 Station Eleven
| 4.11 | 659 reads | |
 The Fifth Season
| 4.33 | 707 reads | |
 Ninefox Gambit
| 3.58 | 145 reads | |
 The Three-Body Problem
| 3.93 | 1,056 reads | |
 Gideon the Ninth
| 4.02 | 532 reads | |
 The Echo Wife
| 3.63 | 106 reads | |
 Acceptance
| 3.54 | 165 reads | |
 Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)
| 2.93 | 82 reads | |
 The Space Between Worlds
| 3.85 | 126 reads | |
 Every Heart a Doorway
| 3.93 | 346 reads | |
 Children of Time
| 4.28 | 514 reads | |
 The Calculating Stars
| 4.09 | 203 reads | |
 Binti
| 3.79 | 174 reads | |
 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
| 4.14 | 551 reads | |
 The Changeling
| 3.8 | 62 reads | |
 Radiance
| 3.33 | 45 reads | |
 The Buried Giant
| 3.48 | 119 reads | |
 Her Body And Other Parties
| 3.84 | 135 reads | |
 A Stranger in Olondria
| 3.4 | 13 reads | |
 Exhalation
| 4.24 | 278 reads | |
 Spinning Silver
| 4.2 | 247 reads | |
 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
| 4.34 | 115 reads | |
 Mexican Gothic
| 3.75 | 397 reads |
