Classics of Science Fiction

Titles in bold are on the Classics of Science Fiction v5 list.

Ann Leckie

2013

	Nebula Award - Novel Winner
	British Science Fiction Association Awards
	Arthur C. Clarke Awards
	Hugo Award - Novel Winner
2016	Amazon: 100 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime
2016	Book Riot 100 Must-Read Sci-Fi Fantasy Novels by Female Authors
2016	Goodreads Science Fiction Books by Female Authors
2016	Goodreads Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
2016	Sci Femme: The Reading List edited by Shannon Turlington
2019	100 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time - Reedsydiscovery
2019	Worlds Without End: Most Read Books of All-Time
2020	Top 100 Sci Fi Books - Movie Death Cult
2020	15 Recent Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre - Andrew Liptak for Polygon
2021	Worlds Without End: Award Winning Books by Women Authors
2021	NPR Books Summer Poll 2021: A Decade of Great Sci-Fi and Fantasy
2022	Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century (Listopia/Goodreads 6/25/22)
2022	The Greatest Science Fiction Books of the 2010s - The Portalist
2024	Best Sci-Fi of the 2010s - Goodreads/Listopia (1/29/24)

	Ancillary Justice (Literary Hub)
	Ancillary Justice (New York Journal of Books)
2013	"Nothing quite clarifies your thoughts like thinking you're about to die." Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice (Tor.com)
2013	A Skillfully Composed Space Opera in 'Ancillary Justice' (NPR)
2015	Pronouns in space (The Seattle Review of Books)

The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi

2009

	John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
	Nebula Award - Novel Winner
	Hugo Award - Novel Winner
2011	Forbidden Planet: The 50 Books You MUST Read
2012	Locus Poll Best 21st Century Science Fiction Novels
2012	Science Fiction the 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 by Damien Broderick and Paul Di Filippo
2016	Amazon: 100 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime
2016	Goodreads Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 200
2016	Goodreads Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
2016	Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction: A Basic Science Fiction Library
2016	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - novel
2016	Goodreads Best Science Fiction 100
2016	Best-Sci-Fi-Books: 31 Best Literary Science Fiction Books
2019	Worlds Without End: Most Read Books of All-Time
2019	100 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time - Reedsydiscovery
2020	Top 100 Sci Fi Books - Movie Death Cult
2020	15 Recent Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre - Andrew Liptak for Polygon
2022	Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century (Listopia/Goodreads 6/25/22)
2022	The 25 Best Sci-Fi Books from the 2000s Decade - The Portalist
2024	Classic Science Fiction - 2000-2009 - Goodreads/Listopia (1/29/24)

	Rethinking Dystopian Fiction: Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl (New Orleans Review)
	The Windup Girl (New York Journal of Books)
	The Windup Girl (Orion Magazine)
2010	The Windup Girl (SFF180)
2010	The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi - review (The Guardian)

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

2014

	Arthur C. Clarke Awards
2016	Sci Femme: The Reading List edited by Shannon Turlington
2016	Book Riot 100 Must-Read Sci-Fi Fantasy Novels by Female Authors
2016	Best-Sci-Fi-Books: 31 Best Literary Science Fiction Books
2019	The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time - Penguin Random House
2019	100 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time - Reedsydiscovery
2020	15 Recent Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre - Andrew Liptak for Polygon
2020	The Best Modern Classic Science Fiction Books
2021	NPR Books Summer Poll 2021: A Decade of Great Sci-Fi and Fantasy
2021	Worlds Without End: Award Winning Books by Women Authors
2022	The 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time - Esquire Magazine
2022	Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century (Listopia/Goodreads 6/25/22)
2022	The Greatest Science Fiction Books of the 2010s - The Portalist
2024	Best Sci-Fi of the 2010s - Goodreads/Listopia (1/29/24)
2024	The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century NY Times - Poll of Writers
2024	The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century NY Times - Poll of Readers

