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

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.

Acceptance

Acceptance
ByJeff VanderMeer

2014 • 322 Readers • 353 pages 3.6

A Darker Shade of Magic

2015 • 1,567 Readers • 400 pages 4

A Little Hatred

A Little Hatred
ByJoe Abercrombie

2014 • 515 Readers • 480 pages 4.4

All Systems Red

All Systems Red
ByMartha Wells

2017 • 2,293 Readers • 90 pages 4.1

A Master of Djinn

A Master of Djinn
ByP. Djèlí Clark

2019 • 572 Readers • 464 pages 4.1

A Memory Called Empire

A Memory Called Empire
ByArkady Martine

2019 • 937 Readers • 464 pages 4.2

American War

American War
ByOmar El Akkad

2017 • 228 Readers • 352 pages 3.8

Ancillary Justice

Ancillary Justice
ByAnn Leckie

2013 • 827 Readers • 416 pages 4

An Unkindness of Ghosts

An Unkindness of Ghosts
ByRivers Solomon

2017 • 232 Readers • 351 pages 4

A Stranger in Olondria

A Stranger in Olondria
BySofia Samatar

2013 • 60 Readers • 299 pages 3.4

Binti

Binti
ByNnedi Okorafor

2019 • 397 Readers • 371 pages 3.8

Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)

2019 • 478 Readers • 612 pages 3

Black Sun

Black Sun
ByRebecca Roanhorse

2020 • 630 Readers • 464 pages 4.2

Children of Time

Children of Time
ByAdrian Tchaikovsky

2015 • 1,369 Readers • 600 pages 4.3

Circe

Circe
ByMadeline Miller

2018 • 2,386 Readers • 409 pages 4.3

City of Stairs

City of Stairs
ByRobert Jackson Bennett

2014 • 470 Readers • 452 pages 4.2

Every Heart a Doorway

Every Heart a Doorway
BySeanan McGuire

2016 • 680 Readers • 174 pages 3.9

Exhalation

Exhalation
ByTed Chiang

2019 • 780 Readers • 350 pages 4.3

Gideon the Ninth

Gideon the Ninth
ByTamsyn Muir,Jelena Katić Živanović(Translator)

2019 • 1,429 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

Her Body And Other Parties

Her Body And Other Parties
ByCarmen Maria Machado

2017 • 481 Readers • 245 pages 3.8

Jade City

Jade City
ByFonda Lee

2017 • 1,257 Readers • 498 pages 4.1

Leviathan Wakes

Leviathan Wakes
ByJames S. A. Corey

2011 • 1,691 Readers • 19h 9m 4.2

Mexican Gothic

Mexican Gothic
BySilvia Moreno-Garcia,Dan Sociu(Translator)

2020 • 1,076 Readers 3.7

Ninefox Gambit

Ninefox Gambit
ByYoon Ha Lee

2016 • 355 Readers • 400 pages 3.6

On Fragile Waves

On Fragile Waves
ByE. Lily Yu

2020 • 38 Readers • 561 pages 4.3

Piranesi

Piranesi
BySusanna Clarke,Viktor Janiš(translator)

2019 • 2,030 Readers • 273 pages 4.2

Radiance

Radiance
ByCatherynne M. Valente

2015 • 128 Readers • 432 pages 3.3

Riot Baby

Riot Baby
ByTochi Onyebuchi(Author, Narrator)

2020 • 157 Readers 3.8

Rosewater

Rosewater
ByTade Thompson

2017 • 248 Readers • 400 pages 3.8

Sorcerer to the Crown

2015 • 163 Readers • 371 pages 3.6

Spinning Silver

Spinning Silver
ByNaomi Novik

2018 • 688 Readers • 480 pages 4.2

Station Eleven

Station Eleven
ByEmily St. John Mandel

2014 • 1,588 Readers • 333 pages 4.1

The Bird King

The Bird King
ByG. Willow Wilson

2019 • 113 Readers 3.9

The Buried Giant

The Buried Giant
ByKazuo Ishiguro

2015 • 343 Readers • 317 pages 3.6

The Calculating Stars

The Calculating Stars
ByMary Robinette Kowal

2018 • 469 Readers • 384 pages 4.1

The Changeling

The Changeling
ByVictor LaValle

2017 • 230 Readers • 448 pages 3.8

The City of Brass

The City of Brass
ByS. A. Chakraborty

2017 • 845 Readers • 533 pages 4.1

The Collapsing Empire

2017 • 500 Readers • 336 pages 4.1

The Echo Wife

The Echo Wife
BySarah Gailey

2021 • 301 Readers • 256 pages 3.7

The Fifth Season

The Fifth Season
ByN.K. Jemisin

2015 • 1,938 Readers • 421 pages 4.3

The Goblin Emperor

The Goblin Emperor
ByKatherine Addison

2014 • 587 Readers • 512 pages 4.2

The Just City

The Just City
ByJo Walton

2015 • 96 Readers • 368 pages 3.7

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

2014 • 1,259 Readers • 518 pages 4.1

The Martian

The Martian
ByAndy Weir

2011 • 2,665 Readers • 384 pages 4.4

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

2001 • 375 Readers • 450 pages 4.3

The Poppy War

The Poppy War
ByR. F. Kuang

2018 • 1,662 Readers • 530 pages 4

The Space Between Worlds

The Space Between Worlds
ByMicaiah Johnson

2015 • 457 Readers • 336 pages 3.8

The Three-Body Problem

The Three-Body Problem
ByCixin Liu,Ken Liu(Translator)

2006 • 2,590 Readers • 400 pages 3.9

The Traitor Baru Cormorant

2015 • 422 Readers • 400 pages 3.8

This Is How You Lose the Time War

This Is How You Lose the Time War
ByAmal El-Mohtar,Max Gladstone

2019 • 1,997 Readers • 4h 16m 3.9