Best Literary Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 2015-2020

1.
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 317,165 ratings
2.
Binti (Binti, #1)
Binti (Binti, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 78,682 ratings
3.
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2) 4.29 avg rating — 187,521 ratings
4.
The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy, #1)
The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 224,646 ratings
5.
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3) 4.34 avg rating — 159,400 ratings
6.
Last Memoria (Memoria Duology, #1)
Last Memoria (Memoria Duology, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 282 ratings
7.
Borne (Borne, #1)
Borne (Borne, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 40,070 ratings
8.
Arcadia
Arcadia 3.94 avg rating — 6,236 ratings
9.
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
by: Ken Liu
4.36 avg rating — 36,818 ratings
10.
The Philosopher Kings
The Philosopher Kings
by: Jo Walton
3.93 avg rating — 2,918 ratings
11.
Radiance
Radiance 3.72 avg rating — 5,415 ratings
11.
The Just City (Thessaly, #1)
The Just City (Thessaly, #1)
by: Jo Walton
3.80 avg rating — 8,220 ratings
13.
Of Sorrow and Such
Of Sorrow and Such 4.06 avg rating — 2,323 ratings
14.
The Buried Giant
The Buried Giant 3.59 avg rating — 117,636 ratings
15.
Future Home of the Living God
Future Home of the Living God 3.60 avg rating — 28,723 ratings
16.
The Glass Town Game
The Glass Town Game 3.64 avg rating — 1,452 ratings
17.
The Power
The Power 3.75 avg rating — 246,918 ratings
18.
Killing Commendatore
Killing Commendatore 3.91 avg rating — 66,584 ratings
18.
The Last Days of New Paris
The Last Days of New Paris 3.54 avg rating — 7,485 ratings
20.
Necessity (Thessaly, #3)
Necessity (Thessaly, #3)
by: Jo Walton
3.94 avg rating — 1,786 ratings
21.
What Should Be Wild
What Should Be Wild 3.21 avg rating — 4,440 ratings
22.
A God in Ruins (Todd Family, #2)
A God in Ruins (Todd Family, #2) 3.95 avg rating — 59,184 ratings
23.
Home (Binti, #2)
Home (Binti, #2) 4.03 avg rating — 29,658 ratings
23.
The Only Harmless Great Thing
The Only Harmless Great Thing 3.81 avg rating — 4,335 ratings
25.
This Is How You Lose the Time War
This Is How You Lose the Time War 3.85 avg rating — 308,467 ratings
26.
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 68,196 ratings
27.
Circe
Circe 4.22 avg rating — 1,276,359 ratings
28.
Piranesi
Piranesi 4.22 avg rating — 406,487 ratings
29.
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 115,500 ratings
30.
Sylvie Asleton and the Shrike's Curse (Brookmoors Magi, #1)
Sylvie Asleton and the Shrike's Curse (Brookmoors Magi, #1) 3.70 avg rating — 50 ratings
30.
Oblivion (The Gatekeepers, #5)
Oblivion (The Gatekeepers, #5) 4.25 avg rating — 8,382 ratings
32.
Sylvie Asleton and the Coven of Glass (Brookmoors Magi #2)
Sylvie Asleton and the Coven of Glass (Brookmoors Magi #2) 4.12 avg rating — 24 ratings
32.
The Raven Tower
The Raven Tower 3.92 avg rating — 22,100 ratings
34.
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) 4.67 avg rating — 625,821 ratings
34.
The Tiger’s Daughter (Ascendant, #1)
The Tiger’s Daughter (Ascendant, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 4,101 ratings
36.
Starlings
Starlings
by: Jo Walton
3.50 avg rating — 719 ratings
36.
La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1)
La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 107,712 ratings
38.
Under the Pendulum Sun
Under the Pendulum Sun 3.43 avg rating — 3,234 ratings
39.
Hag-Seed
Hag-Seed 3.79 avg rating — 39,457 ratings
40.
The Refrigerator Monologues
The Refrigerator Monologues 4.04 avg rating — 4,087 ratings
41.
The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3)
The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22,906 ratings
42.
Wicked Wonders
Wicked Wonders 3.95 avg rating — 504 ratings
43.
Passing Strange
Passing Strange 3.88 avg rating — 2,980 ratings
44.
Finding Baba Yaga
Finding Baba Yaga 3.75 avg rating — 1,543 ratings
45.
Every River Runs to Salt
Every River Runs to Salt 4.08 avg rating — 86 ratings
46.
Riot Baby
Riot Baby 3.71 avg rating — 11,751 ratings
47.
Desdemona and the Deep
Desdemona and the Deep 3.85 avg rating — 914 ratings