	Book review - Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel (Book Shelf Discovery)
	Station Eleven (Book Marks)
2014	Station Eleven review – Emily St John Mandel's gripping apocalypse drama (The Guardian)
2019	Review: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (Books on the 7:47)

Blindsight

Peter Watts

2006

	Hugo Award - Novel Finalist
2012	Locus Poll Best 21st Century Science Fiction Novels
2012	Science Fiction the 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 by Damien Broderick and Paul Di Filippo
2016	Goodreads Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
2020	Top 100 Sci Fi Books - Movie Death Cult
2020	15 Recent Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre - Andrew Liptak for Polygon
2022	Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century (Listopia/Goodreads 6/25/22)
2022	The 25 Best Sci-Fi Books from the 2000s Decade - The Portalist
2023	My Top 25 Science Fiction Books of the 21st Century by the Outlaw Bookseller
2023	My 25 Favourite Sci-Fi Books of All Time - Words in Time
2024	The 15 Best Sci-Fi Books I've Ever Read 2024 - Bookpilled
2024	Classic Science Fiction - 2000-2009 - Goodreads/Listopia (1/29/24)

2010	Blindsight by Peter Watts: A Review (AE)
2014	Book Review: Peter Watts’s “Blindsight” (Words & Dirt)
2023	‘Blindsight’ Is the Epitome of Science Fiction Horror (Wired)

The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu

2014

	Hugo Award - Novel Winner
	Nebula Award - Novel Finalist
2016	Goodreads Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
2020	The Best Modern Classic Science Fiction Books
2020	15 Recent Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre - Andrew Liptak for Polygon
2021	NPR Books Summer Poll 2021: A Decade of Great Sci-Fi and Fantasy
2021	29 of the Best Science Fiction Books Everyone Should Read - WIRED UK
2022	The 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time - Esquire Magazine
2022	Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century (Listopia/Goodreads 6/25/22)
2022	The Greatest Science Fiction Books of the 2010s - The Portalist
2024	Classic Science Fiction - 2000-2009 - Goodreads/Listopia (1/29/24)
2024	Best Sci-Fi of the 2010s - Goodreads/Listopia (1/29/24)

	THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM: BOOK REVIEW (Quarantine Content)
	The Three-Body Problem (Book Marks)
2017	Remembrance of China’s Past: A Review of The Three-Body Problem (Schwarzman Scholars)

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

2008

2012	Locus Poll Best 21st Century Science Fiction Novels
2012	Science Fiction the 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 by Damien Broderick and Paul Di Filippo
2014	Best-Sci-Fi-Books: The 23 Best Science Fiction Books by Female Authors
2016	Book Riot 100 Must-Read Sci-Fi Fantasy Novels by Female Authors
2016	Ranker: The Greatest Science Fiction Novels of All Time
2016	Goodreads Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
2016	Goodreads Science Fiction Books by Female Authors
2016	Sci Femme: The Reading List edited by Shannon Turlington
2016	Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - novel
2016	Amazon: 100 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime
2016	Goodreads Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 200
2016	Goodreads Best Science Fiction 100
2018	The Great American Read - PBS
2019	Worlds Without End: Most Read Books of All-Time
2019	100 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time - Reedsydiscovery
2020	Top 100 Sci Fi Books - Movie Death Cult
2020	15 Recent Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre - Andrew Liptak for Polygon
2022	Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century (Listopia/Goodreads 6/25/22)
2022	The 25 Best Sci-Fi Books from the 2000s Decade - The Portalist
2024	Classic Science Fiction - 2000-2009 - Goodreads/Listopia (1/29/24)
2024	The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century NY Times - Poll of Readers

2010	Book Review: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Seattle PI)
2010	Classic review: The Hunger Games (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Martian

Andy Weir

2012

2016	Goodreads Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 200
2016	Goodreads Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
2016	Amazon: 100 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime
2016	Goodreads Best Science Fiction 100
2016	Ranker: The Greatest Science Fiction Novels of All Time
2018	The Great American Read - PBS
2019	100 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time - Reedsydiscovery
2019	The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time - Penguin Random House
2019	Worlds Without End: Most Read Books of All-Time
2020	Top 100 Sci Fi Books - Movie Death Cult
2020	The Best Modern Classic Science Fiction Books
2020	15 Recent Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre - Andrew Liptak for Polygon
2021	NPR Books Summer Poll 2021: A Decade of Great Sci-Fi and Fantasy
2021	29 of the Best Science Fiction Books Everyone Should Read - WIRED UK
2022	Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century (Listopia/Goodreads 6/25/22)
2023	Your Top Science Fiction Books Of All Time (Survey Results) - Media Death Cult
2024	Best Sci-Fi of the 2010s - Goodreads/Listopia (1/29/24)

2015	Review: The Martian (Elitist Book Reviews)
2017	Book Review: The Martian by Andy Weir (Medium)

Aurora

Kim Stanley Robinson

2015

2016	How Great Science Fiction Works by Gary K. Wolfe
2020	15 Recent Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre - Andrew Liptak for Polygon

The Calculating Stars

Mary Robinette Kowal

2018

	Nebula Award - Novel Winner
	Hugo Award - Novel Winner
	Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
2020	The Best Modern Classic Science Fiction Books
2020	15 Recent Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre - Andrew Liptak for Polygon
2021	Worlds Without End: Award Winning Books by Women Authors
2021	NPR Books Summer Poll 2021: A Decade of Great Sci-Fi and Fantasy
2022	The Greatest Science Fiction Books of the 2010s - The Portalist

The Fifth Season

N. K. Jemisin

2015

	Hugo Award - Novel Winner
	Nebula Award - Novel Finalist
2019	100 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time - Reedsydiscovery
2020	15 Recent Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre - Andrew Liptak for Polygon
2021	Worlds Without End: Award Winning Books by Women Authors
2021	NPR Books Summer Poll 2021: A Decade of Great Sci-Fi and Fantasy
2022	The 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time - Esquire Magazine
2022	Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century (Listopia/Goodreads 6/25/22)
2022	The Greatest Science Fiction Books of the 2010s - The Portalist
2024	The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century NY Times - Poll of Writers
2024	The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century NY Times - Poll of Readers

Lagoon

Nnedi Okorafor

2014

2020	15 Recent Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre - Andrew Liptak for Polygon

The Lesson

Cadwell Turnbull

2019

2020	15 Recent Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre - Andrew Liptak for Polygon

Leviathan Wakes

Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck

2011

	Hugo Award - Novel Finalist
2016	Goodreads Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
2016	Goodreads Best Science Fiction 100
2019	Worlds Without End: Most Read Books of All-Time
2020	Top 100 Sci Fi Books - Movie Death Cult
2020	The Best Modern Classic Science Fiction Books
2020	15 Recent Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre - Andrew Liptak for Polygon
2021	NPR Books Summer Poll 2021: A Decade of Great Sci-Fi and Fantasy
2022	Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century (Listopia/Goodreads 6/25/22)
2022	The Greatest Science Fiction Books of the 2010s - The Portalist
2024	Best Sci-Fi of the 2010s - Goodreads/Listopia (1/29/24)

The Long Way to a Small, Angry, Planet

Becky Chambers

2014

2019	100 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time - Reedsydiscovery
2020	15 Recent Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre - Andrew Liptak for Polygon
2021	NPR Books Summer Poll 2021: A Decade of Great Sci-Fi and Fantasy
2022	The 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time - Esquire Magazine
2022	Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century (Listopia/Goodreads 6/25/22)
2024	Best Sci-Fi of the 2010s - Goodreads/Listopia (1/29/24)

The Red: First Light

Linda Nagata

2013

	Nebula Award - Novel Finalist
2016	Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction: A Basic Science Fiction Library
2016	Book Riot 100 Must-Read Sci-Fi Fantasy Novels by Female Authors
2020	15 Recent Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre - Andrew Liptak for Polygon

Books: 15

15 Recent Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre - Andrew Liptak for Polygon