DH Science Fiction Recommendations

Updated April 20, 2026
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Red rising
Brown, Pierce
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Pierce Brown's relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. "Red Rising ascends above a crowded dys­topian field."--USA Today<...
Exiles
Coile, Mason
Paper Book
The book of lost hours
Gelfuso, Hayley
Paper Book
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! For fans of The Ministry of Time and The Midnight Library, a sweeping, "astounding debut" (Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author) novel following two remarkable women moving between postwar and Cold War...
Overgrowth
Grant, Mira
Paper Book
Day of the Triffids meets Little Shop of Horrors in this smart, charming, harrowing alien invasion story about being human, by a Hugo-award winning author. Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she's an alien disguised as a human...
Burn : a novel
Heller, Peter
Paper Book
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Last Ranger, a novel about two men--friends since boyhood--who emerge from the woods of rural Maine to a dystopian country racked by bewildering violence Every year, Jess and Storey have made an annual...
The fifth season
Jemisin, N. K.
Paper Book
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel Book 1 in the record-breaking triple Hugo-Award-winning trilogy ***One of Time Magazine's top 100 fantasy books of all time*** ***Shortlisted for the World Fantasy, Nebula, Kitschies, Audie and Locus...
The dream hotel
Lalami, Laila
Paper Book
* LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 * * A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK MARCH 2025 * 'A gripping, Kafkaesque foray into an all-too-plausible future' JENNIFER EGAN'So cleverly conceived, so relevant, that everyone should read it and...
These memories do not belong to us : a constellation novel
Ma, Yiming
Paper Book
Best Book of 2025 by Electric Literature, PEN America, Debutiful * Top First Novel of 2025 by Booklist * Spotify Editors' Pick * Longlisted for the Goodreads Choice Award in Science Fiction "Ma's These Memories Do Not Belong to Us brilliantly inventive weaves worlds around...
Station eleven
Mandel, Emily St. John
Paper Book
This Anniversary Edition of Station Eleven, a finalist for the National Book Award and named a Best Book of the Twenty-First Century by the New York Times, celebrates ten years of this now iconic novel with a new color illustration and a guide to "The Mandelverse" A...
Death of the author
Okorafor, Nnedi
Paper Book
2026 NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER WINNER OF THE LIBBY AWARD FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Recommended by New York Times Book Review * People * NPR * Rolling Stone * Los Angeles Times *...
Playground : a novel
Powers, Richard
Paper Book
Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world's first...
The compound
Rawle, Aisling
Paper Book
** A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK ** 'Relentlessly gripping' ABIGAIL DEAN 'Menace-dipped' THE TIMES 'Thrilling and haunting' NEW YORK TIMES 'Lord of the Flies meets Love Island' LOUISE O'NEILL 'Gripping and propulsive' TORREY PETERS 'THIS is the book to...
When the moon hits your eye
Scalzi, John.
Paper Book
New York Times bestseller John Scalzi flies you to the moon with his most fantastic tale to date: When the Moon Hits Your Eye The moon has turned into cheese. Now humanity has to deal with it. For some it's an...
We lived on the horizon : a novel
Swyler, Erika
Paper Book
The acclaimed author of the "dazzling" (Sara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author) The Book of Speculation returns with an engrossing new novel about a bio-prosthetic surgeon and her personal AI as they are drawn into a revolution. The city of Bulwark is...
Shroud
Tchaikovsky, Adrian
Paper Book
After two scientists crash on a hostile moon, they must use every tool at their disposal to survive. Shroud is a tense, atmospheric voyage into the unknown from sci-fi master and Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner Adrian Tchaikovsky. They looked into the darkness and the...
The merge : a novel
Walker, Grace
Paper Book
'[A] clever and provocative debut ... smart and engaging - like Nineteen Eighty-Four crossed with Never Let Me Go.' Daily Mail 'A compelling and disturbing story of love and sacrifice, control and resistance.' Guardian Once the process begins, there can be no...
Project Hail Mary : a novel
Weir, Andy
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Now a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, with a screenplay by Drew Goddard A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this "propulsive" (Entertainment Weekly),...
Hole in the Sky: A Novel
Wilson, Daniel H.
Paper Book
A Native American first contact story and gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse "Thrilling and personal... an important addition to the landscape of science fiction."-Pierce Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of...

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