NPR, NPR Books Summer Poll 2021: A Decade Of Great Sci-Fi And Fantasy
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This follow-up to NPR's 2010 is compiled similarly: votes taken from the public, then vetted by a panel of judges, in this case Amal El-Mohtar, Ann Leckie, Tochi Onyebuchi, and Fonda Lee. The published list is arranged by loose categories -- "Worlds to get lost in," "Will mess with your heart," etc. -- and here are listed alphabetically by author. The judges limited selections to one per author.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 50
Publication: NPR, 2021
Compile Notes
Many selections are series; compiled here are the first books of the series, with the series name following in brackets.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 50
Publication: NPR, 2021
Compile Notes
Many selections are series; compiled here are the first books of the series, with the series name following in brackets.
- Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred (Orbit, 2019) [The Age of Madness Trilogy]
- Katherine Addison, The Goblin Emperor (Tor, 2014)
- Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs (Crown/Broadway, 2014) [The Divine Cities Trilogy]
- S. A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass (Harper Voyager, 2017) [The Daevabad Trilogy]
- Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (self-published, 2014) [Wayfarers]
- Ted Chiang, Exhalation (Knopf, 2019)
- Zen Cho, Sorcerer to the Crown (Ace, 2015) [Sorcerer to the Crown/The True Queen]
- P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Tordotcom, 2021) [The Dead Djinn Universe]
- Susanna Clarke, Piranesi (Bloomsbury, 2020)
- James S. A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes (Orbit, 2011) [The Expanse]
- Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Tor, 2015) [The Masquerade]
- Omar El Akkad, American War (Knopf, 2017)
- Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War (Saga Press, 2019)
- Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife (Tor, 2021)
- Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant (Knopf, 2015)
- Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Riverhead, 2019)
- N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season (Orbit, 2015) [The Broken Earth]
- Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (Del Rey, 2020)
- Mary Robinette Kowal, The Calculating Stars (Tor, 2018) [Lady Astronaut]
- R. F. Kuang, The Poppy War (Harper Voyager, 2018) [trilogy]
- Victor LaValle, y, The Changeling (Spiegel & Grau, 2017)
- Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice (Orbit, 2013) [The Imperial Radch Trilogy]
- Fonda Lee, Jade City (Orbit, 2017) [The Green Bone Saga]
- Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (Solaris, 2016) [Machineries of Empire]
- Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Tor, 2014) [Remembrance of Earth's Past]
- Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, 2016)
- Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Graywolf Press, 2017)
- Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (Knopf, 2014)
- Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Tor, 2019) [Teixcalaan series]
- Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway (Tor.com, 2016) [Wayward Children]
- Madeline Miller, Circe (Bloomsbury, 2018)
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic (Del Rey, 2020)
- Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth (Tor.com, 2019) [The Locked Tomb]
- Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver (Del Rey, 2018)
- Nnedi Okorafor, Binti (Tor.com, 2015) [series]
- Tochi Onyebuchi, Riot Baby (Tor.com, 2020)
- Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Saga, 2020) [series]
- Sofia Samatar, A Stranger in Olondria (Small Beer Press, 2013) [Olondria]
- John Scalzi, The Collapsing Empire (Tor, 2017) [The Interdependency]
- V. E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic (Tor, 2015) [Shades of Magic Trilogy]
- Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts (Akashic, 2017)
- Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time (Macmillan/Tor Uk, 2015) [duology]
- Tade Thompson, Rosewater (Apex, 2016) [The Wormwood Trilogy]
- Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance (Tor, 2015)
- Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation (Farrar Straus Giroux/FSG Originals, 2014) [Southern Reach]
- Jo Walton, The Just City (Tor, 2015) [The Thessaly Trilogy]
- Andy Weir, The Martian (Crown, 2014)
- Martha Wells, All Systems Red (Tor.com, 2017) [Murderbot]
- G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King (Grove Press, 2019)
- E. Lily Yu, On Fragile Waves (Erewhon, 2021)
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