RHSA's Speculative Fiction  Book List

• The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (♀ , POC)

• The City We Became by N.J. Nemisin (♀ , POC)

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (POC)

• Blindness by Jose Saramago

• The Power by Naomi Alderman (♀)

• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (♀)

• The Silence and The Roar by Nihad Sirees

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

• Feed by M.T. Anderson

• World War Z by Max Brooks

• The Children of Men by P.D. James  (♀)

• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood  (♀)

• The year of the Flood by Atwood, Margaret

• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (♀)

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins  (♀)

• Borne by Jeff Vandermeer

• Unwind by Neal Shusterman

• Bird Box by Josh Malerman

• Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch

• The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner

• Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson (♀)

• Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart

• The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

• Red Rising by Pierce Brown

• On the Beach by Nevil Shute

• Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz (LGBTQ+)

• IQ84 by Haruki Murakami

• The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin (♀)

• Wool by Hugh Howey 

•  A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

• The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (♀)

• The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist  (♀)

• When She Woke by Hilary Jordan (♀)

• Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson (♀, POC)

• The Windup Girl by Bacigalupi, Paolo

• Ship Breaker by Bacigalupi, Paolo

• Jennifer Government by Barry, Max

• Ender’s Game by Card, Orson Scott

• Matched by Condie, Allie   (♀)

• The Maze Runner by Dashner, James

• Big Big Sky by Dunnion, Kristyn  (♀)

• Truancy by Fukui, Isamu

• Neuromancer by Gibson, William

• Gone by Grant, Michael

• The Running Man by King, Stephen/Richard Bachman)

• The Stand by King, Stephen

• I Am Legend by Matheson, Richard

• Cloud Atlas by Mitchell, David

• How I Live Now by  Rosoff, Meg  (♀)

• Snow Crash by Stephenson, Neal

• Battle Royale by Takami, Koushun

• Uglies by Westerfeld, Scott

• Zone One by Colson Whitehead (POC)

• Red Clocks by Leni Zumas  (♀)

• Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (♀, POC)

• Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

• Vox by Christina Dalcher  (♀)

• Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman (♀, POC)

• Moon of the Crusted Snow by Rice, Waubgeshig (Indigenous)

• The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Demaline (Indigenous)

• An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir  (♀)

• On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee (POC)

• California by Edan Lepucki  (♀)

Classics

• • Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

  • The Last Man by Mary Shelley  (♀)

  • Brown Girl in the Ring  by Nalo Hopkinson  (♀ , POC)

  • Brave New World  and Island by Aldous Huxley

  • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

  • Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm by George Orwell

  • Atlas Shrugged  and Anthem by Ayn Rand (♀)

  • We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

  • The Trial by Franz Kafka

  • Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov

  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

  • Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

  • The Giver by Lois Lowry  (♀)

  • The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard

  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

  • The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

• • A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. 

  • Watership Down by Adams, Richard

  • The Chrysalids by Wyndham, John

  • Foundation by Asimov, Isaac

  • Looking Backward by Bellamy, Edward

  • Lord of the Flies by Golding, William

  • Utopia by Sir Thomas More

  • The War of the Worlds &  The Time Machine (short story) by Wells, H.G.

  • Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut, Kurt

  • Iron Heel by London, Jack

  • Dune by Herbert, Frank

  • It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

  • The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham

  • Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy