Science Fiction using Languages or Linguistics as a Plot Device

1.
Stories of Your Life and Others
Stories of Your Life and Others 4.25 avg rating — 120,092 ratings
2.
Embassytown
Embassytown 3.90 avg rating — 33,983 ratings
3.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,225,775 ratings
4.
The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 80,276 ratings
5.
Babel-17
Babel-17 3.72 avg rating — 19,536 ratings
6.
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia 4.25 avg rating — 143,137 ratings
7.
Native Tongue (Native Tongue, #1)
Native Tongue (Native Tongue, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 4,579 ratings
8.
Foreigner (Foreigner, #1)
Foreigner (Foreigner, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 10,804 ratings
9.
Snow Crash
Snow Crash 4.01 avg rating — 293,451 ratings
10.
Lexicon
Lexicon
by: Max Barry
3.91 avg rating — 39,632 ratings
11.
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 238,867 ratings
12.
The Color of Distance
The Color of Distance 4.27 avg rating — 912 ratings
13.
Invader (Foreigner, #2)
Invader (Foreigner, #2) 4.18 avg rating — 5,134 ratings
13.
Always Coming Home
Always Coming Home 4.07 avg rating — 4,428 ratings
13.
Anathem
Anathem 4.17 avg rating — 74,550 ratings
16.
Remnant Population
Remnant Population 4.11 avg rating — 7,106 ratings
17.
Hellspark
Hellspark 4.37 avg rating — 989 ratings
18.
The Languages of Pao
The Languages of Pao 3.78 avg rating — 1,441 ratings
19.
The Judas Rose (Native Tongue #2)
The Judas Rose (Native Tongue #2) 3.88 avg rating — 903 ratings
20.
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 753,887 ratings
21.
Earthsong (Native Tongue, #3)
Earthsong (Native Tongue, #3) 3.38 avg rating — 599 ratings
21.
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 115,494 ratings
23.
Vox
Vox 3.55 avg rating — 88,799 ratings
24.
Monteverde: Memoirs of an Interstellar Linguist
Monteverde: Memoirs of an Interstellar Linguist 3.86 avg rating — 404 ratings
25.
Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary
by: Andy Weir
4.50 avg rating — 868,807 ratings
26.
Blindsight
Blindsight 4.01 avg rating — 50,882 ratings
27.
The Book of Strange New Things
The Book of Strange New Things 3.66 avg rating — 32,568 ratings
28.
Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)
Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1) 3.82 avg rating — 15,221 ratings
29.
Miracle and Other Christmas Stories
Miracle and Other Christmas Stories 3.91 avg rating — 2,300 ratings
30.
Enemy Mine
Enemy Mine 4.22 avg rating — 1,507 ratings
31.
The Embedding
The Embedding 3.41 avg rating — 793 ratings
31.
Babel
Babel 4.16 avg rating — 398,128 ratings
33.
Looking Through Lace (Looking Through Lace, #1)
Looking Through Lace (Looking Through Lace, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 168 ratings
33.
Amatka
Amatka 3.78 avg rating — 4,243 ratings
35.
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
The Giver (The Giver, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 2,732,905 ratings
35.
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 68,190 ratings
37.
Damocles
Damocles 3.86 avg rating — 2,347 ratings
38.
Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2) 4.11 avg rating — 267,176 ratings
39.
Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet / Perelandra / That Hideous Strength
Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet / Perelandra / That Hideous Strength 4.18 avg rating — 11,795 ratings
40.
A Door Into Ocean (Elysium Cycle, #1)
A Door Into Ocean (Elysium Cycle, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 2,384 ratings
41.
Midnight Robber
Midnight Robber 3.93 avg rating — 3,779 ratings
42.
Chocolate Lenin
Chocolate Lenin 3.50 avg rating — 50 ratings
42.
Jackboot Britain
Jackboot Britain 3.63 avg rating — 112 ratings
42.
The Word Exchange
The Word Exchange 3.35 avg rating — 4,233 ratings
42.
Juniper Time
Juniper Time 3.63 avg rating — 438 ratings
42.
Sing
Sing 3.90 avg rating — 325 ratings
42.
Stargate SG-1 (Stargate SG-1, #1)
Stargate SG-1 (Stargate SG-1, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 401 ratings
42.
No Words Alone (Spark, #2)
No Words Alone (Spark, #2) 3.79 avg rating — 1,370 ratings
42.
Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
Drunk on All Your Strange New Words 3.90 avg rating — 3,367 ratings
42.
Entropy: A Sci-Fi Thriller
Entropy: A Sci-Fi Thriller 3.94 avg rating — 72 ratings
51.
Listen
Listen 3.57 avg rating — 171 ratings
51.
Guardians of the Galaxy: The Junior Novel
Guardians of the Galaxy: The Junior Novel 3.53 avg rating — 204 ratings
51.
Ascending (The Vardeshi Saga, #1)
Ascending (The Vardeshi Saga, #1) 4.43 avg rating — 891 ratings
54.
Wayland's Principia
Wayland's Principia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
54.
Star Trek (Star Trek: Kelvin Movie Novelization #1
Star Trek (Star Trek: Kelvin Movie Novelization #1 3.88 avg rating — 2,761 ratings
54.
Fine Prey
Fine Prey 3.79 avg rating — 153 ratings
54.
The Margarets
The Margarets 3.88 avg rating — 1,722 ratings
54.
The Rosetta Man (Rosetta, #1)
The Rosetta Man (Rosetta, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 679 ratings
59.
Lost in Translation
Lost in Translation 3.71 avg rating — 63 ratings
59.
Lingua Galactica
Lingua Galactica 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
61.
Seeing Red (Ambassador, #1)
Seeing Red (Ambassador, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 1,246 ratings
61.
Feersum Endjinn
Feersum Endjinn 3.84 avg rating — 11,449 ratings
63.
Local Custom (Liaden Universe, #5)
Local Custom (Liaden Universe, #5) 4.27 avg rating — 2,701 ratings
63.
The Occasional Diamond Thief (#1)
The Occasional Diamond Thief (#1) 4.07 avg rating — 87 ratings
65.
Underneath the Moon
Underneath the Moon
by: Dan Holt
3.91 avg rating — 291 ratings
65.
Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)
Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2) 4.04 avg rating — 33,061 ratings
67.
A Woman of the Iron People
A Woman of the Iron People 3.82 avg rating — 697 ratings
67.
Black and White (The Frontiers Book 1)
Black and White (The Frontiers Book 1) 4.42 avg rating — 174 ratings
69.
A Rose for Ecclesiastes
A Rose for Ecclesiastes 4.02 avg rating — 1,654 ratings
70.
Anthem
Anthem
by: Ayn Rand
3.61 avg rating — 164,220 ratings